2
HE WOULD TAKE NO RISKS
[Wanted to Make Sure of Spending
His Own Money Him
self.
“In the west," said Mr. William
Wturgis, of (Mieyenne, Wyo., ar
,cording to the Washington I’ost,
“‘the people take very slowly to tin
notion that government should
i>usv itself in the endeavor to reg
ulate public morals.
“For that reason, although we
have a pretty stiff anti-gambling
3a w, the stat ute is of lit tie potency,
land the boys gather in the old fa
miliar centers to bet their coin
mgainst faro, roulette, hazard or
poker.
““Not long ago one of my clients,
of the cowboy trib«, who had de
posited .¥1,0(»0 with me. made a t riji
to town, and for several days got
ime to let him have flOO per diem.
1 thought he was trying his lack at
faro, and dually, when he had
spent just half his capital, I ad
vised him t ha I t he \s l it ingof checks
was getting monotonous and that
if he meant to keep on playing to
withdraw the remaining foOO in a
lump, so that he need not ‘bother
to hunt for me.’ At the same time
I advised him in strong terms to
stop then and there and take no
chance in losing the money he had
acquired t hrough monthsof patient
toil on the plains, lie heard me
through with the utmost pa
tience, taking no apparent heed of
imy rebuke, and then said: “I know
what you say is true, judge; but
supposing I should die l ight sud
den and get no chance to spend
that other |500?’ ”
BABYLON CYLINDER BOOKS
Heavy and Cumbersome Tablets and
Prisms That Revolved Upon
Spindles.
In addition to t In* Hat tablet, the
Babylonians and Assyrians wrote
some of their books on large
prisms and cylinders. Some of these
cylinders art* as much as two feet
in length and eight to ten inches in
diameter, says Harper’s Maga
zine. Being made of the same ma
terial as the tablets, they are nec
essarily heavy and cumbersome,
;yet they were in some ways more
•convenient for reading, since they
were perforated longitudinally,
and placed on a spindle, so as to re
volve. In some cases the writing
runs from end to end of the cylin
der, which is then susjM*nded hori
zontally. In other cases the cylin
der is upright, the columns run
,ning from top to bottom. In the
latter case the book is usually not
a true cylinder, but a prism of six,
eight or ten sides, each side in
scribed with a separate column
of writing like the page of a book.
These prisms and cylinders were
commonly selected by the kings to
contain records of their deeds.
Thus tin* British museum contains
prisms on which are recorded the
achievements of such famous con
querors as Sargon, Sennacherib,
and the Elamite warrior Cyrus.
The last named cylinder has pecul
iar interest because it describes
the takingof Babylon.
“THE BIRDS OF NIGHT."
Various Species of Owl That Dwell id
the Ground and Devour
Rodents.
Among the largest of the ow l
tribe are the snowy and eagle
owls, both of which are occasion
tally met with in Great Britain.
The larger species of eagle owl,
says Nature, are the most fero
cious, and prey upon rabbits and
large game birds, while the snowy
owl. though indulging in similar
prey, does much good by devouring
those destructive little rodents
known as the lemmings.
1 n North and South America are
found, in grea t numbers, the Amer
ican burrowing owl. It dwells in
holes in the earth, sharing the
habitation with the original ex
cavators, such as prairie dogs,
ground squirrels and badgers.
Nor is it an uncommon thing to
find housed with this strangely
mixed family a rattlesnake and a
lizard or two.
Then we have the sjteeies known
> *.■
as the pigmy owls and the little
owls, members of the former
group being no larger than a wood
lark. These harmless little birds
stand out in marked contrast with
1 he giant eagle and snowy owl.
The Critic’s Fallibility.
If you want to retain your faith
in a critic you ought never to see
the things he criticises.—Pall Mail
Magazine
IRON DUKE’S ODD WAYS.
Wellington Refused to Read Anything
Published About His Mil
itary Career.
A recent volume of personal
reminiscences of t lie duke of\\ el
lington, written by the earl of
Ellesmere and edited by his
daughter Alice, countess of Staf
ford, gives some new and enter
taining ta les of the iron duke. I le
says t lie duke considered Hannibal
far and away the greatest soldier
on record. < >f his ow u antagonists,
he s] #<e of .Masseua as the most
dangerous. Sou 11 he thought the
best strategist, but "very defect
ive and irresolute in actual colli
sion.”
It is a curious fact that tlieduke
never—except, once by accident —
read anything bearing on his own
militarv career, "lie said,” writes
Lord Ellesmere, "that they would
merely tempt and provoke him to
comments which he could not
make without oflense to living
men. Before I knew this I once
asked him for his opinion on a
passage in Xapier, with whose
work I took it for granted lie was
familiar. He positively refused
1o read even an extract.”
That the duke kept himself, ns
well as his troops, under Spartan
discipline, there can be no doubt.
For three years in India he lived
on little but rice and bis worst
outbreak was when, on arrivingat
Hover in 1S14, after six years’ab
sence abroad, the first order he
gave at the Ship inn was for "an
unlimited supply of buttered
toast.” The avidity with which
the work has been read shows
that time lias not lessened the in
terest and pride felt by English
men in this great military hero.
WARM BATHS FOR LUNATICS
Simple Treatment That Is Found
Effective in Case of Intract
able Patients.
A clever specialist in lunacy re
lieves, if he does not actually
cure, cases of insanity by giving
his patients warm baths.
The treatment is found espe
cially effective in the case of in
tractable patients, and, unlike the
old methods involving the admin
istering of drugs or mechanical
restraint, there are no ill effects
afterwards.
The benefits of the treatment
are explained bv the soothing ef
fect which the hot water has on
the patients' agitated nerves. So
marked are the good results of the
treatment that a violent, strug
gling lunatic, after being kept for
a short time in a hot bath, gradual
ly calms, and in the end generally
falls into a refreshing sleep.
Sometimes a patient will be
kept for many hours, or even da vs,
in the bath, but always, it is said,
with the most successful results.
ADVICE TO CIGAR SMOKERS
Serious Ills That May Arise from
Carrying Cigars in the Vest
Pocket.
Don’t, at this time of the year,
or, in fact, at any time, carry one
or several cigars in the left or
right upper waistce. : poeket. Tie*
body is a rare absorbent, and, es
pecially in summer, with wide open
pores, if tobacco is in too close
contact, there is likely to be an ab
sorption of its principles which
will result in vertigo, faintness
and perhaps worse, says a writer
in the New York Times.
Enjoying the best of health, I
could not account for some pecul
iar sensations at times which
gave me the utmost alarm. Even
in bed I would experience some
thing aproaching a sinking spell.
I traced the cause to my habit of
carrying cigars in my waistcoat
pockets.
FLIES KILLED BY FLOWERS.
California Sweet Peas Found by Drug
gist to Be Poisonous to
the Insects.
A local druggist lias found a
new agent for the destruction of
Hies that for activity and effect
iveness discounts anything here
tofore offered for that purpose.
And not only is it harmless, but it
is a thing of beauty as well, says
the Springfield Journal. After
selling annually thousands of
sheets of fly pa per of t he st icky and
poisoned varietes and a ton more
or less of insect powder, the new
antidote for the pest bids fair to
supersede all previous methods
with him and those of his friends
who are in the secret.
I oj several days the druggist
who is a lover of (lowers, had upon
his front cases bundles of sweet
peas of a variety grown or! i !lv
in (’alifornia and but recet :. -■<!.
tivated in this section of the ceun
try. Each morning after opening
tip the store he has found collected
around the base of the vessel con
taining the peas quite an accumu
lation of dead flies.
1' < »r the first day or so lie rega rd •
ed the mass of defunct dipterous in
sects as an accidental gathering in
the neighborhood of the flowers,
but curiosity prompted him later
to vvatch the conduct of the few
flies left in the store. It was ob
served when the peas were freshly
picked that immediately after be
ing placed in the vases those flies
in the vicinity swarmed upon tin
petals and proceeded to fasten
themselves there. Shortly after
ward they fell front their positions
dead.
It is presumed that the odor of
the peas attracted them first and
that afterward they absorbed
some poisonous exudation that th»*
flowers possess and died in conse
quence. So far as known the peas
possess no toxic effect upon the
human being.
BLUNDERS IN PARLIAMENT.
Mixed Metaphors and Bulls in
Speeches Made by English
Members.
Following are instances of
Queer blunders in off hand parlia
mentary sjx-eelies, says the Lou
don Spectator:
we are toid that by this
legislation tin* heart of the coun
try has been shaken to its very
foundations.”
“I am only too thankful that we
have removed <Sne of these miser
able barbed wire entanglements,
and that wt* find ourselves in
smooth waters at last.”
“The secretary of the education
department was the father of a
statement of which the bottom
was knocked out by those who fob
lowed him in the second reading
debate, yet the honorable member
for St. PAncras has thought fit to
trot it out again.”
‘‘Among the many jarring notes
heard in this house on military af
fairs this subject at least must be
egarded as an oasis.”
"The interests of the employers
and the employed are the same
nine times out of ten—I will even
say ninety-nine times out of ten.”
“< >ur tongues are tied, our hands
are fettered, and we are really
be t ing the air to no purpose.”
"I will now repeat what 1 was
about to say when the honorable
in mber interrupted me.”
“The West Indies will now have
a future which they never have
h. d in t he past.”
"A thorny subject which has
lor - 1 cen a bone of contention
among us.”
“A slumbering volcano which
at any moment a spark might set
aflame.”
Somnoform a New Anaesthetic.
At a recent medical exhibition
in London a new anaesthetic,
called somnoform, was shown. It
is a liquid whose boiling point is
2'A degrees below zero. The mo
ment it comes in contact with the
air it becomes a gas. The exhib
itor broke a glass capsule of som
noform to illustrate its character.
\s soon as the glass was chipped
ihere was a rush of what looked
like steam, and sevenpence worth
of somnoform was loose in the
Queen’s hall trying to asphyxiate
the exhibitors. Its great virtue,
from a medical point of view, is
that breathing stops before the
heart when it is administered.—
Philadelphia Inquirer.
Sex Flattery.
A woman Hatters with her eyes;
a man with his tongue.—Chicago
Daily News.
THE QUEER LITTLE PUFFER
Mouth Is a Tiny Bound Hole from
Which Portruclfc Teeth Like
Those of a Babbit.
The funniest little fellow in s.m
water is the puffer, or swell lisle
Fishermen call him the Mow lisle
says the Washington l’ost.
When he is swimming around at
ease wit h notliing to alarm him he
looks queer enough, for theskin of
liis abdomen is all loose and
wrinkled, and he has such a funny
little tail and such ridiculous lit
tle fins and such a hig three-cor
nered head that he looks entirely
absurd. 11 is mouth, instead of be
ing big and gaping, as most tish
mouths are, is only a tiny round
hole at the end of a pointed, con
ical snout. Out of this circular
month protrude his teeth, like
tho- v of a rabbit.
lb would be as homely a fish as
could be made if it were not for
the beautiful orange and yellow
and silver colorings that play all
over him.
Hut queer as he looks when he is
at ease, it is only when he is fright
ened or excited that he becomes
really funny. If he is hooked, for
instance, be comes to the surface
grinding those protruding teeth;
so that the sound can lx* heard a|
good inanv feet awav. And then
as soon as the hand touches him
lie begins to grunt hoarsely and
with each grunt he swells a 1»i t. fill
within a few moments he has
puffed himself so full of air that
lie is quite round and firm, like a
ball. So thoroughly does In* dis
tend himself with air that when
the fishermen hurl him at the wa
ter with all their force, as they
often do, ho will bounce just like a
rubber ball.
If lie is dropped into the water
after blowing himself full of air
be lloats on it as lightly ns a this
tledown and lie w ill stay that way
until he has assured himself that
danger has gone by. He does the
same when he is pursued by other
fish. And as he floats almost en
tirely out of water, with only a lit
tle bit of his hard, spiny body sunk
under the surfaee, very few fish
can hurt him once he is inflated.
JUST A MATTER OF LUCK.
Transpiring Events Seem to Have
Proven the Fallibility of
Brains and Science.
“1 was the witness to an inter
esting exchange of opinions in my
office not long ago between a New
^ ork minister and a young engi
neer," said a lawyer the other
evening, according to the Sun.
“The minister was in my office
when the young man came in to
tell me of his probable appoint
nient as engineer by a company
which has the development of an
important concession in Corea.
“ ‘With a little luck,’ he said, ‘I
may be a successful man in five
years.’
“The minister, who is rather
conservative and inclined to be
strict in his views, interrupted
him.
“ ‘Is t hat just an expression?’ ho
said, ‘or do you with your seien
lilic training in this enlightened
twentieth century really believe in
luck?’
“i most certainly do,'t lie engi
neer told him. *1 have already put
brains, energy and nerve into mv
ollorl to secure this position. All
1 need now is a little luck, and if
1 don t have it the others will do
me no more good than a straight
open in t lie middlo.’
“ 1 he subject was dropped there,
mu h man respecting the‘other’ll
opinion without argument.
“A month later the outbreak of
the llussian da panese war was an
nounced and the plans of the com
pany were indefinitely post
poned.”
Medicine 1
This great stock medicine is a
money saver for stock raisers. It |
! jg a medicine, not a cheap food or |
I condition powder. Though put up |
I in coarser form than ThedfordV
Black-Draught, renown.-1 fur the (
of the digestion troubles of
persons, it has the same qualities
of invigorating digestion, stirring
up the torpid liver and loosening]
the constipated bowels for all stock
iand poultry. It is carefully pre
pared and its acti hi is so healthful
that stock grow and thrive with an
occasional dose in their food. It
cures hog cholera and makes hogs
grow fat. It cures chicken cholera
and roup and makes hens lay. It
cures constipation, distemper and
colds in horses, murrain in cattle,
and makes a draught animal do
more work for the food consumed.
It gives animals and fowls of all
kinds new life. Every farmer and
raiser should certainly give it a
trial. .
I It costs 25c. a can and saves ten
[ times its price in profit.
PlTTSBCBti, Kas., March 25, 1904.
I have been using your Black-Draught
Stock and Poultry Medicine oa ray
| stock for some t.iaf. 1 have used all
1 kinds of stock food but I have found
that yours is the best for my purpose.
J. 8. HASSON.
SEE
it IV!cans:
uality guaranteed
J nsurpassed fit
bsoiute satisfaction
|_ eading styles
1 nestimable worth
r estifying values
ear after year ^ brings chm
To millions of homes afar and near,
Big and liffle folks sing the praise
Of Shoes so wonderfully mad*
BY
?
ST. LOU I 3.
We sell '^jjr Jjy Shoes.
Men and Women looking for their
Money's worth, buy them.
Fred. D. Whiting.
GEORGE F. CROSSER,
Notary Public, and
Dealer In Real Estate.
All kinds of blank deeds, trustor
warranty, kept on hand, prepared and
acknowledgments attested. I ^posi
tions taken. Pension work a specialty.
(ST Otlice in Pest Office Building.
J. C. LEWIS,
Contractor and Builder,
Plans, Specifications and Estimates
Cheerfully Furnished.
Job work of all kinds neatly and
promptly done. Satisfaction guaran
teed. Saw tiling a specialty.
Shop South of Journal Office.
J. W. HODGES,
Physician and Surgeon,
Office at Sturdivant's Drug Store.
Residence Phone No. (>4.
CALLS ANSWERED PROMPTLY.
V. L. Pascoe ti.
Phone No. 10 Phone No. 2*
PASCOE & POE
Physicians and Surgeons
Office in Raney Building, on South
Front Street. Phone No, 17.
Office hours8 to 12 a. m., and 1 to 5 p. m