HERMIT CRAB’S TROUBLES.
When Its Shell Gets Too Snug the
Uneasy Crustacean Goes Out
Looking for Another.
Tlie most disconsolate fellow
that walks the beach is the hermit
crab whose shell has become too
snug for comfort. If it were his
own, a-s the dam's, it would grow
with his growth, and always be a
perfect tit; but to the hermit there
comes often a “moving day,"
when a new house must besought.
iDiseouraging work it is, 1oo. Most
ofthedoorsat which Ik* knocks are
slammed in his face. A tweak
from a larger pincer than his own
will often satisfy him that the
shell lie considers “distinct ly pos
sible,” and hopefully ventures to
explore, is already occupied by a
near but coldly unsympathetic rel
ative.
Finding no empty shell of suit
able size, the hermit may bedriv
en to ask a brother hermit to va
cate in his favor. The proposi
tion is spurned indignantly, and
a light ensues. The battle is to the
stronger. Often the attacking
party has considerable trouble in
cleaning out the shell, having to
pick his adversary out in bits. A
periwinkle or a whelk may be at
tacked in a like manner by a her
mit who is hard pressed and has
taken a fancy to that particular
shell. 1 f t he householder he feeble,
the conquest is easy. If lusty, he
.holds tin* fort.
SHE TOOK HIS ADVICE.
And Found It an Excellent and
Efficacious Remedy for
the Blues.
“I sun so very unhappy, Mr.
Brief," said tin* fair petit inner for
a divorce to her lawyer, relates
the < 'hirago Int er < >cean.
“Is there anythin}*; in particular
wrong*/" the legal gentleman
asked, svinpathetieally.
“No, nothing in [(articular,"
sighed the fair pet itioner. “I am
simply miserably blue and de
pressed. But I supjiose that is
something for which yon cannot
advise."
“Well, madam," said the law
yer, swinging around in his chair,
“1 will say frankly that if you
were a man I should advise you to
jgo out and drink three or four
cocktails. Hut as it is. I am afraid
il am not competent to deal with
the situation."
Three or four days later the fair
petitioner again called at the of
llice of her lawyer. This time she
was all smiles.
“And, oh, Mr. Brief!” she said,
when she arose to go at the end of
'the conference, “I want to thank
you verv much for vour advice as
*
!to how to get rid of tin* blues.
Like all your other advice, it was
excellent."
“You—you—" gasped tin* law
iyer.
“Yes.” said tin* lady, “T took it."
Paper Without Politics.
The Cherokee Advocate (the
only Indian paj>er), the official or
pin of the Cherokee nation, is tit
years old. It is published at
Tahlequah, at the nation's ex
pense. One-half is printed in the
Cherokee language. The paper is
forbidden to deal in politics. Its
cost of publication is about sflkolHI
above all receipts.
Sincere Compliment.
“Oh, Mr. Oeltoreni, I’m so glad
to see you!" exclaimed the hos
tess.
“Are you really?" said the de
lighted guest.
•'Indeed 1 am,’’she replied. “If
you had failed to show up there
would have been Id at the dinner
table.”—<'ineinnati Enquirer.
Our Growing Navy.
The completion of ships now
under construction will make our
navy twice as strong as it is now
and three times as powerful as it
was at the beginning of the Span*
ish-American war. It will rank as
the third navy in theoretical ton
nage and the second in actual
lighting power.
Photos Without Wrinkles.
I A German photographer, Kun
wald. when taking a picture of a
lady of doubtful age places sheets
of celluloid between the negative
and the printing paper, thus pro
during a very softening effect,
which hides the discrepancies of
age.
Ancient Beacon.
The first light house on 1 he Sicily
Tsles, erected in 1(581, still stands
(with modern improvements) upon
St. Ymrus.
ATHLETICS OF THE SYRIANS
American Games and Sports Find
Favor with Them and Are Ef
fecting Dress Reforms.
Oriental people are very averse
to physical exercise of any kind.
Their idea of enjoyment is to sit
under an awning and play back
gammon, says the World Today.
That a man should go out and run
around a track in shameless na
kedness, and this with no hope of
gain, only confirms them in the
belief that all Americans are mad.
Hut they are imitative peaople,
and some years ago the influence
and example of the younger teach
ers got a few of the preparatory
boys out for foot races. That day,
for Beirut, at least, the death
blow was struck to the pictur
esque dress of the orient. You
can’t run a hundred-yard dash
with long, baggy drawers and a
silk gmnbez that flops around
your ankles. Even if you “gird up
the loins,” by tucking your skirts
into the sash, tin* effort is more
startling than speedy. So, one by
one,thest udents ordered trousers
from the city tailors. At first
they were poorly cut and viewed
with suspicion; but to-day there
are not three men in the collegi
ate department who wear the old
costume, and many of the stu
dents dress with taste and an ele
gance that their professors can
not afford to emulate.
Tenuis and basket ball soon
won their place’ in the students’
favor; and now we have gymnas
tic apparatus and a regularly
graduated athletic director, who
lias learned physical culture and
boy nature Through a long experi
ence in the gymnasiums of Amer
ica. Hut it was football that did
the most toward unification. The
valueof team work is a new idea to
eastern college men. The old ideal
was that of “every man for him
self." It has been so since the days
of Alcibiades and Absolom. If it
had not been so the history of the
world might have been different.
It was comparatively easy to see
the joy of winning a foot race or
a tennis match; but to play an un
theatrical part in a football game,
obeying a captain and working
for the good of the side; that was
a very different thing.
ANTS TO KILL WEEVILS.
United States Government Will Send
to Guatemala for the
Insects.
By planting cotton we encour
aged the bool weevil that lives on
cotton. After killing the birds in
millions, that might otherwise
have kept down fhe weevils, we
have spent millions of dollars more
than the milliners ever paid for
the birds' corpses to destroy the
now aggressive and dangerous
weevils. But an ant lias been
found in Guatemala that worries
the weevil to death if it has a
chance, so this government will
send to Guatemala and buy ants.
There is never a doubt, says the
Brooklyn Eagle, that Guatemala
will sell them willingly, if they are
as t ronblesome as most of t he ants
in warm countries, end they will
be domes t ieated in ' ’ e gulf stales.
But then arises the question:
Suppose they should be equally
troublesome here? Suppose1 that,
after eating the weevils, they
should spread over the whole Mis
sissippi valley, forcing their way
into the houses and driving the in
habitants into exile in the wood
shed? Supposing that they mine
the wood of buildings so that the
buildings come down in a cloud of
sawdust ? Suppose a whole lot of
things that may not happen, but
that also may, for mischief came
as a result of importing the Eng
lish sparrow, the gypsy moth, the
Hessian fly and the potato bug.
This will require a new prepara
tion to destroy the moth. In the
West Indies they introduced the
deadly serpent, the fer de lance,
to kill olT t he rats. Then they had
to introduce the mongoose to kill
off the fer de lance. Now they are
introducing firearms to kill the
mongoose. Men's attempts to up-'
set the balance of nature in their
own interests are apt to react
against them if the attempts suc
ceed.
On Ocean Ships.
Some novel features are being
put into 1 lie new Hamburg steam
ers designed for the South Amer
ican service. They include a play
room for children and arbors on
deck like those used in German
gardens.
FARE OF RUSSIAN POOR.
Peasants Have Table Luxuries L'uch
in Demand Among- Western
World Epicures.
The Russian peasant, even if the
bread he eats is black, has a lux
ury to add to his meal much sought
by epicures in the western world—
the wild mushroom, which grows
thousands upon thousands on the
steppes of Russia. At any time a
full and savory meal is provided
with the addition of sausage and
onions; even a mushroom alone
often contents them for a meal
with their coarse rye bread.
The poorest laborer has also a
luxury drink always available
from the everpresent samovar,
and the tea they drink would be
the envy of the American con
noisseur of that beverage, for the
best of China's tea is found in
Russia and all classes enjoy its
quality and fragrance. Never is
the water allowed to stand on tin*
tea over a few moments, so none
of the poisonous tannin is extract
ed, and a delightful, mildly stim
ulating, straw-colored drink is the
result.
it would be well if the Russian
peasant would content himself
with this, for his only vice is
drunkenness.
PIGEON AND SQUIRREL FIGHT
Birds and Animals Engage in Fierce
Battle Over Hulled Hick
ory Nuts.
A battle royal between squir
rels and pigeons was lately
watched with much interest in the
statehouse yard at Columbus.
Ohio. An early visitor brought
with him a small sack of hulled
hickory nuts. Me began to feed
them to an old white squirrel
when a pigeon was attracted by a
number of the kernels on the
ground. As soon as he began to
pick the old squirrel made a lunge
and the bird gently went into the
air for a few feet. It lit again and
again upon the ground, but every
time it was chased away.
Other pigeons were attracted,
as well as other squirrels, and the
visitor, in order to keep up the
excitement, emptied the entire
s k. The squirrels, however,
] <»ved themselves to be the mas
te:s of the situation. In order to
thoroughly frighten the pigeons
the little animals began to make
peculiar noises and chase each
ot: t about in a circle, but at no
til diil they leave the space cov
ered by the nuts. It worked well,
for the pigeons soon tired of fly
im up a short distance anil down
again, and disappeared, leaving
the sit nation entirely in the hands
of t he enemy.
CONFEDERATE FLAG WAVES.
Indian Territory Natives Who Still
Keep the Stars and
Bars Aloft.
“Mown in the Indian territory,”
said Mr. .1. X. Saddler, of New Or
leans. recently, reports the Wash
ington Post, “the natives still
think they are in the southern
confederacy. At least that is the
way it looked to me when, by acci
dent, 1 happened to be a spectator
of the democratic territorial con
vention, held at Durant to elect
delegates to the St. Louis conven
tion.
“There were about 50 confeder
ate flags hung all over the hall,
while the solitary emblem of l'n
cle Sam’-H government waps so
small you could hardly st^* it; and
in order to make it loss conspicu
ous, some delegate with a over
plus of tarantula juice furled it,
greatly to the delight of his asso
ciates.
“These people are as good pa
triots as any, and at heart true
Americans. They bring out these
ancient battlellags periodically
from force of habit and not be
cause they are in the least bit dis
loyal. On the sarin* principle they
shriek with delirious frenzy when
a brass band plays •Dixie,’ and
want no ot her t une played.’’
Genuine.
“Well, I made t he sale all right ,"
said tin* new salesman.
**Hut you lied to her,’’ protested
the proprietor. “You told her they
were genuine old Irish laces—’’
“No, 1 didn't. She simply said
she didn’t want any ‘bogus imita
tions,'and I assured her ours were
genuine.”—Philadelphia Press.
Birds Snap Themselves.
Naturalists now make birds
take their own phot graphs by
means of trap cameras.
A QUEER FAD.
Lord Rothschild an Enthusiastic Collet
tor of All Kinds of Fleas.
A scion of the renowned Roths
child family is an enthusiastic col
lector of tleas. lie claims to have
in his possession more than 10,001
different varieties, and says the find
ing of a new Ilea aifords him as great
delight as the securing of a great
masterpiece of art doe- any of hi;
relatives. Arctic explorers who have
just returned from the frozen north
have brought him a few sample.- of
fleas that live on animals within the
Arctic circle. Such expedition to the
polar region is encouraged by Charles
Rothschild -ubstantially Ly his en
gaging some member of the part}
to collect flea- from every specie- of
bird and mammal encountered.
What more inter* sting operation r an
be imagined than that of a fur-bun
dled arctic explorer, in an atmosphere
of great depth below zero, hunting
for tleas behind the left ear of a polai
bear just to p!< a>e the fancy of Lord
Rothschild.—Chicago Sun.
THE FIRST BURMESE NOVEL
Progressive Native Conceives the Idea
of Introducing Modern Form
of Literature.
A new departure in Burmese lit
erature, in the form of a puhlica
tiou of a Burmese novel, has been
welcomed in Burma, sa.\s a cor
respondent of t lie Lahore Tribune.
To evervone familiar with the lit
erature of the Burmese—and,
unhappily, they are not many—
then* is no doubt that t his de
part tire will he welcomed as a re
lief from the tedious tales printed
in ponderous volumes and written
in conventional style.
An educated Burman well
known in Rangoon has had the
happy idea of writing the novel
somewhat on tin* lines of I hose is
sued daily by publishers in other
countries. The task was one beset
with many diniculfies, the first
and greatest of these being the
language itself, for its flexibility
in expressing new ideas makes it,
we are told, a very unwieldy in
strument in the hands of even 1 lie
most accomplished scholar. The
cause of this stiffness is to be
found in the evolution of Burmese
literature. I lie first Burmese nov
el which introduces this new de
parture from conventional litera
tnie, and surprised and even as
tonished Burmese readers, lias
appeared in serial form in the
Friend of Burma and will be
shortI.\ published in book form
"itli illustrations. The story is
ontiiled “Mating din Manng Ma
Maydo \ atthn.” It is interesting,
we are assured, not only as to its
I'iot. but as giving rnneh valuable
insight into Burmese family life
and into the customs and prae
liiesuf the Burmese people. Bur
mese life is painted, not as seen
through European glasses, but
from *itfoin, by one w ho had lived
and is living in it.
BILIOUSNESS
CONSTIPATION
CURED BY
THEDFORDS
BLACK-DRAUGHT
r'-^Vy'
Because the liver is
neglected people suffer
with constipation, biliousness,
headaches and fevers. Colds attack |
the lungs and contagious diseases
take hold of the system. It is safe
to say that if the liver were always
kept” in proper working order,
illness would be almost unknown.
Thedford’s Black-Draught is so
successful in curing such sickness
because it is without a rival as a
liver regulator. This great family
medicine is not a strong and
drastic drug, but a mild and
healthful laxative that cures con
stipation and may he taken by a
mere child without possible
harm.
The healthful action on the liver
cures biliousness. It has an in
vigorating effect on the kidneys.
Because the liver and kidneys do
not work regularly, the poisonous
acids along with the waste from
the bowels get back into the blood
and virulent contagion results.
Timely treatment with Thed
ford's Black-Draught removes the
dangers which lurk in constipation,
liver and kidney troubles, and will
positively forestall the inroads of
Bright's disease, for which dis
ease in advanced stages there is
no cure. Ask your dealer for a
25c. package of Thedford's Black- ,
I Draught. ]
OK OW N
't Mea«s:
uc’ity fiosp.'jnteed
nsurpassed tit
A
*—A bsolute satisfaction
Lc
eading styles
| nestimable worth
i' estifying values
i ear ailer ;ac; yr- Sjjj • brings cheer
To millions of homes alar and near,
Pig and Utile folks sing the praise
Of *5^ Shoes so wonderfully mad*
V&& ■
ST. LOUIS.
Wssftl'^'O'^' Shoes.
Men and Women locking for their
Money’s worth, buy them.
Fred. D. Whiting.
QEORQE F. GROSSER,
Notary Public, and
Dealer In Real Estate.
All kinds ol blank deeds, trustor
warranty, kept on hand, prepared and
acknowledgments attested. Deposi
tions taken. Pension work a specialty.
L^-r Office in P< st Office Building.
J. C. LEWIS,
Contractor and 15niIcier,
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,
(Itlice tit Sturdivant's Drug Store.
Residence Rhone \o. *!4 .
j CALLS A NSWELLED PROMPTLY.
V. L. Paseoe l-. O. Poe
Phone No. 10 Phone No. 24
PASCOE & POE
Physicians and Surgeons
Office in Raney Building, on South
Front Street. Phone No, IT.
Office hours8 to 12 a. in., and 1 ton p- «*•