HERMIT CRAB'S TROUBLES.
When Its Shell Gets Too Snug the
Uneasy Crustacean Goes Out
Looking for Another.
The most disconsolate fellow
that walks the beach is the hermit
crab whose shell has become too
snng for comfort. If it were his
own, as the clam’s, it would grow
with his growth, ami always be a
perfect lit; but to the hermit there
comes often a "moving day.”
when a new house must be sought.
Discouraging work ii is.loo. Most
of the doors at which he knocks are
slammed in his face. A tweak
from a larger pinecr than 1 is own
will often satisfy him that the
shell lie conside :s "distinctly pos
sible,” and hopefully ventures to
explore, is already occupied by a
near but coldly mist mpa tbetic rel
ative.
Finding no empty shell of suit
able size, the hermit may he driv
en to ask a brother hermit to va
cate in his favor. The proposi
lion is spurned indignantly, and
a fight ensues. The hat t le is to i lie
stronger. Often the attacking
party lias considerable trouble iti
cleaning out the shell, having to
pick his adversary out in hits. 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. If the householder be feeble,
the conquest is easy. If lusty, he
.holds the fort.
SHE TOOK HIS ADVICE
▲nd Found It an Excellent and
t Efficacious Remedy for
the Bluet.
“I a.m ho very unhappy, Mr.
Brief,” »aid the fair jietitioner for
M. divorce to her lawyer, relate*
:<he Chicago Inter Ocean.
“Is there anything in particular
•wrong?” the legal gentleman
masked, gympathetieally.
“No, nothing in particular,”
•sighed the fair petitioner. “I am
-.simply miserably blue and de
pressed. But I suppose that is
something for which you cannot
advise.”
“Well, madam.” said the law
yer, swinging around rn his chair.
“I will say frankly that if you
were a man I should ad vise you to
go out and drink three or four
cocktails. But us it is, 1 am afraid
il am not competent to deal with
t he sit ua t ion.”
Three or four days later t he fair
petitioner again called at the of
fice 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 very much for your advice as
to how to get rid of the blues.
Like all your other advice, it was
excellent.”
* “You—you—” gasped the law
yer.
“Yes,” said the lady, “I took it."
Paper Without Politics.
* The Cherokee Advocate (the
only Indian paper), the official or
'gan of tin* Cherokee nation, is 04
years old. It is published at
Tahlequah, at the nation’s ex
pense. One-half is printed in the
Cherokee language. Tin* paper is
forbidden to deal in politics. Its
cost of publication is about $2,o0fi
.above all receiptx.
Sincere Compliment.
“Oh, Mr. DeBorem, I'm so glad
to see you!” exclaimed the hos
tess.
“Are you really?” said the de
lighted guest.
“Indeed i !tn,” she replied. “If
you had fai d to show up there
would have been 1”* at the dinner
table.”—(’»:-• innaii Enquirer.
Our Growing Navy.
The completion of ships now
under construction will make out
navy twice as strong as it is now
and three tines as powerful as it
was at the beginning of the Span
ish-Amorican war. It will rank as
the third navy in theoretical ton
nage and the second in actual
fighting power.
Photos Without Wrinkles.
A German photographer, Kun
wald, when taking a picture of a
lady of doubtful age places shoots
of celluloid between the negative
and tin* printing paper, thus pro
ducing a very softening effect,
which hides the discrepancies of
age.
Ancient. Beacon.
The first light house on i he Sicily
Isles, erected in ItiSK still stands
uvith modern improvements) upon
8b AntrfcS.
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, say s the WOrld Today.
That a man should go out and run
around a truck in shameless na
kedness, and this with no hope of
gain, only confirms them in the
belief that all Americans a re mad.
lint they are imitative peaople,
and some years ago the* influence
and example of t he younger teach
ers got a few of the preparatory
boy s out for foot races. That day,
for lteirut, at least. Ihe 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 gumbez that flops around
your ankles. Even if you “gird up
the* loins,” by tucking your skirts
into the sash, the effect is more
startling than speedy. So, one by
one, the students ordered trousers
from the city tailors. At first
they were poorly cut and viewed
with suspicion; but today 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.
Tennis and basket ball aoon
won their place’ in the students’
favor; and now we have gymnas
tic apparatus and a regularly
graduated athletic director, who
has 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
value of 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
«f Alcibiades and Absolom. If it
had not been so the history’of tlx*
world might have been different.
Tt was comparatively easy to see
the joy of winning a foot race or
a tennis match ; hut 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 tiling.
ANTS TO KILL WEEVILS.
United States Government Will Send
to Guatemala for tlie
Insects.
By planting cotton wo onconr
aped the bool weevil that lives on
cotton. After killing the birds in
millions, that might otherwise
have kept down Mio 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 has 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 troublesome as most of theants
in warm countries, " d they will
be domestieated i 1 es.
But then arises i no question:
Suppose they should be equally
troublesome here? Suppose that,
after eating the weevils, they
should spread over the whole Mis
sissippi valley, forcing their way
into thehous.es 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 tlir* potato bug.
Tliis will require a now prepara
tion to dostror tho moth. In the
West Indies they introduced tlio
deadly serpent, the for de lanoe,
to hill off the rats. Then they had
to introduce the mongoose to kill
off the fordo 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.
Cn Ocean Ships.
Pome novel features are being
nut into the 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 FOCR.
Peasants Have Table Lnxu 1 .ch
in Demand Among We-,„_
World Epicures.
The Russian peasant, even if the
bread he eats is black, has a lux
ury toadd 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 ever-present 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 the
tea over a few moments, so none
of the poisonous tannin is extract
ed, and a delightful, mildly stini
ulating, strawcolored 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
Eirds 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 tie*
statehouse yard at Columbus,
Ohio. An early visitor brought
with him a small sack of hulled
hickory nuts, lit* bejjan 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. If lit again and
again upon the ground, but every
time it was chased away.
Other pigeons were attracted,
as well as other squirrels, and t he
visitor, in order to keep up the
excitement, emptied the entire
sack. The squirrels, however,
] roved themselves to be the mas
tors of the situation. In order to
thoroughly frighten the pigeons
the little animals began to make
pec lliar noises and chase each
oil r about in a circle, but at no
tir - did they leave the space cov
en- 1 by the nuts. It worked well,
for the pigeons soon tired of Ily
in up a short distance and down
ag in, and disappeared, leaving
th sit uation enf irely in the hands
of ; In* enemy.
CCh',TDERATE FLAG WAVES.
ladiua . c . ritory Natives Who Still
Heop the Stars and
Bars Aloft.
“Down in the Indian territory,”
said Me. d. X. Saddler, of .New Or
leans. recently, reports the Wash
ington I’osl, “the natives siill
think they are in tin* southern
confederacy. At least that is the
way il looked to me w hen, by acci
dent, 1 happem-d 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
flfo flans hung all over fix' hall,
while the solitary emblem of 1 n
cle Sam'-H government was so
small you could hardly s<** it; and
in order to make it less 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 battleHags periodical!.'
from force of habit and not be
cause they are in the least bit dis
loyal. On the same principle the.\
shriek with delirious frenzy when
a brass band plays ‘Dixie,' and
want no ot her tune played.’’
Genuine.
“Well, 1 made t he sa le till right,
said 1 he new salesman.
“lint you lied to her," protested
the proprietor. “Von told her 1 hey
were genuine old Irish laces—’
“No, I didn't. Sin* simply ssfid
she didn’t want any ‘bogus imita
tions.’and 1 assured her ours wer<*
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 Collec
tor of All Kinds of Fleas.
A scion of the renowned Roths
child family is an enthusiastic col
lector of fleas, ile claims to have
in his possession more than 10,001
different varieties, and says the find
ing of a new flea affords him as great
delight as the securing of a great
masterpiece of art does any of hit
relatives. Arctic explorers who have
just returned from the frozen north
have brought him a few samples of
fleas that live on animals within the
Arctic circle. *Such expedition to the
polar region is encouraged by Charles
Rothschild substantially bv his en
gaging some member of the party
to collect fleas from every species of
bird and mammal encountered.
What more interesting operation can
be imagined than that of a fur-bun
died arctic explorer, in an atmosphere
of great depth below zero, hunting
for fleas behind the left ear of a polar;
hear just to please the fancy of Lord
Rothschild. ('hiiiiig-i 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 publica
tion of a Burmese novel, has been
welcomed in Burma, savs a cor
respondent of I he Lahore Tribune.
To everyone familiar with the lit
erature of the Burmese and,
unhappily, they are not many—
there is no doubt that this de
parture will be welcomed as a re
lief from the tedious tales printed
in ponderous volumes and written
in conventional style.
An educated Burtnan well
known in Rangoon has had the
happy idea of writing tin* novel
somewhat on the lines of 1 hose is
sued daily by publishers in other
countries. The task was one beset
with many difficulties, 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 tie
most accomplished scholar. Tin*!
cause of this illness is to be
found in the evolut ion of Burmese :
literature. The first Burmese nov
el which introduces this new d
part are from conventiomtl lifer;
ture. and surprised and oven a
tonished Burme e rmolers. hr
appeared in -ena] form in 11
Friend of Bin mu and \\ il' l
shortly published in book fori
'"‘Hi illustrations. The story
enticed ••Manny Bin Mating; M
M.ndo \ atthu." B js inferestin
we are assured, not only as to ii
plot, but as giving much valunb
insight into Burmese family ii!
und into the customs and pra
tiees of the Burmese people. Bu
incse life is painted, not as se<
through Kuropean glasses, ht
from within, by one who had lm
and is living in it.
If you are nervous and tired out
continually you could have no
clearer warning of the approach
of serious female trouble.
I)o not wait until you sutler un
bearable pain 1 m 1 ore you seek treat
ment. Tou need \\ ine of Cardui
now just as much as if the trouble
were more developed and the tor
turing pains « f "disordered men
struation, bearing down pains,
leucorrhoea, backache and head
ache were drivr . vou to tlie un
failing relief thutWine of Cardm
lias brought humln■> is c>f thousands
of women and v id bring you.
Wine of Cardui will drive out
all trace of weakness and banish
nervous sjs'lls, headache and bu< k
ache and prevent the symptoms
from quickly developing into dan
gerous troubles that will be hard
to check. Secure a $1.00 bottle of
Wine of Cardui today. If your
dealer does not keep it, send the
money to the Ladies’ Advisory
Dept., The Chattanooga Medicine
Co., Chattanooga, Tenn., and the
medicine will be sent you.
Wi\'£ sF
CARDUi
HAS IT
EVER
STRUCK
YOU?
That appearances »r*
■very deceiving.
Some things are made
for looKs—others for service.
Just so with shoes.
You secure
DOLLAR
DOLLAR.
_ when you buy
“ENTERPRISE”
c k?M
St. Louis,
.make them.
We sell them in
Women’s, Misses’ and
Children’s sizes.
Fred. D. Whiting.
GEORGE F. GROSSER,
Notary Public, and
Dealer In Real Rstate.
All kinds of hlank deeds, trustor
warranty, kept on hand, prepared andf
acknowledgments attested. I ^posi
tions taken. Pension work a specialty,
t.; Office, in P< st Office Building.
J. C. LEWIS,
Contractor and Builder,
Plans, Specifications and Estimates
Cheerfully Furnished.
.lob work of all kinds neatly and
promptly done. Satishirtiou guaran
teed. Saw lilinu a specially.
Shop South of Journal Office.
J. W. HODGES,
Physician anil Surgeon.
1 )lHee at Sturdivant'- Druji Store.
Residence Phone No. (II.
CALLS ANSWERED PROMPTLY.
V. L. Ptscoe L. Cl. I’"«
Phone No. 10 Phone No. 24
PASCOE & POE
Physicians and Surgeons
Office in Raney Kuildin#, on South
Front Street. Phone No, IT.
Office hours 8 to 12 a. m., and 1 to 5 p. in.