jr ""* t <^ " sxii theid series salisbury n c thursday i:ctimieh 9 is is90 1 v for infants andjphiidren nc»storlai8bo'wclladaptedtochfldrentha.t castnrin rnrr-s folio constipation as superior to any prescription our stomach diarrhoea eructation \, . kills worms gives uletp aud promotes cli :: •.. aucheb ii d ration . t brooklyn n t y.iu.uut injurious implication , ,<■ castoria'is so univprsal ft ml " for several ye.irs i havo rpcommpndcd .. l known that it seems i wi.rk your ' castoria and shall always continue to on to endorse it few are the d -»> a-^itliui im aria iy produced beueueiitl .. ■: i do not keep castoria rusulto knwi f varder m d ( aui.oa martyr p tk ,. thq winthropi i lioth street and 7th ave " tor bloomingdale reformed church new york city tnk csktaue pompact 77 mcrray ktrekt new york h is • ib ililill 1 the leading furniture dealer and undsrtaker l 1 1\3 a b i - ■ r u r v irrinjrtho largfpt and host assorted stock of fiirni ure ever brouulii t this place th world as i find it tin v pay the world's a weary place w her tears are never i ied where pleasures pass like brealh on grass an . 1 l;ik s abide .( may l»e so — 1 cannot know — yet thirf i dare to say my lot has had more il;i<l than sad and so it has lo-day i'lirv ay that love's a cruel jest they tell of woman's wiles rhat pui-on iliji.s in poiiiinj lip and k-ath in dimpled smiles it may be so — i cannot know — yci . sin e of tlii.-i i am i ne licaii i found above the gronud whor-e love is not a sham rhey say hal life's » bitter curst — that heart arc made to ache that ji-st and song are iiravely wrong and death's a vast mistake fi may be so — i cannot know — • lint let them tal k their fill i like my life and love my wife a nil mean to du so still — fredrick lanbriilge laugh and grow la . with the tomato canning linns it \. i matter of \\ u up tr h t up are ten dollar gold pieces called eng s because lliey sire so engle-y sought for 3.*y tom how are von going to pvn 1 next sunday gii«s>i will i iu an ex.mir.soh soy which line will ou take i'lslliug illie mr smiles — mrs hasliingloii ] lov't liml anv vegetables in this vege table soup mis ha.shinguni — no i put noui u it i regard such tilings a.s soup-erfl ioi the proper coinpauion in life for a earn tress would be a seaman at leasl it seamster us that way can the man in the circus who doe the aerial flung net be called a vag raut because he ha no visible means oj upport well ijobbif di-.l von enj v voui visit tii the musem yes mamma do you remember anv of the uic tilings von saw '"(). yes i remeltibei lots of h •! . " and c ui you tell me what they were called yes mosl of th.'in wi-ii called hands off you seem to enj a vour.-elf hubby remarked o .»■ of tne quests at a dinnei iiartv " l '■■-," assented ijubhy wit i iir mouth lull i am making lit most ni ii cause after pa tin uia givr i big dnii er like tins it,s always cold pickin lor ti*c nt'at thirty dujs she had heeu rhapsodizing aboui bro.viiiijg for nearly an h ur to yo .^ jii waldo and so hy sat uieu hi tin i.okering tuvliglit sia.ling her eye with one s.nipely halid he thougl.t in i d never seen a fairer p c.uie s i was about to go on when her 1 til brother ope ed the door penelope if said can't i have some of them cold beans you put away to eat ttftei l waldo go s home t sergeant mcflinn instructing t'i new ivcriii : yez pull down the ho k : u r n ye c«n and wait won minute foi to hear de bells s it clear tt yez ' patrolman newel ub yes sir all clear ljufc imw do vez ring in a fal»t alarum sergeant if ye plaze ' clara mother just iliink of i !"" mother what is it my daughter clara charles has had his life insur ed for my benefit for fifty thousand dollars 1 ' mother has he well now my daughter there is no longer uv objection to making him that sin ge 1 cake you have been talking abouf ' she kissed him as he gave her hie engagement ring george darling i have always longed for one of t lii ■> pattern and you hiv the first who lov ed me sufficiently to study my taste in the matter and yet replied he leveling things up it is no rarity u ii kit engagements i have never used anything else smith what is tho best season for popping the question loins i never knew tint one season was any belter than another o yes and i ik best time to propose is during an open winter during an open win ter why so 71 because in an open v infer vju can t expect the beautiful . mo husband this house is as cold as i barn all the donr.s swinging open the children yelling no signs of suji p_-r no wife why my dear now unreasonable you are absolutely brutal tbe idea of you talking that way after i've worked like a slave the whole afternoon trying to kuish this heaven l>;ess our home lllolto for the hunt hall a celebrated physici m could not p iy a tradesman's l>il 1 without a sense of keen suffering even a poor paver who had been employed to c.u a job t > the stones in fiu.it oi tl.o doctor's house could not get his money with out a contest iou rsscal cried thu doctor as he alighted from his chariot do von pretend to be paid for such a pipce of work why you have spoil ed ray pavement and then covered it u.'er with earth to hide the had work i •■[ hictor said i h man dryly in ne h i i tin oniv bad work the earth hi es eh « hat so you're a wit are on sm i,i • : h doci-ui . then ) mii uui l i e paid via cf sr me bir.ls r i [ i : p sit v s they ocrri't in the k-onomy of natuiiii hi rpeetit veins much attention lias ieen i'm liv naturalists to examining lie stomachs of various birds in order i ascertain the character t their tui i those of most water fowl i ■ "•<■••:!' i".t i'f seeds and mots of aquat ic plains has been f und a subject well worthy of consideration ; s wheth r the migratory instincts of all water fowl is not partially utilized lo carry these seeds and roots to points f r dis t n from one another wl ich c uul u >: be reached by water curreuts hi us performing the part for water pl.iuts hat air currents do for growths shore birds sue li as snipe sand pip rs vellmv l^gs plover devour large quantities of beetles and worms in jurious to shore and shallow water lanls thev also assist in the traiis por a ; ( nj f eeds from pi ice to plate on lo.isi their transporting qualities affect us in another way owls and hawks until wittiin 1 ito yours have had only the uncommercial value of wisdom and sharp sight allot ted them lint by a shorter method rliaii the stomach pii nip investigators iave dear v shown that few m n v.il ial)le birds to the agriculturist cxis : in 1 now instead of offering premiums tor their s-calps they are allowed to iv rain them and are protected by law in rheir posession their chicken thiev ing is an epieurian eccentricity not worth considi ring w ei corner d to their habitual consumption ol mice wid oilier small imm.ds which do injury to the farmers 1 trees and crops the farmers poultry is under 1 is immediate protection but h can not well go mousing to save his pro ducts many kinds of hawks undoubtedly the entire falcon fam ily demonstrate that bird will eat bird but the varieties devoured by mo t of them in any appreciable quantity are such as ure indirectly useful to man as insect killers on i v the appetite and apucitv of one hawk for iii»ects much mure than compensate for those of all the birds it kills th ■ sp.irrow hawk is by far the mos liiin.'roiis i its species its chief food is grass hoppers when this insect is i.o be had the most tempting morsels n feathers is eschewed the red shouldered or chicken hawk is it is miscalled seldom eats chickens then in w nter only its food con t i quadrupeds small bird lizard frog snak s and insects iiicuiui'su hawk me sportsman's special antipathy — never preys upon r e jfame lor which sportsmen seek li is a rapacious eater varying it bill )£ fare with frogs coleopterous insects iii cl diminutive members of the feath ved tribe the sharp shinned or partridge hawk is the robespierre of the air blood blood no matter whence it comes ]{ has a liking for spring chicken imw garnished with feathers ii ■ limu ijuail toothsoma and ducks p;cemi lent iv to his tastt tie passes sentence upon almost ever\\h.;ig that ll.es yet the number of these he kills is unim portant when compnred with the en trees of his bill of tare in fact the sharp shinned and the coopers hawk are the only members of a large fami ly that have a few tastes in common with man because of this alleged sin the immense good they do should not be forgotten the u kit i owl owls continue by night the good work of the hawks by day mice moles and reptiles are their regular food the barred or hoot owl and the great horn ed owl ai\2 the only members of ihe family having an unsavory reputation the barred owl claims right of priori ty to an occasional partridge and re taliates upon the sportsmen s encroach ment upon its preserve by foraging upon the chicken yard it feeds prin cipally upon mice arid small birds and repti us i'iie great horned owl is singular in its partiality for skunk no one shou'd entertain malace toward it for that its children cry for it l!s n.s s are invariably infected by its ordor while ! its food consists of pheasants i r^je uue ducks und poultry the dining on a single skunk gives it respectable standing as n friend to the poultry raiser and sportsmen together with all having noses in any degree more sen sil ive than wax one the barn < wl outiivals tha cat as a ' mouser and as a nerve stirring musi cian by the eb-queuce <■>( its silence fji h'fteen jeare within the writers knowledgo a neighborly pair if screech owls have dwelt upon a west philadel phia lawn in the midst of an unusual quantity of nesting birds and in close contiguity to a chicken yard without i routing a nest or disturbing a chicken so far as an y indication has ever shown the regular routine or daily routine of daily life its work and its relaxation irs arduous duties aid r;.-p.»nsibilitie it priv.itft cares and pleasures it social c aims all demand thought delibera t on and cildmss that v the very i antipodes of the hot haate and t ; i » ■ neverceasing siraiu which are so often put iut'i them children cry for pitcher's castoria his first chev i he boy * ii.l it w is i j • - - . - 1 1 1 1 tr kin 1 ' if io'incci illll w.is k i'lvj us lll iss ! tobnceo ij cause it wa .-.» sweet the other boys did not ask how lie came to know it 11 in - or where lie gut it ' boys never ask anything that would be well for them to know ! m it fhev accepted his theory rail ins further statement that it w is a mildness sin u r ul,ularlv adapted to learne.-s without misgivings the boy was himself chewing vigorously oira large quid,and launching tiie jiijce from his lips right ill id left like a grown person and mv boy took as large a lute a his benefac tor bade him he found it us sweet as he hud been told it was and the apt ue-s df its name of molasses tobacco it seemed to him a golden opportunity to acquire a noble habit on easy terms e let the quid rest in his cheek as lie h.id seen men do when he was not crushing it between his teeth and for some moments he poled his p'.ank up and do.vn tl e canal-boat wim a sense i if triumph that nothing marred then all of u sudden he began to feel pule the boat seemed to be go ing round and the sky r-elin_j over head the sun was dodging about very strangely drops of sweat burst from the boy's forehead he let fall his pole and said that he thought that he would o home the fellow who gave him the tobucc > b.'ia.i to laugh and i hr other fellows to mock but ny boy did not nuud them somehow he did i not know how he got out of th canal boat and started homeward but ut j every step the ground ro.se as high as his knee livfure him and then when he got hi.s foot high enough and began to put it down again the ground was not there he was deathly sick as lie reeled and staggered on uui when lie reached home and allowed himself bite and haggard to hi.s frightened j mother he hud scarcely strength enough to gasp out a confession of his attempt to retrieve the family honor by learning to cl.ew tobacco in an .■• moment mature came to his re lief n 1 tlien he feli into a deep sleep which lasted the whole afternoon so ih.it it seemed to him the next day when he awoke up glad to hud himself alre if not very lively perhaps he had swallowed tome of the poisonous juice of the tobacco per haps it hud acted upon hu brain without that his father made no very close inquiries into the facts and he did not forbid him the use of tobacco it was not necessary in that one little experiment he had got enough for a whole lift-time it shows that after ill a boy is not so hard to satisfy in everything — william ikun huivelcs ut llurpei s ) oumj people their iirst xuss the squatter's cabin had grown to pretensions proportions during the forty years he had occupied ii the old mall remained unchanged except for the ef fects of passing years r lhe crowd of young people that had collected at his bouse te spend the afternoon pressed him to tell them a story of hi.s early life in that region alter a little hesitation he bega'.i : lemme see hit's jist forty-fo year ergo at me an mer wife was taaird an mured ter this country fur to set up fer oursefs we had er log cabin with oify one room an er shed fur ther lawk i worked powerful hard er clearin uv ian an er m.tkin er crap at ther same time wife alters fetched mer dinner ter me an she staid in ther tiel with me mown half her time we wuz happy e happy ez ef we wuz ■■ ( mii niawuin we had er fuss i dis remember what hit wuz eibout but i went erway mad an lef hw cryin at dinnertime she never come i lowed ter myse'f at she wuz mad an s i let her stay mad ef she wants ter bimeby i gits so hungry at i started fur ther house jist er bifin when 1 got thar j ever'thing wuz thar ceptin mer wife thar wuz mer dinner ready fur tor take ter me but wife wussn llmr inn therebouts i gits skeered an i calls her but no answer ii fiue'ly i seed ther dawg er coiniu he axed me fur ter foliar hitu plain e talk an 1 done hit he set off fur thev creek an me er follerin . purty soon ivfl co mad ter ther creek an he run ned down ther bank an me arter him xex i heard him bark ' yere she is jist cz plain i run ned whar he wuz an thar wuz wife er lay in on ther groun 1 pale m white ezsr ghos she stuilad wlien she seed me an say ' i'm so glad yer comp tiipii she p'inted ter er grape vine full er grapes what wuz on er dead tree an she say s she i wuz or trvm fur ter git yer them grapes fur yer dinner fur ter git yer in er good humor with me kr lim broke an 1 fell '^ 1 ain't mad at me now air ye i felt killiu mer se'ffur ever bein mad •• hii don't matter whut i tov her then 1 toted her ter ther house an nussed her twell she got well 1 wouldu let nobody do iiothuu fur her ijut me an she pea red like she nuver wanted no or.e to well arter tr while h j got well an we wuz happy er^in thul wuz ther ou'y fu we ever had sence then ef ( n ■ liow - i r is er gittin 1 mad ther yether says • ■_ i i])f an hit stops lhar."—l'liirfiy -. ; ecial press bureau children cry for pitcher's castoria fault-finding d m't ltct in i he habit nf if 1 tin rasirst tliiiii l <!*• in<l in hardest tliiny to stop in the wide wide world it ruins your temper uml spoils iheslnipe of our mouth try uui see the rather than t i if tlissigreu nble in the people and yosir surround ings you won not o to a friendv house and hml fault with what she d s with what she lias and her ways of living whatright have you,then,to find fault with those who in j more than frn nls to you the people o your own blood it then 1 is a grace that we ir all stinjpwith it is that nf giving praise and yet it is one with winch we ought to in lavish \\ hv sin mlil you tell your friend that her bonnet i becom tiling when yon have never said this in your sister \\ hy should \<>\\ out to tea and praise your neighbor's muffins when you have forgotten to tell mother how good herd were why si o ild yon an noniice how much wilson over the way knows when f t iv.v is a great do.il better iufortnud man and it has never entered your little head to whis per quietly to him how much you ap preciate his wisdom you keep your ability to discover faults for the home while the eve that should look for vir tues is closed tightly until you >^> out don't wait till someone isgone from yon to tell their virtues don't wait unlil your sister is far away iu another laud to tell her how helpful how pretty or court ions e is an i don t wait until the weary hands art crossed and the long sleep comes be fore you make mother know what a beautiful blue are her eves how tender her heart and how dearly you love her tell it al now — now when the walk through life is hard and the sun shine of praise is yearned for to brighten it and to wa m n enc ri^e the pilgrim by the way.mcle lloiiit journal thirteen was unlucky it is custom on some street railways to give annual passes which are num bered these passes are not necessarily shown each time a man rides on the cars of that line but each one bears a number and when asked for his fare thu holder uf the pass calls the num ber of his pass and says the seattle i'rexs not long ago the holder of pass no 13 o.i one of the seattle lines got on i car accompii ied by two ladies for whom lie must ot course pay fare it hap pened that the conductor was a new man and not acquainted with the p.iss system the conductor entered the car in quest ot fares and the tirst person he approched was the holder of the pass the gentleman handed him a dollar to take the ladies fare from at the same time remarking distinctly thir teen the conductor took the dollar and then began ringing the bell of the reg ister ding ding ding ding ding ding ding went the bell here here broke in the passenger what iu the thunder arts you trying to do 1 diud t von say that you wanted o pay for thirteen ? no you douole-breasted lunkhead i hold pass no 13 and want to pa for two i adies legally dead the will of micah v norton the convicted minder r sentenced to state prison for life was filed in the ivo bate court of lomerset county maine recently he wills to his sous a farm in moscow containg 1(55 acres two farms in concord a tarm ill new nn.e yard with timber lot and pastures ad joining to his sous albert e nortor lie gives a farm in solon and to his son carletoii vv norton a uote uf i 100 aud interest to his son sunnier s norton he gives the remainder of his property providing the sou will provide for his support when requested to he desires his live sons to hire equally in the estate of his late wife hi zi his son sunnier is appointed executor norton leaves an estate oi 2"j,u0u ud makes his will as when he goes to prison he is legally dead ii istmi ./ jii i it'll . a cmart detective sergeant moser on one occasion saw a waiter in a cafe atsoho receive and place in his pocket n letter which the detective believed to be fn mi a crim inal a knowiedgkdf whose whereabouts he was anxioiii to obtain lie there fore dropped hi ring on the floor and asked the mm to look for it al hoii-e expecting a reward immediate ly wen i oil hi hands and knee and ivblij thus engaged sergeant moser abstracted the letter from ins pocket and tii us obtained ihr means of bring ing a forger to justice \\ ho can doubt th it this was a perfectly justifi able act lint if instead sergeaul moser had suborned another perdon to steal for rewaid and without telling him the object in view he would niusl assuredly have acted vei v wrongly spectator the farmers alliance now hasumem b i-liij of '*'■ er i wo millions the sound i church bails is in-spir ing music watch your ban do . . krow tli m 14 1 u have no ide ■ . ' s pnrner i lawyer clow n own ■! vilsf amount nl !,;■'. \ pi savings bunks of this city which vvi i probably never l withdrawn from tl e banks the money is .. iml the banks would :■•■ i ii over should the origi ml nr or any one who has inb«*r ti'il il and i pr ive h s i lent itv t ■ i ol lie lepositor appear to i iim r i'hi u accounts have remaini d w itli tli through various causes most 1 ihcm of course op ut'd \ ilif original depositoi u >{■■■ il and h : s heirs have no idea that t licit ;- i n money to his en dit in any ol the v in^s-bauks \ en in nk depositor keeps t lie t i i any deposited in i h ■■■ ■ and not even the memh ts ol family know v here hi savings .: i ■• hits an v ir kept wiien l.e dies i . - less the bank books is fouud ill • ■■ dies with him the banks of coiirsi , do not claim the jiinnev and ! ■ iute - est account is written up as regular \ as if the depositor were a rei il n \ sit or to tht bank the depisitors draw terest on the interest accuiu dated and even at the low rate paid \>\ the i inks it does not take uian ears for im ... - count to reach large lisn in th clou is professor moller of ctrisr i lit ims made some interest ing obsi kis on clouds the highest cli - and cirro-stratus rise on an a irage to a height of near ;■»').( m ■ i'lio middle clouds kepi at fi to j:{,o>ki feet in height while the lower clouds reach to be i ween '■'<: ' " ' feet and 7,00 tvl1 - ' il(1 ' " ' clouds float \\ itli t heir lower mii at a height of from 1,000 too.o kl while their summits rise to kukk fe i the tops of the alps are often hidden y clouds of the third > lass bul the m > coins of the clouds i i vi si uolid class and especially of i he i huuder clouds often enfold t hem the vert leal dllllell i i i lou'l observed by i'rotessor midler n in xetleberg was over i ."' 0 lect ho stepped out of it at a height of aboul 7(k feet and high above the moun tain floated clouds ol while veils of misl lav in l he ra ine and t-lefts tl.e upper clouds were grow ing thicker v lute il 1 lower oik s were dissolving and ooii il began to rain and snow — 1'ttblir i>lnion the first silk mil in en . a portion of ti e old i b.v johu lombe at dcrb il thn first s>ilk mill ever erected in knglund — a c lla|.s'(l and il is ■ x ecti il i the whole building will have to come down l unbe v i rked in italy and at the i i->l of his life made drawing of tie n try lie then returned to \'.. . ! some italiitn woi kmei , ai.il a t ry on an i>'a id in i he i ' r went h iving tirst patented the machin ery i l r died so<ni afterward and it is said he was po.soi \>\ a feni ie miinissarj of the ital i m " the mill v years bul has lo 11 was lust lit ilis«d as a and w;.s colidein lied . ■ u e is being uhs ile ' •