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• • • Blz,Jsdell',, • ;S.M.P.T. • • By Gorham Bell. • • • • • Copyright, 1907, by P. C. Eastment : ••••••••••••••••••••••••e• Blanche paused for a moment in the doorway and looked hopelessly bout her. She hated the apartment with its shabby carpet, its stuffy atmosphere and the cheap small talk of the me- dium priced boarding house, but It was at least better than the cheerless little room that even her feminine in- genuity could not transform into the semblance of home. - Over at the piano the young wom- an who had charge of the millinery department of a big store picked out "Love Me and the World Is Mine" with one finger, the yellow keyed piano responding occasionally with the right note. A floorwalker from the same store looked adoringly down upon her, and Mrs. Castleton, the landlady. smiled approvingly upon both of them. Already they had told her that after the first of the. year they should need • • was already beginning to be In e dente, but be was still a boy at hea and from the first Blanche had bee • attracted to him. The dinner was all that Blaisdell b pronilsed. A New England girl w had sought to make her way to t city had persuaded her mother to coin on and start a restaurant. Two flu in a good neighborhood were simpl fitted up, and much of the New En land atmosphere was preserved -e cept in the prices. The rooms were crowded today, bu Blaisdell had reserved a table, a Blanche thoroughly enjoyed a dinne that was so unlike the fare at th boarding house. "I come over here very often," ex plained Blaisdell when at• last the co fee and mince and pumpkin pies we served. "It's as near as a bachel can get to home here in the city." "It does taste like home," asse Blanche. "I grow so tired of Mrs tleton's weekly routine." "Yon will have to come here ofte then," said Blaisdell promptly. "I would be all the more pleasant f company. It's lonesome eating alone. "I think it is more dreary to eat wit a whole roomful of people with who you have so little in common," sal Blanche, with a sigh. "It is so much more lonesome in th city with all the people you don't know than In the country where there are so few people whom you do know." "I don't think that we are cat out for city folk," agreed Blaisdell, with a laugh. "Let's get over to the park for a little walk before the theater." "You are going to the theater?" ask- ed Blanche. "We are going to the theater," he corrected. "Surely you do not want to spend the evening in Mrs. Castle - ton's stuffy parlor?" "Heaven forbid!" cried Blanche. "But you don't know what a treat it will be." Blaisdell looked as though perhaps he might guess. He knew that she did not go out in the evenings, and he knew what a hall bedroom was like, but he only smiled as he led the way to the cashier's desk. • It was late when they finally stood on the stab of the boarding house and Blanche 'gave a little sigh of content- ment. "It has been a perfect day," she said, "Instead of a most miserable one. I don't know how to thank you enough." "1 am the one to give thanks," said Blaisdell, with a laugh. "Look here; it's only fair to tell you that I'm going to try my hardest to make you Mrs. Blaisdell before next Thanksgiving. This is not a proposal. It would not be polite to propose to you so soon, but I want you to know that Pm going to do my best to win you before another year passes." Blanche wondered that her heart should beat so rapidly at the frank speech. She liked Blaisdell the better for his honesty, and for an instant her hand lay over the muscular one that was inserting the key in the lock. "It will not be very hard," she whis- pered. "Have you not enrolled me in the Society For Making People,Thank- ful?" vi - rt, n ad ho he e ors 7 8- S- t IId r e re or rted man - n or h m d e IT WAS LATS WHEN THEY MADLY STOOD ON THE STEPS. the front room on the first floor instead of the rear hall rooms on the third and fourth furs. Colonel McGregor was studying a chess problem over in one corner, n d various little groups were f inn d about the room. Blanche had just de- cided that the hall room was prefera- ble to the piano when Mrs. Castleton • transferred her attention from the amorous pair at the piano to the new- comer. "Oh, Miss Philbrick," she called. "May I speak with you a moment?" Blanche came forward, wondering what Mrs. Castleton might hate to say. Evidently from the fat smile that �-+- adorned the landlady's face she- was about to ask a favor. "Are you to be here for dinner Thursday?" went , on Mrs. Castleton. "It's Thanksgiving," continued the matron, seeing from Blanche's face that she did not understand. "All the rest of the folks are going home for the day or will spend it with friends." "I have no friends here in the city," said Blanche frankly, "and home is so • dreadfully far away." Home had never seemed so far away as at that moment. She had left her home when her father nikrried again. There was no place she might call home, not 'even the little room up- stairs. Mrs. Castleton's face fell at the an- nouncement. "I was thinking that if you was going out, too," she explained, "I might let the servants have the day out. Then we could have the turkey and things on Sunday," she added as proof that her motives were not mer- cenary. Guy Blaisdell noted the girl's embar- rassment and came to her relief. "You have left me out of this discussion," he cried gayly. "I'm one of the home- less too. I propose that Miss Philbrick join me in the formation of the Society For Making People Thankful." Mrs. Castleton eyed Blaisdell appre- hensively. She never was certain where his remarks would lead. Only that morning he had led her on in praise of the butter and bad wound up by declaring it to be the strongest but- ter he had ever tasted. Blaisdell caught her glance and hastened to put her mind at rest "This Is an admirable order," he ran on. "I know where there is a place where they give real old fashioned New England cooking. They are going to spread themselves Thursday. If Miss Philbrick will be my guest she • will make me very thankful and at the same time she will make the servants thankful, too, by giving them a chance to go to the matinee instead of worry- ing orrying over an elaborate dinner for two. { Will you come, Miss Philbrick?" For a moment Blanche hesitated. It was not that she did not want to go - her soul revolted at the very thought of Thanksgiving dinner in Mr. Castle - ton's gloomy dining room -but she had not yet accustomed herself to the in- formality of dinner ,with a compara- tively unknown man without a chape- ron. She knew that chaperons were not considered necessary where girls earn- ed their own living, still it seemed a little daring. But Blaisdell's eager face and Mrs. Castleton's appealing glance decided her. She turned to Blaisdell with a little nod. "I' shall be most happy to accept your invitation,' she said, and Mrs. 'Castleton looked relieved. Thanksgiv. kg and Christmas were he! bugbears. Once in her own room Blanche era. amazed at het action. She had been In the city for eight months, and in all that time not once had she accepted any of the nulnerous offers of enter- tainment. She liked. Blaisdell hotb ter than any of the others in the house. There was something' hash and whole- some about him, very different from the assumed sophistication of most of the .nen. He was past thirty, and a bald patch on the back of his head Reforming Her Vocabulary. A. young woman of Quaker descent, according fo the New York Sun, is now making an attempt to eliminate from her vocabulary the forms of speech peculiar to that sect "All my life," she said, "I have used my 'thew' and 'thous' ae my father and'mother and my grandfathers and grandmothers did before me. I was so accustomed to those expressions that It never occurred to me that there could be any disadvantage in their pe- culiarity. But when I went to work in a dry goods store I was disillusion- ed. I found then that Quaker speech, especially behind the counter, maker a mark of the speaker. In our store I met other clerks with every imag- inable kind of a foreign accent, but nobody pays any attention to them. It 1s only I -poor I -with my Quaker theeing and thoning that catches the ear of the multitude. "'Why, you use the Quaker dialect, don't yon? How funny!' says one per- son after another, with suddenly aroused interest "This curiosity concerning me and my 'dialect' has become very annoy- ing, and I am trying to stick to straight English." The Pitiless "Fohn" On a winters night of 1861 half the tqwn of Glarus, in the Alps, went roar- ing up in flame to heaven, while the pitiless fohn raged and raged and mocked at the efforts of salvors sum- moned from half the cantons of Swit- zerland, and the glow of the burning town was seen a hundred miles awat in the Black forest. The bells were rung for help till the ropes were burn- ed away, and, most grewsome of all, the countless wooden crosses of the churchyard graves furnished almost the last fuel to revive the dying flames. The fohn is a bot south wind -a kind of Swiss kbamseen-which was long supposed to originate in the Sahara and to cross the Mediterranean, find- ing no height to break upon till it came to the St. Gothard, where it was forced through the pass with concen- trated violence. What really Causes it Is still a matter of doubt, but it can do great mischief still and could do more in the days of wooden houses. -Black. wood's Magazine. Cheap Fun. He -You talk about men playing poker. It is no worse a vice than the shopping habit of the women. She - Perhaps not, moralty speaking; but, then, It takes money to play poker, whereas a woman can shop all day without it costing her a cent except what she pays for car fare. -Boston Transcr1Dt. Might Have Known. An austere looking lady walked into a -furrier's and said to the sbopman, "I should like to purchase a muff." "What fur?" demanded the man. "To keep my hands warm, you, idiot!" exclaimed the lady. -London Scraps, - ELIMINATES BACTERIA. Pure Water Secured by Combined Heater, Filter and Cooler. One of the drawbacks to the use of the ordinary water cooler without a separate ice chamber is the great dan- ger that disease producing bacteria, tike typhoid and other germs, may be liberated from the melted Ice and con- taattate the drinking water. To pro- vide means for preventing this and, further, to provide means for sterilis- ing water suspected of being contam- inated and then filtering and aerating such water the combined water beater, Alter and cooler herewith shown baa been devised. The device comprises two vessels adapted to be placed one above the other. The upper vessel (A) is the Mier and is separated from the lower vessel (B), which serves to cool the water. In the vessel (A) there !s a WA" FILTER AND COOLER. filter consisting of a perforated shell (D), over which filtering material (C) is placed. The water in the vessel (A) filters through this material into the shell (D) and thence drips into a cham- ber (E). At one side of this chamber, or pan, there is a stopcock (F), which may be opened to permit the drip of the filtered water into the cooler (B). As the water drips into the pan (E) and thence Into the vessel (B) it le thoroughly aerated. In the center of the vessel (B) L a cylinder (q), In which ice le placed. This serves to thoroughly cool the water in vessel (B), which may be drawn off as de- sired through the usual stopcock. In use, before placing the vesseLjV over the cooler it is set on a state or range to boll the water and thus ster- ilize it The pan (E) is dispensed with. The bottom of the vessel is provided with a fiat surface at the center to permit its resting conveniently on the top of the range, but the outer porton of the bottom is inclined. Several filar shells are used and are provided with stopcocks which project from this in- clined porton. By means of this con- struction the dripcockss are free from contact with the top of the range when the water Is being boiled. The use of several filters increases the Al- tering capacity. Fig, 8 shows cross sectional view of cooler. A patent on this improved device bas been granted to Dr. P. A. Amuses, Minneapolis, Minn. FEAR OF LIGHTNING. Danger of Being Struck is Very Re- mote, Say Statistician. It is ten times more likely that you will be burned or scalded to death than that you will be slain by a thun- derbolt, So say the statisticians. Yet fear of lightning received the heaviest percentage in a recent census of fears taken in Europe. Iliten, like animals, are more likely to be struck when standing In groups than when alone, and they are more likely to be struck when under a tree or, beside a barbed wire fence than anywhere else. More than half the persons killed by light- ning were under trees when struck. The great depression suffered just before a thunderstorm is due to the failure of the nervous system to re- spond quickly to the rapidly varying electrical potential of the air and the quickly changing conditions of temper- ature, humidity and pressure. Light- ning photographs on the skin, where red figures appear representing ferns and trees in intricate form, show them- selves after a Lightning stroke. These forms have given rise to ideas regard- ing the reproduction of scenes in the neighboring landscape, and they have been recently explained by Professor Elmer Gates of Washington. Ike al- lowed electric sparks to impinge upon photographic plates and has repro- duced these figures In what he terms electrographs, some of _them showing beautiful f ,ike forma. , By aid c. surveying instruments ar- ranged at two stations connected tele- phonically there were measured a large number of thunder heads, which were compared with other classes, of clouds and found to be by far the largest of all vaporous forms floating in the at- mosphere. Several were seven miles and more in height, the apexes touch- ing points ten miles aboce the earth. At least 1,000,000,000 volts is said to be required to send lightning from a thunder head a mile high. -Chicago Tribune. t Scarlet Fever Serum. The experiments of Professor Monti of Vienna with his new scarlet fever serum have been successful, says the San Francisco Chronicle. The scales of scarlet fever patients were soaked in water, which was injected into rab- bits, producing fever. From the infect- ed animals the professor extracted the fever poison and with it inoculated other animals, which were thus ren- dered immune. From these an antitoxin was ob- tained, producing an effective serum, which is absolutely free from danger or unpleasant consequences. The serum 1s administered In the form of medi- cine. It also has a highly prophylactic value, preventing infection from spreading from one child to other members of the family. Law of Progress. The law of progress is the law of sacrifice -no sacrifice, no progress. The secret of sacrifice 1s love. Without the self sacrificing love of the mother life itself would disappear from the earth. -Review of Reviews. No man is wise at all times. ,Pliny the Elder. CAUSE OF WEAK ANKLES. Mut else Weakened by Practice of Wearing High !hoes. That people who complain of "weak ankles" are In reality slovenly walkers, who do not know how to use the mus- cles that control the ankle, la asserted by a writer in New York Health. Such persons continually "turn" their an- kles, even when walking on smooth ground, and in this way sometimes get sprains that lay them up for weeks. Bays the writer: "The strongest ankle is not strong enough to support the body unless the muscles that control the ankle ars em- ployed. The trouble is that most peo- ple walk In a slovenly manner, de- pending principally on the equilibrium of their bodies to keep them from fall- ing rather than the employment of the muscles of the body. They totter like drunken men instead of walking with a springy, active step. "Those who have had trouble with their ankles should bear In mind that the muscles that support the ankle are probably strong enough, but that they are not properly eugaged in walking. In order to overcome this fault one should when walking keep his mind on the muscles of the foot and try to cause them to act as much as possible. The practice of fiat foot walking should be avoided. Instead the toot should be given as much motion as possible when making a stride. If this be done, In due time an active, springy walk will become an uncon- scious habit, and the muscles will al- ways be on the alert to keep the ankle from turning. "The practice of wearing high shoes does much to weaken the muscles of the ankles. As the ankles are bandag- ed, the muscles of the ankles are re- lieved of the task of supporting the ankle, the result being that finally the muscles become weak and, what L still worse, fall to act at all. The natural consequence Is that a person loses all control of the muscles of the ankles, just as most of us have lost control of the muscles of the ears. ji NEW RACING SULKY. Many Advantage* Over the Present Type Claimed For It. A new design in the construction of racing sulkies is shown in the accom- panying- illustration, the patent of a resident of Paterson, N. .1. The novel features of this construction are ap- parent at a glance. The new con- struction is designed to re -enforce and sustain the thiW of the vehicle against longitudinal ribratlon or deflection, at the same time making the draft more direct and effective, so that the veld - NEW UMW. eULET. cls will run with less exertion on the part of the borse. A maximum degree of rigidity is obtained with lightness of structure and a minimum of wear, resulting in less "interference" with the motion of the vehicle and the movements of the horse. This renders the vehicle 'faster" than similar carriages of the present type. These advantages are augment- ed by the special way of mounting the seat whereby seat bars are dispensed with, lateral play or vibration avoided and the requisite degree of resilient* attained by the use of a compressible coiled spring under the rear of the seat Herculaneum's Treasures. What is in Herculaneum? Archaeolo- gists have long believed that its treas- ure would prove tar more interesting. numerous and valuable than those un- earthed at Pompeii if they could only be reached. But they are also more difficult to uncover and hence more ex- pensive. Public Interest in Europe has beeu directed to the matter sufficiently to have Signor Rava, minister of pub - 110 instruction in Italy, prepare a bill providing $10,000 for the purpose of removins houses forming the modern town of Reeina, which is located above Herculaneum, and an appropriation of $3,000 a year for actual excavation work. Curious Effects of an Explosive. To test the destructive properties of the exploeive known as hathamite an ounce of it was placed on a steel plate about an inch In thickness, the plate in turn renting upon a cylindrical piece of iron bored through the center. After the explosion It was found that the hathamite bad cut a piece out of the center of the plate the exact alae of the hole beneath, indicating that the force of the explosion had been directly downward. Earnings of the Simplon. About 430,000 passengers passed through the Simplon tunnel In its first year. The freight fell short of expee cations. The line earned $6,170 par mile; the estimate was 6„000. The company calculated that the line would have to produce $6,000 in order that the second tunnel could be batik, construction of which has been post- poned. Hewn, Aetlon. The Eider Matron -You shouldn't mind the baby crying a Utile. It strengthens his lungs. The Younger Matron -Oh, no doubt, but It weakens his fathers religion so!-iodionapolle Journal- - If you would ,not have visit you twlea, ALUGATOR BOATS. Wonderful Craft That Rue en tither Land or Water. Deep in the wilds of the Canadian timber lands and in a number of the northern lumber dlatrtta of the United States wonderful boats climb hills, creep through swamps and woods, traverse small streams from, one lake m another and even climb upon freight cars if long transportation is necessau. These boats, designated as "alliga- tors" becalms of their propensities for making headway on water and land alike, are warping tom, remarkable in constrnetion, usefntness end power. Dolt OW DST LAND. Practically a steamboat and steam winch combined, the engine can be thrown in gear to drive the paddle wheels or twin screws, according to which of the two the boat is equipped with. or drive a cable dram which holds a mile of five sightha inch steel able used for warping and crossing Portages. At the end of a water journey the able L carried to a tree some distance inland and at one side of the path des- ignated for the boat to pans over. Passed through a pulley block it L carried back to the boat and run through a pulley block at the bow. Then returned inland again It is fas- tened to a tree on the other side of the path and just opposite the first tree, thus making tt possible for the boat to travel • straight cot>)kst without dodg- ing the anchor tree,. rTbe engine L geared to the able drool.and the cum- bersome but powerful craft commences Its rock strewn journey.. No roadway 1s required, logs and skids being thrown a few feet apart across the pathway to keep the shoe- ing from grinding on the rocks. In this manner the boat can travel from one to two miles a day and take a grade of one foot In three when neces- sary. -Popular Mechanics. A MARVELOUS MACHINE tleotrioal Device Draws • Picture of the Heart. The human heart le fast losing Its mystery. You an actually ere it now- adays, or, rather, you ran observe its movements in a shadow picture by means of the Roentgen rays. The fact Is not new, but the facilities for ap- plying the idea to medial science have developed wonderfully, and the au- thorities of one of the great English hospitals are progn of the latest addi- tion to their electrical department, which will be opened probably in the near future. It le called an "orthodia- graph," because it gives a tracing of the object disclosed to exact relative dimensions. The apparatus has four arms, one of which holds a small circular, greenisb yellow screen, one a wide, black ring, one a wooden ase and the other the little rwervotr that acts as a pencil for the tracing. Against a tall canvas maven in the dark stands the person who wants his internet organs to be seen et work. The arms of the ma- chine are lowered until the greenish yellow screen appears In front There is heard the faint crackle of electricity, a drel• of light appears and the mo- tions of the heart, redacted on the screen, may be followed. Attached to the front of the machine is a bulb. This is in association with the "pencil" behind, and u It is premed a drawing of the heart is traced in little bine dots upon anether whit screen at the beck. Great value is attacbmd to the use of the orthodlagr'aph, which will enable accurate and reliable records of the mate of patients' hearts to be obtain- ed. At present, however, only the out- lines and the movements an be ob- served. It is not possible as yet to sae the structure of the heart. The or- thodtagraph was made at Nauheim, Germany, -Brooklyn Eagle - Why Snow is Whits. The reason snow Is whits is that all the elementary colors ars blended to- gether in the radiates that is thrown off from the surface of the crystals, whish may be examined in such a way as to detect these colors before they are mingled together to give the eye the impression of whiteness. The whiteness of tb• snow is also In soma degree referable to the quan- tity of air which le left among the frown particles. Considerably more than a tbousand distinct forms of snow crystals have been enumerated. Thew minute crystals and prams re - Sect all the compound rays a which white Ilgbt eocalste. Pink and various other tints may be assn reflected from sheets et snow un- der certain angles of sunshine, do much light is reflected by wow in the day that the eves often sulkier from It and enough is given in tin night to guide the traveler in the absence of artificial Ugbt or moonlight Pewter Colored Erase. A. pewtsrtlke appears** may be im- parted to brass by boding the rutin. to a cream et tartar sciatics coaain- ing a small amount of chloride of tla. Where It Hite Hbtt. 8Oabbdson says It cost him a guar. ler every time be goes to thumb." have never gees Wm osatribute a seat" "Ha bas t0 get Ws truism ,pi stsd." -$atpseo w sity. A Little Tee Par. 'There 1s such a thing as overdoing Your part." declared a man of the law who now has the knowledge gained by much experience, "Shortly after I began practice lu the west I was called upon to defend a man who had drawn a revolver on another and threatened to kill him. The accused did not have • character above reproach, but the prosecuting witness was also shady in reputation, and 1 mads the most of this fact. I pictured him as a desperado of the most dangerous type, a man that was a constant menace to the community and one who would recognise uo other law than that of force. Such men as he, 1 insisted, made necessary the or- ganisation of vigilance committees and Injured the fair name of the west among the older communities of the country. "The jury returned a verdict of guil- ty and my man was sentenced to a Tear's lmprieonment As soon as court adjourned the foreman of the jury Milks to me sad said: 'Young feller, you spread it on too thick. After that there rip anortin' speech of yourn we couldn't do d'Otn' else 'an what we done.' "'I don't understand you, -air.` "'Yon don't? - Why, we found the darned gerloot guilty 'cause he didn't aboot' "-Detroit Fres Press. Ballot Wiese. Ballet shoes fit like a stocking. They ars of leather, with a thin leather sole about en inch wide and with the up- pers sewed so that they come under the foot The ballet dancer wants no rubber heels, instep arch supporta nor any other of the foot supporting or reforming devices which are common- ly used by ordinary mortals. The toe dancer desires a hard box toe on her ballet shoes, but the ordinary dancer seeks only shoes that will give perfect freedom of movement of the joints and muscles of the feet It is a rule of good dancers, a shoe roan of experi- ence says, to wear shoes that will al- low for space between the toes. It is a point of good fit that all persons should heed, he says. High heels are put on to step shoes for effect, not to promote good dancing. Many stage shoes are made with short fore parts and high heels to make the feet look smaller and the person taller. -Boston Globs. WhatDid H• Meant Mike Maloney'. wife was an invalid, and the doctor had been doing all sorts of things for her, changing the medicine so often that poor Mike's in- come would scarcely reach and make both ends meet, and at last the doctor said that his wife must go to a warm- er climate. Mike listened to that advice for sev- eral months, and finally when October came the doctor told Mike one Satur- day evening after all of his week's wages had been spent that his wife positively must be sent "to a warmer climate without delay," Mike lett the room for a few min- utes, and when be returned he was wiping his eyes with his left hand, while with his right hand he brought an az, which he gave to the physician, saying: "I hate to do it, doc. You please do It for me." -Kansas City Independ- ent. Practical Help For Deafness. I have proved that this L really prat- ticat Get a common pasteboard mailing tube such as pictures or music is mail- ed in and hold It to the ear closely. The result 1s wonderful. A very deaf person can hear distinctly everything that L said by any one sitting on the otber side of the room. At first thought one is inclined to ridicule so simple a method. I bought a good long one, large enough to fit over the ear, for 10 cents. One can get them at any business stationer's. I tried 1t on grandmother, who Is very deaf. She could hear wen and, what was more remarkable, could also bear with her very deaf ear, with which she has not beard a sound for seven years. Try it! That's all I have to say, -Harpers Baser. American Woman In Gorman Eyes. American girls, whether born or merely brought up in America, evi- dence the same independence of judg- ment and the same complete self re- liance. It 1s hard to say whether this L the result of the education in the public schools and colleges or in their freedom from that condition of legal and social subserviency to which the gentler sex is doomed in older coun- tries. -Mai von Brandt Its Berlin Deutsch* Revue. dints a "Chamber." Hese is a "character" given to a servant cm leaving her last situation: 'The bears' has been in my house a year, ler eleven months. During this time she has shown herself driigent at the bones door, frugal in work, mind- ful of herself, prompt in excuses and honest when everythtig was out et the way " -London Tit -Rib. Awed into Humility. Man for man, if not woman for woman, the humility and error of Americans in else presence of Eng- lish people of their own class or above it 1s, with whatever cars die. �a pathetic thing. -London Out - Bot Herd te TOi. "What L the real, saentiel differ- ence between mushrooms and toad- stools'!" "lihnetly the Maroons between a taut and a tuneraL"—Dalttmore Amer. loan, He Had Rear. "Dear sae. Toad, you eat a good deal for a little fellow," remarked Uncle Sohn to his nephew. "I Vpat't I areal so little inside u I look outside," was Tour's tageaious as roar. Where He Set His Money. Howell—That tallow has made a ter- dud stikW out at ate book. PowW—fie's en hi bet Rowell—No the boob • M He Told tfieiiwn, _ 'The aeronaut to get along meet keep his wits about him," said an ar. my omclal, "tinder the most adverse ei reamatancee he mut not lose his bead- Always he must be alert and ready, like -like -well, like a scientist I used to know. 'This scientlat gave a scientific lec- ture in a church one night, and at the lecture's end he laid, beaming on his audience condescendingly: "'Now, 1f there L any scientific question that any of my friends would like to ask, I beg them not to healtate. I shall be only too happy to answer any inquiry in my power.' "An old lady in spectacles that gave her a severe, stern look rose and said: "'Why do wet tea leaves kill roaches?' "The sclentlat didn't know they did. let alone the cause of the phenomenon. But, never at • loss, he reputed: "'Because, madam, when a roach comes across a wet tea leaf be says, "Hello, here's a blanket!" and wraps himself up in 1t, catches cold and dies.' "-I.os Angeles Times. A Doubtful Assertion. Browne -They say that Crowning men catch at straws. • Towne -Yes, but I doubt It. I've seem a number of men drown, and those of them who had any preference at all seemed in favor of • plank. In fact, I do not now recall ever having been asked for a straw by a gentleman who was d?owpina,-New York Journal. "In A Bad Way." Many a Hastings Reader Will Feel Grate- ful for This Information. When your back givesout; !incomes lame. weak. or aching. When urinary troubles set in. 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The representative of the above named decedent, hav,ag filed in this court his final account of the administra- tion of the estate of said deoedent together with his petition graving for the adjustment and allowance of Bata anal account and for dis- tribution of the residue of said estate to the persons thereunto entitled. Therefore, you and each of you, are hereby cited and required to show cause, 1f any you have, before this oourt at the probate court room in the court- house, in the city of Hastings, In the county of Dakota, state of Minnesota, on the 31st day of January, 1908, at ten o'clock a. m., why said petition should uotbe granted. N ltness, the judge of said court, and the seal of said court, this 3d day of January, 1808. tasit l TISOS. P. MORAN, w Probate Judge. ESTATE OF DECEDENT. State of Minnesota, county of Dakota.—u. In probate court. In the matter of the estate of Caroline Mary hhuade, decedent Letters testamentary this day having been granted to August P. Suede. It Is ordered that the time within which all creditors of the above named decedent may present *Mime against hereatate Ib tbtecourt be. and the same hereby Is, limited to six months from and after the date hereof; and that Fri- day, t.be 7th day of August, 1908, at ten o'olook a , is the probate oourt room at the oourt- house at Hastings, lu said county, be and the same hereby is fixed and appointed as the tltne and place for bearing upon and the examine, Mom adjastmeat, and allowance of-suob claims as shall be pieaented within the time aforesaid. Let mane hereof be given by the publication cf this order to The Hasth4ts Gazette, as pro- .idad bi law, Da Deoember 80th, 1907. Brthe oosrt, THOS. P. MOaAji [aaAh) 16.w Judge of Probate. KENTUCKY ; WHISKEY