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HOLD FUNERAL IN A TENT.
Big Canvas Put to Many Strange Uses
—Serves as Church to
Mourners.
In Kendall county, 111., there Is a big
canvas tent that has been made to serve
for an odd mixture of purposes. For
many years it covered a regulation saw
dust ring in which there were all kinds
of performances by man and beast On
other occasions it was made use of for
revivals, and has been hauled around
the country from place to place for
many purposes. This year Aurora
bloomed out as a Chautauqua town, and
the tent sheltered big audiences intent
on hearing lectures, recitations, and
speeches from well-known talkers.
Music of all kinds has at odd times filled
the big inclosure. However, the oddest
purpose to which it was ever put came
when Neis O. Cassem, a well-known
Kendall county man, fell from his
wagon as he was driving along the pub
lic highway and broke his neck, Cas
sem was a well-known character, a
fanner who In all of that section was
known as the “king of the Norwegians.”
He was known to be worth several hun
dred thousand dollars In valuable lands,
and the funeral promised to be larger
than any church in Yorkville or Aurora
would hold. One of the sons resorted to
a unique expedient He hired the big
tent and stretched it out on one of the
beautiful meadows over which his fa
ther had roamed for so many years, and
the funeral sermon was thus preached
under canvas.
PAPER TRADE IN TURKEY.
Xa 1903 $400,000 Worth of the Ar
ticle for Making Cigarettes
Was Imported.
In the year 1903 Turkey In Europs
imported paper and cardboard to the
value of about $500,000 and cigarette pa
per to the value of $400,000. Austria and
Italy were the chief sources of supply.
The German consul at Saloniki says
large quantities of all sorts of paper,
including wall paper, enter that port for
distribution throughout Turkey. This
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ferent manufacturers in Austria com
bine in sending out commercial travel
ers to Turkey, one traveler showing the
products of several Austrian paper
mills. The German consul general at
Constantinople, in a report to his gov
ernment, says that Turkey la one of
England’s best markets for cotton yarns
and cotton piece goods, taking in 1903
nearly $2,500,000 worth of cotton yarns
and $15,700,000 worth of cotton piece
goods. Within the last few years Italy
has greatly increased her exports of cot
ton textiles to Turkey and is becoming
a strong competitor of England in that
market. If American manufacturers of
cotton goods were to give energetic and
Intelligent attention to the Turkish mar
ket, they would probably find it a good
one.
I TORTOISE FIGHT IS FUNNY
j -
Battle Between Shell-Covered An
imals May Continue a Long Time
Without Injury to Either.
“Listen,” said the farmer, leaning on
bis hoe. From the next field came a
sound of rapping, a sound as of sharp
i :nocks on a door. “What is that?” said
j (he city man. “A tortoise fight," the
| farmer answered. “We’ll go and see it.”
j They made their way toward the rap
ping sound, relates the Baltimore Her
| lid, and in a little while they came upon
i two box tortoises that were fighting
hard. The creatures fought in a strang*
; way. They made at one another with
1 heir heads protruded, but, at the mo
ment of collision, each tried to use his
’root flap for a shield, and the result of
this prudence was that not the heads but
mly the shells of the tortoises hurtled
ngether. There was a bang. Then the
dghters backed off and prepared for an
other round. The two men watched
them till the spectacle became weari
some. Then they returned to the pota
| to patch.
BLIND GIRLS GOOD WIVES.
Official of Chicago Association De
clares Sightless Maids Are
Ideal Helpmeets.
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Mrs. Lena Osborn, chairman of the
lady board of managers of the Social and
Viutual Advancement Association of the
Blind in Chicago, a free organization. Is
a blind woman herseif. She says that
the life of a blind person in not ths
great misery that It' 'is generally
thought by seeing people, .and it is the
purpose of the organization to show that
even blind people may have a happy
time of it. Mrs. Osborn says:
“If men knew what i<Jeal wives blind
girls make the blind girls would soon
be all taken. I can cook, sew, darn, and
do almost anything expept to venture
far from the house. I dan write the or
dinary handwriting from the memory
of the letters I was taught 40 years ago
In the public schools. We become so
sharp in our observation that we can
almost describe the appearance of the
person we address.”
Bad Effects of “Bushing.”
Prof. Thomas Oliver, addressing the
industrial hygiene section of the sani
tary congress in Glasgow, said the sys
tem of “rushing” work introduced into
Britain from America not only caused
unwholesome fatigue and many acci
dents, but “predisposed the individual
to ill health and created a taste for stim
ulants, unhealthful recreation and love
of excitement such as was offered by
theaters and muaic halls.”
Church as Whisky Storehouse.
Thorverton church, Devon, England,
was recently used as a storehouse foi
whisky which had been taken from ths
village inn during a fire.
THAT TIRED SPRING FEELING
Whi ch Comes to Many with the Sea
son That Should Renew
Life and Energy.
There are certain persons to whom the
advent of spring, instead of bringing a
sense of rejuvenescence, provides a very
different sensation, says the London
Lancet The youth of the year, when
nature seems to revel in growth and de
velopment, ought to give, it might be
thought, to the human species, too, a
sense of vigor and of the natural joyful
ness of fecundity. When the birds are
breaking into song and the plants into
flower, poor man might also exult in life
and its annual time of awakening
growth. Yet to many the return ol
spring is only the return of a vague
feeling of listless languor, a slack sense
of fiatigue that comes without labor
and of weariness that is uncalled for by
any unusual effort.
To those who dwell in cities, at any
rate, spring has trials that are peculiar
to itself. To some extent these arise
from the knowledge that abroad in the
country all is new life, refreshened
: vigor, and inspiring atmosphere, while
in town the wonted thraldom Is en
hanced by the suspicion of these thing!
that Is gained from the trees and the
plants of public parks and open spaces,
where poor little bits of nature bloom
only to suggest In vain all that await!
the town dweller if he could escape. II
is not only dissatisfaction, though, al
being unable to partake in nature’!
i gaiety that produces the feeling of which
we speak; something is due to climatic
conditions.
WTho does not know the enervating
i sense that accompanies the first warm
day of the year? We may agree with
Johnson that he is a weak creature who
! is influenced by the weather, but if w«
do we must confess with the same breath
i that to-day most of us are weak crea
tures. If, like Johnson, we lived in more
leisurely times and regaled ourselve!
i heartily In Fleet street about the middle
of the day, following the weal with a
rtrtwfArfeKlrt /li'ooncclAn movKa vsro lAA
should be indifferent whether the sun
shone or the rain fell. Unfortunately,
we work our nervous systems more and
1 our alimentary organs less than did out
grandparents. Inevitably we have a
sensitiveness that was unknown to mosl
i of them. Their fits of “the spleen” were
well earned, probably, by loads within
the stomach. We acknowledge no such
consoling cause for the ennui that often
In the spring assails the town dweller,
Happy he who can dispel it by a week
end in the country or at the sea before
his regulation summer holiday arrives
COPPERS BECOME A PLAGUE
Nearly $15,000,000 Worth of the
Coins Are in Circulation
in England.
Many large towns in England are, Ilka
Leed3, suffering from a plague of cop
pers. The extension of tramways with
half-penny fares, the use of penny-in
the-slot gas meters and automatic ma
chines, and in London the Tube railway,
with its two-penny fares, have produced
| an enormous change of small silver
coins into pennies and halfpennies,
states the London Chronicle.
Tradesmen consequently are finding
themselves burdened with huge quan
tities of coppers, and they complain that
they cannot get rid of them by an ex
change for small silver. It might be
thought that the royal mint had some
thing to do with this excess of coppers,
but on that point the master of the mint,
Mr. W. Q. E. Macartney, M P., is tm
j phatic.
“It is not a question of minting at all,*'
he said, “it is njerely a question of bank
ing. If the tradesmen of Leeds, or any
other town, find they have a superfluity
of coppers, they have only to tell their
banker that if he cannot give them sil
ver in exchange thfy will transfer their
accounts. Take the case of Leeds. Ob
viously the money has not left the town
and it is the tradesmen’s fault if they
cannot get silver for copper.”
The mint, it may be added, alwayi
1 oft*ilraja maro than fha nrrl i n o r-vr miatifl.
ties of any particular coin for, which
there is an abnormal request. But there
has been no excessive demand recently
for coppers. The value of the bronze is
sues in 1902—the latest year for which
the statistics are available—was some*
what larger than in 1901, but there wa«
also a considerable increase in the valu<
of the stiver issues. In 1901 the numbei
of bronze pieces struck at the royal mini
in London was 41,349,387, valued al
£120,280, while in 1902 the number had
risen to 45,774,848 pieces of the value ol
£148,499. The silver coins struck it
1901 totaled 18.843,425, valued at £914,
201, while In 1902 the figures were 26,
870,996, amounting ia value to £937,202
In his report for 1902 Mr. Macartney
gives the following estimate of the prob
able value of the bronze coin now cir
culating in the United Kingdom: Pence
£1,968,048; halfpence, £713,450; farth
ings, £150,190. This estimate is baaed
on the total issue from 1860 to 1902 in
clusive, allowing 10 per cent, as t.heesti
mated issued to the colonies and foi
i coins lost or destroyed.
It Was Wished On.
Johnny’s sister has a ring that Johnny
j is very fond of. He is allowed to wear i
sometimes for an hour or so, when h<
has been very good, or has promised tc
be One day he suddenly found that h<
I wanted to wear that beautiful little gale
band, and so he informed his sister. Sh<
wasn’t Just in the mood, so she told him
as he insisted, that she couldn’t take I
off because it was “wished on." Johnnj
said little and thought much, and tlE
next afternoon, when sisters had caller
he rushed in and plumped down on an ot
toman in the middle of the room.
“Johnn.” reminded his sister, “you
cap, dear."
“Oh,” returned the boy, inrocently, "
can’t take it off, sis; it’s wUlMdon.’ — N
| Y. Tribune
GREAT INVENTOR AT HOME.
A Visit to Thomas A. Edison—Honas
and Surroundings Not a Bit
Lika the Man.
To one who knows anything at
All of Edison, the first glimpse of
his house and its surroundings
eomes with a shock of surprise,
says Woman’s Home Companion.
Who would have suspected
that this most democratic of men
would have chosen for himself en
vironments so essentially aristo
cratic? He lives in the heart of
a splendid park, patterned after
the English idea of vigorous ex
elusiveness, its gales Jealous!}
guarded by a lodgekeeper.
The interior of the house Is in
keeping with the atmosphere of
the park without, qnlte unlike
Edison. The reception-room was
utterly different from what I ex
I pected. The admirably draped
curtains, the tables and chairs ar
ranged wih an eye to artistic ef
fect, were not of Edison’s choos
ing. He cares too little for the
luxuries of life. This was his
wife’s work; it was all so wom
anly.
I heard quick footsteps behind
me, and Edison appeared, greet
Ing me cordially and unaffectedly.
He was dressed in the queerest
of costumes—a long blouse that
j reached to his heels, evidently of
his own pattern, serviceable and
work-worn.
“Come along into the labora
tory,” he said.
So I followed him through the
| dining-room and the “den” into
i the laboratory that he has fitted
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There I found his little boj, hi*
shirt-sleeves rolled up, his face
and hands smeared like hi*
father’s. They had been making
various compounds of which lamp
black was the chief constituent.
“So you work on Sunday, too?*
Edison winked confidentially.
“You see, Mrs. Edison is away. I
ean do as I like.”
j That brought back to me a story
! that I had once heard from a friend
I of his—a story of how he works
night after night in his labora
tory, utterly absorbed in his ex
periments. Midnight comes and
goes, the gray dawn creeps in, and
, still finds him bending over his
! test-tubes and retorts, until at
j Inst Mrs. Edison appears and
; fondly leads him away to sleep.
I looked around the laboratory.
This at least was his room. There
were Bunsen burners, mortars
and pestles, glass rods, watch
crystals, bottles of chemicals
scattered about in bewildering
! profusion. I watched him and his
boy while they worked, the boy
I listening with rapt attention ta
the teachings of his father.
A FORTUNE IN A ~POTATO.
i .
Taber Raised by Scotchman and Said
at High Price—Well-Named
the “Eldorado.”
No potato ever gained so must
notoriety as Eldorado, raised by
the famous Scottish raiser Mr. A.
! Findlay, of Markinch. The very
i same of the variety, says the Gar
dener’s Magazine, was a stroke of
genius, for it is hardly possible
that the raiser, or those who had
the good fortune to secure some
j of the first tubers distributed,
eouid have imagined that in so
j short a time it would change
hands at such enormously high
prices.
Mr. George Massey, of Spalding,
was one of the very first to obtain
the stock, and from him Mr. Zach
ariah Gray, a well-known grower
j at Everton, Sandy, purchased a
i stone weight for £20. This set the
1 ball rolling, and as Mr. Findlay
resolved not to farther distribute
i Eldorado until the autumn of
i 1904, the demand for the small
j stock available was doubled find
trebled, and so the prices rose.
Messrs. Dennis, the Covent Gar
de n salesmen, and Messrs. I. Poad
ft Sons, of York, possessed sup- j
plies, and the latter firm found n
purchaser of four pounds at £150
per pound. This determined them
to obtain further stock, and so at
the Smithfield club show a mem
her of his firm found that Mr. Mas
,sey had a limited stock for dispos
al and made him an offer of £1,000
for a stone. Mr. Massey refused
as he wanted £1,500, but eventn
ally the bargain was struck al
£1.400, to the satisfaction of both
parties. Subsequently Mr. Mas
■ey sold a relatively small quan
tity for £2,000, so that his original
transaction brought him a vnej
handsome return.
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Notice is hereby given that the undersigned as
amrllary administrator of the estate of Isaac
Scott deceased, will offer for sale at public auction
to the highest bidder on a credit until October 15,
1905, at the front door of the Courthouse in New
port, Jackson county, Arkansas, between the
hours of ten o’clock in the forenoon and three
o’clock in the afternoon, on
SATURDAY, THE 18TH DAY OF MARCH 1905
all the lands belonging to the estate of Isaac Scott
deceased, lying in Jackson County, Arkansas, to
wit: The s e 1-4 of the s e 1-4 of sec. 12, the n w
1-4 of the n e 1-4 of sec. 13. all in Township 12
north range 3 west; also thirty acres off the north
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in the n w 1-4 of section 7 and the w 1-2 of lot 3 of
the s w 1-4 of sec. 7, all in Township 12 north
range 2 west.
Said sale being made by virtue of the order of
the Probate Court of Jackson County, Arkansas.
Purchasers will be required to give note with
approved security and a lien to be retained
the land to secure the payment thereof.
Possession will be given January 1st, 1906.
Given this 16th day of February. 1906.
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