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ye The pleasant and economical cus- tom of eating old and infirm relatives is still common among many native tribes of South America. The Mayoru- nas do not stick even at. eating their own parents and children. Indeed, they look upon this disposal of the unfit as a sort of pious duty. The traveler Osculati speaks of finding a baptized member of this tribe very sick and weeping bitterly. When asked the reason of his grief, the In- dian replied that in a little while he would be food for worms, whereas if he had not been baptized his nearest relatives would have eaten him. _ Clearly he preferred this method of Sepulcher. The Yamnas of the upper Amazon suck the marrow from the bones of their dead and thereby, ac- cording to their belief, transfer the souls of the departed to their own b The Kashibos on the Pachitea river apparently combine a religious rite with their eating of the old, When fn old man is told that his last day is at hand he exhibits signs of great satisfaction, saying that he will soon See his old friends once more. Then Preparations are made for a big feast and the old man is knocked on the head with a club and devoured body and benes, for even the bones are crushed to powder, stewed into a broth and swallowed. No waste is al- lowed in the Kashibos’ kitchen. These gentle savages never eat the flesh of women, as they consider it poisonous, and also attribute to it the property of making its eater effeminate and cowardly. Among the Betokudos DEATH IN we & LIFE Ma-guerite Bouyenval has beenasleep seveliicen years. If she ever wakes it will be but to die immediately, the ientists of France believe. Her mother, an aged peasant woman, walks on tiptoe and speaks in whispers lest the sleeper wake. “The Sleeper of Thenelles,” she is called. Thenelles is an old-world little place in the bot- of a picturesque valley thirty to Bs from Saint Quentin. It is a one-story building of cement, trimmed with red brick. It consists of two roor both darkened with heavy shutters. In one li ‘the sick wom- s the peasants call her; in the are herded her father, mother, two brothers and two sisters. If nat- not put Marguerite Bouyenval ep ,the y would have put her ath. She killed her own child, fter being deserted by her soldier lover. The crime was discovered. Gendarmes broke into the cottage and advanced upon the shrinking girl. She f at her feet, and never since have her eyec been open. Unwilling to try to execute a sleeping girl the law turned her over to the doctors, and the doctors, after vainly striving to wake her, restored her to her mother. ‘The siceper of Thenelles takes no food, be ¢ her jaws are set. Her mother an,” other ure d tos to ¢ e Cannibals le] Devour their Aged Relatives. CXXIIIIIITTr mothers, moved by pure maternal af- fection, eat their children who have died natural deaths. When a father has become old and unable to follow the tribe in its wanderings he en- treats his son to kill him. The ‘son obeys and the body is roasted and eaten by the whole family to the ac- ecompaniment of loud howls and shrieks of grief. Herberg says of the wild tribes of Cauca, in Colombia, that the husband eats his wife, the son his father and the brother his brother or sister. The view that cannibalism is prompted by a real liking for human flesh has been generally abandoned. Cannibalism is most rampant in tropi- cal regions, where there is an abund- ance of animal food. Revenge and religious and other psychological mo- tives have much to do with South Am- erican cannibalism. The deadly ha- tred which exists between different tribes often impels them to devour their captives as a token of vengeance. This custom is said to have been in- troduced among the Tupi, who at one time were not cannibals, by the ex- ample of a woman who threw herself on the murderer of her son and bit a piece out of his shoulder. The Paren- tintins attack living captives with their teeth in the same horrible fash- ion. Similar cases of cannibalism, prompted by revenge, occur among most of the South American tribes. The Kashibos of the upper Amazon are the worst of all. They invariably eat their captives, and for this rea- son they are especially detested by the neighboring tribes. — Chicago Chronicle. Mother Has Been Watching Over Slum- bering Daughter For Seventeen Years. injects daily for nourishment a prep- aration recommended by a physician at the commencement of the long sleep. Whether or not it helps to maintain life cannot be determined. Among Marguerite Bouyenval’s many scientific visitors is the famous Char- cot of Paris. He has madé many ex- periments without throwing much light on the mystery of her condition —whether it be catalepsy, lethargy or true sleep. One important fact he has discovered—that all her digestive or- gans are destroyed. The inference he draws from this is that were she to wake she would speedily perish from starvation. She lies resting one cheek on her pillow—always the same cheek. Her face is long and yellow. The bone cavities of the eyes are shaded in blue, and the whites of the eyes gleam beneath the drooping lids. There is something rat-like and ghast- ly about the waxen mouth. The breathing is so gentle that it makes no sound, nor any visible movement. A faint pulsation of the heart may be detected with the hand. The limbs are flexible and will remain wherever placed. Poor old Mere Bouyenval changes the bed linen and the white peasant’s cap on her daughter’s head, and she moves with infinite care lest the sleeper wake to di “ASS Sometimes These Domestics are : SERVANTS }} am” | ae ers RR FO RE RY LET PR SPN LARS RT In the navy, Japanese servants are prized above all others, but on land they seem to have their drawbacks. Jeannette Gilder, writing in the Critic, 82: “A lady, talking to me about servants the other day, said that she liked the Japanese better than any others for many reasons, but that even they had their drawbacks, one being that they did not like to stay in the country after the first of October, and so many of them were college under- graduates. ‘I have a Columbia junior in my dining room,’ said she, ‘ and a Harvard divinity student in my kitch- en at the present time; but that is not all. A short time ago I had a cham- ber-man-and-waiter who was highly recommended to me by a fellow Japan- ese who had lived with me before. He was a nice-looking little fellow, but not a very good servant, for his mind seemed to be on other things rather than his work, And then he would ask me such profound questions! I really could not answer them; and he always had a book in his hand, even when he was making the beds. Finally I had to tell him that, much as I liked him in many ways, I should be obliged to let him go. “All right,” Ginger and Its Uses. In a hundred thousand farm houses the essence of Jamaica ginger is re- garded as one of the mogt valuable of family “aedicines. It is still used with sugar in the cold water furnished to haying hands for drinking. It makes a wholesome beverage for any one in hot weather. Persons of weak diges- tion will find a few drops of the es- sence useful if taken in water before breakfast without sugar. Ginger tea, made from the root, is of service, like catnip tea or sage tea, to produce per- spiration in colds, or to stimulate the system after exposure. It is more pal- atable than the decoctions of sage and catnip, In toothaches a bit of root ginger chewed slowly will remove the pain and make one comfortable till a fientist can be consulted. early ail the he said, and to my surprise, he went that very day, while I was out, without waiting for his money. As money is usually the thing that they work for I wondered and waited. Hearing noth- ing from him, I wrote to the Japanese through whom I had engaged him, making a particular point of the un- paid wages. The man wrote back not to worry about that; that my former chamberman-and-waiter was not in need of money; that he was a prince who had come to America to travel and observe; that he was going to write a book on our manners and customs, and thought that the best way to learn them was to live in an American household! Since then I have been particular to ask my Japan- ese servants whether they are princes in disguise or only divinity stu- dents.’ ” The writer was once on a govern- ment ship where the servants were Japanese, and noticed that the ward- room boys were much in awe of the berth-deck cook. It developed that the berth-deck cook was a samurai, one of the old “sword-bearing” class, the knights of Japan, while the wardroom boys belonged to the merchant class, IW RPRPAPPLDAPRAPRPPAAL good effects of alcoholic stimulants can be secured from ginger. But the so- called ginger habit thas to be guarded against. So has the cayenne pepper habit. Lincoin as a Fire-Builder. How the Lincoln stories grow! A correspondent writing to the Consti- tution from near Louisville, Ky.,says: “Mr, Lincoln stopped over night at my uncle’s house long before he became president. It was cold weather, and the family did not rise as early as usual. When my uncle came down he found Mr. Lincoln giving the negro servant lessons in making a fire. ‘I made the fire in the next room,’ he said. ‘Go and warm by it till I fix this one!’”’—Atlanta Constitution, THE MAKING OF HISTORY. Am Art in Which Our Versatile Cous- ins, the French People, Are Unri- valed. France is the incarnation of - the Muse of History, inasmuch as she is never idle. Her mode of making history is distinct from that of any other na- tion, and especially from ours. Eng- land makes history in a matter-of-fact, utterly unhistrionic and utterly non- spectacular way; just as her best his- torians record it in a sober, solid and and often the reverse of brilliant man- ner. Our incidents are not magnified into episodes, and our episodes are not inflated to the size of conclusive events. There is no conce:ted, orchestral ac- companiment to our rejoicings; on the contrary, there is much cacophony un- der the name of cheering. We are lions who roar like bulls of Bashan; we are the most materially civilized people on the face of the globe who cannot com- bine to decorate or illuminate a single thoroughfare in a thoroughily artistic manner. On the other hand, there is no yelling of “Treason!” at the slightest reserve. We are, in fact, a staid, unimaginative people,. who take our pleasures not “moult tristement,” as Froissard had it, but sedately, until our animal spir- its get the better of us, and find vent in the aforesaid Bull-of-Bashan roars. But our cheerfulness is, for all that, never exhausted, and the largest stock of it is reserved for “duty” in the case of misfortune. Our cheerfulness is the bootjack of our resignation.—IIlus- trated London News. | NEARLY A BREAK DOWN. Mrs. Olberg, a Prominent Minnesota Lady, Tells a Remarkable Story. Albert Lea, Minn., Nov. 19.—(Spe- cial)—There are few men and women in this state or indeed in the whole northwest, who have not heard, or do not know personally Mrs. Henriette C. Olberg of this city. Mrs. Olberg was Judge of Linen and Linen Fabrics at the World’s Fair, at Chicago, and Superintendent of Flax Exhibit at the International Exposi- tion at Omaha, Nebraska, in 1898. Mrs, Olberg is Secretary of the National Flax, Hemp and Ramie Association, and Assistant Editor of the “Distaff.” Her official duties are naturally very ‘onerous, and involve a great. deal of traveling and living away from home. She says: “During the World’s Fair in Chi- eago, my official duties so taxed my strength, that I thought I would have to give them up. Through the con- tinual change of food and _ irregular meal hours, and a poor quality of wa- ter, I lost my appetite, and became wakeful and nervous in the extreme. My Kidneys refused to perform their usual duties. One of my _ assistants advised me to try Dodd’s Kidney Pills, and sent for a box. I am pleased to say that I derived immediate and per- manent benefit. I used three boxes, and feel ten_years younger. “T have great confidence in the ef- ficacy of Dodd’s Kidney Pills, and am always glad to speak a good word in their favor. “Dodd's Kidney Pills are weak wom- en’s best friend.” All Dealers. 50 cents 2 box. Sliced Mutton in Chafing Dish. Have ready six good-sized but thin slices of mutton six olives, cut fine, or two tablespoons of capers minced, six teaspoons of grape or plum jelly, or the same amount of tomato catsup or sauce, one level tablespoon of butter creamed with one rounded teaspoon of corn starch, and one-half cup of gravy, mutton broth or hot water. Put the water, jelly and olives into the brazer, when boiling, add the butter. Stir till it is thick and smooth, then add the | meat, salt to taste, and cook for a few minutes. Serve very hot, directly from the brazer, and pass it with thin slices of brown bread or graham wafers.— Philadelphia Inquirer She's a Winner. He—O, promise to marry me. I know I'm not worthy of you, but it will make me so happy. She—You drink, you smoke and you bet. He--I’'ve signed the pledge, bright. Now accept me. She—Well, you smoke and you bet. He—Haven’t you smoked for a year. Now, will you marry me? She—You bet!—Harlem Life. honor Best for the Bowels, No matter what ails you, headache to a cancer, you will never get well un- til your bowels are put right. CAS- CARETS help nature, cure you with- out gripe or pain, produce easy, natur- al movements, cost you just 10 cents to start getting your health back. CASCARETS Candy Cathartic, the genuine put up in metal boxes, every tablet has C. C. C. stamped on it. Be- ware of imitations. Foresight. “Ma,” said the little boy, “pa’s got a 4 new sign on the store. He doesn’t call it a ‘drug store’ any mcre, but a ‘phar- macy.’ I wonder what made him change it?” “Your pa is thinking of going into politics, Eddie,” she replied, “and wants to fix it so he will stand a chance to get the farmer vote.”—Chi- cago Times-Herald. ‘There Is a Class of People ‘Who are injured by the use of coffee. Recently there has been placed in all the grocery stores a newpreparation called GRAIN-O, made of pure grains, that takes the place of coffee. The most -@elicate stomach receives it without distress, and but few can tell it from coffee. It does not cost over one-fourth @s much. Children may drink it with great benefit. 15 cents and 25 cents per package. Try it. Ask for GRAIN-O. Said in Haste. Joe—That’s right. I’m just fifty- eight years old. Bill—Say, you might talk that way to me a hundred years, and I’d still be- lieve that you were not over forty.— Indianapolis Press. A sound of doctrine—the science of acoustics. BOTH SIMPLE AND DIFFICULT. The Chinese Language Has No Gram- matical Rules, But Is Made Up of Many Dialects. Paradoxical though it may sound, we are strictly within the limits of accu- racy when we say that Chinese is, at the same time, the simplest and most difficult language in the world; most simple from the absence of those gram- matical rules and inflectional forms which vex the student of European languages; most difficult because of the combination of different languages —and all known as Chinese. The “book” Chinese is never spoken, while the colloquial in written form would merit the supreme contempt of the average Chinese student and su- percillious scholar. The written character is universally the same throughout the empire; but each province, city, town and village seems to have reserved the right to in- vent its own pronunciation of those written words which are common to the whole nation, and which constitute an eternal and inseparable bond which will link the eighteen provinces to- gether as long as China remains a na- tion. The pogsibility of two Chinamen meeting each other, and, while each speaks Chinese, being unable to in- dulge in mutual conversation in that language, will at once serve forcibly tu illustrate the pronounced differences of the Mongolian tongue. It would be mere correct to say that China possesses a number of lan- guages, distinct and separate, and each subdivided into numeros dialects, a linguistic condition which at once suggests: the absence of railroads o1 other means of bringing the various provincials into conversational con- tact with each other.—Frederick Pocte, in New Lippincott. Selecting Glassware. To. select glass with discretion it is necessary to understand somewhat ot its manufacture, and to recall the properties of the chemicals of which it is composed. These materials are chiefly soda, potash, lime, alumina and oxide of lead. The quality of the glass to be manufactured depends upon the t amount of the basic material unitea with the silica or sand. The best glass is made with lead, which gives to it luster, fusibility and high refractory powers. It is often called flint glass, to distinguish it from lime glass, which, is much cheaper and of a decidedly greenish tint. Flint glass is that which is most generally used for cutting and polishing. It may be picked out by the clear, bell-like tone which it sends forth when struck. This test may be made without any danger of breaking the glass, if it be held firmly in one hand while the upper parts or edge, is sharply struck with a pencil or other instrument, the only care requisite be- ing to see that the glass does not touch any object when it is struck, since, if there be room for it to vibrate, glass will never break.—Harper’s Bazar. Mystified. “Mamma, my birthday comes this year on Monday, doesn't it?” “Yes, dear.” “And last year it was on Sunday, SR aed ) Gear.” “Did it come on Saturday the year before?” “Yes, dear.” “Mamma, how many days in the week was I born on The King. PAT! TS. List of Patents Issued Last Week to Northwestern Inventors. Otto Ca mn and O. Gardeen “st. Paul, Minn., folding umbrella; William | Curtis, Duluth, Min placing heops upon barrels; Ekelund, Minneapolis, Minn., umbrella; Conrad Glaum, Audobon, Minn., straw stacker; Otto Hausman, Minneapolis, Minn., attachment for bi- eycles; Knud K. Lerol, Jr., Newburg, Minn., regulator for windmills; Hilda A. Nottingham, Fort Benton, Mont., hasp lock; Henry G. Roth, Minneapo- lis, Minn., adjustable compartment dis- play counter or cabinet. Lothrop & Johnson, patent attorneys, 911 & 012 Pioneer Press Bldg., St. Paul, Minn. » machine for John A. folding The Difference, Tommy—Paw, what’s the difference between a bird and a fowl? Mr. Figg—In thinking of one you get sentimental, and in thinking of the other you get hungry.—Indianapolis Journal. Some articles must be described: White's Yucatan needs no description; it’s the real thing. } A Variable. * Teacher—How many pounds to the long ton? Precocious Pupil—Two thousand two hunderd and forty. Teacher—And how many to the short ton? , Precocious Pupil--Depends on the coal dealer.—Puck. Panxen'’s Hate Barsax is the favorite for dressing the hair and renewing its Iife and coir. HINDEKcORNs, the best cure for corns. Finis. Waggs—Well, Buzehard has himself in to a hole at last. Daggs—What’s he been doing now? Waggs—Dyin’—buried yesterday.— Ohio State Journal. got FITS Permanently Cured. Nonts ornervousness afte? rst day’s use of Dr. Kline’s Great Nerve Restorer, Bend for FREE 8: Tm. R. H, Kine. *.td., 981 Arch St. Philadelphia, Pa. Sees Narrow Escape. vs Mrs. Henpeck—What’s this? Ah, a blonde hair— Henpeck—That must have come off the Belgian hare I had for lunch.— Syracuse Herald. Each package of PUTNAM FADE- LESS DYE colors more goods than any other dye and colors them better, too. Many an actor whose name is on a pillhoard is an acrobzt when it comes to jumping a board bill. A long time—the grandfather’s clock. ¥ \ _There’s a Difference. She—Well, you didn’t think I paid too much for my hats before we were mar- ried. % He—I didn’t pay for them, then, my dear.—San Francisco Town Talk. The Oldest Banknote Is in the possession of the Bank of England. It is dated December 19, 1699, and is for 555 pounds, but on ac- count of its age same is made very val- uable. One of the oldest and most val- uable stomach medicines is Hostetter’s Stomach Bitters. For fifty years it has cured dyspepsia, indigestion, nervous- ness or insomnia. It will cure when faithfully taken. Nerr Head of the Class. The Governor—So you are making the acquaintance of soubrettes, you young renegade? How far along have you got? The Son—Tolerable; I was only three men behind you at the stage door last night.—Denver News. Are You Using Allen's Foot-Ease? It is the only cure for Swollen, Smarting, Burning, Sweating Feet, Corns and Bunions. Ask for Allen’s Foot-Ease, a powder to be shaken into the shoes. At all Druggists and Shoe Stores, 25c. Sample sent FREE. Ad- dress Allen S. Olmsted, LeRoy, N. ¥. Beyord Him. She—Are those Russian names really as twisted as they look? He—They are, indeed_ Some of them lessly involved that even a railroad brakeman could not pronounce them.—Indianapolis Journal. 6 oming Syrap. For chitdren teetaing, softens the gums, reduces fw ‘ammation, allays puin,cures wiz¢ colic. 25¢ a bottle. He Got There. Bacon—What’s your friend Cooley doing now? Egbert—Lecturing. “On what?” “On the North Pole.” “Oh, I didn’t know that any one had got there yet.’"—Yonkers States- man, Piso's Cure for Consumption is an infallible medicine for coughs and colds.—N. W. SaMuzEL, Ocean Grove, N, J., Feb. 17, 1900. In Kentucky. Mamma—Did you know, dear, your little cousin Isabella, in Frankfort, is dead? Isabella—Who shot her?—Life. Evidence. Bess—The say Maud Goody kissed a man at the Jones’ lawn party the Bess—How do you know? ack—I had it from her own lips.— Inclined to be rather fast—the shoot the chutes. ‘well inch in my whole body. DO YOU FEEL LIKE THIS? Pen Picture for Women. “T am so nervous, there is not B lam so weak at my stomach and have indi- gestion horribly, and palpitation of thé heart, and I am losing flesh. This headache and backache nearly kills me, and yesterday I nearly had ics; there is a weight in the lower part of my bowels bearing down all tke time, and pains in my 33 thighs; I cannot sleep, walk, or sit, and I believe I am diseased all over; no one ever suffered as.I do.” This is a description of thousands of cases which come to Mrs. Pinkham’s attention daily. An inflamed and ul- cerated condition of the neck of the womb can produce all of these symp» Mrs. Jonn WILLIAMS. toms, and no woman should allow herseif to reach such a perfection of misery, when there is absolutely no need of it. The subject of our por- trait in this sketch, Mrs. Williams of Englishtown, N.J., has been entirely cured of suck illness’ and misery by Lydia E. Pinkham’s Vegetable Com- pound, and the guiding advice of Mrs. Pinkham of Lynn, Mass. No other medicine has such a reeord for absolute cures, and no other medi- cine is “just as good.” Women who want a cure should insist upon getting Lydia E. Pinkham’s Vegetable Coz- pound when they ask for it at a store. Anyway, write a letter to Mrs. Pink- ham at Lynn, Mass., and tell her al your troubles. Her advice is free. JOELN W.MOCHRIS, NSION Winton pc pes ny Rie a yrsinei WS adjudicating at DROPSY. NEW DISCOVERY, &: uick relief and cures worst eases. Book of testimonials and 10 DAYS” treatmen> FREE, DE. i. H. GREEN’S SONS, Box E, Atlanis, Ga, wemicted with! Thompson’s Eye Water, Noe NU 0.47.— 1900. When Answering A@vertiscments Niadlp Mention This Paper. face. M and am Pretty faces and graceful forms of young women ! seon.replaced by plainness and lankness? It is because the young girl just entering into womanhood does not know how to take care of herseli and has no one eompetent to instruct her. be anything weakening or wearying about the eb- ligations of a female organism. girls should inform themselves and prevent their dear ones from making costly errors. That young woman has a just cause of com- plaint, who is permitted to believe that great periodic suffering is to be expected, that severe mysterious pains and aches are part of her natural experience as a woman, are making constant war on her health, her dis- position and her beauty. fice, absolutely unnecessary and cruel. more—it is criminal. Dr. Greene’s NERVURA |: for the Blood and Nerves Dr. Greene’s Nervura blood and nerveremedy,. is the right medicine for every young girl who is just entering the first stage of womanhood. It prepares the system in every way to act mor- mally. It enriches the blood supply, and keeps the nerves calm and steady. great medicine, all the womanly duties may be undertaken and experienced without the slight- est jeopardy to health. nature and assists their development into glow- ing, healthful beauty. Mrs. Mary Frances Lyte, of 2 Hunter Alley, Rochester, N. Y., says: “T was very Itook Dr. Greene’s and now I am well and strong, my face is plump, ond cheeks red, and my complexion pure.” _- Mrs. Witi1aM Barrets, 239 East 87th St, New York City, says: “Dr. Greene's Nervura made a wonderful improve- ment in my health, and that dark, sallow look left TH Why is it they sre so It is not necessary that there should Parents ef young These things. It is a wanton sacri- It ia. Fortified with this It preserves the gifts of le and delicate—had’ no color, ervura blood and nerve remedy, ‘riends herdly know me, I have gained a different person.” ‘The nervousness in women which invariably comes with pain is of itself certain to stop the development of beauty in face and figure. Ex- cited nerves make sharp lines and hasty speech. The beautiful curves which make women so attractive are not possible when the female organism is out of order, as it surely is when discomfort and pain are always or even periodically present. It is only necessary to look in the faces of young women everywhere to sem that this must be so. Else why are they so pale and thin? * GET FREE ADVICE FROM DR. GREENE Real beauty is rare. It belongs to perfect health. It is possible to every woman who takes the matter in hand intelligently. Get advice from Dr. Greene, the great specialist in these matters. He will tell you why all this is so,‘and show you how to avoid the stumbling blocks that bar woman’s way to happiness, You may consult Dr. Greene without cost by calling or writ- ing to him at his office, 35 West 14th Stree‘. New York City. Don’t throw’ away your beauty. Write to Dr. Greene to- jay. y ESTABLISHED 1579. Minneapolis. Woodward & Co., Grain Commission. Duluth. ORDERS FOR FUTURE DELIVERY EXECUTED IN ALL MAnKcrs. i