pr ' ^ ' tncscoosteaMMttMtaMt* S To Carry Freight by 5 | Air-ship. ? J (ifllf ltrlll nnMTC 1??.11 ? ? 4 *- ? ^ wviMiuuj nui owu uc icauiu^ LU? ? world ia air-ship construction if the J enthusiasm over the sport, or Indus- i try as some consider it, continues to j be as wide-spread as it is to-day. j The Zeppelin air-ship made several j notable performances before its mis- j hap; the Wright Brothers are urged i to give some exhibitions with their J aeroplane at Berlin; a company was j recently organized to promote an in- | ter-city aerial passenger service in 1 Zeppelin machines; and now a dirigi- ' ble balloon for the carrying of freight , is proposed. Professor Schuette, of the Technl cal High School at Danzig, Prussia, is | the inventcr of the new cargo balloon soon to b^ constructed at that place. The gas bag will be 310 feet long, I with a diameter of about fifty feet, j and the skeleton frame is to have ; double diagonal wooden ribs instead of the customary aluminum ones. A car 130 long by twelve and a half I feet wide will bo carried, and the j power Tor driving the propeller will be generated by two gas motors of , 150 horse power each. By the sub- j stitution of wood for aluminum, the ! ability of the machine to carry weight . Is much Increased, and, in addition to j the equipment and crew, 4000 to ' 4500 pounds of freight may be taken. It is estimated that an average speed of fifty miles per hour attained by the new dirigible.?Harper's Weekly. IiOXG DISTANCE MARKETING. Rural Telephones a Rusiness Necessity to Every Farmer. Tractically every business man in the city has a telephone. No one who deals with his commercial colleagues would think of doing without the 'phone?it pays to have one. That's true in the city?but do you realize Just hov* much more valuable the tel?phone is to the farmer? Those with whom he deals are often miles away. To him it is an absolute necessity, and to do without would bo worse than uncomfortable. For instance, take the stock raiser who wants to sell some animals. Whit n I* ?- ?- J -1 .. ?,?v u JUU II. 10 to urive liiem aiong the road, to find his man, and, If the bargain is not made, to drive them all hack again. If he has a telephone, arrangements are made for a meeting, or even a dicker can be made over the long distance wire. What a relief It is to the farmer to he able to find out how prices are In town?to watch for a good market and sell at best advantage to himself. Yes, a relief, but not only that, a saving of money?real, jingling coin in his pocket. A glance at the sales reported this season gives an idea of the growing popularity of this great medium of comfort and convenience. The Western Electric Company, the largest manufacturers of telephones and telephone apparatus in the world, supplying the entire Bell system with appliances. reports having sold no less than f>0.000 rural telephones In the past sixty days. Did Not Like the Tane. A poor foreign musician was doggedly wrestling with his trombone outside a village inn. He knew that "The Last Chord" was somewhere in that instrument, but the latter seemed loath to part with it. At Ion Ort V* * * '* tUc luuuiuia uppeurea ai tne door. The poor musician bowed, and, doffing his cap, said, "Musig hath jarms," and smiled. "Well, not always," he said; "but try that tune outside that red brick bouse and I'll give you sixpence " Three minutes later the trombonist was back again, mud bespattered and forlorn, "You vos right," he said, Blowly and sadly; "musig hath jarms not always?no. A mad vellow out ov dat house came and me mlt a brlgg he knocked down?yes. He not like that tune?no, no," and he rubbed the back of his head. "I thought he wouldn't," said the landlord; "he's jus. done a month's hard labor for stealing a clothesline from a back garden."?Dundee Ad< ertiser. Needless Wear of Roads. A county surveyor protests against the habit which many motorists have of doing the majority of their driving on the crown or centre of the road. This method of driving means that one portion of the road takes all the wear, and naturally of course gets worn into ruts and ridges. If the traffic would spread itself and make all that portion of the road from gutter to the top of the crown t A lr o Q aho??A a# * ? ? ui i.iic wear, roaa surfaces would lust much longer and would require less frequent repair. In these days when roads are made almost flat there Is no excuse for this habit of clinging to the crown, bnt where roads are made with a great deal of camber It is perhaps excusable, aB driving on a continuous slope Is the reverse of pleasant.?Gentle* woman. i- How Elephants Sleep. h In captivity elephants stand up when they sleep, but in the jungle, la their own land, they lie down. The rseeos given for the difference Hp between the elephant in captivity and EL. la freedom la that the animal never acquires complete confidence la hie H* keeper and always longs tor liberty. ?The Watchword, Tlw aaffaet department store In B* , MmMIMI 1MB hare a bank of flfty IjlKOTD ABOUM 4 JPPffi HOU&E03 | Curried Peas. Boll one pound of green peas till they aro tender. Take one tableapoonful of cornstarch and add to It 111 a teaspoonful of salt. Moisten with 11 n cupful of water, put Into a saucepan and Btir till it bolls. Pour over the peas and place on a ri hot dish, which will have a border of mashed potatoes. These are first boiled in boiling salted water. Strain ' till they are thoroughy dry, and shake over the flro to make them floury. Mash with the addition of a piece of butter and two tablespoonfuls of hot milk.?New York Press. ' d Asparagus With Cheese. ^ a; Asparagus is often cooked with Parmesan or grated Swiss cheese, jj After cooking until nearly tender in ^ toiling salted water, drain and put jj in a baking dish in layers with the n cheese between. Sprinkle the top of n the dish with cheese and buttered jj crumbs, add a small cupful of the p water in which the asparagus was a pnnlrpH nnH holfM f n a mnHnroto Aimn ?v~ ... - a for about fifteen minutes. j, A variation of this is after cooking t, the asparagus until tender arrange e on rounds of toast, season with salt and pepper, spread thickly with {] grated cheese and buttered crumbs f( and brown in the oven. A fresh egg fo may be dropped on each round of t the toast, then put in the oven long n enough to set the egg.?New York t Telegram. , a r Salmon Trout With Cream. Wipe dry and lay in a pan with ' Just enough water to keep from * scorching. If large, score the back, * but not the sides, bake slowly from ^ three-quarters to one hour, basting with butter and water. Into a cup J of rich cream Btlr three or four tablespoons boiling water (or cream will | v clot when heated); Into this stir gently two tablespoons melted butter and a little chopped parsley. Put this into a milk boiler or Carina kettle, or any vessel you can set into another, half filled with boiling water to prevent sauce from burning; add the cream and butter to the gravy from the dripping pan in which fish was baked, lay the .trout on a hot platter and let the gravy boil up once, then pour over the fish; garnish with sprigs of parsley. Use no spiced sauces and very little salt. This creamed gravy may be used for various kinds of boiled and baked fish.?Boston Post. Apple Tart. Sift one pound of flour into a basin, add one teaspoonful of baking powder. Rub eight ounces of butter into the flour with the tips of the fingers?never the palms of the hands?which in hot weather, or if done by any one with hot hands, oil* the butter and makes the pastry very heavy. Little lemon juice makes the pastry light and easily digested. When the butter is well rubbed in add half a pint of cold water and mix well with the flour till it is all taken up and leaves the basin clean. Turn ] on to a board and roll out. Put In a cool place. Peel the apples, remove the core, * cut in slices and put in a pudding 1 dish, adding three tablespoonfuls ~ of sugar. Add a few cloves or some lemon Juice and a little water. Cover with the pastry, and bake In a hot oven for half an hour. Sprinkle with sugar and serve.?New York Press. To mix corn bread more easily warm the bowl that It Is mixed In. A fruit parfalt may either have fresh fruits or candied fruits mixed with the whipped crenm. There is no greater aid to the complexion than the use of plenty of water, both externally and Internally. A delicious nut parfalt may be made by adding a cupful of chopped English walnuts or pecans to a plain parfalt seasoned with vanilla. If soda is mixed with flonr in mak lug ginger cookies with sour milk In- ' stead of being dissolved in milk as In the usual way they will be lighter. Young geese have yellow feet and bills (when old, they are reddish). A goose, intended for the table, should not be older than six months or one year, or It is liable to be tough. Boiled potatoes should be served as soon as they are cooked. To make them drier drain ofT the water quickly, shake them in a strong draught of air and do not put back the lid of the pot. I Black and dirty brass should be well washed in hot soap-suds containing soda and then scoured with paraffin and whiting before any brass polish is used, for this saves expense and trouble. Instead of laboriously grating chocolate for cooking purposes, break it into good-sized bits and stand over boiling water until melted. Not only is time saved, but the chocolate is apt to be smoother. A writer In Good Housekeeping has discovered that by having the mattress made In three instead of two pieces (setting the usual large piece in two which makes three ptoses ef egesU atae) It see he placet as as te wear mere evenly. [ vOOD hOADS Flan to Reduce Road Widtlu. Consul Thompson, of Hanover, Geriany, contributes some valuable comlents on the roads of Prussia as smpared with those of the United tates. The German roads, he says, inge from twenty to thirty feet In idth, while In our Middle or Westrn States, we take land of an averse value of $100 per acre and cut It p with roadways Bixty-six feet wide, ractically two-thirds of the same beig given over to weeds, which furish an inexhaustible supply of seeds rr the adjoining farm lands. The irmer of Germany who has conuercd the weedB on his ground need ave no thought of their being started gain from uncultivated or uncared>r land along the roadways. L.ooklg into the valleys from one of the lousands of lookout towers which ave been placed on the summit of early every high elevation In Gerrnny, the roads lie before one's view ke bright white rlbbonB running ast squares of green or brown fields, long the verges of cultivated woods, nd binding village to village?a soition of the first and most imporint problem of human economy and volution, that of transportation. One of the simplest and most prac luti measures mai oouia De taken [>r American roads betterment would e to reduce their width to from onebird to one-half of what they are ow. Work could then be conoenrated on the roadway and drains, nd both building and maintenance of oads become much less expensive. No road can be called really good t it is bordered with weeds or mud, .nd to care for and keep up a road rom sixty to seventy feet in width, tot to mention the loss of land, means n the long run nearly double the extense of a thirty or thirty-five foot oad. The average width of the first class u&uwujr tu rruorna is miriy leei, ana b found to be apiple for all purpose*, deducing the width of public hlgh< vays in but thirteen Mississippi Vaioy States, aggregating700,000 miles, which now average sixty-six feet, to hirty-Blx feet, leaving* them stUl nuch wider than the highways ol Prussia, Mr. Thompson shows wpuld jive back to the farmers of those JtateB for cultivation 2,500,000 acres )f generally'tillable land, which, at an average valuation of >103 pei icre would mean the restoration tc :ho producing values of the Statei jamed of $250,000,000. This sun: lias an annual interest value of $12,' 500,000, an amount which might. b< recovered, and if applied to the pro per scientific conrtructlon of roads k Lhe United States would in a fev years give us the most extensive ant finest country road system in thi world. , Q. E. M. Washington, D. C. This might do very well but foi the' autos, says the Indiana Farmer though we prefer a sixty-foot to i thirty-foot' roadway if we can affor< the space, and the roads can be kep :lear of weeds and other rubbish But what kind of a ohance woiifd th< Sriver of a skittish horse or any otha kind of a horse in fact but a* worn >ut nlUK have, in trvlfiar to nlibo a hii nachinfe on a thirty-foot highway? 3< long as autos are allowed to use. ou: jommon roads the roads should re main as wide as now, and the im >rovement should extend from fenci :o fence, the outer ten feet on eacl lide being made by the auto owners. Bight Way to Figure. Good roads will reduce the cost o transportation by private conveyanci one-half, so it is a measure' which L entitled .to strong support, remark, the Atlanta Journal.' Yet there afr< many who use the roads every da; who do not stop to figure this way They will install a labor saving ma shine on the farm because it will snvi them a little extra labor, and perhapt a little money;* but they will not se< that good roads 'are. both the greates labor saying and money saving thini extant. the Fort Worth Record re ceully figured that If good roads weri universal the saying to the countr. wbuld be $250,000,000 annually. an< svery farmer In the country woul< get his portion of this saving. Thli agitation for good roads fn Texai ihould go on until every country roa< lif the State Is brought up to t?e high est standard. Jefferson County hai made-a great start with Its new sbel roads on ail the principal highway) of the city, but there are cross roadi snd the less traveled country road) that yet may. be Improved, and th< work should continue. In the mean time much of the Jefferson Count] loll is amenable to the efforts of th< split Ipg drag apd the farmers of _th< country should Interest themselves li ?V,I? ? ' ? iiuyioujoui ui a gresier exi6D< Lhan they bare yet shown an Inellna Uon to do.?Beaumont Enterprise. Easily Remedied. An old lawyer, who la a noted wit has for a partner another old felloe who la eery conservative and strait laced. Recently the wit remarked u his partner that It was advisable U smploy a female stenographer in th< office, maintaining that stenogra phers of that variety were much 'mon istisfaclory than males. Bat the partner didn't like th< Idea. "My dear fellow," he objected* "I don't think it would be proper [t wouldn't do. wouldn't do at all 7ou see, hare I should N It the of fed, hoar after hour every day, gait ilone with the young lady, and?" "Well/' observed the wtt. with i twinkling eye, "aenldnt yon holler f ?Kew York Times. ' * labors. The countries named, not to speak of others in South America ? and the Orient, will be represented p in the big naval parade on September 25 by from one to five war shlpB, all * representative of their class. The United 8tates war ships then in the harbor will join in the naval pageant. While from time to time fragmentary items bearing upon the celebration have been published, they lacked the authoritative stamp of the commission. The official schedule now 1b at hand, and it is an imposing array of events. The celebration will begin with a rendezvous of all foreign and American vessels in the harbor, dipping of flags, firing of salutes and other evidences of the entent cordiale existing between the United States and the world Powers. Then will follow the first naval parade, during which the foreign war ships will be encircled, after which there will be a reception of officials and other notables at 110th street and Riverside drive, at three o'clock in the afternoon. The evening of the first day will witness the opening illuminations. If one can imagine the light a bunch of six billion wax candles, burning simultaneously, can send to the clouds, then one will have some idea of the brilliancy In and about Manhattan nightly during the celebration. Mar' iners say lesser illuminations have been seen from the decks of ships one hundred miles at sea. so that it is safe to say that many an incoming ship will view the glare before the . coast has been Righted, r There will be nothing doing of flcially on Sunday, September 26, that > day being set aside for religious obi servances. The following day, Monk day, there will be official receptions, I Rich Widow Weds Her Young Nephew Despite Is*, s Plttsfleld. Mast.?Mrs. Adeline Rucks, of Wichita Falls, Tex., came all the way to Massachusetts to marry ' her young nephew. Eli Balltnger, and * is on her way hack to Texas with her , husband. She is fifty years old, twice * a widow, wealthy and weighs 260 pounds. He tins the scales at 118. Notwithstanding that it is against I the State law for such near kinsfolk -? to marry, Mrs. Rocks and he? nephew - procured a license in the City Clerk's . i (e Ends Meet Z^==2? G. Williams, In the Indianapolis News. ROGRAMME HLTON FESTIVAL es Schedule of Land and Water and State to Which Many Naling Electric Display a Feature opening of the various exhibitions, the nature of which is to be announced later, and the beginning of 4 Via olrchln - XT V - vuv wnouiy uiguvo u?vi now iurn. The historical parade is scheduled for Tuesday, September 28, and in this pageant all nationalities will be represented. There will be dozens of floats and moving tableaux representing events in the history of the aboriginal, Dutch, English, Revolutionary and American periods. These floats have been prepared at great expense, and the costuming and effects, aside from their historical fidelity, will have great educational value. Aquatic Bports opposite Riverside Park and Yonkers will take place on Wednesday, September 29. The day will be marked by general commemorative exercises in educational instltutions throughout the State. Memorials on spots dignified by great historic events will be dedicated. The day in Manhattan will be known as "Bronx Borough Day" and the chief celebration will be in that borough. There will be a festival in Richmond Borough and a reception to United States officials and guests of the city at West Point. The military parade is to take place on Thursday, September 30. This will be participated in by United States infantry regiments, Navy and Marine corps, the National Quard, Naval Militia, veteran organizations and marines and sailors from foreign vessels. The parade of naval vessels, merchant marine, excursion boats and pleasure craft of every description will take place on Friday, Oct. 1. It will be in two divisions, one starting from New York, the other from Albany. The divisions will meet at Newburg, celebrated in Revolutionary history, and a general good time will be enjoyed in Newburg Bay. In the division bound north will be the Half Moon, manned by Dutch sailors in the costumes of the mariners of Hudson's day. and the Clermont, the first boat built by Fulton, operated by her own steam Ceremonies will be held on both these vessels at the joining pf the two divisions. At Newburg there will be a parade, reception and the like, with illuminations and fireworks in the evening. The vessels taking part in the naval parade will return to New York and the Manhattan historical parade previously mentioned will be repeated in Brooklyn. The school children in New York will engage in festivals on Saturday, October 2. There will be exercises in fifty centres in New York, conducted in view of .more than five hundred thowsand children of the public and private schools. The two divisions of the naval parade will he welcomed on their return from Newburg. There will be a historical parade on Staten Island and dedicatory exercises at Stony Point, the scene of a decisive battle during* the Revolution. In the evening there will be a carnival parade in New York, in which there will be seen fifty brilliantly illuminated floats, escorted by various organizations. The final week of the celebration will be devoted to events on the Hudson north of New York from October 3 to October 9. Special ceremonies with the historical floats in parades will take place in all the river cities and larger villages, with neighboring smaller municipalities participating in each of them. On Monday, October 4, the thief celebrations will be at Poughkeepsle and Yonkers: Tuesday, at Kingston, Hastings,. Dobbs Ferry, Irvington and Tarrytown; Wednesday, at Catskill and Nyack; Thursday, at Hudson, Ossining and Haver ?iraw; rriaay, at Albany and Peeksklll. and Saturday at Troy and Cold Spring. Similar ceremonies will be held at Cohoes on Monday. Ootober 11. The carnival parade in Brooklyn. Saturday evening, October 9, will bring dthe celebration to a close, as far as Manhattan Is concerned. Two Masked Bandits Hold Up a Bank In Iowa. Mineola. Iowa.?Search la being made for tho two masked men. who. armed with pistols, held up Cashier F. H. Nlpp, of the Mills County German Bank here and escaped with $1500 in cash. Nipp and two customera were kept in the back room by order of one of the robbera, while the i other took the money from the safe and counter. The bandits fled afoot and went eest along the Wabash Arilread toward Silver City, neer which tlMi (Wv dkuaiiiii ta A AAfttili. WW?Wims ?7T AFTER DOCTORS FAILED Lydia E. Pi nkham'sV egetable Compound Cured Her. Willimantic, Conn.?"For five years I suffered untold agony from female troubles, causing backache, irregularities, dizziness and nervous prostration. It was impossible for7me to mBMH walk tig?** t a i r s HHHKgtf without stopping U on the way. I tried three aifferBflBKy "" ent doctors and HSHP each told me somepjffR r flSjaBM thing different. I received 110 benefit from any of them, but seemed to sufR?*?e*. %+( 'J fer more. The last doctor said nothing would restore t- 'ivvsi*my health. 1 begaa wkiu| ujum ij. jTiiiKiiHni s vegetaDl* Compound to see what it would do. and I am restored to my natural health."?Mrs. Etta Donovan, Box J90, Willimantic, Conn. The success of Lydia E. Pinkham'a Vegetable Compound, made from roots ana herbs, is unparalleled. It may be used with perfect confidence by women who suffer from displacements, inflammation, ulceration, fibroid tumors, irregularities, periodic pains, backache, bearing-down feeling, flatulency, indigestion, dizziness, or nervous prostration. For thirtyyears Lydia E. Pinkham'a Vegetable Compound has been the standard remedy for female ills, and suffering women owe it to themselves to at least give this medicine a trial. Proof is abundant that it has cured thousands of othen^ and why should it not cure you ? r I We Offer An Interest I In 12 Proven Mines 1 We have acquired 121 Colorado mines on one I mountain which have I produced $2,000,000.00.1 When former operators reached water its acids * destroyed their pumps, compelling operations to cease. We shall drain out water by tunnel and have millions above. For financial assistance in driving our tunnel will take persons in with us who write immediately, in subscriptions of $50.00 up to $1,000.00. WRITE NATIONAL MINING & TUNNEL CO Perhaps So. Tramp: "Yes, mum, de way we travels about on de freight cars is very dangerous. I may say we carries our lives in our hands." Housekeeper (sarcastically): "And ao you never wash your hands for fear of drowning yourselves, is that it."?From the Boston Transcript. ^ For RRiDACHK?Itlrlis* CAPI7DINI Whether from Colds. Heat, Stomach or Nervous Troubles. Cayudfoe will relieve too. It's liquid?pleasant to take?acta Immediately. Try It, i?c.. Me. and Me. at dntf stores. No Doubt. Little Willie: "Say, pa, what is a geniijst" Pa: "A genius, my boy, is a person whom nature lets in on the ground floor, but whom circumstances force to live in an attic."?From the Chicago News. 80. 87-'09. fl Everyone ought to measure him- I self by his own proper fopt and stan- I fl ti r*j I ritifeU mnr strength for womb*,? 1 bad backs. fiMn who suffer with backache, | hearing down pain, dizziness and that constant dull, tlrsd f I comfort in tha ad' L.l ^ and whan not pataD . waa no weak It ra as tf broken. A friend urged M j try Doan's Kidney Pllle, which I df aad they helped me from the stal % It made me feel like a new worn* y. aad neon I was detrng mf work ff