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R' V . ;s Dickens's "Guild of Litera- I I Art," started enthusiastically I to assist and provide for ' and artists in difficulties, has I I n put an end to bv a private act of Parliament. Whatever property is left is transferred to the Roya> ! j Literary Fund. | The family of the late Secretary of the Treasury, Daniel Manning, has j had cast in Troy, X. Y., a 100-pound ' bell for the United States revenue ' cruiser -which bears his name. DULL ACHING PAINS I ! Palpitation of the Heart?All Cured by Hood'* Snrsai>arilla. " I was troubled with a dull aching pain | ' In my right kidney, and I also had palpita- ' tlon of tho heart. I began taking Hood's 3 Sarsaparilla and since then I have never t I been troubled with either of these com- > ] plaints. Hood's Sarsaparilla is also help- i J Ing my wife very much." H. B. Scott, < Marlboro, New York. Remember ? Hood's Sarsaparilla I To A OnpTVnA Hlood I^rifler, 1 ] Hood's Pills cure imlijjpstion. 25 cents. j j The Xew Orchard PeBt. j ( Professor M. Y. Slingerland, of the j Cornell University agricultural experi- \ ment station, has made a study of the i ] new orchard pest, and says that the I < "pistol case bearer" is more destruc- 1 ] tive than any of the "case bearers" j } ever known. He believes it to be an ] American insect. In Pennsylvania it | ] tas already destroyed 8000 trees, and . has now made its appearance in New ' t M York. Its range of food plants in- ' ] eludes orchard fruits and probably the < chestnut. It occurs from Canada ] southward, through New York and j HJP Pennsylvania, where only it has been ; i destructive, and westward through 1 Nebraska into New Mexico. It is very < small, and would hardly be noticed ex- ] cept for the "cases" which the little < caterpillars wear, and which reveal i them to the casual observer. Their i tny TT> io nic+ol.slin-npd Thev are 1 tough, leathery texture, apparently < made from silken threads, interwoven ] with pubescence from leaves. These j . little cases are odd looking little ob- | < jects, and are seen projecting from 1 flower buds, leaves or twigs. It is \ doubtful if any spray will reach the in- , sect in its winter quarters.?Chicago Inter-Ocean. ! ] : 1 Paf*ftlng of Indian Dialects. "Like the buffalo, the Indian lan- } guage will soon be lost forever," ex- 1 , plained a gentleman who, under the ( auspices of tlie smitnsonian, nas ue voted a number of years to the study 1 and preservation of the Indian language. "It was thought that the In- j dinn language could be preserved by the aid of the phonograph and graph- j ophone, and parties were sent out to ' many Indian tribes to have them talk j into the apparatus and thus secure s record of the Indian tongue. It was found, however, that but few Indiant of the present day, and they were the older ones, could talk a pure tongue. More than one-half of the Indians now on the reservations, and this is the case with all the younger Indians, j converse in English. It is not good , ^ to lli a lr Jr>?l llinrr ar\oolr ^ JUUfpH^Ll f UUl It 10 iuc niuu viicj o^wuo.) i ^ i a kind of pigeon English. I had the B work of securing some Cherokee talk, ! > W-? and in doing so talked with a dozen i ' I or more leading Cherokees. They ! * J admitted to me that they did not know j one Cherokee who could speak pure ; : Cherokee. They said it was with the | greatest difficulty that they could get . the boys and girls to speak in their ! f native tongue at all, or to learn even , j the commonest words or phrases."? i ] Washington Star. i "Fee Siinole." "A deed in fee, or fee simple," an- ; ( swered a lawyer who was asked by a j . Star reporter what the term meant, ] "means an absolute deed, without any ! ^ conditions attached to its issuance or ; ( tenure. It is deeding something ! j which belougs to the owner. It trans- J , fers ownership to the one who re- j ^ ceives it, absolutely. Cattle were , originally the medium of exchange, or \ , the money of the land, for they were ' ( in exchanges long before anything else j , was thought of. They were the fees. : \ fliinnr nf vol 11A V?T ' yujuivuv, C? which exchanges were brought about. A fee, therefore, is a payment; a re- j ward. From this came the term, deed in fee, or deed in fee simple. A deed ' of this kind means therefore, a trans- j fer to the receiver of the same, and his or her heirs forever, of the property in question. It is generally the result of purchase, but property can j Ibe deeded in fee by a will."?Wash- , ] ington Star. , To Tap the Khine. ! ( The Rhine is to be tapped to fur ' , nish power for the town of Basle. Thf j ] channel which is to carry the water to : < the house will be about three-fourths ( of a mile in length. At first 770C j ] cubic feet of water per second will be i {available, representing about 9000 horse-power. < A 5000-pound steer was killed the \ other day at Wichita, Kan. The ani- , mal was only four years old, measured I , eight feet in height and twelve feet in j , length. ' 1 | ! r ; jThere is a ii i|Class of People ii < Who are injured by the < * ; (t use of coffee. Recently < <* J J there has bean placed in J | m < ? au uie grocery scores a 'r I j | new preparation called < > P J J GRAIN-O, made of pure j \ B- <> grains, that takes the place of ?! m j | The most delicate stomach J [ i receives it without distress, ' I pi < and but few can tell it from < 1 j | coffee. ||H < It does not cost over ? < > WjJ^ 11 as much. Children may < |1Y J | drink it with great benefit. J J | Bp 1 > 15 cents and 25 cents per < gffiS |, package. Try it. Ask for < > I 1J[ GRAIN-O. ilTry Grain=0! i: ALASKA A LAND OF GOLD VIA MY DECLARE ITS MINES THE RICHEST EVER KNOWN. tienorts That Ilec-all Fabnloun ?ldora(lo? lteeent DiscuverlM Seem to Indicate That in Alanka Is the -Mother Vein of the (iold of North America. Those familiar with the history of gold mining declare that the gold fields m Alaska are among the richest both in quality and in extent that have ever been known. The stories that the Spanish explorers heard about Eldorado were no more wonderful than those ft hich are now coming down from Alaska jvith every steamer, except that the Spaniards heard of gold already mined md refined, whereas the Alaska gold is not yet dug. The Spaniards never ?ot their gold; the Alaskans are getL ~ ^ TT/\MA f/Av ine+nn AA llllg It UJ ILIC lUil. licic, lui iumaiivo, is a quotation from tlie issue of June 30 of the Alaska Mining Record of Juneau. It relates to the arrival of 3ue Jack Hayes, the mail carrier for the Yukon district. Hayes left Juneau 011 January 14 and completed his tour of duty on June 26. After an interview with him about his experiences, the Record says: "Much excitement prevails all ilirough the Yukon district over the Klondike discoveries, and all kinds of ;torie3 of the riches there are told, nany of which Mr. Hayes says are xue. It is true that two tenderfeet, ailroad men from Los Angeles, Cal.? Frank Summers and Charles Clemens ?have struck it rich. They went in i year ago and located on the Klondike ast fall. Clemens sold his interest for 535,000 cash, and his partner, Summers, held on two weeks later and got J50,000. The money to pay the men ivas taken out of the dump which had been lifted from the shaft on the claim luring the winter. These two men liad each panned out ?2500 on their .^laim while prospecting it. The man chat bought Clemen's interest bound the bargain with a ?232 nugget which iiad been taken from -the Klondike. Summers is a single man. Clemens iias a wife and two children in Los .\ngeles. It is said that both will come 3'it on the next boat via St. Michael, brincinc with them their little for tunes. Neither man had ever had any sxperience in mining. "Alec McDonald took one pan from liis claim which tipped the scales to :he tune of ?800, and offered a wager }f 31000 that he could pick his dirt md in twenty minutes get a pan that ivould go over 100 ounces (31G00). No jne cared to cover the wager. "Dick Lowe is panning for a living, md is taking out the modest sum of 5100 a day. "In a personal letter dated at Circle Uity, March 24, Oscar Ashby says in part: ",'Our town'is very quiet at present, ;very one having gone to the big ex:itement at Klondike. Everybody has jone crazy over it. This country has in unparalleled future. There are housands of acres that men will not, n fact, cannot, look at until provisions ire cheaper. I understand that wages lere will be $12 a clay. There is not inougli help to supply the demand on he creeks. Dogs are worth all kinds >fmoney, from $75 to $300 each.'" There are one or two men in New fork who know Alaska mining and Alaska mines well. A Sun reporter isked one of them to talk about the jo Id diggings of Alaska. He did so, tfter stipulating that his name should lot be printed. He opened a drawer >f his desk and out of a number of specimens of ore secured a chunk as oig as a man's thumb. It was as leavy as a bullet. "This," he said, as he laid it away in the drawer again, "was picked up )n the surface soil six years ago. Another piece as big as my fist that was picked up at the same place we have seen offered $250 for. Now, when ;here is gold like that lying about jpen to the air, there is just one inference to be drawn. It comes from some place. The man who finds the place is rich. The man who tells the world in general what he is looking for ind why under such circumstances is i fool. By the same token he usually :lies poor and complains of 'bard times', sighs for the return of the 'good jld days of '49.' "Why, man, '49 was aothing to this! Johannesburg is no such centre of gold fields as is Juneau. "But there is this difference between California in '49 and Alaska in '97. Alaska is all staked out. The news lias not gone abroad until the people near at hand, the people who have 3pent money, time, and their very lives in developing the country, the people, in short, who deserved the reward had seized on everything in 3igm. i/own aiong ine coast in tne quartz lodes the stamp mills have been established one by one, twenty stamps here, forty there. They have not any af them begun to be worked as hard is the "available area of ore will permit. With mills running altogether 319 stamps, more than half the stamps working only half a year, the product of the quartz mines of Alaska in 1897 fielded $2,355,000. I say to you earnestly, honestly, that is only a pin scratch. Work in Alaska cannot be said to have begun. There was never mywhere anything like it. To sum the whole thing up, 1 believe that right in the Alaska gold deposits is the mother vein of the gold of North America. "A few weeks ago two young men came to me with letters. They were wild with enthusiasm and confidence. They were going to Alaska they said. I told them to stay at home, Then one of them said that he had liatl lots of experience in rough knocks. 'You'll get a lot more out there,' I said. 'There is more experience out there than there is gold, and that is saying heaps.' 'But I control 810,000.' he said. 'By glory,' said I, 'you'll need it.' And they will. It is no poor man's country. A man might as well start out from Juneau, after all his kit and outfit are bought, without a cent as without ?500 or $600. But it is a country every American who can afford to travel ought to see. It is a beautiful country to visit, and there is no pleasanter trip anywhere."?NewYork Sun. Some London Statistics. An expert at figures 12,000 vehicles, a quarter of them omnibuses, pass through the Strand in London every day, and the narrowness of the street causes each of their 03,000 occupants to waste on an average three minutes. POPULAR SCIENCE. At the last congress of German vine ! yardists Professor Wortmann rt^ortei j that he had found living bacteria ir I wine which hail been bottled twenty ' five to thirty years. It is said that the patterns on tin finger tij>s are not only unchangeablt through life, bnt the chance of the fin ! per prints of two persons being alilu | is less than one chance in sixty-foui | billions. Among the animals which surpass | man in the ratio of brain weight to bod] | weight are the following: Among th< I Rodentia squirrels and mice, amonf ! the Primates many old and new worlc monkeys. Air can not be easily liquified, bu according to the American Machinist ! the difficulty of putting it to any prac ! 11 pn Iiac in fn rtl ImiI i4- miiof 1 \t I UtUl HOC UCO 111 tuc lUL't lUUl ll UlUOt Ml stored and transmitted at a tempera ! ture of more than 200 degrees belov zero. It is reported that commercial oil: are to have another addition. In Chinj j it is stated that a successful extractioi of tea-seed oil has been obtained. I J is said to be slightly pungent but edi } ble, and also of a consistency whicl j makes it a valuable lubricator for fint ! machinery. I Colonel Davidson, of Edinburgh, who, besides being the inventor of th< elongated bullet with conalures, o telescopic sights for sporting guns, anc of the method of laying guns and mor tars by the collimator, was an office] of distinction in the East India servic* aud the father of the Edinburgh Rifl< Volunteers, has had to wait till he wai eighty-six years of age before receiving a K. C. B. I Bulgaria is thinking of substituting i the reformed Gregorian calendar fox j the Russian orthodox one, a bill foi that purpose having been drawn up at Premier Stoiloff's request by Signor Cesare Tondini de Quarenghi, an Italian mathematician, and Dr. Shish manoff, President of the Bulgaria! court of cessation. It is hoped that after the Bulgarian sobrahye has adopted the reform it may spread tc all the countries that use the Roman calendar. Progress of the Telescope. Fifty years ago an eleven-inch refracting telescope was the largest in the world. The lens of the Yerkes telescope has a diameter of forty inches. It required great care to grind such a lens. It consists of two disks of optical glass, one of crown glass and the other of flint glass, the former double convex, the latter concave on one side and nearly flat on the other. The nicety of curvature is what is startling. When the late Alvan Clark received the rough slabs of glass for the Yerkes lens from Paris, before him lay the task of grinding until every ray ol light passing through the great circle of class should be bent and brought to a focus at a point sixty-one feet distant no larger than a small dot. It took him five years to accomplish his task. A fault of 1-100,OCOth of an inch would be serious. The crude casting of glass is first treated with sand, to remove roughest projections. Thee coarse emery and down to the finest. Rouge is used in polishing. The last stages of treatment often takf an optician two years. Sometimes the amount to be removed is so [infinitesimal that a little rubbing with the fingei on the hard glass will do what is necessary.?Chicago Inter-Ocean. Iteal Blue Grass. One of the standing jokes of the blue grass region is the fact that "blue grass" is green. People who visit the famous rich grazing country found io Kentucky are often the subject foi jokes when they want the "blue grass" pointed out. But there is i blue grass, a sample ol wmcn can be found growing at the Department ol Agriculture, which is as blue as f cloudless sky on a summer day. It if a native of the Apache country. II can te found all through New Mexicc and in some of the adjoining States, It is known as the Apache blue grass, It has a broad spear and grows f couple of feet in height. A fielt covered with it looks like a lake ir which has been dumped a barrel oi indigo. It is said to be one of the most beautiful sights of the southwesl to view great fields of this blue grass, dotted here and there with flowers, Especial attention has been paid to the cultivation of a patch of this grass a1 the Department of Agriculture, where it grows luxuriantly, aud is one of the interesting sights to all visitors to the grounds of that department.?Washington Star. Tortured His Critics. Two citizens of Okkwa, Chulln province, write to the Seoul (Korea) IndeDendent as follows: "The Magistrate of our district hap been doing some tall squeezing since his arrival here. Some unknown citizens wrote out the crooked deeds oi the Magistrate and posted them in the market places. The Magistrate suspected a wealthy citizen named Sin Dongsik of the district of implication in the exposure of his shortcomings, aud set fire to Sin's house and furniture, and tortured Sin and his twc sons until each man's legs were broken. He further ordered the people to ered a stone monument in the district in his honor. He collected over $30( for the monument fund from the peo pie aud bought land with it instead oi j erecting a monument. Now he states I that he appreciates the land more thar a monument. As far as we, the peo pie are concerned, we never wanted tc erect a single tablet for him; so the matter Las been settled rather fortunately. But it would have been more frank if he had asked the people t( buy him some land in the beginning.' Life Should I$e Longer. It was the naturalist, BufTon, who asserted that human beings should live to 140 years instead of merely seventy. Buffon argued that all creatures of tht animal kind live at least six or sevei times as long as it require., them tc | obtain full development. Thus tht horse is full grown at three years, and lives to eighteen and twenty. The os is fully developed at four years, am { the dog at two. The former lives tc I twenty-four and twenty-live and the latter to twelve ami fourteen, mere is no doubt tliftt iu these respects Buffou was right, and if his theory wen borne out in tho case of humankind the period of life should be at leasl 120 to 140 instead of seventy. 12Q3B3333EE8E5S5SEi2SSSS83S2^3ZSBBHGR?3 3 Soot Water. 1 Water in which soot has been disi solved has always been a favorite with ? florists for manuring plants, and also 1 at the same time keeping off iiru -ious iuseots. It has a slight smell of sult phur, to which doubtless its power to , repel injurious insects is due. Some . ammonia in the water makes it much ? more effective as a fertilizer. The . soot is pure carbon, and has considerf able power to absorb ammonia, which it will give out only as the roots of B plants surround the carbon thus , charged and absorb it. Cucumber Pickle*. * The best time to plant cucumbers to grow pickles is from the first to the 1 fifteenth of July. They will make a quick : growth atthis season,and be much less likely to attacks from the cucumber i bug than if planted early. The secret ' in growing cucumber pickels is to keep ' vines very closely picked, allowing 1 none to grow much, if any, above two inches long. If even one cucumber i3 r left on the vine to ripen, it will take ' so much of the plant's food that the ? roots furnish, that the vine will wither 3 and began to turn yellow. i A Summer Hoif-pen. f The swine quarters are often in ! buildings connected with the house, , aud in such cases are likely to become ORCHARD PIQ-PEN. I offensive during the warm weather of summer. It is wise in such a case to construct summer quarters out in the orchard. The cut gives a suggestion $or a cheap little house and yard. The ' end of the yard has a sloping top, so that the pigs can lie out of doors upon 1 the ground, and still be protected froip the sun. The roof of the little | house can be of matched lumber and left unshingled.?New England Home1 stead., ! Fflfppf nf "Flnall i no* FahiI . 1 The logical conclusion of the large i amount of experimenting on this subi ject at the Ohio and other stations is ' that the process of ensiling adds noths ing to the nutritive ^alue of the feedi ing stuff. ' It does add to its palata! bility, however, when the method has ; i been properly employed, and in consei quence a larger proportion of tho fodder will be consumed. In regard to the cost of this method, we do not coni eider it any greater than . that of the i ordinary method of cutting and husking and stacking and grinding the grain, and certainly all this must be s done if the food materials are to be ! thoroughly preserved and made as completely available as they are in : well cured silage. The Cabbage Koot Maggot. Thft white maccot in p.ahha?r& root ia the larva of a two-winged fly, which i closely resembles the common house : ' fly except that it is smaller. The flies ! ; appear in April and early May and lay i eggs at the base of newly-set cabbage r plants. These eggs hatch in about a J "week. The maggots begin work in i the young roots aud proceed in their i attack to the larger roots and finally f the stem. In two or three weeks the i maggots are full grown and proceed to J pupate. After some days the next t brood of flies emerges. There are ? about three such broods. The best treatment to avoid this maggot is to put cabbage in ground i where turnips, radishes or cabbage 1 were not grown the previous year, i There is no satisfactory remedy to def stroy the maggots and save tho cab; bage, but the best is the use of carbon t bisulphide. Inject a teaspoonful just , under the plant when the maggots are first'discovered in May. It would not i be safe to replant the same ground t with cabbage either this or next ueas son, although late cabbage is not so ? much troubled as is the early crop. ! Lime or salt would not destroy or drive away the maggots.?American Agriculturist. Culture of Melon*. l Watermelons are excessive feeders, and mauy fail in attempting to grow them because they do not furnish sufi ficient plant food to supply the necess sary strength for vigorous vine and fine fruit. Not infrequently water: melon vines turn yellow and die when s they should be just in their prime simply from plaut starvation. I prepare the ground as for corn, i Lay off in rows twelve feet apart each , j way. I dig a hole about one and one j half feet deep and perhaps three feet i i in diameter. In the bottom of this I put a peck or more of good stable mat nure, tramping It lightly. Next put i in a layer of soil, and follow with a i layer made up of equal parts of soil and fine rich manure thoroughly F mixed, and, lastly, where the seeds are to be placed, auother layer of pure i soil. Sow seeds thickly aud cover about one inch. When the second or > third leaf shows thin out to two or ? i three plants in the hills. If excep j tionally large melons, regular "prize ' takers," are desired, thin to but one > plant in the liill. I cultivate about as : ; I do corn, hoeing each hill after an ! entire patch Is plowed. If very dry, j cultivate often, particularly about the j hills. It is some trouble to thus pre pare the ground, but it more than pays in the size, number and quality of s melons produced, also in the increased i length of time that the vines are in > bearing, as they remain green and in j i goon condition until killed by frost.? I Orange Judd Farmer. | The Horn Fly, , One of our representatives writes > that the little bla?.*k born fly is again , ippearing to the great annoyance of the cattle and loss to the owners who a are anxious for practical methods to I prevent tbe loss of thrift which follows I the discomfort which the fly causes. j Wnen the fly nrst .ficoearecl m this (T ' " bp>-ui'ibma 1 ? ambhbbbbpssbp| ' country about ten years ago, all sorts of wild stories were told concerning it. Among other things it was said that the fly ate through the horn, caused it to rot and laid eggs in it which afterwards penetrated the brain. There is, of course, no truth in such tales, but the facts are bad enough, for the annoyance to cattle is very serious and prevents thrift in beef animals and milk production in dairy herds. A great many methods of combating it have been tried with^more or less success, those most effective consisting of the application of substances of an oily character. Kerosene emulsion, applied with a spray pump, has been found quite useful, as it Mils all tne ! flies it touches. Good results have been secured with fish oil to which . about two tablespoonfuls of carbolio acid to the quart is added, the mixture being applied with a broad, flat paint brush. Two parts of fish oil or cotton seed oil and one part of pine tar is a successful application and the cost is low. At the Mississippi Experiment Station this mixture was applied to three hundred and fifty cattle at a cost of only $2.20. These suggestions indicate in a general way the character of the remedies to be used. Any of them require frequent renewal as they only protect the cattle for from three to six days. When dairy herds can be Annfin A1-1 t r? /"I rt v. 1 r alnVvl AO rl 11 T"? rv lllfl L'UUUUCU 1JUL UttlA D liiUlUO ViUiiUj^ uuc I day it is best to do so, care being taken > to keep the flies out. The horn fly is propagated from eggs \ laid in the droppings of the cattle, and j it is therefore a good plan to break ' these up when the droppings have become a little dry. One peculiarity about the horn fly is that it cannot travel well unless it has cattle to accompany. If, therefore, the farmer can prevent the multiplication of the fly on his own premises by the use of the remedies and by breaking up the egg-bearing droppings, he is not likely to be much troubled, even though the fly be numerous on the adjoining farm. ?Wisconsin Farmer. The Farm Garden. The garden is the most productive acre of the farm. If it is not, it should be made so. It is the most indispensable part of farm life. Half of our living should come from our garden in summer. Not one-half the country people make ! an effort to have a garden. There are | some that start out well in the spring, o/-\rtr on ol-mnc\on/io at>Ar\ and TlPVAT I look at the garden again untii they think it is time they should have results. They take a look and cannol find any for the weeds have covered the little plants. Then they come to the conclusion that the seed did not grow. They say all sorts of things about the seedsmen, and mow off the weeds and wait until another spring when they go through the same process. Now this is all wrong. To keep the garden clean we should begin early and continue the cultivation until fall. It is impossible to destroy all the weeds while we are cultivating the early vegetables. Little patches of weeds around the garden will produce seed enough to seed the whole garden next year. We should try to plan s? as to keep all the ground ocoupied in the garden. It will require but little more labor to cultivate a cabbage or 4ntr?i? in a uo/iant rvlnr?o fchan aimnlv I to cultivate to keep down the weeds. You can bow lettuce in July and it will be nice in the fall. Cabbage and turnip can be transplanted into the ground when the early peas and potatoes have grown; or you can set celery and beets for winter use. Keep all the ground occupied. If clean cultivation is given, as should be done, the weeds will be killed out and at the same time a good crop secured. Thinning out plants is an important matter in gardening; beets and carrots will not grow : to any size if left too thick. No vegetable hut the onion will stand crowding. If the soil is rich enough onions will grow to a good size when five or I six stand together; they will crowd j each other out of the ground all but ; the mots and will bottom nieelv. The onion maggot destroys onions badly; a good remedy is to take the soil away from the bulbs no matter if the little onions tip over; so long as the roots ! are in the ground they are all right. ; By doing this the fly has no chance to : put its eggs on the stalks and then j there are no maggots in the bulbs.? j Farm and Home. A Poultry House Device. Where fowls are kept in confine- | ment, whether the season be summei or winter, they must be furnished : green food in the form of cabbage, turnips, beets or cut clover. These ! should not be thrown loosely into the ' pen to become quickly soiled, but put j BACK FOR POULTKY FEED. J into a rack with sloping sides, like ; j that shown in tne sKetcn. rue nens ; I reach through the slats aiul eat what they desire. The top slopes so that they cannot roost upon it. If filled , with cabbages, etc., they will come down to the hens as fast as eaten.? I American Agriculturist. Itrulse Disroloratlon. To prevent a bruise from becoming j discolored apply immediately water as | hot as can be borne comfortably, changing the cloth as it loses its heat. | If hot water is not to be had at once ; moisten some dry starch with cold I water and cover the bruised part with ht. - | ^ V * Is There Any "Beat" Time For Sleeping? Does the time at which the sleep is obtained, provided it is sufficient in amount, make any change in the result? In brief, is there any truth in the old adage that an hour before midnight is worth two hours after midnight? I had an opportunity to make some study of this subject in my naval service during the late war. On shipboard, as is undoubtedly known to most of you, the ship's company?officers and TT1PT1 fllilro afonrl frmr* VirmT 1 watches day and night, and to get the required amount of rest are obliged to get their sleep irregularly; to bo arrange it that the same man shall be obliged to take early or late watches continually, the "dog watch" of two hours is interpolated, thus adding to the irregularity. In watching the results for over two years I could never discover that the watch officers and the men were not as fully refreshed by their sleep as were the medical and pay officers, who stand no watch, and have hours as regular as those of any householder,?Dr. E. P. Colby, in the New England Medical Gazette. For Sore Feet. A powder recommended for tender .feet requires eighty-seven parts of pulverized soapstone; ten parts of starch and three parts of salicylic acid. A bath of warm water and sea salt is good to relieve swoolen feet, especially if they are rubbed with dilute alcohol after bathing. If you have to stand on your feet a good deal it will help them from getting sore to rhancfi nhnps dnrincr I the day, as it rests tlie-feet. A lotion for corns calls for one scrnple of extract of cannabis, one ounce of collodion and one drachm of borate of sodium. Apply frequently, and after a time the hard part of the corn may be taken out. The Gilroy (Cal.) Advocate says that a Chinaman has leased 12,000 acres near that town for' cultivation of sugar beets. The rental value of the land iB $9000. Shake Into Your Shoes Allen's Foot-Ease, a powder for the feet. It cures painful, swollen, smarting feet, and instantly takes the sting out of corns and bunions. It's the greatest comfort discovery of the age. Allen's Foot-Ease makes tight-fltting or new shoes feel easy. It is a certain cure for sweating, callous and hot. tired, aching feet. Try it to-day. 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