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HANDS RAW AND SCALY. Itched nnd Jiumed Terribly?Co Not Move Thumbs WIMioat Flei Cracking ? Sleep Impossible ? Ciitlcura Soon Cured Eczema. "An itching humor covered both hands and got up over my wriats and c up to the elbows. The itching and burr wer* terrible. My hands got ell scaly when I scratched, the surface would covered with blisters and then get i The eczema got eo bad that I could move my thumbs without deep cracks pearing. I went to my doctor, but medicine could only stop the itching, night I suffered so fearfully that I cc not sleep. I could not bear to touch hands with water. This went on for tl months and I was fairly worn out. At I got the Cuticura Remedies and ii month I was cured. Walter H. Cox, Somerset St., Boston, Mass., Sept. 25,19< Potter Drug & Chem. Corp., Sole Pr< of Cuticura Remedies, Boston, Mass. Barking is an acquired habit with d Wild dogs never bark; they howl or wh u t *i ? ! . _ ?i? rr Better man jroia?i^ise it m toioi? lins Wizard Oil?the best of all reme< for rheumatism, neuralgia, and all p; soreness and inflammation. The British-built, but Germ owned ship Columbia, dismasted a hurricane off Cape Flattery, ] been purchased by Americans < converted into the first six-mas barkentine in the world. THE RIGID TRUTH And Confirmation to Any Kidney S ferer Who Asks It. Mrs. W. H. Cobb, Nicholasvil Ky., says: "I will keep strictly to 1 tmost rigid truth telling of my exp lence with Doa Kidney Pills, a will be glad *.o g corroborative e dence to anybody, catch or stitch in i hark- was follow backache and pi In the hips. Throbbing headacl tookall the 'go* out of me. I lost i petite and weight and grew we: The kidney secretions became sc; ty and dropsy set in. I suffered s< hardly cared what became of me, 1 the first box of Doan's Kidney Pi made me better, and I used the re edy faithfully until all symptoms 1 me and I gained 14 pounds." Sold by all dealers. 50 cents a b Foster-Milburn Co., Buffalo, N. Y. \ Trouble and Gray Hair. "The popular belief that the h of persons laboring under great m< tal grief or terror changes co seems to be unfounded," said Dr. A. Fowler, of Chicago. "Under certain conditions of b< ily health," continued the phvsici: "the coloring matter of the Hair ir consequently become gray or wh in a very short time. In these cas however, it is only the growing h that has no color; the hair as it gr; ually rises from the root is gr while that which is outside the ci cle remains its original color, well authenticated case of sudd change in the color of hair is m< tioned in medical books of authori The Transactions of the Royal ! ciety' extend over a period of m< than 200 years, and if any such c cumstance had occurred it is aimcertain it would have been record The case of Marie Antoinette does i rest upon evidence sufficiently strc to warrant belief."?Washington H aid. M. Jusserand, who is French A bassador at Washington, had hor one day to bring his literary hist( of the English people down to m< ern times. His life as a diplomat is now, nowever, so Dusy mat ne i had to abandon the idea of carrvj the work further than to Shal speare's death. Since 1903 there have been no i ports of live cattle to England fr Argentina, on account of the fo and-mouth disease, but the imports frozen beef from that coun amounted last year to 402,047,6 pounds, valued at $20,696,823. Tommaso Salvini has written autobiography, which is shortly appear in a book entitled "Infai and Youth of Illustrious Contemp ary Italians." Salvini says that could not act a part well even wt he was a boy. AN OLD TIMER Has Hud Experiences. A woman who ha3 used Post' since it came upon the market kno from experience the wisdom of usi Postum in place of coffee if one v ues health and a clear brain. ? says: "At the time Postum was first i on the market I was suffering fr nervous dyspepsia, and my physic had repeatedly told me not to use or coffee. Finally I decided to 11 his advice and try Postum. I go package and had it carefully p pared, finding it delicious to the tas So I continued its use and very sc its beneficial effects convinced me its value, for I got well of my ne ousness and dyspepsia. "My husband had been drink coffee all his life until it had affec his nerves terribly, and I persuac him to shift to Postum. It was e; to get him to make the change, the Postum is so delicious. It c tainly worked wonders for him. "We soon learned that Post does not exhilarate or depress ? does not stimulate, but steadily e honestly strengthens the nerves i the stomach. "To make a long story short, < entire family continued to use P turn with satisfying results, as sho in our fine condition of health, J we have noticed a rather unexpec improvement in brain and nerve p< er." Increased brain and nerve po\ always follows the use of Postum place of coffee, sometimes in a v marked manner. "There's a R son." ^ Look in pkgs. for the famous tie book, "The Road to Wellvill Ever read the above letter? new one appears from time to tii They are genuine, true, and full human interest. j ON COMO. uid ! A rainless darkness drew o'er the lake, ?{i As we lay in our boat with oars unshipped. It seemed neither cloud nor water awake; And forth of the low black curtain slipped Thunderless lightning. Scoff no more my At angels imagined in downward flight vcn j For the daugnters of earth, as fabled of ling yore: ana ' ^ere was beauty might well invite ' Dark heavens to gleam with the fire of a ! sun aw. i Resurgent; here the exchanged embrace, not i Worthy of heaven and earth made one. ap- I his I And, witness it, ye of the privileged space, At ' Said the Hash; and the mountains, as from ,nl<j an abyss, For quivering seconds leaped up to attest That given, received, renewed was the kiss; iree jjje j^g jjpS ancj tjje breast to breast; last All in a clory of ecstasy, swift 3 a i As an eagle at prey, and pure as the prayer , 10 Of an infant bidden joined hands uplift _ 3S." To be guarded through darkness by spirits 3DS ciir^ t ( ' Ere setting the sails of sleep till day. Slowly the low cloud swung, and far ogs- It panted along its mirrored way. ine Above loose threads one sanctioning star The wonder of what had been witnessed am- . .sealed. ijes And with me still, as in crystal glassed, ain, Are the depths alight, the heavens revealed, When on to the Alps the Muteness passed. an" ?George Meredith, in Scribner's Monthly, by md 00000000000000000000000?gg ted ?<> the CO I Professor's Servant | uf. go By Fedden Tindall. 0g 08800000000000000000000080 lie, The professor was always quiet, :he his voice was ever slow and drowsy, in | his face wore an expression of ener during thought and abstraction, his n's hands were folded motionless upou md his knees. ive And yet he was this day unusually svi- excited. He was roused from the A even monotony of his days; he had my displayed a little calm', unemotioual *ed pleasure at this meeting with an old mt friend. lin For opposite him, on the othsr sido les of a brightly burning fire, sat the ap- man who was probably the only ak. friend in the world who would have in- troubled to seek out this strange o I recluse. )ut "You have changed little, my ills friend," said the Professor slowly. m- "Have I? Well, I have learned to eft take the rough with the smooth, and on the whole, my life has been a ox. happy one. Yet, all the same, I am growing old. Why, do you know I am a grandfather?" The Professor spoke more slowly air than ever. ?n- "Ah? your life has been happy; lor so you may well keep young. You S. always had the faculty for enjoy) ment. I have studied much; but that 3d- I have never learned." an, "It is a pity," said the ot'ier lay quickly. ite "Granted. But now it is too late es, to undo what has been done. I have air a certain amount of brains, I have ad- earned a sufficiency of money, at one av, time I had much cheap fame. But iti- now all seem valueless. Life does No not hold much of joy for me, my [en friend." sn- "I am sorry. I fancy you have ty missed the human side of life." - "T+ Vioc Alnrin/1 ma flnPO T QtrOT*P 3U* A u u?0 C4UUVU mv. vMVW * ? ? jre to pursue it?in vain." ir- "Have you ever loved a woman or est a child?" ed. "Children are strangers to me. lot Women? There was one woman ,ng once, but she was false." er- "And who was she? May I ask?" "She was my wife." "Your wife?" The friend of old days was filled with a great astonishm" ment. "I had no idea that you had ever married." ^ "It was many years ago. I sought 3 " happiness; as I told you, for me it proved elusive." *a; "She is dead?" n? "I neither know nor care. She vC~ i left me one year after marriage." > "Alone?" : "I have never even troubled to inquire. She was gone. I woull i not bring her back?not by one word, j one glance, one uncontrolled desire. . , ; She died to me when she destroyed all my faith in woman." "You had been happy with her?" , "Her mere presence made my hap.. piness." "And hers?" "I judged her by myself. I always * Imagined that I made hef life happy; . ! i was mistaken." , he I I6?t I There -was a certain pathos In I this sudden revelation of an unsusI pected humanity. The thought that I love had ever laid her magic hand . j on this cold man of work and lonelii ness was passing strange. I "How long ago was all this?". The Jn J old friend put the question diffidently, !als - and there was a very real sympathy jke I underlying his quiet tones. "Eight years ago she left me. It t ' seems to me a lifetime. All the youth om j and the brightness left my house ian ^er" * was cl(*' s^e was s0 very tea ' J'oun?- my ^ream was in truth ike I foo^sllness-" t a "Your life must be very lonely, old re> j friend. Whom have you to nurse >te you anc*care for you?" >on 'servant- He Is a sood lad. 0I Six years he has been with me, and rv_ in all that time he has never left me once. Yes, his is the only faithfuline ness ^at * ^ave ^nown- * kave ted Srowri fon(* of bim-" led agv A ooft tap at the door had passed lj0*r unnoticed, and now a slim youth ,er_ same into the room, bringing a tea tray with him. Very softly and careum fully he moved about, arranging a md ! *able toy the fireplace, and setind i out sorts delicacies thero, nn. Then ouietlv he handed his mas ma j ? * i ter the cup of cocoa which he matie 3ur ! for him every afternoon. ,og. j "What else will you have?" he wn I inquired. md i "My usual toast. Butter it for I me," the Professor said shortly. | "Pour out tea for my friend also, before you go." ver j And the friend sat watching silentjn ! Iv, and he thought how wistful were epj. the lad's fine eyes, how much sadea. ness their depths seemed concealing. "It must be a dull life for a boy," jj* he thought to himself. "He is cere ? tainly extraordinarily faithful." And ^ once the subject of his thoughts had m left the room, he spoke aloud some Qf of these ideas concerning him. "I like your lad's face; he has eyes like a faithrtil dog. But he has 1 wonderfully sad expression; don'i you think so?" "I cannot see it," said the Professoi gravely. "Not see It! But " "I am nearly blind now." "My friend, I had no idea; you die not tell me." "I had a long illness after she left me," came the slow, sad answer "My sight was affected. I am noi yet totally blind; but I cannot se< to do a thing for myself." "I am truly sorry. I should nevei have fancied it." "No; I believe you would not tel from the outward appearance of m} eyes; but the sight is practicallj gone. So, you see, a faithful servanl is a real necessity." "It is a mercy you have got him.' ."It is. I am utterly dependent or him now. And I am not ungratefui for his faithful service. I have lefi him everything I possess in my will He is giving me all his youth, yoi see." v All his youth! All his heart, all * - 1" - ? ? - ? t* ? ~ ?rvn UntrA Kflflr I11S ilie, migUL pemays uatc utsi nearer the truth. For at that verj moment the Professor's servant was standing with quivering lip and tearfilled eye, because he had at lasl heard words of appreciation of himself. He had overheard that simple remark, "I have grown fond of him.' And so evening drew on, and the Professor and his old friend still sat talking in the dancing glow ol the firelight. And at last the friend took his leave with promises of a future visit. Then quietly the servant came again to ask his master il lights were not needed. And still the tears were in the lad's eyes, and now his voice was husky. "What is the matter?" asked the Professor shortly. That voice was ever calm and cheerful; it was full of sadness now, and a struggle foi composure. "I am sorry " He tried to answer steadily; but again his voice broke; again his tears came unbidden. I "Tell me, what is it?" The Professor's voice had grown kindly, And then a strange thing happened, The servant impulsively flung himseli on his knees beside his master, and seizing the wrinkled hand, he pressed a passionate kiss upon it. "Oh, I can bear this no longer," he cried wildly. "Ob, surely I have proved my penitence, my reparation is complete. Say, have I earned forgiveness?" The eyes that were nearly blind strained curiously into the darkness, the hand which had known that kiss of passion still rested motionless, the Professor neither moved nor spoke. The paralyzing influence of utter surprise was upon him. And still thai eager, pleading voice conti&>.ed. "I have helped you a little, have I not? I have eased a little pain, cured a little loneliness? Six years I have been your servant as atonement for my sin. Give me back mj own place again, dear. I have learned so much since I failed to value it long ago." Still the Professor could find no words. But the hand wmcn naa known that passionate kiss was rested tenderly on the head of his servant?his repentant wife.?Philadelphia Ledger. SCARLET FEVER. A Scourge of White Races in All Ages and Countries. Now that smallpox, thanks to compulsory vaccination, has become a rarity in civilized communities, scarlet fever steps forward as the worst of the eruptive diseases of childhood. It is a malady of enormous antiquity, Thucydides, writing nearly 500 years before the beginning of our era, called it a heritage from the remote past. It hag scourged the white races in all ages and all countries, and the physicians of all schools have leveled their heaviest artillery upon it. Yet it remains a puzzle unsolved and aa enemy unconquered even to-day. We are in doubt as to its cause, and there is no drug or antitoxin that will cure it. But despite all this the death rate from scarlet fever is steadily declining, and we may expect it to decline more and more as the years go by. Tne reason ror mis, x iase il, lie3 In the fact that the modern doctor is a great deal more sparing with pills and powders than his predecessor and a great deal more lavish with water, air and antiseptics. In the old days it was customary to dose scarlet fever patients with all sorts of violent remedies in staggering quantities, and as a result many of them died. To-day medicines are but minor auxiliaries in the sickroom, and both doctor and nurse devote their main energies to preventing a spread of the infection.?Delineator, Had Tried All Kinds. A noted heavyweight pugilist, whc for a time in the heyday of his fame occupied the chair of sporting editor of a certain journal, gloomily remarked to a friend one day: "Say, Jim, I don't mind standin up in the ring an' givin' and' takin' a few hot punches in the ribs or wherever they happen to land, but this here pickin' up a pen an' slingin' ofl a column or so of literatoor every day or two is what makes me tired. I believe I'll hafter resign." "Xo use resigning, John, old boy," advised the friend. "A job like yours isn't picked up every day. To make it easier for you I would suggest your getting an amanuensis." "Oh. thunder! What's tb? t-sp?" exclaimed the great editor, wearily, "I've tried a common steel pen, a o+vlA?n-rn ff o nftTi'-forio-lo/l fnnntnin pen, a patent ink pencil, an' half a dozen other writin' contraptions, an' it ain't at all likely that an amanuensis '11 work any better'n the rest of 'em. No; I reckon I'll hafter quit."? New York Times. The mackerel catch of Guysboro, Nova Scotia, this season has beer the largest in the last twenty years, Here it is not uncommon for one man to catch from 1200 to 1800 mackerel in his nets, sometimes maktnc as high a3 $200 a day. ) ' <il??S HcsiSis ?<3>-?^?<Q>,?^?? ^y?^?^?-^,? ?<2fc-?<^-?<i- ?<^- *?>,? ?"^?^w^e-^?-^*?^?-^,? Autos Ruin the Roads. ^ The autos will have to look out when Uncle Sam gets after them. t They can run the farmers off their roads and do about as they please so ! far as they are concerned. They can , run at a speed of thirty, forty or even fifty miles an hour, although . the law restricts them to twenty miles, and the farmer cannot prove I the violation of law, or if he could, T in most cases, he cannot identify the . owner or driver by the number on his car, going at such a speed, and he goes on his way with impunity. . But Uncle Sam can determine the t rate of speed and read the number I on the car by means of instantaneous t picture machines. It is encouraging to learn that offi[ cial government tests are being made ill the vicinity of Washington rega-dt ing the damage done to roads by { heavy machines at high speed. Some r good will grow out of the testing , work, in other directions as well. Results thus far obtained show that . | at a speed of a mile a minute the ' I best macadamized roads are cut to ( j picces in a very short time. With . i speed reduced the damage is much Jess. The tests are still in progress. , j When the road is oiled with crude [ j petroleum, or some other luhrieant, [ ! but little destruction is done. I- j The farmers will strenuously resist , ; any attempt to compel them to pay , for oiling their roads. No legislature I j would dare to impose a tax on them I for oiling the highways, so that autos I may sped upon them. The auto owners will have to oil the roads if i it is ever done. j These tests the Government is j making will bring out the fact that ! j the machines are running not only j occasionally, but it may be said, , J regularly beyond the speed limit, and j | the effect will be to put a check on : undue speed, we trust, not Only about i Washington, but throughout the I country. The test will show some| what like this, we think: that runi ning autos at ten miles an hour will I 1 make no nercentible wear on the j roads, no more than our ordinary I two-horse wagons do, and they will ehow that driving at a speed of , twenty miles an hour will not damage J the roads one-fourth as much as running at a speed of forty miles an hour would do. In other words, we think the tests will show that the | high rates of speed from thirty j miles upward are ruinous to our ordiJ j nary highways and cannot be per, I mitted. ' The auto people will rebel at this; , If they can't go as fast as they please, , they won't go at all, they will say, j but they will go just the same, and t I watch their chance to speed up, when j no spy is in sight. But if the au, ! thorities get after them some of them | | will be caught and heavily fined. , When it comes about that autolsts , i cannot run their machines as fast as ( ! they please on our common roads, j as they now are, they will be ready I +n listen tr? a nrnnosition that has ! been advanced in these columns a , time or two, namely, to widen out the | highways to the fence on either side, i at the autoists* expense and for their exclusive use. This is the only solution of the problem that we can see that would be satisfactory to all parties. The autoists could scoot along as fast as they cared to and the team driver would be out of danger, and i I his part of the road would be uninI jured.?Indiana Farmer. ! Should Have the Best. We should have the best roads in the world. Practically all of them 'run through agricultural districts, j and it is said to cost the farmers 25 i cents to haul a ton a mile on them. ! The average haul of farm products | | is nine minles, according to the psti, ; mates of the Department of Agri, ; culture. The average cost of hauling a ton a mile on the roads of France ts 7 cents.?Chicago Inter-Ocean. ' i i Setting a Good Example, i | Except where they are under the i i direction of experts good roads are . | still unknown in the country places. j New York has set a good example, j and like Georgia, she hag made proi ! vision for utilizing her jail inmates , in carrying on the work.?Boston Transcript. One of the Problems. The chief problem in good road building is the finding of a topping - which will produce a smooth surface and stand the wear of all sorts of ' usage. This is the particular phase i of the road-building problem which - more than one State Road Commls> , sion is just now endeavoring to solve. ' | ?Baltimore Sun. t ! As an Advertisement. Our own people will be the chief beneficiaries of good roads, though i the visitors within our gates will j,lso i enjoy them. But possibly the chief advantage ultimately will be the r.d vertisement of the State as a leader tn these enterprises.?Troy Times. ? i l Power of the Press. The printing-press has made presii dents, killed poets, furnished bustles ! for beauties and polished genius ' with criticism. It has made the , world get up at roll call every morning, given pupils lungs of iron and 1 ! r>f cteei it has set the price ! I on a bushel of wheat and made the > country postoffice the glimmering ! goal of country scribes. It has curI tailed the power of kings. It has ' ' converted bankers into paupers and , | made lawyers out of college pn.sii I dents. It educated the homeless f.nd i | robbed the philosopher of his ieai I son. It smiles and kicks, cries and ' j dies, but it cannot be run to suit j everybody, and the editor is a fool ! who tries. Makes For Good Health. Boston has come to the conclusion that the health of the child is of great r importance to its success in school, ' | and a "health day" has been appoint, ed. This was observed recently, phy[I Bicians speaking to the pupils of the t' high schools upon the subject o! "Health, Its Value and Cost." REAL LITERARY LABOR. ' I Example of Charles Dudley Warner's Infinite Painstaking. The extraordinary pains and pa- | tience with which the late Charles ; I Dudley Warner did his literary work are shown in an account given by a writer In the New Amstel magazine of the strenuous way in which Mr. j Warner produced an obituary notice some years ago. Professor Edward L. Youmans was ! a close personal friend of Mr. Warl ner, and on that account when Mrs. | ; Youmans died the editor of 2 daily i I paper asked Mr. Warner to write a J ?ort of personal appreciation of her. : This he consented to do. ! He was left alone from 10 a. m. , j until half Dast 12. when he went to 1 j lunch. Returning at 2 o'clock he worked without interruption until 4 ! o'clock, when he turned over to the | ! editor what he had written. ; Yet the work was not complete. J ! Mr. Warner read the first proof and I ! in succession three revised sheets, i Each time he made change after ! change in phraseology, seeking out I I the one right word, while even in the , j nicety of paragraphing he seemed to I 1 make clearer what he desired to ex- , j press. Nor did the close revision , I end with the marking of the last j proof. After tne paper naa gone to press i and the first sheets had been brought i up to the composing room for an O. | K. Mr. Warner looked wistfully at I the editor and observed: I "Would you object to lifting the form? I see a sentence in the last i I paragraph that might be somewhat | changed. She was too good, you | know, to have a slovenly tribute paid j I to her." I | Even the printers refused to get I ; angry over the delay and forthwith | | the form was sent up and changes j went on for an hour. At last, though | publication was delayed fully two 1 : hours, the editor, but not Mr. Warner, I j had the supreme satisfaction of know- I i ing that the work was as nearly per ) feet as human art could make it, and ; the edition was sent out. I ! "While we were walking up the 1 */sTT?n >.,7 Vnnmano nnnntrv j JSiaeot lunaiu ?.?? w ? ? j home," writes the editor, "we quietly | | talked about books and bookmen. " 'You are most painstaking,' we ! ventured. i " 'Yes,' said Mr. Warner, modestly, 1 ! 'I never could dash off anything read| ily like some writers. It has always j been real labor for me.' i j " 'Then you revise all your work I the same way?' " 'I have always found it neces! sary to do so. Even in writing for f | the "Easy Chair" I have to be pains- < [ taking. Nor have I ever been able to use the typewriter with any de gree of satisfaction. The trouble ; seems to be that either in dictating or i in using the typewriter I at once be- J ! come self-conscious and mechanical. 1 i For some reason my thoughts?what 1 few ideas I may possess?seem to ! flow more easily from the pen.' " Great Wireless Tower. The Washington Monument win soon have to take second place at the capital, as the Navy Department is planning a 600-foot tower to be built | in Rock Creek Park. It will be the ! tallest thing in the country, outside i j of the two skyscrapers in New York, j and only the Eiffel tower in Paris | will surpass it abroad. But its height ! will, after all, be its least interesting i feature. It will be the keystone of 1 j the greatest wireless station in the 1 I world, and will allow the Navy De- j ' j partment to keep in touch witb the | I fleets in the north Atlantic, with any j ' | ships at Gibraltar, and to converse j 1 with the navy yards on the two coasts. ] About $300,000 will be spent in in- 1 stalling the plant. The tower, from 3 the top of which the messages will be < sent, is to be of concrete, fifty feet in diameter at the base and tapering ! i to eight feet at the top. At present ' j the wireless station can send only for ' ! 1000 miles, and can not be depended 1 l Hn that- The instruments in 1 I V/U WU UV UMMV, ) the new station "will send across 3000 : miles of space.?Springfield Republi- i | can. . ' Antidote For Suicide. 1 They tell of an Atchison girl who ' thought her heart was broken. She j was So convinced of it that she began reading up on deadly poisons, and ' cried softly to herself over the ; thoughts of an early death. At this I juncture a friend sent her a box of 1 | chocolates. She ate one; life looked ' j a little brighter. She ate another; 1 ! why not put off that death till next 1 ' week? She ate a third, and forgot ' 1 she ever had a trouble. All of which | is proof of the claim of an Atchison physician that when people are morI bid and unhappy the most effective : J cure is something .to eat. No one, he ( I says, can long for death while en- { i gaged in chewing something pal?.ta- , | ble. The man who talks suicide j should be given a beefsteak instead , of advice.?Atchison Globe. t Quick in Wit as in War. } A good story coming from across j i the water concerns the quick wit of j a Gorman attache at .the London Em- ] bassy who was asked whether he had j yet seen Major du Maurier's play, ] "An Englishman's Home." As soon i as this drama was presented, and es- < ! pecially since it has been made ac- ( ! cessible as a book, the public has j : been keen to know how the Germans i . view a satire which makes the Ens- \ lish volunteer army a laughable fail- ^ ure in the face of a German enemy. I "Have you seen 'An Englishman's I Home?' " the attache was asked, to i which he replied: "I saw some milii tarv play the other evening; it may j 1 have been called 'An Englishman's i 1 ! Home,' but it might just as well have c been called 'What Every German | 1 Knows.' "?Harper's Literary Gossip. Japanese Mercantile Marino. In its merchant marino Japan has f 1618 steamships, of 1,153,340 aggre- , gate tonnage; 4515 sailing vessels, of ' 372,319 aggregate tonnage, and 1390 J Japanese "ships of the old style," of 511,452 aggregate tonnage; in all, 7523 ships, of 2,037,111 aggregate] j tonnage. t Every year the English poslofiice gathers up 20,000 letters which were , posted without n,ddre3scs. .) . ' ; Angleworms may live fully ten rears, as has been shown by experixients made in Marburg, Germany. The rubber output at Assam, India, ast year was not satisfactory in quanity?only 8346 pounds obtained from 342 acres, or thirteen pounds a? acre. During 1908 19,328 foreigners landed at Yokohama and fifteen other >pen ports of Japan, 1400 fewer than n 1907. Chinese led with 6844, followed by 3432 British. > In California the main shaft of the tforth Star mine at Grass Valley is lown 5400 feet on the vein, which ias a dip of .twenty-eight degrees, so ;hat the maximum vertical depth is inly 2086 feet. The lumber Industry in the far south of Chile is in process of marked ievelopment. Of the $15,000,000 paid last year by Egypt for the whole line of ma:hinery and metals, only $300,000 went to the United States. Three leading European steamship lompanles have combined to establish a regular service between Hamburg, Rotterdam and the Canadian ports of St. John and New Brunswick. The total trade of Canada with France in 1908 shows a value of $12,000,000, which is $1,374,748 less than Canada's trade with Germany. German soil feeds nine-tenths ol her people. A cubic foot of gold weighs 1210 pounds; silver 655. ', One-fifth of the country's wealth Is represented in the New York Stock Exchange. > Oriental dye makers secure forty 3hades of yellow from the shell of the pomegranate. An eel forty-four inches in length and weighing ^flve pounds and one ounce wap caught at Roaring Spring, Pa. Europe has 20,000 newspapers, o! which Germany possesses the largest number. England, however, has the greatest number of daily newspapers. Two $50 gold pieces, struck at the United States Mint at Philadelphia In 1877, have been bought by William H. Woodin, a wealthy collector of this city. Mr. Woodin paid the record price of $20,000. THE FARANDOLE DANCE. blaster of the Revels, Musicians and Boisterous Company. The program of the Aries fetes, In honor of Mistral, is to include the farandole dance. An account of this dance for the benefit of tne unin-. ttiated was given by Victorien Sardoa. In my childhood, said Sardou, I have often seen the farandole at Grasse. Two tambourinists lead the revels, beating the tambourine in their left hand and holding in the right a reed instrument. The master )f the revels is generally a young man full of life and spirits. The musicians suddenly appear from behind the master and the lads and lassies Join, the maidens holding the jackets 3f the youths and these the skirts of the girls. Forming a long line the dancers in a graceful movement pass through the village, visiting each house and entering all the rooms, and coming down the stairs in a boisterous manner, the excitement consisting in descending without leaving partners. The dance lasts for hours and/the dancers are full of merriment and happiness. The more complicated and difficult the route the greater is the pra?se be-i-?-J ???? AAn/1nnfAi? Oil iIU WCU UJJUU IUC tuuu utivi . wu thor of "Theodora" added that more than once he had taken part in these junketings.?London Globe. Yankees in Mexico City. "It is estimated that there are more than 8000 Americans in Mexico Sity alone, to say nothing of the thousands scattered through the country," said B. M. Hubbard, of El Paso, at the Burns Hotel. ' "It is a great county, and it is flourishing under Diaz, Business and professional men from :he States have done well down there, md after becoming acquainted and icclimated they are satisfied to stay in the southern republic. The mar<et is good and there are many American houses that have established jranches in the big city. "But of all the goods made in this :ountry the most salable in Mexico is , )ur shoes. There is not a good shoe 'aetory in the land of the Aztec, and \merican manufacturers who have Hone into that market have done very 1 veil."?Detroit Free Press. All the Difference. Among the patients in the private yard of a Philadelphia hospital there j ;vas recently a testy old millionaire )f that city, whose case gave his phy- I ucian considerable difficulty at first, j "Well." asked the crusty patient I )ne morning, "how do you find ma i low, eh?" j "You're getting on fine." responded , he doctor, rubbing his hands with in air of satisfaction. "Your leg? ire still swollen; but that doesn't rouble me." "Of course it doesn't!" howled thg >ld man. "And let me tell you this: f your legs were swollen, it wouldn't rouble me, either!"?Lippincott's. The world's yearly record of earths makes is 30,000. I Vr i ' ' . -*1- ~ I I ???? 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