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A Package Mailed Free on Request of NUNYON'S PAW-PAW PILLS S The best Stomach and Liver Pills known and a positive and speedy cure for Constipation. Indigestion, Jaundice, Biliousness. Sour Stomach, Headache, and all ailments arising from a disordered stomach or sluggish liver. They contain in concentrated form all the virtues and values of Munyon's PawPaw tonic and are made from the juice of the Paw-Paw fruit. I unhesItatingly recommend these pills as being the best laxative and cathartic ever compounded. Send us postal or raniioctinf n frpo nackace of ICtlCJ I i ~ t Munyon's Celebrated Paw-Paw Laxative Pills, and we will mail same freo of charge. MUNYON'S HOMOEOPATHIC HOME REMEDY CO., 53d and Jefferson Sts., Philadelphia, Pa. Salts and Castor a*1?bad stuff?never cure, 11 only makes bowels move because it irritates and sweats them, like poking finger in your eye. The best Bowel Medicine is Cascarets. Every Salts and Castor Oil user should get a box of CASCARETS and try them just once. You'll see. 8S4 Cascarets?10c box?week's treatment. AU druggists. Biccest seller in the world? million boxes a month. prepnid for 20 cents. machinist apprentices w anted brown & sharpe mfg. co. BOYS 16 to 18 years old, Gnunmar School Education. Four years course. Technical Instruction included, write Brown & Sharpe Mfg. Co.. Pi widence, R. L, U. S. A. BLAIR'S PlliXiS. CELEBRATED ENGLISH REMEDY tor GOVT AND UHKUMATISM. SAFE AND RELIABLE. AT YOUR DRUGGIST* AMERICAN VICTORY IN GERMANY Prosecutor Finds Oil Company Has Committed No Wrong. Berlin.?The long and venomous campaign waged by German newspapers and rival industrial interests against one of tlie German branches of the Standard Oil Company ? the T\aiifoa^a Tfanimm Oil P a m r?Q n v T-> a a xjculo^uc vatuuui v*? vuui^?uj just been brought to a victorious end for the Americans involved. A well known Hamburg newspaper for months printed Buch a serie3 of attacks on the "American graft methods" alleged to have been practiced by the vacuum company in the conduct of its German business that the public prosecutor of Hamburg felt constrained to make an official investigation with a view to eventual indictments. The prosecutor has now concluded his investigation, especially of the work of E. L. Quarles, American manager of the German company's sales department, and announces that no necessity exists for pursuing the inquiry further. No evidence of anything warranting prosecution was found against Mr. Quarles, and the costs of the entire inquiry will be borne by the State. ,vThe result of the investigation constitutes a notable triumph for American interests in Germany. It is not the, first time that Germans finding themselves unable to compete with Americans on ordinary terms have resorted to slander. "St. Edward of Roxlvury." Edward Everett Hale was a doctor of divinity, but he was not a bishop or an archbishop. He held a higher title, conferred by the suffrages of his fellows, who regarded him as the first citizen of Boston. He had nearly every title to renown thai may be conferred upon a minister 01 a layman by the common consent of the people. On the shortest notice he would preach a better, sermon, make a better speech, write a better story, and improvise a better poem than any other man in the United States. It would be a strange omission if the citizens of Boston and the friends of Dr. Hale elsewhere should neglect to provide a memorial of him in the city in which he made his fame. ?Christian Register. A BAD THING TO NEGLECT. Don't neglect the kidneys when you lack control over the secretions. Passages become too frequent or scanty ? urine is \ LJre*^p^F] discolored and sedi* . ment appears. Nc *1 medicine for such lv5jp?y^ M troubles like Doan's II Kidney Pills. They \ U quickly remove kid Brc \ ney disordere s> \jy Mrs' Mary Wag. ner, 1367 Kossuth P?37 i St., Bridgeport, NO \ \ Conn., says: "Phy I ? >si sicians were unable i to relieve my kidney trouble and for five weeks I was confined to bed. The kidney secretions caused me untold annoyance and I suffered from bearing-down painB In my back. When almost in despair I began using Doan's Kidney Pills and soon felt better. Continued us? cured me and for five years 1 have enjoyed excellent health." Remember the name?Dean's. For sale by all dealers. 50 cents a box. Foster-Milburn Co., Buffalo. N. Y. The College of Cardinals. The Popes were first chosen by the whole body of the faithful; then by the whole body of the clergy; then by the cardinals with the consent of the clergy, and then absolutely and exclu' 8ively by the cardinals. It was about the year 1190 that the College of Car dlnais luuy secured tnis power. Tfie chief insignia of the cardinal's dignity, his red hat, had as its original significance the idea that the wearer was to be at all times ready to shed his blood in martyrdom for th? church i Collie Deemed Important. A Collie breeder of experience df arns ihe Collie just as important on : the farm a* any other animals. His ambition is to raise dops that can be : sent over the hill to distant pastures to bring in horses, cattle or sheep, i and to stay at the heel, biting it necessary to make the stock come in. Staple Food. Make a staple food of the grain that is cheapest in your locality, whether corn. oats, wheat, barley, j millet or anything else. Then study its composition, and make up its de! ficiencies with something else. All i grains have a certain food value, and i to speak broadly, all are good for the | fowls, but none are perfect, and [ while any would make a good basis j for a paying ration, none make a ra! tion itself.?National Poultry Journal. Brood Sow Food. Upon the handling and feeding or a brood sow depends a great deal as I to the success with which she will : raise her pigs. At all times be quiet and kind to the sow. She should be thin in flesh when bred, as flesh will render her more difficult to get with pig. and will also have a tendency to ! make the number of pigs in the litter j fewer. From the time she is safe in pig she should be kept gaining in flesh until farrowing time. I have them fat, but not corn fat, at farrowing time.?Farmers' Home Journal. Ilay For Sheep. Clover hay is a most excellent feed for sheep, but alfalfa is just as good ! as clover. Alfalfa is not only higher In protein: but is more relished. In the way of a forage plant there is j nothing better than good alfalfa hay lor sheep, as pasture clover is safer ! than alfalfa. In the fall of the year, j however, sheep may be pastured on j aiiaua wun mue or uu iu?s num bloat. Any one who can grow alfalfa ; successfully can make sheep raising j very profitable. ? Farmers' flume Journal. ? Pasture Weeds. The cheapest way to rid the pas: ture of weeds, as well as other parts i of the farm where sheep can be allowed to run, is to keep some sheep ! grazing upon it. We believe it is also ! the best way to keep down weeds, as ! the sheep wander over the same land I day after day and keep the weeds j closely picked down all the time, while I if you depend on mowing the weeds I it can only be done occasionally and j not very often at best. A good sized j bunch of sheep will do more weed ! killing than a man, and do it at a j profit to the owner, while the man would be quite an item of expense, besides fertilizer is thus evenly disj tributed and the soil benefitei.? Farmers' Home Journal. ! Purebred Sheep. The Shepherds' Journal calls atten; lion to the fact that ths purebred sheep industry is rapidly moving to I m. x T4. V, from | western oicn.es. n sa.ro mat present movements it is apparent that : within the next few years the sheep i industry of this country will he to us j what the sheep industry of Great ; Britain is to the British flockmaster. i We are going to see a remarkable j evolution in our pu-ebred sheep in; dustry inside of another decade, and j it is safe to say that the West will in i future produce just as good material I as the East has produced in the past. | But this should not alarm Eastern [ breeders or English breeders, for it will mean more business and bigger I prices for their best stock as c?mpe| tition will always be keen for good j stud stock. We are fast waking up j to the importance of good sires, carej ful selection, mating, breeding and ! feeding, and the time has come when I the emasculating knife should be used ! vigorously, as by its use the quality ' of our flocks will be enhanced and ; prices will, naturally, increase in pro| portion to the improvement in q'.ial-, tty. Plan in Breeding. If one is breeding with a special j object in view, say to produce a strain ; o? phenomenal layers, it is rot a good | plan to introduce strange blood every j year, as, by doing so, the advantage | gained one year may be lost the next, | unless a cockerel can be obtained ! from a known flock being bred with : the same purpose as your own. If ; this cannof, be done, it is best to in breed. And there is a right way and ' a wrong way to do that. The right ] way require?, several breeding pens. ; First yea , begin with one-year-old cockerel and two-year hens; second | year, breed best pullets to same male. 1 and mate best cockerel of previous year with the hens of the first year. I If you know the hen that laid the egg from which he was hatched, put her I out of the pen. Third year, discard I the first-year pen entirely, both male j and females, and mate best cockerel j in pen produced by breeding the orig! inal mothers to cockerel offspring of I first year, fo hens which were hatched I from first year's pen and were mated ! as pullets with their father (they are j now two years old) and the cockerel, I now grown to be a two-year-old roos ter, to the pullets produced by the first year's pullets bred back to the father. Now you have two pens, and may ! have more if you like of fowls of the f same strain, but little or no relation. | Keep breeding one-year-old cockerels j ; from one pen to two-year-old hens I from the*others. This is better than j constantly introducing new and i strange blood. ? Colmau's Rural i World. TFie Coiony System For Hogs. Each succeeding year the colony , system of hog raising is coming more i and more into favor. This plan is to ! have two or three small hog houses j scattered over the farm in small pasI tures, varying from one to five acres ! each, with from fifteen to twenty-five ! hogs to the pasture. I Hogs raised ic this way are mere r*SP5:=NS^OB T ^anfr ! u healthy and thrifty and are less sub- , tj ject to disease. In case of an out- 1 0 break of cholera in one pen, the oth- ! w ers can be kept away from the sick j jj ones or sold, thus preventing the J ^ spread of the disease through the en- i tire herd. ! 0 These hog houses are made just | y large enough for one sow to farrow jr in. seven by six feet and five and one- ! r) half feet high is a good size; such a j ]( house will cost between four and five ^ dollars. They should be built on run- c. ners, so that they can be moved al>out 0 when desired. i Last spring we had sows to farrow J 8| about the middle of March in some n of these colony houses. The weather j q was cold, but by using plenty of good ; a bedding and hanging a lantern from j tj the peak we were able to save a high- I er percentage of our pigs than we 1 v usually do. : ci In the early spring as soon as the ! t( rye or other forage crops have start- j 0 ed, fasten a rope or chain to the front 1 yi sill (throwing the door open), hitch ; a horse to this chain or rope and move j sj tne Hog nouse 10 green pasture. i^aier, j when clover is ready to be turned [ b into, it can be moved again. In this ; u way the pigs can have the best of ! ]j pasture all through the summer, with i n a good shelter at hand in lad weath- j b er. As fall approaches, after the corn i has been husked, they can be moved { h to the corn field, and if cowpeas or | e soy beans have been planted in the J s] corn, they will fatten rapidly and J p pick up all the down corn and clean ; w up the field.?A Reader, in the In- ! o diana Farmer. i a ? b* a How to Set a Hen. I ci This subject looks very simple, as ; g most everybody thinks they know how | to set a hen. and perhaps they do, | ti A T u a f a1 1 rwrt l r-> rr wov I xl DUl 1 nave ineu iuu iuiiu?iub | tJ and have found it to be all right. I ' n take a cracker box, that can be pur- . a chased at your grocer's for five cents, j n or if he is one of the generous kind j he will give it to you. The dimensions tl of a cracker box are, twenty-four inches long and eighteen wide and the same high. First I remove the bot- ! torn of the box, then take out one end, I and saw a strip two inches wide and nail this across the end at the top, ^ then nail onp the same size just in- t| side of this one and leave a half inch ; space between them. Then saw an- j n other two inch strip and nail it across j . the bottom so that it will be edge i j, ways, and put this one eighteen I a' inches from the back, thus making a j v square that will be eighteen inches, j ^ This will be for the nest. As I said 1 HVCHlS; I e p 15 INCHES ' . ^ l ' ?| i v, ; 9 i h k If INCHES 1' = |n before, take the bottom out, and j make a hollow in the ground, then j tl fill the nest part with good fresh | straw and give biddie a good dusting j li with lice powder, and when it gets j n dark put her in her new nest. Slip J a board in between the two pieces in ' * the end and she will be all by her- j 1* self and so that no other hens can : lay with her. I always set my hens in h a room by themselves, so that the lay- ! a ing hens can't get in with them. After | ti old biddie has stayed on this new nest J all day and you think she will be a ' 7 good, steady setter, then select fifteen i 11 nice, uniform eggs and set her. I j never take my hens off the first, day, ! c but wait till the second, then wait till j I late in the evening, so that they j ' won't want to get out so bad, but are | * easier to get back on the nest. Fix a j box of dust near sp -'jat she can dust j herself when she conies off, and give her plenty of good, fresh water and u whole corn to eat, and she will do ^ the rest. I have used these nests for two seasons now, and I think them e the best I have ever tried.?Judge E: ti G. Teaney. u ! -w Parson's SaVing Clause. j b A party of genial spirits were s^ih- j t< ered in a hotel in this city the qther I a afternoon, talking about preachers j n and the funny little breaks they oc- tl casionally make in the pulpit, when Francis B. Lee, lawyer and historian, s of Trenton, told how a good dominie | " friend of his once threw an uninten- a tional jolt into a well known and pop- T ular secret organization. "The secret organization," said Mr. s Lee, "was about to have a public ser- I vice, and the committee in charge S asked his preacher friend to deliver | one of the prayers. The dominie readily consented, and. knowing that, I among other worthy thing?, the lodge ii prided itself 011 its charity, he decidec' to make that a feature of the prayer, j"Needless to say, he did the thing beautifully. He painted a realistic a word picture of the widow and orphan, and showed the helping hand extended in generous relief. Jn almost every phrase and sentence he referred to the charity of the organi- t1 zation. In l'act, the whole prayei p breathed an atmosphere of charity-. a He?" "Well, if he did all thnt," inter- p rupted one of Mr. Lee's hearer."?, "where in the deuce did the jolt coma _ in?" "In the wind-up," smilingly an' swered Mr. Lee. "There is wheia he jumped the track, and before lie j. could get back on it again he had w said: 'And you all know, my brothers, that charity covers a mutitude of sins.' "?Philadelphia Telegraph. lie Shame of Being From Out of Town. By JULIAN STREET. If. is the custom of the Tenderloin [ > look with pity and amusement at lose who are not of it. People from ut of town are jokes. . Why, one onders? Why is it conic never to 0I ave been in any given place before? ^ /'by is it any droller not to knew ew York than not to know Omaha, r Lhasa? Yet thtfse "typical New j)( orkers"?most of whom were born jc 1 Philadelphia, or place;; even more a] 2mote?find it droll. They love to >ok about a restaurant and declare tl lat certain people, whom they indl- gi ite. must have come from Kankakee r Keokuk. They accuse strangers in >wn of "rubbering." Of course the :rangers "rubber." They stare at ew York as a New Yorker stores at ^ oney Island. For New York is, a fter all, the Coney Island of the na- a on. . " I know a man who was born In a /est Eleventh street. He has a gold 01 igarette case, and a story, which he ai ills in restaurants, about a man from 01 ut of town, who asked a Uroadway 1? aiter what pie a la mode was. 1. "It is pie with ice cream on it," *1 lid the waiter. Presently the stranger was seen to h e in great excitement. He had read ^ p the menu until he came to beef a B i mode, and was horrified to think few York could stomach such a comination. There are Tenderloin wags who ^ ave made local reputation and f, arned numerous good dinners Dy n pinning funny yarns about the peo- n le at other tables. I am acquainted S( -ith such a man?a waddling edition g f "Who's Who in the Lobster Tal- j ces." And, like the other "Who's a ^ho," he is a fat volume, appropri- g tely bound in red. He considers s, ny one who doesn't know the way to h herry's, or Martin's, or the Knick- C( rbocker, very, very funny. I some- jj imes wonder if it ever struck him a hat he?like all the rest of us? jj lust some day transverse spaces in * n undiscovered country, which has n o Sherry's, Martin's, Knickerbocker, c [e will be a stranger. Will he, ierefore, find himself amusing! Berlin's Giant Telescope. ^ The fllip given to astronomy by the s x jii i i. I UaIIav'o ecent aisitppuiuuug ui j.xau*;j a s, amet has been taken advantage of y the head of the Treptow Observa- p ory, near Berlin, permanently to v opularlze the science among the y lasses. In the open air he has had n rected what is claimed to be the n irgest telescope in the world, and fi 11 and sundry?under proper super- a ision, of course?can freely avail of ; to view the spaciouB firmament. ^ 'he length of the instrument is sev- 0 nty feet, which is eight feet more ^ han the magnificent equatorial re- t, ractor of the Yerkes Observatory, j| !hicago; but. as the lens is only twen- a p-seven inches in diameter, its claim t 5 be the largest in the world is un- t snable, for the diameter of the glass r mirror Is the deciding factor in es- F imating the bigness of a telescope, b ty this test the Yerkes telescope, j, rith a forty-inch object glass, is well s 1 front of that at Treptow, and sev- 0 ral others also exceed it. Two of the p reenwich glasses exceed twenty- ^ sven inches.?Dundee Advertiser. ^ For Her Father's Sake. "I want to-have an understanding rith you," said the outspoken old d lan, when the expert, in voice culture a ad asked him to sit down, according d 0 the Chicago Record-Herald. "I s rant you to tell me the truth about ly daughter's voice." T "My dear sir, don't ask me to do h tu.t. It is. too painful." v "What! Do you dare to look me f 1 the face and insinuate that she is s ever likely to be able to sing?" r "I am very sorry, sir, but if you i rill compel me to speak the .truth, it r > ao juu at*j . "The:i why the devil have you been d 3tting her come here for two years t nd hand you my good money in re- c urn for your lessons?" "Because I have wished to serve t ou, sir. Whenever I tell young F idies they can't sing they go to a sacher on the floor below, and he s harges fifty cents a lesson more than r get. You can figure for yourself 11 rhat I have saved you on .three les- * ons a week for two years." c E The Agreeable Waiter. n Her companion remained silent pen the subject, but she spoke. It ras at a club dinner. "This is the very poorest dinner I ver ate," she said to the waiter, "and he president has the cheek to charge s $2 for it. It's abominable." "You are quite right, madam," the waiter said courteously. "I don't lame you. Not In the least. I said 3 the chef just now that I had served wn-r?ir ri ?nnorc in rnv time* hnt iiiauj UIUUV'IM iu J ever so poor a dinner, madam, asj his one." "Well, what do you think of that?" c he gasped, when he had disappeared, c Wasn't that a surprise? Such ready o equiescence! Such suav$ courtesy! ii Remarkable!" > ' a "It was to me," her compz.nion asented, "rather clever, too. I think s '11 tip him about a dollar i'or that. r hall I?"?New York Press. e ii A Question of Hearing. r The burly farmer strode anxiously e nto the postoffice. "Have you got any lett?r for Mike ? lowe?" he asked. . r The new postmaster looked him up f nd down. s "For who?" he snapped. f "Mike Howe!" replied the farmer. e The postmaster turned aside. "You don't understand?" roared r he applicant.. "Can't you understand t Iain English? 1 asked if you've got v ny letter for Mike Howe!" _ "Well, I haven't!" snorted the ^ ostmaster. "Neither have I a let- n er for anybody else's cow! Get out!" -Answers. i g Warm Weather I'est. a The Egyptian flea does not thrive (j i cold climatcs, for the plague j _ 'eaJSens under a temperature of I ighiy degrees Fahrenheit.?Tip, in j ^ lie New York Press. | B( A Useful Bit of Furniture. The shirt waist box may be reckled almost a necessary bit of furniire nowadays. In Its homemade and [expensive state it is evolved by the nateur cabinet maker from a soap3x, with the aidi of a pair of hinges ir the cover and the proper lining id covering. The latter may be art eking, or a cretonne in a happy mixire of stripes and festoons. ? Degner. To Clean White Kid Gloves. Fold a white cloth three or four mes, lay it on the table and spread glove on it; pour a little milk into saucer, dip in a piece of flannel, ib it on a piece of white soap until lather is obtained, and then rub it n the glove. Commence at the wrist ad work lengthways toward the tips C the fingers, holding the glove firmr with the left hand. When clean ang up the gloves to dry, pulling 3em out crossways from time to me. When quite dry put on the and and work the kid gloves until ley feel soft and pliable.?Mrs. B. rown, in the Boston Post. Preserving Bscs For Winter Use. When eggs are cheap the thrifty ousekeeper ought to put some down )r use in winter when they are allost above the ordinary person's leans. There are three ways of presrving them, in salt, lime and waterlass solution. I put down several ozen last summer in the latter way nd not one egg had spoiled. Get a fteen cent can of waterglass and disalve it in ten quarts of water that as heen previously boiled and Doled. Place it in a stone crock or ir and place in it clean, fresh eggs nd they will keep perfectly. Kept 1 this way they can be used in any fay that a fresh egg can and there is o foreign taste or odor.?Mrs. R. F. iowan, in the Boston Post. For the Writing Table. Most people who do much writing now the comfort of writing on a loping desk, but these are cumberDme to carry about. A new dodge, which folds flat for acking, is a blotting pad in a flat rooden frame, with legs at the back on/1 roioo if tn ? PflTlVP fUiV/U uniuiu aiiu * ?v w ? ~ _ ient slope. The price of the specimen shown to the writer was only ,ve shillings, so that it would make n excellent birthday present. Another real improvement is a new ind of stamp-damper, costing only ne shilling and twopence. We all now the old kind, with a roll of maerial in a tiny pond of water, which, f not dry, was horribly sticky, and ccumulated dust, besides messing he fingers when one tried to moisten he stamp on its wobbly surface. The new damper consists of a tiny elated well, like a small inkstand, to e kept full of water. Into this, sealog it like a cork, fits a short, pencilhaped holder,containing a small wad f absorbent material, which is peretually damp from the well, and can e rubbed over the back of the stamp, amping it beautifully.?Home Chat. As to Cooling Houses. Scientifically, refrigeration, even own to the point of absolute zero, is s practicable as calorification, and a iemand for "anti-stoves" would be ure to put a dozen kinds on the mar:et the moment it was made known, "hough most of us know summer :eat to be no more unavoidable than /inter cold, we have not yet escaped rom the old habit of accepting it as omething to be endured without any eal effort at relief. Foreigners are nclined to jeer at Americans for naking as much use of ice as we do, iut though we cool our food and our Irinks, very few of us have yet taken he next and very natural step of ooling our houses, shops and offices. Whenever we choose the thing can ie done. It will cost something, but irobably it would pay in increase of lealth as well as of comfort. The o-called temperate zone has a dilate which consists of weather alterlately tropic and arctic, and though Jew York never gets as cold as Jreenland sometimes does, it has nany a day hotter than any known o the West Indians. ? New York Mmes. THE n? Ne EPICURE'S CORNER m: Cocoanut Pic.?One-half cup of lesiccated cocoanut soaked in one up of milk, two eggs, one small cup if sugar, butter size of an egg. This s for one small sized pie. Nice with meringue on ton. Scalloped Rhubarb. ? Butter six lices stale bread with butter, arange in layers in a baking dish, covr each layer with rhubarb sauce, ising for the recipe one-half pound hubarb; bake about one hour in a noderate oven. Horseradish Sauce.?Mix three tailespoonfuls of grated horseradish oot, one-quarter teaspoonful salt, a ew grains of cayenne, one tablepoonful vinegar and four tablespoon"ifi nf hpavv cream, the latter beat n stiff and added latit. I5ennu<la Potatoes. ? Select small ew potatoes and rub the skin from hem in a coarse towel; boil in salced /ater until done, then saute for five linutes in five tablespoonfuls melted utter in which two tablespoonfuls of ninced parsley has bsen put. Eggs and Onions.?Cut up a large panish onion in slices and fry it in ome butter till it is a light brown nd tender, but do not let it burn; rain off the butter and put the fried nion on a dish, sprinkle some caynne pepper and a little salt over hem; now poach some eggs and erve them on the top of the onicn. BEFORE AND AFTER, , Whene'er the homo elulp loses out. Remarks are charged with gloom and doubt. "The pitcher has a putty arm. The fielders should be on a farm. TSut. ivhat. could you expect from skates. From those predestined second-rates?" And then the wise ones in a row Stand up and shout: "I told you so!" Rut when the home club wins a game, The' place resounds with glad acclaim. Somebody '-says: "I had a hunch These people were a winning bunch. I sized 'em up the very day When first they brougtit 'em out to play." And then the wise ones in a row Stand up and shout: "I told you so!" ?Washington Star. "Are you going to take in summer boarders this year, Josiah?" "All we kiE, sir."?Baltimore American. Howell?"Does your wife care anything about baseball?" Powell? "She never did until one day wheEi she heard me say that they were going to play two games for one admission."?Judge. "So Jack and Tom proposed last night. Which did you accept?" "Why, my dear, I was so excited I can't remember. But -whichever calls to-night must he the one."?New York Evening Telegram. When his sister discovered young Thos. Arrayed in his parent's pajos., And cried in dismay: "Oh! what will father say?" He replied: "Not a word. These are mos." "Dis paper," said Meandering Mike, "wants to know why de cities is overcrowded when dere is so much work offered in de country." "Well," responded Plodding Pete; "ain't dat ! de reason!"?Washington Star. Lady (who has been shown over one of the ships to sailor who has j been her guide)?"What a pity gra- j tuititio6 are forbidden on your ship!" Sailor?"So was apples, mum, in the Garden of Eden."?London Opinion. "Hilda is at the dishes now. Will you wait?" her mother said. "Gladly," said the young man, thinking he had found a prize. Just then a crash came from the kitchen, and again he became undecided.?Buffalo Express. "Now," said the lawyer, eyeing the witness severely, "I must have something concrete in this case. And your statement so far is not concrete." "No," said the witness, doubtfully, but brightening as he added, "but our new suburban cottage is."?Baltimore American. < "I pride myself on the fact," said j the haggard-looking poet, "that I have never written a line which any father might not read to his daughter." "That is," added the philosopher, "if by any chance he should think it worth while to do so."?Chicago Record-Herald. "Father," queried Bob, just home from college, "you've worked for 'me pretty hard nearly all my life, haven't you?" "Quite right, quite right, son," mused father, retrospectively. "Just so," resumed Bob briskly. "Now you had better get busy and work for yourself a bit, eh, dad?"?Life. j Her every move is one of grace, And yet it riles me some, When we are in a public place, To see her stretch her gum. ?Detroit Free Press. Mrs. Subbubs (to neighbor)? j "Willie and Bobbie aren't nome irom i school yet, and here it is five o'clock. Did you see anything of my precious jewels as you came along, Mr. Nexdore?" Nexdore?"Your precious jewels are in the soak, madam. I just saw therf swimming in the j j river."?Boston Transcript. Algernon?"What's this I heah | j about Miss Giltcoin agweeing to maw: I wy you, and then going back on her , word?" Percy?"That is the stwait i of it, I'm sowwy to say." Algernon ; ?"Beastly twick, deah boy. Why j don't you sue her foh non-support? i r You've got a clean case, doncher j know."?Chicago Daily News. House Numbers on Curb. A method of placing house numbers on curbs has been adopted by the city of Pasadena, Cal. Formerly there was a great deal of complaint from delivery men and visitors, and also from the police, that it was almost impossible to locate a given house number, as these were generally placed in an inconspicuous place. Recently the Mayor has been authorized to have the names of the etT-Dote anrt thp numbers of the houses j painted on the curbs throughout the I | city, and he has employed two paint- ! j ers to do this work. The names of I the streets are placed on the face of the curb close to the street intersection' and consist of black letters one and one-half inches high on a white background, painted by means of a stencil. The house numbers are painted on the top of the curb directly | in front of each house, beins black 1 | on a white ground, similar to the | ' street Lames. The white paint, of | I oil and white lead, is first applied, | and after this is thoroughly dry the J ; black letters are stenciled on, the i paint used consisting of one-half bene I black and one-half lamp black mixed | with oil. The approximate cost of j this work is five cents per each house J i number and seven cenis ior eacu i i street name.?Municipal Journal. I Tacoina's Great Stadium. i Tacoma's high school, which plays \ j an important part in Pacific Coasl | I athletics, is the only high school in ' America having an Olympic stadium, | if not the only one in the world. It is a ponderous mass of steel and concrete, j-ust completed at a cost of j i more than $100,000. in a gulch at ; j one side of the high school building, j I The gulch happened to be just the , j right shape for the stadium, so bnt | little excavation was required. The structure is shaped like a horseshoe, with the open end overlooking Commencement Bay. It will seat twenty- i i five thousand persons, has a centre sufficiently large for baseball, foot- i ball, track and field events, and will also be used for outdoor musical con; certs and entertainments.?Popular i Mechanics. I ) 1 * M MORE PMSAM jpsl Added to tbe Long List due I to This Famous Remedy. I Oronogo, Mo?"I was simply a ner- <19 tous wreck. J could not walk acrosa | the floor without 9 fltiijjJHfcM&'ii5 ; mv heart fluttering tgaBflllMhr and J could not even 9 receive a letter. /'M Every month I had ^ such a bearing down H \ ^ *F. sensation, as if the \ I , lower parts would I * fall out. Lydia B. I ' Pinkham's Vegeta- I ble Compound haa. i? ri"--.-??>>%??> done my nerves a J| \ro4m great deal of good $9 ^ ' ' ' woenlawroliora^ 1 ' loiiu iiaafluuiuiimvo the bearing down. I recommended it .39 to some friends and two of them have been greatly benefited by it" ?Mrs. ? "M a-f. McKxioht, Orcnogo, Mo. Another Grateful Woman. 1 St. Louis, Mo. ?"I was bother3d terribly with a female weakness and 3H had backa che, bearing down pains and pains in lower parts. I began taking .* Lydia E. Pinkham'3 Vegetable Com- I pound regularly and used the Sanative fl Wash ana now I have no more troubles I that way." ?Mrs. Al. Herzog, 5722 Prescott Ave., St. Louis, Mo. ' Because your case is a difficult one, I doctors having done you no good, M do not continue to suffer without , 'M giving Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable I Compound a trial. It surely has cured I iriany cases of female ills, such as in- , flammation, ulceration, displacements, ; fibroid tumors, irregularities, periodic > I pains, backache, that bearing-down' fl feelin g, indigestion, dizziness, and ner- * I vous prostration. It costs but a trifle I to try it, and the result is worth, mil* I lions to many suffering wompp. IjjseJ For I I ^eat ^asiies I I Glenn's Oily Skin I I... Itchy Skin - 1 9 Sulphur Eczema I I Hives ' I Blackheads^- . ' J I f?u^yt?. mbu???^5^' | J PATENTSg?PS"j ^F^TliQiDpsoD'sEyfcWaterl Dog Watched by Dead Master. | When the police foond a man dea4 I on a bench In the Rue Michel-Anfs- I yesterday morning a little white dog I which was sitting by the dead man'a I side turned an appealing look toward . ?. | me pojicemeii <ts uuugu iu mut* ;,i. tbem to follow it. They did so and the dog ltd them. ^ into a house in the Boulevard Exel- ,4^ mans, where it was quickly learned <i that the dead man was a M. Victor ."] James, a blacksmith. His death ap? ** pears to be due to natural causes.? Petit Parisien. _ * A Yonng Woman Parmer. A young woman in Massachusetts, who was not worried by any surplus } of this world's goods, resolved to become a farmer. To begin with, sh? . took a three years' course in thf State agricultural college at Amherstr \ She had been advised to engage hi some sort of work that would keep ? her out of doors, and she rented an abandoned farm, borrowing the h money to pay the first instalment of ' .i the rent. " V-aj Last year she worked only Ave, -N? acres of the tract. She put those five acres in garden truck, and she cleared $650 on the enterprise. She figure# ' that she will clear as much as $209 ' to the acre on this year's farming op* erations, and she has purchased three I horses and two hundred hens. She J is doing a fairly good business la ,'3 selling eggs. So far, tomatoes hare been her most profitable irop, but she has also made a good deal of money by growing peas and corn. During r, the vegetable season she makes trips to Worcester, fifteen miles awayt where she sells her product* SIm hires boys for ten cento an hour to help her in the truck patch. SbC keeps an account of all receipts and expenses, and at the end of the yeaf she will know exactly where sh* stands in a financial way.?Louisvttl# Courier-Journal. American typewriters control thfc trade in London. N.Y.?20 A Dream of Ease? | Post ja Toasties i i NO COOKING! A A/>A?iA?ninQl hnf nrfiflfVior *A UUI nrv/awuvi luxury?food that pleases and satisfies at any meal. So good you'll want more. Served right from the package with cream or milk. Especially pleasing with fresh berries. "The Memory Lingers'/ PBgs. !0c. and !5e. Sold by Grocers.^ Postum Cereal Co., ?irait?d.'k Battle Creek, Mich. y ! ^ L&