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CAMPHOR. Where lt is Cultivated, and How lt Is bis tilled. Notwithstanding the comparatively narrow limits of Its natural environ ment, says a bulletin in the United States Department of Agriculture, the jamphor tree grows well in cultivation under widely different conditions. It has become abundantly naturalized in Madagascar. It flourishes at Buenos Ayres. It thrives in Egypt, in the Canary IslandB, in southeastern France, and in the San Joaquin Val ley in California, where the summers are hot and dry. Large trees, at least two hundred years old. are growing in the temple courts at Tokio, where they are subject to a winter of seventy to eighty nights of frost, with an occa sional m'nimum temperature as low as 12 to 16 degrees. The conditions for really successful cultivation appear to be a minimum Winter temperature not below twenty degrees, fifty inches or more of rain during the warm grow ing season, and an abundance of plant food, rich in nitrogen. In the native forests in Formosa, Fuklen, and Japan camp'ior is distilled almost exclusively from the wood of the trunks, r?ot3 and larger branches. The work is performed by hand labor and the methods employed seem rather crude. The camphor trees are felled, and the trunk, larger limbs, and sometim, s the roots are cut into chips, which are placed in a wooden tub about forty inches high and twenty Inches in diameter at the base,- taper ing toward the top like an old-fash ioned churn. The tub has a tight-fit ting cover, which may be removed to put in the chips. A bamboo tube ex tends from near the top of the tub into the condenser. This consists of two Gooden tubs of different sizes, the larger one right side up, kept about two-thirds full of water from a con tinuous stream which runs out of a hole in one side. The smaller one is Inverted with its edges below the wa ter, forming an air-tight chamber. This air chamber is kept cool by the water falling on the top and running flown over the sides. The upper part Di the air chamber is sometimes filled with clean rice straw, on which the camphor crystallizes, while the oil drips down and collects on the surface of the water. In some cases the camphor and oil are allowed to collect together, and arc afterward sep arated by filtration through rice s'raw or by pressure. About twelve hours are required for distilling a tubful by this method. Then the chips are re moved and dried for use in the fur nace, and a nsw charge is put in. At the same time thc camphor and oil are remoxed from the condenser. By this method twenty to forty pounds of chips are required fer one pound of crude camphor. ; A Creat Industry. ? Few persons have any idea how great the bicycle industry in this coun try has become. Not only has the manufacture ot bicycles foi tile home market reached immense proportions, but our export trade in bicycles is a very big thing. , ; During the nine months ended Sep tember 30, 1S9T, the exports of passen ger cars, carriages and bicycles from the United States amounted in value to i?S,374,223, against $4,S2S,026 during the corresponding time in 1896. Of these exports bicycles and parts of bi cycles alone amounted to the value of $5,900,000, or more than double the value of the exportations during the - corresponding period last year. These exports are not included in the steel schedule, to which they might well be long. If so included they would mark mor? distinctly the wide margin be tween exports and imports of iron and steel products. The imports of these products have already dwindled to a comparatively insignificant figure. The best bicycles are now made in this country-, and it is probable that our enterprising manufacturers will in vade the foreign market still further. At present our exportation of bicycles is almost entirely to Great Britain, Germany, France, Canada and Aus tralia, but there are many other coun tries where bicycles are largely used, which offer a tempting field to our bicycle makers and they will probably build up a big trade in those countries In the early future.-Atlanta Journal. Makes It Right. Reader (of publishing house)-"My dear sir, this stoty of yours is utterly unprintable, and even if we took the risk of publishing it the book could never be taken into a decent family. Literary Man-"Good heavens! Yon haven't read the preface. I didn't write the story. It's a translation from the Russian." Reader (taking the manuscript again)-"Pardon mc. I had not no ticed that. We'll print the book and it will be a tremendous success." Chicago Tribune. Wlialinjr Fleet in Danger. It is predicted that the vosscls of thc whal ing fleet, most of whose underwriters are in San Francisco, have been caught in the icc and some may not last through thc siege. Danger also threatens those who neglocl what are ?ailed "trifling" ailments, for they mar not ?ast through the crisis. Resort tc Hostettcr's Stomach Bitters at once for in cipient rheumatism, malaria, constipation, nervousness and kidney complaint. Itisn't what a man owes but what he pays that keeps him broke. Chew Star Tobacco-Thc Best. Smoko Sledge Cigarettes. Love and war go hand in hand. Even thc din of battle oas a sort of engagement ring How's This? Wo offer One Hundred Dollars Reward foi any case of Catarrh that cannot bo cured bj Hall's Catarrh Cure. F. J. CHENEY & Co., Toledo, O. We, thc undersigned, have known F .f. Che ney for tho last IS years, and believe aim per fectlv honorable in all business transactions and financially able to carry out any obligi tion made by their firm. WEST & TKUAX, Wholesale Druggists, Toledo Ohio. WALD?NO, RINNAN & MARVIN. Wholesale Druggists, Toledo, Ohio. Hall's Catarrh Cure istaken internally, act lng directly upon the blood and mucous sur face3of tho system. Testimonials sent free Price, "5c. per bottle. Sold by all Druggists Hall's Family Pills arc the best. DYSPEPSIA, INDIGESTION and all Stomacl troubles cured by Taber's Pen-in Compound Sample bottle mailed free, ?rito Dr. Tabe; Mfy. Co., Savannah, Ga. 1 could not get along without Piso's Cnn forConsumption. It always cures.-Mrs. E. C MOULTON, rzeedhom, Mass., October 22, '"Ol Scrofula and All other blood Diseases are promptly And Permanently Curec By Hood's Saraparilla If you suffer from Any form of Blood Disorder, you should Take Hood's and Only Hood's RUPTURF Ali?o'utJly ciirnrl wit! cir' n'ar? nn<lte??nnonia?!?. J. (?. 'EX'I ON. 31. I) 117 H*. ?litrbeli St.. AI anni, (Sn. DATEHT i Ii^en'o?' Guille free EDGAR TAT: rli I Sf) 19 4 C?.Paten: SclicltoM.WSfc'way.?i.? OUR BUDGET OF HUMOS, LAUGHTER-PROVOKING STORIES FOR LOVERS OF FUN. The Grentest of Them-He Now Calls Else where-Her Ideal-Brief-At the Ball And Then Ho Took Some Medicine Necessity-A Great Scheme-Etc., Etc. He is great who wins in battle, Likewise he that rules the State; He is great whose lore and logic Help him conquor in debate; He is great who, with his penoil, Holds old nature up to view But tho greatest of 'aJl mortals Is thonoblo fellow J who Can lose his collar button And not loso his temper, too! -Chicago News. Her Ideal. Vinnie-"Minnie will never marry nntil she meets her ideal." Vietta-"What is her ideal?" Vinnie-"A man who will proposo." -Tit-Bits. _ At tho Ball. Charley Manhattan-"Have yon seen that Miss Stockyards, of Chicago? She has a shinning figure!" Miss Knickerbocker-"Yes; good shape, but bad form."-Puck. He Now Calls Elsewhere. She-"Poets are bom, not made, you know." He-"That's right. If I were you I would turn my attention to fancy work." -Detroit Free Press. Brief. Thoughtly- "Well, old man, I un derstand you applied for a good posi tion yesterday. What was the out come?" Lucky Jim (cheerfully)-"Income." -Cincinnati Commercial-Tribune. And Then Ho Took Some Medicine. Miss Tommey-"I read the other day that an eminent scientist says kiss ing is a care for dyspepsia." Mr. Spatts-"Isn't ifc odd, Miss Tommey, that I have an attack of dyspepsia at this very moment?" Harper's Bazar. "What Warned Them. Sue Brette-"I never saw such a cold audience in my life." Foote Lighte-"Didn't they warm np a bit?" "Well, when they spoke of bring pnt the author, I believe some of tho audience got hot." Necessity. "The man who marries me must promise never, never, never to use profane language." "That settles it." "Settles what?" "I'll give my bicycle pump away to morrow."-Chicago Post. A Great Scheme. "I am very happy to say that my wife never reads about any of those sensational mnrder trials." "How do you manage it?." "I always tear off part of a page, and so she puts in the day hunting for what she thinks I was trying to hide from her."-Cleveland Leader. Placing the Blame. Mrs. Brown-"So Mrs. Jones is nearly dead from insomnia? What is tho cause of it?" Mrs. Smith" (indignantly)-"Why, her husband is the cause of it. He talks in his sleep, you know, and she has to lie .".wake all night trying to lind out what ho is saying, poor thing!" ^-J udge. - Enterprising. . Mrs. Watts-"That Simonsbee wo man is a perfect fiend I" Mr. Watts-"I always thought her ?o gentle and refined." Mr3. Watts-"Oh, sho is among you men, but what do you think of a woman who will wear her .little boy's baseball shoes to a bargain rush and spike every woman who gets in her way?"-Indianapolis Journal. Power In Portrayal. "Why, man, I've had whole audi ences fall to their knees in terror at my description of tho day of judg ment," The other exhorter smiled pityingly. "Ah, yes," ho replied. "But the other night I portrayed the destruc tion of the world Avith such power that a man carno up after the services and asked me whom he should see about tho kinetoscope rights."-De troit Journal. He Bought the Sealskins. Bagstock's wife kicks the beam at 250. Bagstock looked doubtful when she suggested going to the horse show. "Why not?" quoth Mrs. B. "I'm afraid, my dear," explained Bagstock, "that the judges wouldn't like it. They might think we were trying to draw attention from the en tertainment," "In what way?" "By introducing a weight-guessing contest."-Cleveland Plain Dealer. Good Advice. Tho gifted young poetess of passion had written some soulful stanzas en titled, "He Cometh Not Pack." They began with tho line: "My own love has gonjto the Klon dike." With rare presence of mind she in closed a stamp with her verses, when she sent them to The Daily Bread for publication. They came back the next day, with this note from the editor pencilod on the margin: "My dear young woman, give him time! If he's worth his weight in walrus meat he'll come back long be fore you get this poetry in print." Chicago Tribune. Net Result. United States Treasury Officer "Tnere is one of the most skillful yom.g women we have. She can take the pieces of a Treasury note that a rat has chewed till it looks like bran, paste them together, and put the note into its original shape, without miss ing a scrap. Here is a one-dollar bill she restored. It had gone through a coffee mill." Visitor-"It's wonderful. How much do you pay her?" Treasury Officer-"She gets $5 a day." Visitor-"How long did it take her to do that piece of work?" Treasury Officer-"She did it in two days." Visitor-"Huh! It looks to me as if Uncle Sam had lost about $9 on the job."-Chicago Tribune. A beggars' league in St. Petersburg mutilates children and cripples them, to arouse sympathy from the benevo lent when they are sent to beg in pub lic places. The chief of this gang, named Pranjitschenko, who is a wealthy man, and has posed as a phil anthropist, received seventy-five per cent, of the money begged by the un fortunates. The 180,000 immigi its who ar rived in New York during 1896 brought with them on average of less than $4 each ia money, SOME WONDERFUL CLOCKS. Tho World's Marvel? of Astronomical and Chronometric Mechanism. The most wonderful clock in the world is exhibited in St. Petersburg. Its magnificence may be imagined from the fact of this colossal timepiece having no fewer than ninety-five faces^ It indicates simultaneously the time of day at thirty points on the earthy surface, besides the movement of the earth around the san, the phase of the moon, the signs of the zodiac, the passage over the meridian of more than fifty stars of the northern hemi sphere, and the date, according to the Gregorian, Greek, Mussulman, and Hebrew calendars. The works took two years to put together after the clock had been sent in detached pieoes from Switzerland to Bussia. A certain watchmaker constructed a clock whose mechanism represents, every fifteen minutes, all the activi ties of a miniature railway station. The telegraph operator sends a des patch, the doors of the station open, the station master and his assistant appear" on the steps, the clerks open the windows and distribute tho tick ets; several travelers rush toward the train that comes in at full speed. In short, until the train has gone tho usual stir of such s^tions is exactly reproduced. As the train leaves each automaton returns to its place, and for a quarter of an hour everything is peaceful. The clock's dimensions are not known, but it is said to have had six years' labor expended upon it. Another remarkable clock is that made by Villingen, the clockmaker o? the Black Forest, Germany. It shows the seconds, minutes, quarter hours, hours, days, weeks, mouths, seasons, years and leap years to the last second of the year 99999, besides a host of other astronomical, geographical and historical facts. There is a celebrated clock tower at Berne, in Switzerland. The approach of the hour is announced by the crow ing of a cook. At the same time may be seen at the very top of the tower a man clad in a ooat of mail striking the hours ^ith his sword on a large belL As the hours are striking a troupe of bears make their appearanoe and parade around the tower, then make their exit. Long strings of carriages draw up every hour for the occupants to witness this interesting spectacle. A gigantic clock, made of cycle parts, was shown at a recent exhibition held in Paris. The hour figures are composed of brightly plated cranks. All the smaller wheels revolve by means of gear chains, but this was only for attraction. The clock kept excellent time, and struck hours, half and quarter hours, the real mechanism being concealed in the base. At the time of the coronation of the Empress of Bussia at Moscow in 1724 she was presented with a watch as wonderful in every particular as the famous Strasbourg dock. On the op posite side of the time-keeping part there was an exact counterpart of tho holy sepulchre, with a carved image of the Roman guard, the scene being viewed through the glass in the case. Upon opening the case the imitation stones would roll away from the month of the miniature sepulchre, the guard kneel, angels appear at opposite sides of tho opening, and at this time the music would begin to play, in soft, sweet strains, the Easter songs so well known to all Bussians. The watch only weighed seven ounces. The maker of this wonderful pieoe of mechanism is said to have worked up on it almost uninterruptedly .for o period of nine years. Lonc-IiOBt Daughter Found. Rv'.crt Domren, of Oakland, Me., has withi^^few days found his daugh ter, from^^HfcJie was separated in 1876, audl^^^.lice Maude "Wormell, as sho has been known, a young lady of uuusually prepossessing appear ance, residing in Portland, is happy in the discovery of her father. The girl was taken from her home during Mr. Damren's absence, and while his wife was ill, by a woman in Norridgowock who took a fancy to her. Upon his return, Damren began mak ing inquiries for her. He found that tho woman had not only left Norridge wock, but no trace of her ' could be found. Little Alico Maude Damren had disappeared, and all efforts to find her were unsuccessful. Mr. Damren a few days ago was fishing with Fred Harding, of Sydney. Harding asked Damren if he knew a certain man in Norridgewock. Damren answered that he did not, but he had cause to remember a woman of the same name. "Well," said Harding, "it was ol the woman I was going to speak. When I worked in Portland, thirteen year ago, I boarded with her, and sha was married again. " "Did sho have a little girl?" asked Damren, excitedly. "Yes; why?" "How old?" asked Mr. Damren. "She was eleven then." "What was her name?" "Alice Maude." "At last!" exclaimed Damren, and he fell back into tho boat. As soon as Damren recovered sufficiently to dc so he told Hardiug the story of th? loss of his girl, whom he had not seen for twenty-one years. -^.New York Times. Fowls With Overcoats. John Hogar., who lives in Angora, has a peculiar fad, to which he devotes every minute of his spare time. It if the collecting and breeding of curiouE domestic fowls of all countries. Hil collection is very complete, and ol good size, considering the difficulty ol collecting, and his poultry yard has always proved a point of interest tc the residents of Angora. Many strange lookiug birds strut about the inclosure, but none were odder look' ing than a pair that he received from India about three weeks ago. They were of peculiar shape, and had faces that greatly resembled tho hr mac countenance, and of course, they at tracted a great deal of attention. Now Mr. Hogan's little daughter, Mary, takes after her father to c great degree, in being of an oxperi mental mind, and ene day during hei father's absence she tried her hand or the new fowls from India. Varioui things were tried with moro or less success, and when Mr. Hogan reachec home he found the valued birds de void of feathers and each thickly coated with red- paint. After some forcible persuasion Mary confessed tc having picked the birds to seo how they looked, and then dipped them ir paint to keep them warm. This las was a suggestion, and as Mr. Hogai knew the birds would die of cold h< set his brains to work. The result i? that a brace of stately fowls, witt neatly fitting overcoats, promenadi the chicken run.-Philadelphia Rec ord. A Tilled Produce Merchant. The Earl of Harrington, who ha; been running a fruit store in Loudon at which he sells the products of hi; gardens, has now added to it a crean oheese branch, WOMAN'S WORLD. Touching Story of Queen and Peasant. A short story about Queen Marg uerita and the gloves which is being -recorded in Rome shows how hard it is for Queen or commoner to do good unmixed with evil. The Queen of Italy is anxious to encourage village industries, and one of her proteges-. a little peasant girl-she commissioned to knit a pair of mittens for the royal, birthday. The birthday came, the' knitting was received and the Queen Bent back to her small favorite a pair of gloves, a gift from the royal ward robe, whereof one was filled with money and the other with bonbons. With the gift was a line from Queen Margherita requesting the child to say from which glove she had derived most pleasure. The answer shows that even royal gifts are vanity. "Dear Queen," the child wrote, "your pres ent has cost me many tears. My father took the money and my brothers have eaten the bonbons."-Philadelphia Record. . A Noble Woman. The wife of General "Washington proved herself 'fully equal to the high position. Her levees were more se lect and courtly than any that have since been given, yet she preferred home-life and home-comforts, speak ing of her public life as her "lost days." When she took up her resi dence with the army her chief occasion was to care for the welfare of the sol diers. To those in camp, she showed a most worthy example of oourage and cheerful patience under all manner of privations; to sick and weary she car ried that balm to sooth a weary spirit and body which only the presence of a noble and sympathetic woman can bear. Mrs. Washington, with her large fortune could easily have out shone all others in fashion and dis play, but instead, she put herself and her servants in home-made materials. Sixteen spinning .wheels were kept in constant operation in her house. On one occasion she displayed two dresses of cotton, striped with silk, explaining that the silk stripes were woven from the ravenings of brown silk stookings and old crimson damask chair covers. Fascinating Knickknacks. The shop windows in the Rue de la Paix iu Par's are full of all sorts of fascinating knickknacks just now, ac cording to a feminine authority writ ing in the Bazar. Among the pretty things that people seem to buy most are the wrist-bags for change, tickets, shopping-list, memoranda of all sorts. They are little long bags of leather with handles just large enough to slip over the wrist, and they come in most enticing shades of greens.tans, creams and browns. The "muff chains" run riot, so far as inanimate object? can'be expected to show any tendencies ofthat nature. The latest thing is to have a little fan-chain pinned to the waist at the left side, where the watch-pin used to be, from the end of which hangs your fau.tho very smallest of the small old-fashioned ones that are now worn.' In jewels, pear-shaped stones seemed to be in favor. The latest rings have a pear-shaped stone of color in the centre, springing from-two diamonds on either side. Pearls are so immense ly popular that their value has in creased one-third. Emeralds are pop-i ular, and turquoises, in spite of the imitations that one would fancy might cheapen them, form part of every well-j stocked jewel-case, and a goodfmanj that aro not so well-stocked. Connoisseurs of Beal Lnco. Mrs. John Jacob Astor, second, now deceased, and Mrs. A. T. Stewartwere considered the most export connois seurs of real lace in the United States. Mrs. Stewart could tell it at sight, without even touching it. She had a very valuable collection which was given to her niece. One of the treas ures, now in her niece's possession, is a lappet of fine Brussels point d'Angl e tene, in Louis XV. style. The flowers and leaves are worked in all their* natural colors upon a quarter-foil diapered ground. It was made with the intention of reoalling the May flower and pedrix ground of Sevres and Dresden porcelains. It weighs over eightjpounds, and the only other specimen of the kind is in the Kens ington Museum, London. The piece in tho museum, however, is not so fine. Mrs. Stewart was for several years in negotiation for her rare treas ure. It was in the possession of an impecunious count, who finally parted with it for $10,000-a mere song, com pared with its present value. An other treasure of the Stewart collec tion is au exact copy of a bedspread of Alencon point lace, with pillow shams made by special command of Napoleon I., on tho occasion of his marriage with tho Princess Marie Loui3e. For this copy Mrs. Stewart paid $45,000. It is in perfect condition to-day. It has a zephyr-like, fine hexagonal ground, studded with raodallions and lilies. Mrs. Stewart's laces cost about $250,000. Tho curtains which hung at thc windows of her Fifth avenue liomo cost $500 apiece. The collec tion has since doubled in value. Fashion Notes. To wash black lace dissolve a t6a spoonful of borax in a pint of warm water and apply with an old black kid glove. Jel is once more in vogue. Old pieces can be brightened and fresh ened by sponging with a flannel rag dipped in alcohol. The Roman plaid and stripe craze has reached even the region of neck trimming, and stock collars, flaring bows, rosettes aud scarfs in gorgeous colorings appear among the fancies in the made-up goods departments of al] city stores. Walking-hats and sailors in all shades of feit are much in vogue for shopping expeditions, while the black velvet hat in such shapes as require the Amazon plumes will do service for calling, carriage wear and afternoon social functions. A novelty hat is shaped somewhat like a cap, with a narrow visor run ning all around. The crown is soft and loose and on either side attached rather closely are long, thick ostrich plumes with tho tips curling down over tho hair. At tho front is a clus ter of loops of velvet with aigrettes. Among the small wraps of fur to be worn before the genuine winter weather garments aro donned are double-breasted capes, short on tho sides, and pointed front and back be low thc waist line; Russian blouses in 3everal styles, variously trimmed; and double-breasted Etons decorated with fur collars that contrast with the jacket in kind. For dressy gowns to wear at dancing school or children's parties cashmeres in all the light colors are very popular. These are made very simply with sash and plaited collar of soft surah or Liberty silk of the same shade, and trimmings of lace insertion. For girls under ten these gowns are made with ii guimpe of muslin and lace and trim' med with rows of velvet ribbon U match tho cashmere? AGRICULTURAL," _ Introducing? Queens* The introduction of a queen to colony will change the entire stoc and if the queen is introduced in ear spring the stock will be of the ne queen in less than two months, wi scarcely a trace of the former, colony of the worst type of the o black bees may thus be changed, ai if given an Italian queen in this spai of time may be brought np to tl highest state of perfection. The sto< of an entire apiary may thus t changed in so short a period and otb desirable stock substituted. The pr cess of introducing queens is simp to remove the old queen, and place tl new one in a wire gause cage in tl hive among the bees for twenty-foi or thirty-six hours, after which si may be liberated.-The Epitomist. 'Alfalfa For Cons. Alfalfa silage compares well in cher ical composition with clover and sit ilar forms of silage. It is said to'us ally have a disagreeable odor and tast although it is froely eaten by -cattl No experiments in the use of alfa! silage have been made at this statioi The gre m fodder has been in sue continual demand for feeding that n< enough has been available at any tin; to fill a silo. Alfalfa, like clove would require a most careful packin and greater depth of silo for the be results than is necessary for corn. A faifa hay is an excellent fodder; It : palatable and very nutritious. E: perience and good judgment are r< quired, and much time and care nece? sary to make good hay. If handle too much when dry all the leaves an small stems are likely to fall off, an if not thoroughly cured it is likely t mould and mildew. The hay will n( shed water well, and stacks when lei long should bo well covered. Ha caps are often of great service. Th hay suffers much deterioration in feec ing value by exposure to rain.-Ne' York Experiment Station. Tho Scrub Cow. Tah dairy business is far more ovoi done by the "average" cow than froi any other cause. The trouble is tba she eats aud exists upon a man's fan to do just half what is required of hei and eats as much good food in th year as her betters. The amount c milk this average cow gives is 310 pounds yearly, and it should be n many quarts of better milk. If on looks at this average cow critically th signs are too often reversed from who they should be-i. e., her head is to large to correspond with her nddei and her shoulders wider than her hips and her tendency to put tallow upo: her caul and not in her milk, and ha ample storago capacity for every!hin| except milk. She is a parasite tba eateth by noonday, and wasteth man's substance by night, and in th way of "ileeciug the innocents" sh beats all the rings and trusts com bined. As a cow she is ono that use health and vigor to destroy food an< render ns little return therefore ai possible. She is a product of all thi good blood and bad breeding extant The blood in her veins is an amalga mation of all the breeds under th< sun, and reinforced by the "calico colored" cattle of the hills, possessing few traits of her respectable relation! and embodying all the '.indesirabh qualities of tho "scrub" km. She is the result of chance breeding and the science of moon signs com bined. She has a place in our lutei farm industry-where farmers anc ' dairymen are thrown into competitor with the world, and the-best only wini -alongside of the broncho pony anc the Texas steer. She is getting hei revenge back upon the men and theil posterity for the way she was bred ant cared for, by boarding with them anc charging up a large part of the bill tc the credit of "her company." Thii average cow has had a sort of feasl and famine sort of a life; has beer baked in the summer sun and soaker by tho autumn rains, frozen anc thawed alternately in winter, and fee what was handiest and most conveni ont, and milked after everything eist was done. The truth is, this averag? cow will have to go, and go soon, 01 tho sheriff will sell her, and delivei her owner over to tho eternal bow wows. The man with thc average dairy is in the slough of despond, anc in all similitude should be using ? wooden plow.-San Francisco Chron icle. Poultry Motes. More tl;an one-half of early matur ity is in high feeding. Tho host fowls for breeders ar? from one to three years old. Securing eggs in winter is largely the result of good managemant. Everything in point of plumage anc symmetiy depends on the siro. Il fowls are to be confined thej should be kept in flocks of not ovei twenty-five. Scattering tho food well is a gooc plan of inducing tho fowls to take ex ercise. The timo to establish a private trade for eggs is in the fall of the year, when eggs aro scarce. Corn, when fed to a hon by itself, has a tendency to fatten rather tfiar. aid in egg production. A good layer ought never to be sac rificed so long as she can be used foi breeding purposes. To avoid roup among the fowls, have the nests high and dry and avoid di rect draughts. Bisuphide of carbon is a vapor bath for fowls and as a fumigator of the house is death to lice. Charred corn on cobs is a good way to feed charcoal to fowls and nothing better for bowel troubles. Do not allow strange dogs in your poultry yard, and clo not allow your own dogs to chase the fowls. The dust bath isas necessary in cold weather as in warm. The conditions to keep the hens free from vermin are better than remedies after they be come infested. Tho hatching room should be so thoroughly ventilated that upon en tering it the odor from tho lamps would be detected. Tobacco smoke is injurious to hatching eggs. It has been estimated that if farm ers could be induced to discard scrubs, and use only pure breeds, the increase in value of poultry products would be fully 100 per cent. Ground'bone increases egg produc tion. The dry ground bone is good, but green cut bone, which is made from bones and gristle, fresh from tho butchers for this purpose, is much better. To prevent eggs from hatching dip the tips in boiling water for one minute, or subject 'them to the fumes of burning sulphur, for fifteen min utes in a close box, says the Poultry Keeper. During the past year 1920 acres ol land were planted to cauaigree in Ari? zona, and the aoreage will be much larger the coming year, FAME'S COST. Ob, scorn not things of low degree, [ And feign for wealth and state; Far better court, humility - Than burdens of the great. For he wljp wins ambition's fight I Can never be at ease; He gains, 'tis true a worldly height, ' But has a world to please. Cor cares Increase as honors grow, And In his now estate He finds, though bright thoso honors 'Tis thralldom to be great. The flatterers that about him throng Eaoh has some dolo to ask; To please them Is no idle song, But a herculean task. We value things as they appoar, Nor count tho cost and pain ? Which Une tho road to that bright s Tho envied ones attain. Fame (s no royal heritage; Its crowns aro free to all; But who Its dizziest height would ga( . Must risk the dizziest fall. Then sigh not for ambition's meed, i Its sceptre and Its crown; "Uneasy lies the kingly heud," Though pillowed upon dowD. PITH AND POINT. "What's veal, Benny?" "Oh, the part of the cow we eat before grows up." "Hipperton says ho won't rt any one but a widow." "I hopi won't marry mine." - Indiana Journal. 1 Hewitt-"Why didn't you laug that joke when I told it?" Jew< "I don't believo in laughing at ai friend."-Truth. She-"Why is it called the 's moon?'" He-"Because it corni halves and quarters, I suppose Chicago News. Minister-"I once performed t wedding ceremonies in twelvo 3 utes." Miss Saylor-"That wa the rate of fifteen knots an hour Tit-Bits. Spogs -"Was it not disgraceful, way in which Smiggs snored in chi to-day?" Stuggs-"I should thii was. Why, he woke us all up Tit-Bits. Friend-"What did I see? N single bouquet at your debut?" " that fool of a gardener didn't un stand me, and sentthem to my hou -Fliegende Blatter. "It is predicted that the battles the future will be fought in the s "That won't work; no man eau heroic in battle unless he can get hind a tree."-Chicago Becord. "He devoted his immense fort to the perpetuation of his memo: "You don't say so?" "Yes, he le tn such a shape that every dollar be litigated over."-Detroit Jouri "Well, my son, how are you getl along at college?" asked the anxi father. "They call mo a pheno governor. I started in as a substit and now I'm a full-back!"-Deb Free PreBs. Bostonian-"Is this friend that ; wish to bring to dinner much of racontour?" Chicago Man-"Blan if I know; but say, you'll die laugl if we can get him to tellin' stories.' Cleveland Leader. "I am afraid that acters sometic deceive ns about the salaries tl get." remarked the mild-mannoi citizen. "No,"replied tho keon < server; "they may think they do; 1 they don't."-Washington Star. "What I know about riding wheel," said the scorcher, "wot fill a book;" "Yes," said the poli man who had gathered him in, "a what you don't know about it wot soon fill the morgue."-Chicago NOA Moneyworth-"Why will the net papers publish columns of the revc ing details of murders? Here I wasted two good hours readi through this mass of trash about t last one." - Philadelphia Noi American. Landlady-"The price of this roc is thirty marks. Will that suit you Student- ' 'Perfectly. " Landlady "Then you can't have it. A man w meekly accepts such an exorbita price, obviously does not intend pay his bill."-Fliegendo Blattor. Tho Fussing of tho Court Fool. "The Court Jesters of England" tho title of an article by Amelia W( ford in St. Nicholas. The author sa of the jester of Charles I.: M?ckle John was the last of t court jesters. Tom Killigrew, Mast of the Bevels, Groom of tho Be chamber, is often spoken of as'jest to Charles II., but there is no au thc ity to support this claim. Ho" was companion of tho king, he used h tongue with the license of the jest of old, but he had never an ofiici appointment to that office. Somo c fort was made]during Charles's reign restore the jester, but it failed. -. The protests of Sir Philip Sidn< and other grave writers of his tin against all fools were not without <; feet, butthe rule of the Commonweal! was mainly responsible for the ba: ishme? . . t the court fool. They we: espec: against the fools of tl stage. td so playwrights omitte them a their list of characters lor befor leir disappearance from tl court. Shad well's play of "Tl Wornt Captain" (1630) is probabl tho lat in which a regular fool a] pears. Tho character of fool was we liked by the old playwrights, and i several of tho old plays his disappea: ance is bewailed. As has been said, tho custom ( keeping fools was common to all classe of society in England; but the com sets tho fashion, and with the banisl ment of the court jester the fool dil appeared from his other haunts. Singular Caso of Iluinan Shrinkage. A singular case of human shriukag is reported from the Soldiers' Hom at Sandusky, Ohio. Peter Cooley who was admitted to the home abou four years ago, was, when he enlistei in tho Fourth Indiana Infantry i 1861, five feet and two inches tall am straight as an arrow. His perpendicu larity has been in no wise affected sine that time, but to-day he stands exactl; four feet and four inches in his stock ing feet, having, without in any man ner affecting his health or general ap pearance otherwise, grown ten inche shorter. He is a well-built, compac old man, now in his eighty-first year and is as lively and active as a boy. Detroit Free Press. A Fountain in a Stump. Messrs. H. W. and J. M. Corneli son report a curious phenomenon oi tho farm of T. J. Smith, two mile: from town, on the Lancaster pike. Ot cutting down a large elm tree, the} were astonished to see a stream ol water gush out of the stump, and fat in sparkling spray like water from ? fountain. This was two weeks ago, and there has been no cessation of thc flow. The supposition is that there is a spring beneath the tree, to which tree worms during the drouth made an artificial channel, and when the tree was cut the water found a way of escaping. Both gentlemen will vouch Epr the truth of the story.-Eiohmond (Ky.) Register. can be driven in cr drt parilla drives disease 01 medicines suppress dise cure it. Ayer's Sarsap; originating in impure bk V* V T y ^ y y f THE TRAMP BOULDER. Remarkable Evidence of Glacial Influence in New Jersey. Countless thousands of years ago vast stretches of glacial deposits came sliding across the State of New Jer sey, mounted the Palisades, pushed their way across the Hudson River, scoured over Manhattan Island and slid out Into the Atlantic Ocean, whither they disintegrated and sank into tue deep or perhaps glided on to the ether ocean shore. But in their onward march theite glaciers left indestructible evidence o' their grinding stride and to-day, all along the Palisades the trap rocks and boulders are worn smooth where the mountains of ice and sand passed over them. In some rocks are deep scratches, all pointing eastward, and showing which way the glacial deposits drifted. There is the evidence, mute but indisputable. To the careful observer there are numberless other evidences of the presence of glacial influences in the past, but none are more convincing than the tramp boulder that has finally settled down in the woods in the heart of Englewood borough. There it sits, a towering mass of rock weighing per haps two hundred tons, and resting upon three points which in themselves find a purchase on a flat rock that i3 part of and common to the character of rock which composes the Palisades. But, strangely enough, and to the won derment of geologists, the tramp i oulder is red sandstone from the Jer sey hills twenty-five miles inland, and the pedestal is metamorphite or Soft granite. Around this marvelous monument have grown trees that may, perhaps, be a century old, and they have com pletely hedged it in; while the rock itself has stood where it stands to-day for thousands of years. On the pede3- j tal, or that part of it which is pro- j tectcd from the action of the elements, j can be seen the deep ridges and scars made across the flat surface by the great grinding pressure of the body o? Ice and sand that passed over it count less years ago when New York was ice and snow clad, and the world was a desolate waste in a state of chaos. This tramp boulder has caused geologists much wonderment, and Io regarded to-day as one of the finest specimens ever left in tho wake of a glacier. It is equally astounding as though an explorer should find the hull of a steamboat in the Sahara desert. The only way it could get there would be through some great convulsion that had landed it from the sea to the heart of the inland sands.-New York Journal. . . The Cure for Poverty. In the Century there is an article on "The Causes of Poverty" by the late Francis A. Walker. General Walker says, in conclusion: "At the beginning I warned the I reader that I had no panaceas to offer, no single, simple, sovereign cure for tho woes and ills of humanity. We must strain out of the blood of tho race more of the taint inherited from a bad and vicious pool before we can eliminate the poverty, much more tho pauperism, from our social life. Thc scientific treatment which is applied to physical disease must be extended to mental and moral disease, and a wholesome surgery and cautery must be enforced by the whole power of the state for the good of all. Popular edu cation must be made m<-re sensible, practical, and useful. The house wifely arts must be taught to girls in the schools, and there the boys must learn to use hand and eye and brain in a close and vital co-operation ami co-ordiration. Yet still we have to await with patience the slow, sure ac tion of time, the all-healer. The bal ance of social forces has definitely turned to the side of the less fortunato classes, and the course of events now runs in their favor and no longer against them. Meanwhile, let philan thropy continue its noble work In alleviating the afflictions which cannot be wholly cured, and in binding to gether rich and poor in ties, of sym pathy and mutual regard." Mr. Astor's Rodwood Dinner Table. The section of a Californian redwood tree with which Mr. W. W. Astor wins his wager has been safely brought to Cliveden. The wager was the result of some statements made by Mr. Astor at a dinner concerning the size of the Californian redwoods, the owner of Cliveden staking a considerable sum on his ability to produce a cross-sec tion of one of the trees capable of ac commodating forty guests when used as a dinner-table. The section shipped from San Francisco is two feet in thickness, with an average diameter of 15 feet G inches and a maximum dia meter of IG feet G inches. Considera ble difficulty was experienced in bring ing the slab of timber by road from London 'co Cliveden, sixteen horses be ing employed to draw the trolley on which it was placed. At Cliveden it was taken down the grass drive, and, owing to the splintering of the planks beneath the wheels, th? latter fre quently sank deep into the turf. A staff of mon are now getting the slab Into position. Comfort Cost? 80 Cent?. Irritating, aggravating, agonizing Tetter Eczema, Ringworm and all other itching skit diseases are quickly cured hy thc use of Tet ter! ne. It is soothing, cooling, healing. Cost! 50 cents a box. postpaid-brings comfort ai once. Address J. T. Shuptrinc, Savannah, Ga Chairman Riddle, of tho Kansas populisl j st itc committee, is mailing notices to fae 601 of.lcers and employes of* tho state govern I m int assessing them 2 per cent, on their sat ? aries for campaign purposes. To Cure a Cold in "One Day. Take Laxativo Bromo Q- Jue Tablets. All Druggists refund money it falls to cure. 35o. A two-dollar overcoat will keep a mai wanner than thc pawn I. :kct for a fur-linei on?. _ 11 rs. Winslow's Soothing Syrup for childrei teething, softens the gums, reduces lnflamrna tion, ditly E pain, cures wind colic, Wc, a bottle /en out. Ayer's Sarsa it of the blood. Many ase- cover it but don't inila cures all diseases iod. 4 L A A ??LJL n4i, A, Value of Five- Legged Frogs. Five-legged frogs, dead and stuffed, are worth $21 apiece according to a French court's decision. A fish vender of Lucon found one and took lt to the druggist's to be stuffed. While they were discussing the price of the opera tion the druggist's cat ran off with the frog, but her master found it later and presented it to the Nantes Muse um. The fish vender thereupon sued the druggist for filching the frog, and recovered 105 francs damages.-New York Sun. Board. "You didn't stay np yonder?" ?hey ..epeated sympathetically. 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