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A Fanner's SlfrnboarCs. Thcro is no occupation in which evi dences of real success or the reverse are so patent to all observers as that of farming. The farmer who is pros perous doesn't h?ve to make declara tions of the fact. The signboards which testify of hia success will be well kept roadsides, fences in good repair, thrifty orchards, washes in fields arrested by proper means,. pastures with abundant grass growth...--but free from weeds, good grades of stock, provision for protect ing stock in times of cold and storm, poultry yard and house in condition to be profitable, manure intelligently saved and wisely used, a good garden spot, and this tilled so as to make it pay. farm Implements shielded from summer's sun and winter's storm. These signboards will be read by neighbors and the casual passer by, and yetthe buildings may not be palatial, though , we are heartily in sympathy with the best farm home that can be provided without Incurring debt. T/p bring about these unmistakable ?vidences of thrift -means exercise of br?]wn and brain. The latter especial ly must be put to work and worked hard. Did you know that there are m??e people who are lazy mentally tlian there are of those who are phy sically lazy? Many will do, and do it well, a task that has been all arranged for^them, but when left to individual .resources where the exercise of mental powers in forming plans ls demanded such men arc utter failures. The pow er to formulate wise plans and to exe cute them or have them executed ls a business faculty that is too often over looked on the farm. A commercial en terprise would pay what a farmer would regard as an exorbitant salary to a man possessing this efficiency, and yet. no business requires lt more then that of farming.-Kural World. A Puzzle Address. Tte Post Office, which loves a puzzle, has solved another. A letter arrived from Pietermaritzburg bearing on the envelope tho presentment of ? whee." followed by the letter R. Then the plctur of a cottage. Beneath, i roughly drawn bridge to which led a road banked by trees. FlnaBy, the head of a young woman. Now, can you guess the puzzle, which was sent by a.simple private In the East Surrey Regiment? Tho postman took the let ter rightly to Mr. Wheeler of Elder Cottage, Bridge Road, Maidenhead. London Chronicle, World to End this Year. This fa the recent decision of one of the prominent societies of the world.but th? ex act day has not yet been Axed upon, and while there are very few people who believo this prediction, there are thousands of oth ers who not oniy believe, but know that Hos tetter'% Stomach Bitters is the best medicine to cur? dyspopsia,indigestion,constipation, biliousness or liver and kidney troubles. A fair trial will certainly convince you of its value. His Colors. Mr.?. Krlmsen-"Tao fact of John's having; bl'tj oyes and red hair makes lt so hard for us to decide." Mrs. Azure-"So hard to decide what?" Mrs. Krlmsen-"Wh'ither to send him to Yale or to Harvard?''-Brooklyn Lifo. O-I-C When a preparation has an advertised rep utation that is world-wide, it means that preparation is meritorious. If you go into a store to buy nn article that has achieved universal popularity like Coscareis Candy Cajjhartic for example, you feel it has the endorsement of the world. The judgment of tho people fa infallible because it fa im personal." Tho retailer who wants to sell you "something else" In place of the ar ticle you ask, for hos aa ax to grind. Don't -sta-.-d to reason? He's trying to sell something that .fa* not what he represents it to be. Why?: Because he' expects to de rive? aa extra profit out of your credulity. Are yot? eaiy? Don't you see through his "Bttle^garfte? ThoTnan who will try and sell you a substitute for Cascareis fa a fraud. Bewaro of him ! Ho fa trying to steal the honestly earned benefits of a reputation which another business man has paid for. and if his conscience will allow him to go so far, he will go farther. If he cheats his customer in one way, ho will In an other and lt is not safe to do business with him. Beware of the Casoaret substitut^: Remer.-L.-r Cascareis are never sold in bulk but in metal boxes with the long tailed "C" nu every box and each tablet stamped C. C. C.** The Fnneral Employer. "Was much feeling shown at your grand mother's funeral?" Bookkeeper-"Yes they mobbed the umpire." -Harper's Bazar. . To Curo a Cold In One Day. Take LAXATIVE BBOMO QUININE TABLETS. All druggists refund the money If lt falls to cure. E. W. GROVE'S signature is on each box. 23c. Better Prepared. "Well, Jehu Henry Bingle, what have you to say for yourself?" "I'llJiist 1-t you shay lt for mo, my dear." Cleveland Piala Dealer. I am sure Plso's Cure for Consumption saved my life three years ago.-MKS. l'HOt?. ROB BINS, Maple St., Norwich, >". Y., Feb. 17,1000. il. H. GREEN'F SONS, of Atlanta, Ga., are the only successful Dropsy Specialists In tho world, bee their libera] offer in advertisement in an. other co lum u of this papor. Out Of Harm's Way. Jess-"I don't believe Mrs. Sweet has any too much confidence In her husbaud." Bes*-.'.Whyi" - -- Jess-"Botore ?ho went away for tho summer she engaged board for him in Brooklyn." Harlem Lifo. Lydia Ea Pinkham s Vegetable Compound cifres the ills peculiar to women, tt tones up their g?nerai health, eases down overwrought nerves, oures those awful backaches andreg uiates menstruation. it does this because it acts directly on the fe male organism and makes it healthy, relieving and curing all inflammation and displacements. Nothing else ls Just as good and many things that may be suggested are dangerous. This great medicine has a constant record of euro. Thou sands of women testify to h. Read their letters con stantly appearing In this paper._ j FOR Fi FOR FARM ?ND C-ARDE?] Falling Leaning Tree. To fall a leaning tree in the opposite direction to which lt leans, on the side to which you wish the tree to rall chop in two or three inches; then with a cross-cut saw-a narrow one is best saw at the other side; then Insert an Iron wedge In the sawed place, and as the sawing progresses, keep the wedge firmly driven in. By "following these directions a bending or leaning tree can bc laid in almost any direction. When to Pat an Sections. We put sections on the hives of all strong colonies during apple bloom. But as locations are different, all can not follow this plan. But a good rule to go hy is, when bees begin to whiten the top bars with new wax, or when they become too crowded and begin to cluster out in front of the nive, then is about the right time to put on section boxes for surplus honey. Bet ter a little too early than too late, for If a colony once gets the swarming fever, nothing will prevent them from swarming.-F. G. Herman, In Ameri can Agriculturist Poultry Feeding. ^hose who want fat chickens or turkeys should remember that the only way is to begin by feeding right from the beginning. Do not trust to their being able to pick up a UT lng in the Heids for the summer, and then fatten in a few weeks before killin*. If i'uey find enough to eat when running at la.ge they will eat but little ur not at all when they come up at night, but lt should be placed where they can get it if they want lt. Never let them go to roost until they have had all they care to eat of sound grain, and we pre fer the whole grain to any mash as the last food of the day. Of course those who keep their fowl in yards do not need this advice, but they need to feed at regular hours and give as much as they will eat at night. Improving the Farm. The cause of the increasing number of run down farms is from a lack of knowledge of the primary principles of agriculture. The land deteriorates without attracting attention. This decline Ih the farm's fertility is going on all the time, slowly but surely, and the amount produced each year be comes less and the farmer finally awakes to the fact that his farm ls wearing out. and he knows not how to stop the wear. He keeps up the pro cess of taking off and hauling to the market the wheat, corn and oats, pas tures the stalks with the hogs and milch cows and these help In tue work of destroying the mechanical condi tion of the soil. The straw is burned In the wheat field or else is stacked in the open yard and the cows eat anrt destroy it as they brave the rigors of winter. Because of n lack of early | training in the correct principles of good farming he does not see his er rors and the work of reducing the farm's productiveness continues until lt gets a name that makes it practical ly unsalable. Hie Farmer's Dog. A good dog ls of most inestimable value to the farmer, but a useless cur is worse than a nuisance. There are but comparatively few dogs in tne country that are worth their keep. Nearly every farmer owns a dog, some times three orfour; but few are in any way trained to be useful. Dogs are In telligent creatures and will often pick np enough of their legitimate work about the farm to be useful, but the average eur rarely does. Jn the dog, as in all other animals, blood tells. The popular idea seems to be that a dog ls n dog, and more or less of a nuisance. To pay a good price for a pup would call down the scorn of the neighbor hood. And if the dog grew to be a big, flne-looklng fellow, the chances are that he would be poisoned by some one who cannot realize that the dog is the noblest of animals. A neighbor hood ls certainly better off for being rid of a cur, but to wilfully murder a fine, good-tempered animal simply be cause he is large and strong ls nothing less than criminal. In our home town in the past two years there have been no less than a half dozen Newfound land. St. Bernard and mastiff dogs poisoned. Not one of them was vicious or ill-natured, and all were very fond of children. No one eau keep a large dog in the town, yet the streets are full of mongrels and curs at all hours of the day and night. It ls but rarely that these animals meet an untimely end.-The Epitomist. Whitewash and Paint on the Farm. From a beautifying standpoint noth ing excels a fresh coat of paint -on dwellings, buggies, wagons and all other farm implements; along with a liberal use of whitewash on all the outbuildings, fences, gates and shade trees. A beautiful home is a potent factor in begetting cheerfulness and a love for farm life. The many compli mentary remarks from visitors and passersby concerning the neatness and conveniences of the home surround ings will add contentment to remnin on the farm and not be wanting to re move to town where we would bc cramped for want of room and often for things to eat that could and would be had on the fnrm. From a hygienic point of view for man, beast and fowl, a liberal use of paint and whitewash doubly pays for all cost. Remember, that paint is a great preserver of dv/elllngs and farm Implements that are exposed to weath er. Who doubts the use of lime or whitewash as a disinfectant around dwellings, on stock barns and poultry houses? Another reason why paint and white wash should be liberally used on all farm buildings and surroundings: Value many times the cost is added to the farm, so if one should conclude to bc forced to sell, he would be rewarded for his outlay. To have that pride and energy that will keep all buildings and farm uten sils with a fresh coat of paint and whitewash will insure a credit nt the bank, store or elsewhere that ofttimes would be equivalent to money in the pocket, or saving of time and annoy ance.-R. H. Webb, in Farmer s Guide. Profitable Use* of Skim Milk. When the city milk dealers are pay ing such starvation rates for milk, and selling lt to customers at prices two or three times as much as they have to pay the producers for lt, the farmers can put the products of their dalry to some better uses than enriching the city milkman. It ls all right for those owning dalry farms near the markets to talk of working up privat* custom ers and of establishing milk routes for themselves. The farmer and dairy man who lives far away from the city must forever be at the mercy of the distributing agents In the city unless he can control the use of his prodncts so that thc sellers and retailers of it must solicit his patronage. There are many ways to use mille with more profit than selling at two and three cents a quart. There Is a nutritive value In skim milk for feed ing that should at once appeal to every dairyman. We first have the chance to skim off the cream and convert it Into butter. That ls worth something, and it will bring fair prices In any market Let that, however, be ine by product, not the main object of the work. Feeding the skim milk to con vert It Into money ls what we are aim ing at. Suppose now we raise u droVo op hogs sufficient to consume all the skim milk produced In the dalry, and then add a few colonies of chlcSenS. Here we have two distinct sources or consumption. The pigs will thrive and fatten on skim milk when fed properly with other ?ooil lh a way that will pay for all the trouble and expense of breeding them. This sort of breeding docs not contemplate swill, and sour at that No hogs will do their best on sour awl'*, and no one should expect lt of them ... these enlightened days. Hilt If you want to make good ?Weet pork, pork that is not oil fat, but solid and firm, with lines of lean streaked in lt, raise your drove of hogs on clover, and feed them sweet skim milk and some corn meal. Let thc milk be fed as a liquid and also mixed up with the corn. The clover will supply them with one cln6S of food material, and the milk and corn will add fat and weight so fast that the pigs will pay well on the investment. Skim milk fed to pigs In connection with other foods can be made to return a profit of 30 to 40 cents per 100 pounds. This is far better than shipping the whole milk to a glutted market In connec tion with the butter profits, the dairy should thus be made more profitable than when run largely for the benefit of the city milk dealer.-C. P. Raynor, in American Cultivator. Short anti Useful Pointers. Apple trees should have thorough culture. Winter apples are generally the prof Itable ones. Don't cultivate corn BO deep that you cut the roots. Select a cool place when setting hens late in the season. Charcoal made from corn cobs will be appreciated by the hogs. You can't make any mistake by add ing soy beans to the pig ration. Overfeeding, especially with some foods, will result in ruined udders. Make lt a point to introduce fresh blood Into your stock every season. Farmers do not pay sufficient atten tion to the different methods of culture. Variety of production seems to be the best plan to secure good prices for farm produce. The farm where sheep-growing ls made a success always shows an Im provement year by year. The hens roosting on wagon axles over night show that the head of the farm uses but little Judgment. Every farm should have at least suf ficient trees to furnish a good supply of fruit for the farmer's family. Some claim that filth is not {Tie cause of hog cholera, but, lu spite of this, we all know that lt furnishes a prolific field for Its growth. Thc principal requirements of a human being are something to eat and .something to wear. By this you can readily see the value of sheep. The roon who keeps bis cow on pas ture alone from May until October, thinks that his cow is paying too big a profit and wants her to cut It down. Care should be taken In bringing young steers up to their full feed. It should be doue gradually. Bnch day give them just about what they win eat. A farmyard without at least three or four shades trees ls very unsatisfac tory, and If the shade ls secured from some sort of fruit tree, why so much the better. If you have any dead animals don't leave them out for the crows. If you do, you will find that your farm is stocked better with crows than any thing else. A Now Kind of Fly. An astonished, but apparently satis fied spider was one upon which a gen tleman recently made an experiment. The result of his investigations Is told In Public Opinion: While watching some spiders one dny, it occurred to him to try what ef fect the sound of a tuning fork would have upon them. He had a strong sus picion that they would take It for me buzzing of a fly. Selecting a large, fat spider, thnt had long been feasting on files, he sounded the fork and touched n thread of the spider's web. The owner was at one edge of ids web and the thread selected wai on the other side. Over his wonderful telephone wires the buzzing sound was conveyed to the watching sp.dtr, but from his position he ?roula not tell along which particular hue the sound was traveling. He ran to the centre of th?' welt !n hot huste, and felt all Rrotul iirlH be touched the thread against the other end of which the fork was sounding. Then, taking another thread along with him, as a precautionary measure, he ran out to the fork and sprang upon lt. At this point he found out his mis take. He retreated for a short dis tance, and stopped to survey this new buzzing creature which should have been a fly, but strangely unlike any in sect he had ever seen. At length, ap parently convinced that the object at the outer edge of his web was more suitable for amusement than for an article of diet he got on lt again and danced with pleasure. It was evident that the Bound of the fork was music to him. Shirted Responsibility. A woman employed at a XcrKBhirb factory took her five-year-old boy to the hospital and asked the surgeon to look at his hand. By some freak ot Nature his finger and thumb hnd in terlocked causing him great pain at times. "Why didn't you come here earlier, my good woman?" said the surgeon in a tone of sharp reprimand. "The little chap has evidently been suffering from this extraordinary defect since the day of his birth. If you had brought him soon after he was born I might hive done something for him but I very much fear I cannot now." The woman aware that she was sad- j ly to blame, but loath to take the full responsibility, Immediately turneu upon her unfortunate offspring. "Dost ta hear what the gentleman says, Tommy?" she cried. "Tha ou^ut to 'ave mentioned lt five years sim. Olb've no patience wi' folk 'at Buller an' say nowt"-London Spare Mo ments. SCIENCE AND INDUSTRY. A railway ls to be constructed from Damascus to Mecca lu order that pil grims may be saved from a sea voy* age It ls proposed that the line shall be built by soldiers. Wasps eat honey, honey dew and the juice of fruits, but they Also a?e carnivorous and live largely Upon Othe? insect?. Tolle? of noWcrs they ate not supposed to uso At ono place in England, at least, Blntes nie Washed twice a d?y With a disinfecting fluid. The slates O? children should be carefully l?s-peeted and great attention should be paid t? the sponges with Which they clean them. Irrigation ls of the utmost impor tance in Persia, as cultivation depenls upon lt, and water is extremely dear. It has b?on suggested that artesian* well manufacturers might find an ex cellent opening o'h'?e that tile siiccppfi bf those Weils Was assur?d. The application of scientific irriga tion methods has recently given a new development to rice culture in south western Louisiana, ns explained in a bulletin of the department of agri culture. Rice requires wet lands, but on such lands harvesting machinery cannot be used. The difficulty has been met by flooding the dry prairie lands durlug the growth of the rice, and then draining them by a system of pumps, canals and levees, when the crop ls nearly ripe. On the drained 6ands it is possible to use reapers to harvest the rice; thus the cheap labor employed in foreign rice-growing can be met by American machinery. The application of tho turbine prin ciple to the motor machinery of ships has achieved another triumph" In inc case of thc British torpedo-boat de stroyer, Viper. At a recent meeting of the engineers at the lloynl Insti tution in London some Interesting facts concerning the surprising speed of the Viper were discussed. On uer second preliminary trial she nttained a speed of 33.5 knots, equal to nearly 41 statute miles per hour. This is as great a speed as that of many express trains, and If it could be developed in a great passenger ship and maintained continuously would cut down thc time needed to cross the Atlan"'" *~ nh**n\ three days. When running either slowly or at top speed the Viper ex periences little vibration, and lt is an ticipated that she will eventually sur pass her own record. The balloons used by the English army are different from those of other nations, gold-beater's skin being em ployed in their construction I?stea? of oiled silk, it being much lighter, and much more impermeable. The enve lope of 10,000 cubic feet capacity weighs but 100 pounds, and the com plete weight of bnlloou and appliances ready to lift two observers is less than 200 pounds. The cable which con nects the balloon with the ground weighs 87 pounds for a length of 550 yards. To inflate the balloons hydro gen ls employed, and it is carried com pressed in steel cylinders for use when desired, this method having been adopted in preference to generating the gas on the spot with chemicals. These reservoirs form the heaviest part of the equipment, as cylinders for one charge weigh 2 3-4 tons. TEA AS AN ACTIVE POISON. Ita Characteristic Element KUI* Cats ann Babbits In a Laboratory. Tea tippling has become the fashion able dissipation. We have borrowed the habit from Englnnd. Over 80,000 OOO pounds of tea is consumed each year In the United States, women with overtaxed nerves are the great con Burners. Dr. J. H. Kellogg declares that tea is an active poison-that its active principal, a substance called theln, which cnn be distilled from tea in a dry report, is fntabto life. The theln in tea ls about 6 per cent, of the totnl bulk. Experiments have proved that about one-eighth of a grain of it will kill u rabbit and 7 1-2 grains will kill a cat. In one pound of tea there ls an ounce of poison-enough to kill 50 cats. Ten grains of thelm will make a mun ill and a half ounce of tea con tains from 10 to 10 grnins. Professor Lehmann, a German phy sician, gave several men from eight to 10 grnins of theln each by way of ex periment. None of them was able to work for two days. There are tea drunkards. Thore have been cases of delirium tremens from tea drinking. By chewing tea leaves people can beeome thoroughly intoxicated. The woman who is tired takes B cup of ten and is relieved of her weariness. But the sensation of weariness is a danger signal. Under the Influence of a stimulant she does not know when she goes beyond the limits of safe exertion. Tea is a drug, not a roo Not only does tea contain no nour ishment, but it interferes with diges tion. The craving for lt is not nat ural-ns is the desire for food. Taste must become vitiated by its liuouual use before lt becomes an apparent necessity. Children drink it for the cream aiiu sugar, older people for uie effect. Every one knows that tea contains tannin. Add a little iron to tea and it becomes black. Tea made in an iron kettle ls ns black as Ink. Even stir ring a strong cup of tea with an Iron spoon will make lt turn black. xue combination of tbe tannin of the tea with iron makes ink. Leather is made by soaking hides in a decoction of bark which contains tannin. ? man who eats a beefsteak and drinks a cup of tea starts a leather manufactory in his own stomach, tor the tea, combining with the connect ive tissue of thc steak, soon trans forms lt into strong leather. To prove this, e^ak a piece of beef steak in a cup of strong tea for brui an hour. At the end of that time tht stonk will be so tough that it will be Impossible to chew it. Not only is toa n hindrance to the digestion of fats and nlbumlnoids, but lt prevents the digestion of starch. Saliva digest* starch, and the tannin contained in tea hinders the produc tion of saliva. The 5 o'clock ten table lins become a social evil. The prevalence of tea drinking IR due to the fact thnt women are trying to do more than meir strength will permit. When meir energy is exliausted they turn to tea. But the habit is spreading among men. If that were not the case the con sumption of ten in this country would not amount to about $0,000,000 per an num.-New York Journal. The life of an Australian native rarely exceeds 50 years. Price, 25c. EYE SALVE EGOS IN COLD STORAGE, Row They Are Kept by the Million for Use la thc Winter Monte?. Half a million dollars ls a large sum of money to be Invested In so small and apparently Insignificant a thing as eggs, but that ls so approximately the value of the eggs being placed In the cold stornge warehouses of Kansas City last spring. The season ls now at Its height, and before the close about 120,000 cases, each containing thirty dozen eggs, will be laid away for next winter's use. This ls a much larger quantity than was ever stored uere before. Last season about 80,000 cases were stored Ia Kansas City ware houses. The increase ls" remarkable for the reason that few dealers made any profit In their venture last season, while the majority lost $2 to $3 on every case stored. One explanation of the Increase ls that outside dealers and speculators nre looking with more fa vor on Kansas City as a storing point and as a market where they can dis pose of their holdings most satisfactor ily. There are many 'nterestlng details In egg ?andllng which are hut slightly known to the average consumer of poached eggs and omelets. FPW people, realize the ?umber of different hands nn egg passes through on its Journey from the nest where lt was laid in the farmyard of the country to the dining room where it ls eaten, in the city. The Importance of eggs for use in the arts and their commcvcinl Importance out side of their vnlue as a food product are Interesting. Candling eggs ls an Important fea turo of the stornge sea son. It is a slmpl? process of holding au egg to the light in a dark room, for the purpose of determining its quality. Hondlers, who store eggs, have learned by experience the neces sity for eliminating all except the lafgest, cleanest and freshest eggs from cases which are to be carried In stor age for several months. Charles A. Molpr, head candler at Armour's, has from ten to thirty men working under his direction throughout the season. The candling room ls long and narrow, with benches fitted up around the wall. At short Intervals electric lights are strung from the ceiling. The room has no windows and the lights are so constructed that only a ray of light ls admitted. Standing be fore the light a workman examines each egg by holding it up to the light. If the ray shines through the egg clear ly lt ls all right as far as quality is concerned. Cleanliness and size are two important conditions to be reckon ed, and eggs must meet all the require ments before they will be accepted for storage. The attention paid to candling has Increased each season. A few years ago the only candling rooms In Kansas City were small Inclosed spaces In the rear of commission houses, where only one man could work at a time. Now many men consider egg candling their regular trade, and ex perts are well paid for their care and efficiency. No one can tell whether they have slighted their work until next winter, when the eggs are taken out of storage. The overlooking of one decayed egg may cause the eggs of the whole case to decay, and one case of bad eggs would spoil dozens. After the eggs have been candled and selected and packed in new white wood cases, they are placed in storage rooms where a temperature of 31 degrees Fahrenheit ls maintained. They are held in that temperature until token out next winter. Woman's Unnecessary Suffering. Half the things a woman suffers most over not knowing would make her nearly as miserable to know them. -New York Press. Tho Best Prescription for Chill? nnd Fever is a bottlo of GiiOVB'8 TASTELESS Cm M. To;; ic. It ls simply iron -nd quinine in H tasteless form. No cure-ne pay. Price 50c. Dancers of the DAT. "That wosamean trick Barry played Louise. " "What WHS HT" "Why, he disguised himself ns a census taker and found out her age."-Chicago Record. Have you ever experienced tho joyful sensation of n good appetite? You will if you chew Adams' Pepsin Tutti Fruttl. Her Fascinating Occnnatlon. "Dear Mrs. Dibbs! Soo enid she had to make a sacrifico to come to our reception." "Oh, she was bouse-clounlng, I suppose." Chicago Record. PUTNAM FADXLXSS DTZB do not stain tb? bands or spot the kettla Bold by all druggists._ Anxieties of tho Cou m ry Hide. "WhatahorrnBsed look Mrs. Waddletou al ways wen rs whon she pets up n picnic." "Yes: sho's either afraid of snakes or afraid the lemonado won't ?'.o around."-?, hlcago Ro ord. _ _ Rev. H. P. Carson, H'-otlsnd. Dak., says: "Two bottleBof Hall s Catarrh Cure completo ly cured my little girl." Sold by Druggists, 75c. Mrs. Winslow's Soothing Syrup for children teething, softens the gums, reduces InOamma tlon, allays pain, euros wind collo. 2'?c a bottlo. Tho Child nnd the Moon. A fow ovenlnRB ago a Walnut HUI little girl caught a gllmpso ol tho new moon aud ran into the house shouting: "O, mamma; mamma! Come out and nee tho moon! It's half undrossod!"-Omaha World Herald. 'Queer Story About Um br* I las. A lady who keeps a summer boarding house it tlie seashore near Boston went down the other day to look the house oveii and find out what must be renew ed; She found numerous umbrellas' left by former boarders, and, tying them together, she took the buudle to Boston to h?ve them repaired. Ehe stopped id at Hovey's and laid the bundie oh the floor at her feet at the counter. When sho had made her pur chases she forgot her umbrellas, and absent-mindedly picked up an umbrella lying oh th? counter; thinking lt was hrcs, Or hot thinking at ail, and start ed off. Then the owner of the uinbrell?, a wdma? standing next her, seized her and said very sharply; "Yo? hdv? taken r?y umbrelia!" Of course she apol ogized- feeling very much cut np1 about lt, aha went on, forgetting id her flus' ter her own bundie of umbrellas. The next day, on her woy to Cambridge, she went to ?lovey's nnd readily recov ered her lost package, which had been kept for her. On the car for Cam bridge she noticed a lady eying her very closely. Presently this lady lean ed forward and said to her, with ele gant emphasis: "You seem to have been more for tunate to-day!" It was the lady whose umbrella she had taken the day before.-Boston Transcript. ? Twenty-seven years ago there were twice as many medical as theological students at Berlin. This year there are four times as many medical students. Ladies Can Wear Shoes One size smaller after using Allen's Foot Ease, a powder for the feet. It makes tight or new shoes easy. Cures swollen, hot, sweating, aching feet, ingrowing nails, corns and bunions. At all druggists and shoo stores, 25c. Trial package FREE by ma/' Address Allen S. Olmsted, Le Hoy, N. Y. Literary Ornaments. "What ls a library, pa?" "A ll Urary; Jimmy, ls whit a man has when he pets ?opi-tlier an awful lot of books that he nevor hns Hmo to road."-Chicago Kocord. KITS permanently cured. No 0 ts or nervous ness after first dny's use of Ur. Kltno's Great Norve Uostorer. i'J trial bottleaud tn-atlso froo. Dr. It. H. KLINE. Ltd., 031 Arch St.. Phlla., l'a. An Inquiry. First Hou-YOB: nffllotlon has visltod our coop My iHM>r slste^ is gone. Sncond lion-So sorry! Did she pass away with a white men or a colorod man?-Puck. CASCARETS aro absolutely harmless, a CARETS promptly, effectively and penaanei but correct any and every form of irieenlarit; Cooa. Hover sicken, weaken or grifa. Wi New York's Unknown Millionaires. A Wall Street man who has been making up a. list of old unsettled es tates in New York City said that until he began the work he had no adequate appreciation of the great wealth of this city. "For Instance," he said, "I discovered an estate last week which amounts to a good deal more than a million and when the man who owned it died suddenly several years ago no one knew him outside of a little circle of family friends. He was born In New York City and lived here all his life with real estate valued at more than a million dollars in his name and yet he never figured in any of the lists of wealthy men. Of course the Fayerwenther estate was a striking example of unexpected wealth, but there are many others which foot up lu the millions and of? which the public knows nothing. There ls no way to get a directory of these valuable es tates. Many of the trust companies have lists of them, which they guard closely. My Information has been gained by following up all sorts of clues and old records and if I decided to publish it, after it had served my purpose, it would make Interesting reading.-New York Sun. Plenty of Space Between Crops. If a new variety of corn, melon, cu cumber or tomato ls to be preserved In their purity the plants of one variety should not be grown near another. A highly-prized novelty of a melon will be ruined if other melons are grown several hundred fee*, of it, or even a greater distance, ab bees and insects carry pollen from one plant to an other. The fact that varieties of corn will mix even when two or more kinds are In distant fields, ls well known. 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