NATURE'S SIGNALS.
Tho Crst Indication of Iddney dis
irder is often backache. Then cornea
pain in the hips and sides, lameness,
soreness and urinary
troubles. These are
the' warnings - na
ture's signals for
help.- Doan's Kid
ney Pills should be
used at the . first
sign.
A. Treitlein, 84
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ven, Conn., says: "I
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:hev?ain when I moved that I thought
( would pass away. The kidney action
was irregular and* the secretions
maided; Three doctors gave m? no
relief. Doan's Kidney Pills cured me,
ind for ten years the cure has been
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TOO LATE.
Dr. Pill em-There must, be some
thing radically wrong with your sys
tem to have, your hair fall out so.
You will have to diet
Skantlox-Dye lt? I'm afraid, doc,
there's not enough of it left to dye.
Doll House Library.
A search for a child's short story,
'The Griffin and the Minor Canon,"
in a volume all by itself revealed to a
persistent city shopper the thought
and money that are expended on the
furnishing of dolls' houses. Book
stores had not the story in a single
volume, but in a , department store
one young woman interviewed had re
cently been transferred from the toy
department and was able to contribute
a helpful hint.
"I think," f he said, "you can find it
In one of the dolls' houses down
stairs."'
Curiosity had by that time become
a sauce to literature, so the shopper
hurried down stairs to inspect the doll
houses. Three of the most expensive
houses conta ned libraries consisting
of a score cf diminutive books and
each bock contained a child's story
-complete. One of them' was "The
OrifBn and'tlt? Minor Canch."
One Side Enough.
. " Senator William Alden Smith tells
of an Irish justice of the peace out
In Michigan. In a trial the evidence
was all in and the pl anti ff's attorney
had made a long and very eloquent
argument, when the lawyer acting for
the defense arose.
"What are you doing?" asked the
justice, as jthe lawyer began.
"Going to present our side'of the
case." '
"I don't want to hear both sides ar
gued. It has tindency to confuse the
coo rt. "-Washingtonian.
And They Wondered.
Judge Niclrolas Longworth, who
\ used to sit on Ohio's supreme bench,
looked unnaturally grave, and a
neighbor, in recognition of his facial
depression, named a pet owl "Judge
Longworth." It was the very next
day that an excited maid broke up his
wife's garden party. "Oh, madam,"
said she. "Mi;dam! Judge Longworth
Jias laid an egg." \
Included Har.
""Why did she get angry at the
rstranger in town?"
"She asked .him if he had seen her
daughter, and ile answered that he
had seen all the sights of the place."
Game.
The Creditor-Will you pay this bill
now, or never?
The Debtor-Mighty nice .of you to
give me my choice, old scout. I choose
never.
You Know Them.
"Is thal: a now hobby he ls riding?"
"No; same old frayed ho ss. Ifs
the new blt and bridle that attract at
tention." .
Good intentions are always hot
stuff; that is why they are used for
paving material In a certain locality.
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with the addition of
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witH bernes "or fresh
fruit.
Delicious, wholesome,
economical food which
saves a lot of cooking in
hot weather.
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Battle Creek. Mich.
WIND O? 1
Wind ,o' the moor, breath o
What ia the mutable voie
I listen and listen again anc
Freighted with whisper of
Ever at dawn of the dar, o
The murmur comes of str
And methinks that 1 often <
The rustle of feet and the
Wind o' the moor, yoi! are <
For all of the pain 'ol the
Rest for a little space, for rt
And would fain forget-fe
-C
? A Lass of
Life was a wretched muddle; Mar
garet Alice said to herself, with a
sigh; disappointment and failure all
along the line, and only a few short
years ago she had thought it well nigh
perfect. Of course there was the
child, but Tom wasn't Joe, and at this
point the poor girl brushed away the
not tears angrily.
What was the' good of fretting for
one who had proved himself to be lazy
;and selfish and dtterly unworthy of
f any woman's love and trust? lt Was
( true Joe had never.difted his hand to
her, but he had lashed her with his
tongue, which was a hundred times
worse to bear. It had been torture
to her sensitive spirit to listen to [the
scathing torrent of abuse v.hich had
Issued from his lips upon the slight
est provocation, and even now her
cheek reddened at the recollection of
1he hateful words he had hurled at
her in his anger.
Sometimes she had a vague feeling
that her heart must be dead within
her, so indifferent had she become to
the common things around her; it
was only when her baby cried she
knew it was not so, for his feeblest
whimper was sufficient to arouse her
from the dull apathy of despair into
which she had fallen.
Just two years since she and Joe
set up housekeeDing together in the
tiny house in Do.e avenue, and now
all her sweet day dreams lay in ruins
at her feet. Crushed and undone she
had come back to her mother, "noth
ing but a bundle ot skin and hones,
and with scarcely enough spirit left
to hold her head up," as that worthy
woman confided to her special crony.
"And her as gradely a lass* as ever
worked four looms to be saddled with
a child thafs worse than fatherless."
the neighbor answered sympathetical
ly, seeing only an additional burden
and expense in the tiny morsel of hu
manity.
But to Margaret Alice the child was
the one gleam of brightness in the
darkness of her let, albeit his coming
haoTbeen the chief cause of all her
wretchedness. |
In Loomshirer unfortunately. It is
customary for a woman when she be
comes a wife to go on working at her
looms, and in this Margaret Alice had
.inly- followed In the steps of thou
sands of her sister weavers. Indeed,
she had preferred to do so. for her
wages were good, and ^very week she
was able to add some useful piece of
furniture to their comfortable little
abode, ..but It was surprising bow
many "off day?" her husband seemed
to have after the knot was securely
tied.
"I doubt he's a bit lazy," one of
her sisters ventured to remark when
these holidays became more and more
frequent, but Margaret Alice dis
claimed the calnmny'indignantly; for
love is ever blind, and a .woman's
faith in the man of her choice dies
hard as a rule.
But circumstances alter cases, and
with little Tom's appearance upon the
i^scene Margaret Alice resolved that
other mothers might please them
selves, but as far asshe was concerned
the factory should see her no more.
Henceforth her home and the baby
must constitute her kingdom. Al
though she had never even heard Rus
kin's words she resolved, as she lay
in her delicious weakness, with the
downy head upon her arm, to be a
sort of queen to her man and h r boy.
"Joe can earn good mo .ey when
he's mind, and now that he's set up a
family he xl see the need of sticking
to his work in downright earnest,"
she mused serenely with a loving
glance at her baby. "And he shall
have the cosl?st home in all Loom
shire for his pains,"she added, proud
ly, wholly unconscious of the hard
wall of opposition which was already
rising up between herself and her de
lightful plannings.
For there are always two stand
points from which Ito view a situation,
and, to his shame, Joe Gibson's dif
fered very materially from that of his
wife.
"Th" boy'll be a month old to-mor
row, and old Nance is a rare 'un at
minding children," he began airly
one bitterly cold day as Margaret sac
by the fire with the child on her knee,
making a wonderfully pretty picture.
"Nay, Joe, you'll have to be a sole
breadwinner now; my work's at
home," she replied in her slow, gentle
fashion. But the next1 moment she
gathered the living bundle to her
bosom, and gazed at ber lord and
master with wide, startled oyes. It
was scarcely to be wondered ac, for
the storm of invectives which fol
lowed quickly upon her mild speech
might well have made a stronger
woman quail.
To dis:over flaws In her husband is
always a bitter experience for any
woman, and after that sudden awak
ening Margaret Alice carried a heavy
heart for many a month; black looks
and infinitely blacker language be
came her dally portion, and it is more
than probable, had it been summer
weather she would have lacked cour
age to adhere to her resolution. But
to take her delicate darling from, his
warm bed into the frosty air ?f the
early morning and leave him to the in
different care of an old woman during
the long working hours of the day
was something she shrank from with
all the force of her affectionate na
ture. She had not belonged to the
Rock Street Recreation Club and at
tended the debates on popular and
practical subjects which were held
there twice a week to no purpose;
she knew something of the high death
rate of her own town and the chief
"HE MOOR.
f the vast free reaches,
e wherewith you cry?
I 1 dream your speech is
lips from the days gone by.
r when sunsets darken,
ange, inscrutable things;
:atch, what time I heaken,
i beating of unseen wings.
?ldritch, aye, you are eerie; .
past can you find no cure?
ly heart is weary,
irget, O wind o' the moor!
linton Scollard, in the New York Sun.
the Loom %
cause of it, and her little Tom was not
going to be added to the great num
ber of weakly children in Loomshlre
if she could help it. ? i
i "My place is at home, and at home i \
I'll bide," she reiterated doggedly to ? j
all her husband's vituperations, but a
sullen expression, hitherto unknown,
gradually crept over her pleasant,
open countenance. j t
After that only God.knew what she ? t
endured for her lips were-dumb con
cerning her humiliation. There were
days when.her purse was empty, and
her cupboard bid fair to outvie that of
Mother Hubbard, so scantily were its
shelves supplied by the man (?) of
the house, but Margaret Alice, thrif
ty by nature, had the knack of mak
ing a really appetizing meal but of '. I
very little, and always, there was the I
child to bring comfort tether heart ! 1
when even her brave spirit faltered.
It is marvelous how cruel a man may
be without striking a single blow.
The tongue, an unruly member at
best, is apt to lacerate its vlctutnes .
unmercifully when let loose in^-un-'c
governable fury.
The trying winter passed and a de- I
Ughtfully balmy spring followed, but J
the girl's physical strength had sunk t
to a very low ebb, and at last there c
came a day when she felt too crushed t
and weary to battle any longer with t
the forces of evil which had risen up . ?
against her. j ?"
Little Tom was ailing, too, for. *
sheer want of the care which had j1
been his from his birth until now: |
and when his grandmother-who had :f
obtained a slight inkling of the true j *
state of things through a kindly, in-1c
quisitive nleghbor-insisted upon j *
their coming home to her, the hus- j1
band, more ashamed than -he would j c
have owned even to himself, but : *
fiercely resenting his mother-in-law's;1
interference, declared that he would ? c_
emierate to Canada, and h'? wife
could go or stay, as best pleased her.
After a few weeks at home Mar
garet Alice went back to uer looms,
while little Tom ran a great danger js
of being completely spoiled by five \ r.
maiden aunts, who bickered vigor
ously 3mong themselves for the priv- ?c
ilege of nursing his small highness.
In Loomshlre the great cotton
mills close for a week during the hot
weather, and the busy.workers mi
grate to the sea or country, as their I
wills incline,. to refresh themselves |
and gather strength for the coming 11
winier. Margaret Alice's youthful sis- j t
ters were no exception to this wise . e
rule, and gr* it; were their prepara-?I
tions as the time approached for the j "f
annual exodus. The worse than hus- fl
handless wife pleaded earnestly to he "
allowed to remain quietly at home
with her-'boy, but her not unnatu*?l 11
desire was met with loud voiced op-, i
position. j t
The child needed sea breezes raore?s
than anybody, and Peg would just -
spoil the outing altogether if she re- .
fused to go with them. Afford It,11
indeed, when they had been paying
into the holiday fund the whole year
long, and everybody knew quite well
that what wou'd keep five could be
made to do the same for six.
After that Margaret Alice could
do nothing less than pack her scanty
wardrobe; and baby Tom crowed de
lightfully at sight of the big waves
which came dashing over the prom
enade at Silverport.
Margaret Alice was not what would
he termed a religious woman-her
family had never even been regular
church goers. Perhaps that was the
reason the open air service held on
the firm yellow sands the day after
their arrival attracted her more than
it otherwise might have done. With
h ;r child asleep on her knee, and her
five sisters scattered like a protecc
ir.g hand around her, she listened half
dreamily, half critically, to the deep,
musical tones of the preacher, as he
sought to convey his message of hope
and comfort to the multitude of holi
day makers. Her own dream of hap
piness had been so brief, and the
awakening so terribly disappointing, j ?
even though sh? should live to be x
quite old-and in spite of the aching i
loneliness, she would like to see her i
little Tom gTOv up to manhood- t
her life could only be a half and half i
sort of thing at best, she thought. i
Yet here was a man boldly declar- t
lng God desired the happiness of ev- c
ery man;-woman and child. Buttbere, '
what was the use of paying any heed? j
It couldn't possibly be true, or. why ]
was there such a tremendous amount :
of misery in the world? For shel
wasn't the only disappointed woman | "
by a long way; there were scores lite j t
her even in Loomshlre. !
.niMMOMM?MMtosoeoa
I DESCARTES' ?
fN the discourse of Descarte
One's Reason Rightly," hi
intense desire to learn h<
falsehood in order that he mig
and that he might be able to w
* * * There Tore he determl
''a provisional self-government;
the rules. I give the rules as st
by Mr. Huxley:
S First-That he would subm
S llglon in which he had been bro
Second-That he would act,
. for action, promptly and accor
9 ment.
Third-That he would seek
2 sires rather than in attempting
Fourth-That he would ma
S business of his life.
S Descartes wait just coming <
X himself these rules of life.-'.
j Wm. Jewett Tucker.
flMIIIOHMHt
"Yes, you may have devised youl
vays according tc your own inclina
lion, but tbe Lord shall still direct
rour steps," were the next words
?vhich fell upon her ear, "and He is
ible to bring all your disappointment
ind seeming failure to a happy is
sue. And, I ^ell you He is Just wali
ng to do it," he continued confident
s', Tf.you will only put yourselves
nto. His hands and wait patiently;
'or nothing,, however difficult it may
ippear to , you, is impossible with
3im."
"Nothing impossible," did he say?
Ul, well,, talking was cheap, words
lld not cost anything; and she didn't
suppose he kn?w much about loss
)f any kind; fine gentlemen rarely
lid,; so It seemed to. her. But It was
:oo much to hope that God could
.eally give her back her home of a
rear ago.. Her mother was goodness
tself, and her sisters had welcomed
1er among. them again with open
inns, and had shared with hXer their
>est; but they weren't Joe, and only
be old love could fill her empty, hun
jering heart.
"He will, restore ali that you have
ost; yea, a hundredfold more than
rou ever possessed," came the words
)f the preacher, as though in answer
o her.unvoiced yearning: but after
;hat Margaret. Alice heard no more,
or. Tom awoke with a frightened lit
?? cry-perhaps th?-sudden rain of
mt-tears/which had fallen upon his
'ace was largely accountable for this
-and his mother's attention had per
brce to be devoted to him. Yet there
vas a prayer in her heart, and the
)reacher's words stayed with her.
"It was the very best holiday they
?ad ever had," the girls^declared np
>n the sixth day of their visit, "and to,
ret up in the morning and have noth
ng to do save enjoy themselves until
light came was just Al." said Eliza
beth Ann, the youngest and bonni
?st. :
The waves came dashing over the
rromenade rigbt up to the houses be
yond, as the girls made their way
o the pier as soon as breakfast was
>ver. Once there It would be possi
ble to find a sheltered nook where
hey might enjoy the fresh, health
jiving breezes in comfort; the sands
vould be perfect later on when the
Ide washout, and little Tom could
oil about to his heart's content.
Elizabeth Ann. who adored her
ranll nephew, had begged to be nurse
hat morning, and just as. they were
rossihg the busy square in front of
he pier, which was crowded even at
hat early.hour, with a gay, laughing
irowd on pleasure bent, a huc;e mo
or car came swiftly round the eer
ier. Margaret Alice, who was still
>n the sidewalk, stood as though pet
ifled, gazing with horror stricken
.yes at the little dancing child in
1er sister's-arms; the^cruel monster
vas almost; unon them. Suddenly a
?trengely familiar figure dashed from
>ut the crowd and almost threw the
>abv and Ms nurse beyond the line
>f danger./Too late to escape himself,
?owever. A shrill, agonized scream
ssued from, Margaret Alice's white
ips. as she'saw him hurled withtre
nendous forte to. the ground.
wo ^oken r
de, and an ugly wound on his head,
hat's all; well soon have him patch
id np;* and things might have been
nfinitely worse from all accounts."
vas the doctor's verdict an hour later,
is he beamed upon the white faced
;irl in, front of him.
"His wife, eh? Well, If you'll
iromise to behave like a sensible wo
nan, you shall see him for five min
ites; nobody has a better right, I
uppose. But there must be no cry
ng, remember. I certainly draw the
ine at anything approaching tears."
md with trembling limbs Margaret
Uice followed the doctor into the
?col ward of the Cottage Hospital.
?? * . *, ? . . '
. "As long as th' little chap were
afe. it wouldn't ha' mattered a scrap
f I'd neen killed; there were nobody
o fret for me," the patient ruur
nured feebly.
But Margaret Alice, her heart too
ull for words at sight of the poor
tandaged head, pressed his hand
igbtly as. she laid her soft cheek
tgainst his;
"You don't mean to say as you'd
ia* cared if th' car ha' done for me,
ass?" he whispered at length, a note
>f mingled surprise and incredulity
n the husky voice.
"Only make haste and get well.
Toe." she sobbed, utterly regardless
if the doctor's warning. "He's go
ng to give me back all I'd lost, al
hough I was wicked enough to say it
vasn't true."
"I don't rightly understand what
rou're after, lass, you'd always plenty
>f learning for the two of us; but
f so be as'i you're willing to try me
igain," he added jerkily, after a mo
nent's pause, 4lyou shall never have
io more cause to complain. I'll work
ni fingers to th' bone for thee and
:h' little 'un, and-" there was a
vhole world bf shame in the falter
ng-'tones at this point-"I'll keep
;his tongue of mine in hand if you'll
inly help me."
/ And "Margaret Alice sealed the com
pact' with a' loving kiss.-Esther
Branthwaite, in London S. S. Times.
It is on record that a mass of gold
neighing fifty pounds was taken from
i Bolivian mine in former times by
Spaniards. '
LIFE RULES. 2
s upon "The Method of Using
s says that he always had an
JW to distinguish truth from
ht be clear about his actions
alk sure-footedly in this life,
[ned to set up what he termed
," of which these were to be
smewhat broadly paraphrased
it himself to the laws and re
ught up.
on all occasions which called
ding to the best of his judg
happiness in limiting his de
to satisfy them,
ke the search after truth the
jf age when he laid down for
From "Personal Power," by
CHILDREN'S E
UMBRELLAS.
People on a rainy day
Look like mushrooms, strange to say,
And their round umbrella-tops
Gleam, between the falling drops.
Little mushrooms grow in clumps i .
Round the feet of mossy stumps:
Large nines wander up and down
Through the streets of Rainy Town.
-Miriam S. Clark, in St. Nicholas.
A NOVELTY IN KITES.
The large bird-shaped kite shown
In the accompanying picture is called
an "agloplan," the name coming
from the French words "aigle,"
meaning eagle,- and "plan," meaning j
& level surface or plane. Thus thc |
kite is called "eagle-plane," or-plane
with the shape of an eagle, which it
is made to resemble. j
The wings and head of the bird- '
kite are stiff planes, the body, as l
shown, being made of four square
pieces ol canvas stretched stithy upon
a frame of bamboo, steel and whale
bone. The "agloplane" may be made
to lift small cameras for taking
birds-eye pictures or to ascend with J
instruments for experimenting in !
wireless telegraphy, etc. By the pa-|
triotic it may be made/ to carry the ?
nation's banner to the skies. The j
builder, however, uses it for advert?s- \
lng purposes. It combines the lifting .
power of the old-style flat kite with
the rigidity of the modern box-kite.
A.ny boy can make one.-Philadelphia
Record. j
THE LITTLE ROOSTEPv.
There was once upon a time a little
tin rooster which stood very high in
ieed on the top of the town hall
steeple. He was a new little rooster
with a very long tall. He shone and
glittered in the sun, and he thought
to himself, as he stood there so far
above all the other roosters down '
below In the barnyard: ,|
"Now this ls because I am made of r
tin, and have such a very.long tail.]
They put me up here on the steeple '
for all the world to see."
The little tin.rooster- stood -pericet- j
ly still,' and felt very proud, and r
spread out hiB tail in the pleasant |
sunshine. He did not remember that j
lie should be of some use in the I
world. He was thinking only of how j
pretty he looked in the sunlight. He j
was vain of his tia feathers, and he j
began to make a great deal of troubla j
for the people down in the village.
Out in the harbor the old sailor
had anchored his ship. ,He was go
ing for a long voyage to foreign port3
when the wind blew in from the west.
There he would buy silk dresses for
the grandmothers, and sugar and
spices for the cooks, and great round
Dranges for all the little boys, and
French dolls for all the little girls.
"Ahoy, ahoy, up there!" the old
sailer called out to the little rooster :
an the steeple. "Which way ls the !
wind? Will it blow from the west
mon?"
"Cock-a-doodle-doo! Cock-a-doo
31e-doo!" said the little tin rooster.
'Now how should I know anything
about the wind? I stand here that
ill the world may see how my tail
Slitters!"
And the little rooster on ".'ie steeple
stood still and never moved. As for
the old sailor-why, of course, he
:ouldn't sail that day.
Down In the meadow the busy
farmer stood ready with his scythe
to cut down his hay. Before he
swung it over his shoulder, though,
he looked up at the little rooster on
the steeple. ' ,
"Halloo, up there!" he said.
* Which way Is the wind? Will it.
blow from the east to-day?" j
"Now how can I tell?" said the vain r
little rooster. "It Is no affair of mine j
which way the wind blows. I stand
liera that all the world may sen how
brightly I shine in the sunshine." j
The farmer swung his scythe. ;
Swish, swish, it went, and the yellow
hay lay in great rows along the field.
Then he raked it into round hay
jocks.: but, just as "he had finished,'
3plasb', splash, patter, patter! Ab,
the wind was come up from the east,
bringing the rain, and the farmer's
hay was quite spoiled, all because of
the foolish little rooster.
In the wee cottage by the lane,
mother dear was washing the baby's
clothes. Caps and socks and frocks
and tiny jackets there were ia a red
tub and covered with snow-white
soapsuds. Mother dear had her sleeves j
rolled to her elbows, and as she
sudsed and rinsed and wrung the ?
pretty things, she looked through the |
fines that grew round the cottage j
door and up at the little rooster on
the steeple. ?
"Will there be a soft, south wind
to-day," she asked, "to dry the baby's
clothes?"
"I don't know, I'm sure," said tin*
little tin rooster. "You see I have
no time to attend to such affairs. [
am up here to be admired, not to
watch for the wind."
So mother dear hung all the baby's
slothes out on the line; but, alas! no
toft south wind came by. The clothes
iid not dry at all that day, which was
partly the fault of the proud little
rooster.
DEPARTMENT.
Then Billy-boy fcanie out lo the vii
lase street to play with his line, new
hite, i .
"Ob, ho, little rooster on the
steeple!" Eilly-boy called, "will you
tell the old North Wind' that I want
him?" ' I
"Not LT said the little tin rooster.
"I should have to turn myself about
for that, and then m'y fine tall would
not show so well. I am up here for
all the world to see. *'
"Who-oo-oo-o said that?" It was
the old North Wind who had heard
the little rooster. "Who-co-od-o said
he would not turn for me?"
u\ did," said the little rooster, quite
bravely. "I am not going to turn for
anybody!r.
"Whee-ee-e. we'll see about that,"
said the North Wind.
. So the. North Wind just blew and
blew and blew, but the little tin roos
ter never moved from where he stood
on the steeple. Then the North Wind
blew and blew and blew seme more.
Crash! Down went the proud little
rooster to the ground. There he still
lies with his pretty tin feathers, all
covered with rust. There ls a new
weather vane on . the steeple, which
always turns with the wind.-Caroon
S. Eailey, in Kindergarten Review.
LAND OF THE SOMBRERO.
Every Mexican likes to have a Ano
hat or sombrero. These hats, with
high, pointed crowns and broad
brims, are sometimes made of costly
material and decorated with many
bands and buckles of gold and silver.
Then they weigh several pounds, and
cost, perhaps, two or three hundred
dollars. The plain sombreros are
worn by the poor Mexicans dwelling
in miserable huts in the country
places. Some of these one-roomed
homes are built""of large, sun-dried
adobe bricks. To live in one of them
must seem like living in a box, for
each has a flat roof, dirt floor, no win
dows and but one doer.
These country people take their
produce to market on their backs, or
in ox carts, which have wheel3 made
of solid wood. The wealthy people of
Mexico live in large beautif"'' homes.
Outside these buildings look rather
plain, but inside they are very rich.
Usually, in the centre of ;he house,
there is a lovely garden, so that all
tho rooms may open onto it. There
fountains play, birds sing and flowers
send forth their fragrance. In parts of
Mexico water is very hard to obtain.
Many people make a business of sell
ing-it, going from house to. house with
their large, jugs. Usually ue water
carrier has two long jars of water
strapped to his head, but those who
are more fortunate carry the water
iars in wheelbarrows. Next year
Mexico Is going to c?l?br?t? tlie one
hundredth anniversary of her inde
pendence. ..
In that country there is a president,
just as there ls in the United States.
President D:.iz, now about eighty
year3 old, is completing his seventh
tt-rm of office, and it is likely that he
will agajn 3erve as president for the
people who live in the land of the
sombrero.-Washington Star.
A new process for making an in
sulator, according to the, Electrical
F.evicw. has apneared on the Conti
nent. It resembles ebonite and con
sists ot ? mixture of tan bark with'
one-third of sulphur. The whole is
heated until the sulohur merits. The
mixture is well stirred and then
cooled, when it takes tbs1 form of
small black grains. These are put in
a pressure mold and heated, the re
sult being a block of insulating ma?
terial of any form.
At the recent meeting of the Amer
ican Street and Interurban Engineer
ing Association of Atlantic City, a
new system of street railway con
struction was. proposed. The idea
was to form the car wheels without
flanges, but Instead to place the
flanges on the rails. The new con
struction was ably presented and
many good arguments were brought
forward to show the superiority of.
such a system over tho present ono.
-Scientific American.
P. F. Bander points out that, not
r>nly the direction and intensity of
light, but its color, must be consid
ered in estimating its power to re
veal flue details. Exroriment shows
that most per?on3 are short-sighted
tor blue and violet light. When pat
terns are illuminated alternately
with'red. green and blue light tt ls
found that for ease of seeing minute
details blue and green lieht are pref
erable to red for short distances, but
that at greater distances red Ugh?
gives the best results.
Arcording to the pctrJeal Jour
nal thpre fre twenty-eight single
pine roads In Americ?, with 691.8
mil?s in operation, and 274.5 miles
under construction. .V'-oad there
are thirty-six singte-^nre railroads
covering 771.0." mMes with 57.73
miles tinder construction. The total
number of slngle-^hase locomotives
in this country is fifty-seven and the
number of cars 240, as against forty
three locomotives and 222 cars
abroad. The total, horsepower hero
ls 137,400, while the total of foreign
roads is 64,160.
The naval, mercantile, marine and
general engineering and machinery
exhibition to be held at Olympia,
London, next September, will, if ls
stated, be the largest of its kind ever
held in that city.
TUBERCULOSIS IN THE PRISON
Per Cent, of Sufferers Is Enormous
and There Seems but One
Remedy.
From several Investigations that,
have been made by the National As
sociation for the Study and Preven
tion of Tuberculosis, it is1" estimated
that on an average about fifteen per
cent, of tho prison population of the
country ?3 afflicted with tuberculosis.
On this basis, out of the 80,000 prison
ers, housed in tve penal institutions
of the United States at any given
time, not less than 1^,000 are infected
with this disease. If the Philippine'
islands' and other insula? possession?,
were taken into consideration' the
number would be much larger. Some
of the pr'* ons of Pennsylvania, Kan
sas and Ohio show such shocking con
ditions with reference to tuberculosis
that many wardens admit that these
places of i detention . are death traps.
Similar conditions could be found in
almost every state, and In the major
ity of cases the only sure remedy ia
the destruction of the old buildings,^
and the erection of new ones.
.. --
Keeping It Dry.
An old woman of. a. wealthy New
Jersey family was gplng visiting. The
coachman, who had not been in this
country long, had just been equipped
with a new uniform and a new silk
hat. Before they had gone far it be
gan to sprinkle, and the old woman
told the coachman to fasten down the
side curtains of the wagonette.
Ke drove up to a hitching post be
side the road and, dismounting, hungV
his new hat on the post, and begun to'
fasten the curtains.
The old woman noticed his bare
head and asked him where his hat
was. C.
I"Ol took lt off xae head, mum, so as
is wouldn't get wet," the coachman
replied.
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Less Lavish. [
"I saw 'Uncle Tom's Cabin* played
recently." '
"So?"
"I think I'll read the book."
"You may be disappointed. The
hook mentions only one little Eva and
one Lawyer Marks.'-Louisville Cour
ier-Journal.
A Treasure.
"Your new maid looks very . dis- **
Icreet."
"Indeed, she ls. She even knocks
at all the drawers before opening /
them."-Pele Meie. /
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and tne Iron builds uu tho system, bold by all
dealers for X years. Price 60 cents.
There can bo no greater mistake,
than to suppose that the man ' witn
$1,000,000 is a million times happier
than the man with one dollar.
fi
For COLDS and GRIP
Hicks' CAPUDINE ls thc best remedy-re
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Cold and restored -normal conditions. It's,
liquid-effects lmmetllatly. 10c.,-25c, and 60c.
At drag ?toses.
The secret of life ls not to do what
one likes, but to try to like that which
one has to do; and one does like lt
in time.-D. M. Craik.
Dr. Pierce's Pleasant Pellets regulate
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Sugar-coated, tiny granules, easy to take.
Do not gripe.
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The lamb that plays around a mint
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