EXPENSIVE BEETLES. hansas Once dnhabited by a Breed of Insects Now Extinct, "ifty dollars seems an extravagant for one heetle. Yet Kan was once lnhablted by such insects, urice 10 pay and they sold read ily that much and sometimes for more, hot It has made miles and miles of hair grow on millions and millions of heads. Not a single gray hair. No age ruff, Twenty-one years { AZ0 TWO young s« | entists, Prof. 8, WW Williston and Dr Il. A. Brous, while exploring hranches of the Smoky Hill River for fossil remains, the Smallest Conrtesies came across the Make Life Worth Living. rarest of beet! "On every hand one hears of the nog the APPRECIATIVE “THANK YCU." It In That beetles. Bs lect to say ‘thank you," writes Kd ward WW. Bok on “The Saying of “Thank You,”"” in the Ladles' Home Journal. “I wonder sometimes if some people really know how little of what comes to them Is their due and right, and how much of what comes to them and The of things which come to the amblichila, be longing to the fam AN EXPENSIVE BUCO ger beetles, the highest type of these insects. During the remaining days spent In the field the two naturalists studied the insects’ habits closely. They that this specles was even more cious in nature than other mem bers of the tig family The larvae dig a foot deep Climbing mandibles to the with jaws open, level with the ground they UNWAary attempts to are not only carn ive. If the hole it with dragged Rp its supposed enemy been rr —— hi ft. It 1s ily of voracious ti Is favo: vast ma jority come by pure learne » by Courtesy 1s, , by courtesy, And this, No act of kindness, however slight, should go un fero its favo should recognize * beetle we about two sharp sickel-shaped holes hy noticed A you is a simple ¢ top of thing to say; squires hut a few mo write . it the burrow, t! ments to often means that much; it som 4 receiving it. It wait for any prey means everytl cross the opening They to the person lneans vorous but combat renewed faith In human pature A word of thanks ls never If it ipon the person to nto BOE Cases lost, neve wasted sometimes seems to + lost whom [t Is directed, on has irom IR eX pros: not upon sowe one else who certainly not lost A man may wake his first baby fo see [t laugh, he the peaceful s ene, but thank son But the AS great as the large ser fr. We It doesn't thanks never dist anniek ough to SECO! service stall overlook give Rheumat’sm Is permanc ntly cured Dy Hood's Sarsapariila Which noutralizes the Lactic acid in the blocd. | (pe aot * It is all + last Thursday apart But {t many « "RS A be Thousands who were Sufferers write that they Have felt no symptoms wonid fn all ti did so we mi be thankful into Of Rheumatism since Taking Hood's Sa "$8 Dé I The Jack Rabbit, dealers In “Coasting' on the Bible. A friend of Listener a Kansas funny sight Maine t a place enzth eedn’t be named, there ra t hh the Hides awakened to 1 Ios there, which n lives a small boy nan ian | A Longfellow, merican mand bi rousin of the poet; and he a great | tees sin Boy, too. One day th sud of the I ng JAsfener “was d house, and saw Ritie diston Hippery crjist on “RT Niate We w jack rabbit skins at 3 Jonathan's tue Loy engaged at a 1 sliding downhill e il on a something that was el or damaged ' sot a sled What could | pleces 3 cents wns ob iy the scrutiny of the passerby served bp roRSIDL and sliding down was the smooth, sontaining Longfellows maguif Transcript. ' with nO Onomatoparin, ae ' charged ben Carl Nippert, the “Soda by FA “ wit! wag, jum; Water up and said, ¥ should say, « YOUr nounour, his name.” AA A JOYFUL MOTHER OF CHILDREN. $e) wv ern Boienge no Woman Need Despair. There are many enrabie canses for steril- ity in women. One of the most cotnmon is reneral debility, accompanied by a eculiar condition of the blood, BA. ‘are and tonic treatment of the fe- maio OTEans reiieve more cases of sup- posed incurable barrenness than any » Nn other known method. This is why Sa 11 Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Com y pound has effected so many cures: its tonic properties are directed es pecially to the nerves which supply the uterine system. Among other causes for sterility or barrenncss are displacem nts of the womb, These displa © rents are caused by lack of streagth in the ligaments supporting the womb and the ovaries: re. store these, and the difficulty ceases, Here, again, the Vegetable Compound wobks won- ders. See Mrs. Lytle's letter, which follows in this column. Go to the root of the matter. will do the rest. her own healing and restoring herbs, Write freely and fully to Mra, Pinkham. Her address is Lynn, Mass, She willl tell you, free of charge, the cause of your trouble and what course to take, Believe me, under right conditions, you have a fair chanse to become the joy- ful mother of children. The woman whose letter is here published certainly thinks so: “1 am more than proud of Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound, and eannot find words to express the good it has done me. I was troubled very badly with the leucorrhma and severe womb pains. From the time | was married, in 1882, until last year, I was under the doctor's care. We had Ho shildren. I have had nearly every doctor in Jersey City, and have been to selvin Hospital, but all to no avail. I saw Mrs. Pinkham's advertisement in the paper, and have used five bottles of her medicine. It has done mors for me than all the doctors I ever had. It has stopped my pains and has brought me a fine little girl. Ihave been well ever since my baby was born. I heartily recommend Mrs. Pinkham’s medicine to all women suffering from sterility, "— Mus Lucy Lytie, 355 Henderson St., Jersey City, N. J. Tak FARM AND GARDEN, ITEMS OF INTEREST ON ACRICUL. TURAL TOPICS Dry Bran for Fowls--Keeping Milk from Odors.Experience With Thoroughbred F owlswDry Land Crasses---Etz., Etec. yr DRY BRAN FOR FOWIL.S practice uu fowls It IO isten that is quite ¢ common wheat bran fed they can swallow it Yet this is just what {s not wanted. If bran is fed dry and spread out very thin the fowls will pick a long time before they i et a full mouthful, Part of the ration fowls should always be whole grain, to give something for the sto to work on BO to faster oi » as miaach I EEPING MILK FROM ODORS €3ne reason why at this season much poor batter is made the ailik is get in some room adjoining the Hilse ig because where it {8 subjected to all the dl in cook These odors al hen odors 5 of the kitchen stove use meats and vegetables 2 the heat from the the milk warmed ins wis stove ire } or bed by and the cre as has to be $0 as to ripen, the thus admitted have the best 561 ole chance to increase ‘RIENCE WITH BRED FOW I Keeps TOW IH first ry larmey and after the Cost it takes n the roroughbreds common than iv bring Hy uring at y sini fi hought DRY LAND GRAS mmintain ckly these and up qui ¢ tart The beat o alian rye and tall dry grass, Ansty ungarian brome They grass i on they Ny do bi : have air where re moisture in the to as arid de interior elas growth. Some saaast have irrigation or pon winter growths of annuals thre Italian, English and Ausira- “¥e grasses, the last for nia. It 4a variety of the Eng Fre which comes to ration In Auniralla and ite ex. in that part of the world better fitted for another dry country like the arid belt It has beem very largely used and approved in this State for the last twenty vears It may be worthy of trial on the dry jands that are so common in much of eastern and southern States lands pend Of best in jes us after perience makes it tie YT ALUE OF MANURE Manure, like anything of worth, re. auires some care, and neglect here can not be nade good by care in the choice of seed or in the management of the soil. “There ig one point of exceeding importance in thé care of manure, that is to keep it from wasting, After an article of good quality has been cured. #t surely is worth caring for Now, im traveling over our Slate how rarely do Wwe see care bestowed Upon tae protec on of manure and how of- ge. was given 0 wing this important | ¥ ment of from an good Crops the barnyard is Wikste eguently incline draining into o hilly field near where many hundreds of : fed vy [A | more [ dite Ol i jess teep there is tht barn bushel i ¢ year after year, and th washed away to the streams wicked wiastelulns And things happen on fa intelligent ins men ¢ Cou sought tant matters manure often 1 rare excep Cf iS Waste Fhe manure of many distil arge fattened, in that Mommy rule Of cattle hed the cheapest w numbers often flu being stables, J have where | int streams iy of cleaning the seen farmers do Just the many are doing nearly as bad Manure would be of value not soluble The pliant is incapa- of appropriating the fertilizing when they are in our no were ri ble cone stituents, ex fo i emt liquid rm turn o food nourish us. | just as into hiood ants But Set 8 manures alone which the was rain hes out also barn yard, and once the ms carted there of Efrain in many to the fa and exts ning expe nses. Just and think, friends. how happy and in mcfat farmers would eighly acres even forty debt in the world paid the first wnenied: when they sell the money in their pockets as it iz needed in their fam. ily to the wife above want she will never noed anything she does not have on hand or the mones got it with Families on a large farm are often more cramped for the conveni ences and necessities of life than many who don't pretend to own any land One of my friends here in the West owned 160 acres, with a mortgage on it. I tried my best to persuade him to gol] eighty acres. which would have be if dependent they with small books pre put it owned ofr 2Zreatl or day the not a ftaxea any- thing and nae Keen 80 0 deoht He asked me very coolly if 1 did not think he could look after his own business. This is about all 1 ever got for my counsel. Poor times and poor crops came on, and now he is renting the same farm. and without an secre of land to his name. or anything ese, 1 believe on man and his family would be far happier on a small farm, even if he waz able to own a whole section, and We ought to find some rest before we are dead. My younger days were spent in Vermont mall farmers. The ¢ the to-do thie among farm fila i wp {then die | ink hi small i big He Now Regrets f Pad h chang. a I«¢ to TAMMI (MN) against francs the ¥ before Mapping the Skies HNers rvw here work ping being (0 pha tographes will of the 5 ny, and the skies in assigned to taken at total 51 observatories OF a for hemisphere mai Tha 3 sae N each small Yalse small of catalogued | bered, by which means any "10 the eleventh magnitude may leated at a glance One object of this {immense and splendid enterprise iz to {show just what aspect is presented in the heavens now, 80 that! any changes iin the future may be detected and measured a method by which, it expected, valuable data will be i tained will be 11.0s or 220K four ast for the entire un how which and num down composed of these ones: will eofme 20 000 000 stars of S000 000 will be siar be lo je ob: A Quaint Swiss Custom. A sensational civtom prevails in Welsh, Tyrol. When a young maiden is to be married, Immediately before {stepping over the threshold of her old home, on her way to church, her mother solemnly gives her a new pock. et-handikerchief. The bride wipes away her tears with it. and then pute it aside, never to be used so long as she lives. When she dies the Joving hands of the next kin places the bridal handkerchief over the face of the dead and it is buried with her in the grave, » ABOUT CAMPHOR, How the Odoriferous Drug is Obtained From the Trees. Notwithstanding narrow limits 4 ment, the camphor the tively of its tural i Omg ar enviroa- k COL ire grows well ¢ cultive under widels erent ditions i has become Madagascar Alres nthe Canary Islands, in naturalized in at eno if BOR Joaquin {the i Bum ~ and dry Arge at JWIng in the at Tokio, w..e they are to a winter of seventy of ost, with an occasi 1rees years old, a Courts re 1o elgnly min 12 deg py onal re an low for re 1068 ar The cond it Htivation app« 10 be tempera fifty yp i campaot from the Wm until they taken DIOR Processes i easily be mor geligtinons leather, although of ore lea and pliable nata {range com. nie i hin strips and 14 mogity is plaited very closely sther for whip and to ortions expensive whips lashes handles of more fain Kinde of lashes and harness are also made of eel skin This almost description, where an uncommon Cer laces indispensabls is leather of this with desired alijed tonghness is Why There Was No Sermon. In a smell village in Gloucester. shire the clergyman was visiting, bat was expected back to preach on the Sunday Early on Sunday morning however, the parish clerk received a message from the clergyman to say he would tiot be able to preach. ax he was going to “officiate” for another clergyman Ax ne service time drev near the clerk rang the bell; and when the time was up and the people were sesembiod, he went into the pulpit and addressed them thus “This is to give notice that the par. gon will not be able to ‘preach here to- day, as he is gone "a-fishing’ along wi another parson.” —indisvaplis Sent. nel, It takes 2.000 of the Korean cous known as “cash™ to equal £1. Trave. ers need an extra bullock to carry their funds,
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