Cost and Time of Trip to a Star.
“I.et us suppose a railway to have
been built between the earth and the
fixed star Centauri,” said the lecturer
“By a consideration of this railway’s
workings we can get some idea of the
enormous distance that intervenes be
tween Centaurus and us.
“Suppose that I should de
take a trip on this new aerial
the fixed star. I ask the ticket agent
what the fare is, and he answers:
“The fare is very low, sir. It is
orly a cent each hundred miles’
‘And what, at that rate, will the
through ticket one way ?' 1 ask,
“It will ¢ just $2,7560,000,000," he
answers.
“I pay for
train We
rate,
‘How fast? ask the bral
going?
cide to
line to
cost
and
and board the
off at a tremend
ticket
ous
aman,
‘are we
says he,
There are
‘Sixty
‘and its
no stoppas
. " then, won't
Says
‘hile
1a
Dusky Potentate's Coronation,
own d
~ 1
niy come to the
oad eo
and reasonable
ympany is
it 0 : if Om Imnission,
if any statute « tate Legislature,
takes ! :
amen:
pany.”
SPECTRE OF EDITOR APPEARED
Subordinate Notified of Death by a
Ghostly Visitation.
That more things in heav-
en and earth than dreamed of in
his phil experience of
Charl managing
of the Morning Rep bli an at Chester,
Pa. U he filled the chalr
of city editor of the morning paper,
but during the of Victor H
Klett, the managing editor, he per
formed the duties of that
After sending the last
press a morning or two ago, he left
for his home on Madison street, which
he reached at in the morn
ing Just removing his
clothes, getting Into
Led, a came before
his eyes
Thinking it was vu? the vague crea
tion of a weary brain he was aboul
to turn out the gas light when the
figure of Mr. Klett appeared at the
foot of the bed, lingered a moment
then vanished
“Klett is dead,” said Mr.
as the spectre dizappesred,
When he reached the office at noon
the next day Mr. Melville was not al
all surprised to find a bulletin an
nouncing the death of the late chief
with the further fact that he had
passed _awaey at 4 o'clock.
A few days before this Incident Wil
llam Moore, a young man, died at the
Croser ho:pital. Just before he died
he rose vpon his bed. His face light
ed with a smile, and, exclaiming.
“Why, there's mother,” he passed
away. His mother died thirteen years
go.
there are
editor
illness
desk
edition to
i o'clock
as he was
preparatory to
shadowy figure
Melville
Rem ED
.. I~
he why.
A WORK
ight and quality.
talks about a
that
AT \ +
Se
CHOOSING
Look for we
market, when it
}
aorse
HORSE
draft
means a when he is
pounds
when
nel
price
has
will be
It is a
n a hill row.
row I have
going down
and raking
level before
way
his
other seed the
the
Jet
8.7 and
other
will come up unevenly,
up first will er
gardener try
depth without hilling t
one owid the
any
even
plan
he TOW,
and he will never go | to the old
way
Don't
two
they
geeds so
om if
other
Plant
have
the
drop seeds at ran
on top of
i each
dwarf cach other,
that ot will
crowding
BEeUs LH
will
each re
room to grow without
root of its neighbor.
While it is not desirable to
any thick, even in hot
beets are a possible exception.
plant
bed,
For
seeds
thick, thin out for greens or (rans
plant. 1 astonished some Long Island
farmars last summer by transplanting
poets among my corn. The corn has
had its last hoeing, and one wet day
in June 1 went out In a shower and
transplanted the corn full of beets.
The wiseacres sald these heets would
amount to nothing. I broke the
leaves off each plant so as to leave
only two inthes of stalk with the
Then | made a hole
eu
stick so
with a
the
beet in a
deep that root
bent, put
the
Of
them back so th
not be
hole and
with my
held
pressed about
fingers
well
until it was cut
summer. Then they
left t
put bushels
made up for
me I hem
st, and
for
Ont
of them
winter 1
¥ were
SWoeles beets | ever tas
plants large
From
ripe toma
The
fF ripe tomat
ground
tomatoes
very few
the
with
rich
tomatoes,
oaded wit
patch
for
we gathe
about a
made very few
after the
month inat
panting
and
covered
Hea
frost the was
with green
inazt planting
matoes
und
made
and after
waa covered
was
Ereen toma.
perhaps a
and
of ripening
‘he sol
instead
he moat tomatoes
chaffy ground.
blight towards
season which
ripen up early
came they were
fow
tomatoes
were grown up
The vines
first of
them to
time frost
gone, and
soll. The
as those
guccessful
the
have
before frost,
the Indiana Farmer,
some
ik the the
the caused
By
nearly
ym that
as large
To be
must
the
very were lost
were :
heavier ground
with the tomato
plants out early they wil
plenty of time to grow
. B. In
no
one gerd
BO
Infant Mortality,
The German imperial labor organ
Relchaarteitshiatt, has compiled com.
parative statistics showing the death:
rate among infants under one year
oid In seven great industrial nations
of the world, In order of mortality
they stand thus: Germany, Austria,
Great Britain, Switzeriand, Austria,
United States and France. In Ger
many the percentage death rate is
given as 34.5; In Great Britain, 26.6;
in Italy, 258; in the United States,
18.2; and in France, 15. The arer
ages for the years 1901 and 1902. :
i LIGHT COLORS.
{ In closing a gown It is
| 1ecessary that the
| 00 dark and the
| nade that the
sasily ripped
Ome Warmer,
If the CO
mart
frequently
color must l
jacket should be
interlining may
out when the days
tume
wear-—-and
itruggle along
morning
| tfternoon dress
thabby
the color
wa
worn
f one expects
treet
In
widths are
lace
roperly shaped
thing of beauty, and
it to both
A bertha of
one of the
will add a distinct)
plainest will
affective on a dressy model, Berthas
of circular shaping lend themselves
particularly graceful arrangements
There are pretty belts of
ored linen, and many of them are
made to match the colle and cuffs.
Pear! buckles, oval, round or square,
the correct device 10 nese with
styles are worn,
narrow fiat
modish,
recent importations are ex-
yoke and
bertha 1s a
stout and thin figures
lace, or
imitation
Ve
real
ful laces,
to
equally
beaut
} touch the
bodice, and be
+
LO
Among
of lace In combina
tion.
HOW TO LIVE LONG.
Prof. Boyd Laynard of London,
gives these twelve rules for
and long life:
1. Avoid every kind of excess, espe
2. Do not live to eat. Select those
paly it.
$. Look upon fresh air as your best
camel's flesh brush
it Is ne
Kk The
as effective
CORBATY
ver bad plair
are
are kept
of th
for a hair
place for beauty,
just as
clean. Turtle
backin
brush
one
ket
first
ity has no
Jewelers
nest
equal
rival
of
Many are
are set
wealthy women of
their
elaborate
dainty
studded
que
display 3 mounted
backed with gold
with
brushes
prec
today
boudoir sets
or too
sanctums
oid
designs
back:
this
brush is
daintiest
OUSs
The
take great pride in
and nothing i=
for their
brass
gems in ant
but very
also
stones.
100
with
Egyptian
makes an
ing. Some
heavy
have
odd
combs
The carved ivory
always pretty, and it is the
There are many women who
any other, as the col
rooms are delicate and
the effect. Newark
orings of their
these carry out
Advertiser.
Roasted.
A local merchant asked a Salina
editor to roast the city administration
for letting an itinerant peddier come
in there and underseil him on goods.
This 18 what the editor wrote: “City
dads, you will hereby take notice that
you are roasted for permitting ped-
chant for whom we do this favor hes
wig job printing done in Chicagor--
MIBE MARIA DUCHARME.
America is Inter-
This Young Girl's
Fix perienee
cated in
PELVIC CATARRH WAS
DESTROYING HER LIFE.
PE-RU-NA SAVED HER.
8% improve ment U iri ipl. #1 ON
plas rd 1 Peruana and on |
a well uw bi « I rare
Life and Or -
ral medi PEA
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pan
w heal
an ae
Knowles ¢ ihis jact Juach~
arms
Chicage Po
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Brunzel,
Grand
Mrs. P. Bruns
stock £1
terribl
ck
what was
with
my bs
know
enjoy a night's
and
rest
n the more
feeling tired and
hed My sul
fering sometimes Was
arose
unirefres
simply indescribable,
When 1 finished the
first box of Doan’s Kid
Pills 1 felt like
a different woman, 1
continued until I had
taken five boxes,
Doan’s Kidney Pills act very effective
iy, very promptly, relieve the aching
pains and all other annoying difficul-
tien”
Foster-Milburn Co,
For sale by all druggists,
conts per box.
*
ney
Buffalo, N. Y.
Price BO
Youngster Mad Much Fun.
Cyrus Knight caused a great deal of
listurbance among the people of Great
Barrington, Vi, one night last week
tyvmitating the fire whistle. He ac
complished the trick by his own lung
power aided by a phonograph horn,
and the imitation was si perfect that
people left stores and residences to
find out where the fire was. He sound:
od no partienlar number, which added
greatly to the perplexity of the situa.
tion. Cyrus is, of course, a 10-year
old.