Americans Ars aint Users, It has been remarked that the Amer. fcan people consume more paint, both in the aggregate and per capita, than any other people in the world. In a recently published article on the sub- ject it was figured that our yearly consumption is over 100,000,000 gallons of paints of all kinds, of which over oue-half used in the paintings of houses, ‘I'he reason for this great consump- tion is twofold: a large proportion of our buildings all towns and rural con structed of wood a people, are given to neatpess and cleanliness, For. take it all in all, there is nothi so cleanly or so sanitary as paint. Travel where we will throughout the country, everywhere we find the neat, cheerful painted dwelling, proclaiming at ounce 08] ty and the self- respect of our population. Fifty years ago this was not pr.nted dwellings, while common ¢ larger cities and towns, were the exception in the rural districts; be- ¢a1ase, on the one hand, a large pro- portion of those bhulldings were tem- porary makeshifts, and, on the other land, because paint was then a luyury, expensive and dif t to obtain In the out-of-the-way and requiring special knowledge and wuch prepara- tion to fit it for use, The introducti of prepared pa 3 bon the entire as Jack-of-all-trad ) Walking Ilelegate in on stave Thanet's stories “Any } an slather paint.” The insurmountable difficult : Our prede CRROUS ready for try was read) I popular forma is sh succe of the in phenomenal growth in fifty years fron nothing to ¥OL.000.000 ¢ mated output for 1900 Some pr i written al class of pain and manufa paste paints stances tified a I fully construe past been worked consumer paint. their peared, an ufacturers come Couris is espec 3 sm districts, and we. as 1 the prosperi 80; in mixed or changed As reads t 1860 ie wn by tho Ait tiat Tey bre ¥ alate (USITY and vilons—the est to uid linseed el Li a Th omimer will last a paint to wait latter considerat the consun alse id can neve as m n painter nb it, he is buy a better | at less than it « Prepared 1 on their convenience comparatively comparably said, the ex proper person mixed paint. any one and the and “slatl it appears his trade, painter's trade ers, else fferen BROAD In tl garding is an opp vegetarian anism tha joyable mg person ants where Jattle get all milk all kinds drinks? 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Y. aching THE PREACHER. “Lay up in heaven,” the preacher cried, “Your treagures " ‘gainst your coming to abide, Now I have nothing here to lay away, But live my life and pride, with poverty lay all the brigl i William. 0 1525252525252525252525¢25 . { sald qui forgotten ; again Fut were passionately and Lucy Lucy agi attache apother, digappeared, and heard Then a letter came contain. family hoe kad a banking ac postmark was a in Northern that he indicated count rontier India fown in America. There was no address, however, £0 they could not write Four more years passed, Colonel Frank Lemoine sat on the ing 4 very long cigar A soda-water n a bamboo table at his side, to- gether with a pair of powerful field through: which he had heen reamining, off and on for the last the defile which led through he gorge, and #o to the desert plains Jevond His brows were knit, hia teen gray eyen were troubled, the strenyous face had aged in twenty. four h pevond the telling. The thing that had aged him does not hap in many lifetimes, nor once In Suddenly to his feet A horseman the bridle path few Mrs pily occur more than one he was which defile In two, A moment he saw the white folds the rider's head. In the view in { cut the of on an hour veranda daughter charm report and Chaps li | twice in a whil know you are Una says Le wer, what to quiet wit You have You and understand ane 80 riggs n another The Colonel's keen eyes on read his was a to the old mas, and for a quenching of hope yery rare creature, he had dreamed his Briggs’ reves tho For ! face soul It i lation | moment ghe was a cerning whom dreams, passed, and he offered his hand. the right to speak within" peril and the salvation at many breakfast tables. In a cer tals middleclass morning-room at Strestham Common, in the columns of the Dally Telegraph, William | Briggs, sevlor, now grown portly and bald, read the brief despatch which conferred distinction on his son. “Mother, read that,” he eried excit- edly, and passed It over Some one leaned upon her shoulder and read with her the words with which all England was ringing It was Lucy She burst into tears, British Weekly. MONEY MARKED WITH A PIN. Detective Says This Is Better Method Than Marking With a Pen, 7" repeated “Well, it 1} the ot ¥ money narseaq “How 1s at pv. at lieve: vate AVEeTHRES that mons Jap Farmers Know no Window Glass £4 from re et nearly Japanese reak of paint riental farmer that is atmosphere in there In the Pine Tree State, Many of the titles of the smaller of special mention. Hog Valley Is a picturesque retreat near Raymond, Dog Corner, Hencoop Cove, is a well known place in Winthrop, while out sometimes happened. A mile long is Pin Hole Hill, the steepest ever, and all the way up are little rests, “to hang the pins on,” people say. Over Poland way Is the hunger inspiring name of Beeftown, while highly sug: gestive of meglige was the old name cf Saccarappa.~—Kennebee Journal, The Chinese pen is a brush made of soft halr, which is best adapted for painting the curiously formed let. ters of the Chinese alphabet. i I ’ ~ CLEANING Dodder ALFALFA BEED. is a yellow, threadlike tw weed which is exceedingly blesome alfalfa flelds falfa nm field thr a or ciov utmost fagtor uecessit) sulted surroundings od in bre« ¥ io er means ul must follow breed for a gOMme a Purpose Such gelected that will mean year in the face of the sir competition, The harvesting of large amount of hustil time and invclves a ent CTODE I right 3 the study of a minimum. The farmer today not only must understand how to raise a large crop from his acres and produce fine stock but he must also understand the best methods to pursue in dispos ing of the crop and stock at profit SET MORE NUT TREES. From time to time we have urged that farmers give up a portion of their grounds to trees in order that coming generations may not be without a sup ply of wood, which is likely to be the case if we keep on denading the forest lands and plant so few trees, [It is not pecessary to confine the planting of Jig RU HA Ts _ i Nath 'SE large is to t mist aor of but there can not experi n which by the most careful worker. All things of having one y house, no mat ia advisable, but the satter of division is a thing to be se rionsly of tered. In our own experi we like geratching shed di visions better than anything else. This is worked out by building a roosting then a scratchingshed, then another roosting. room, another geratchingshed, and so on to the end of the house. This idea is that each house has its scratchingshed, which is located between two roosting rooms except at one end. even ence room, sn" ARABI WA Spokane has a church that cares for servant girls. Swedish Congre gational churches from all over the inland empire have just held a con ference followed by a dedication of the handsome new $12,000 tabernacle at Second avenue and Division street,