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?
Cre
dishes
DOES YOUR BACK ACHE?
Care the Kidneys and the Palin Will
Never Return,
Only one way to cure an
back. Cure the cause, the kidneys.
Thousands tell of
cures made by Doan's
Kidney Pills, John C.
Coleman, g prominent
merchant of Swains.
boro, Ga., says: “For
several years my kid.
neys were affected,
and my back ached
day and night. I was
languid, vervous and
fame in the morning. Doan’s Kidney
Pills helped me right away, and the
great rellef that followed has been per.
manent.”
Sold by all dealers. BO cents a box,
Foster-Milburp Ma, Buffalo, N. 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.
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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.
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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,