| The Decline Of Mirth. The explanation that laughter is ness of the modern view of life is dis- carded by Signor F. Franceschinl, an talian psychologist. He concludes that mirth, like poetry, depends upon imagination, and that the develop- of the reasoning powers has banish the distortion that makes things seem funny. The more the imagination is brought under the control of logic the less do we laugh, PE-AU-NA CURED HIM. Cold Affected Head and Throat —Attack Was Severe. Chas. W. Bowman, 1st 4th M. S. M. Cav. Vols, ham, Md., as follows “Though somewhat medicines, and still n coming a professional seems only a plain duty in the | stance add my experience to umns already written concerning the « tive powers of Peruna. “Ihave been particularly benejited by its use for colds in the head and throat. I have been able to fully cure myself’ of a most severe attack in forty-eight hours by ils use according todirections. Iwuseitasa preventive whenever threatened with an attack, “Members of my family , f like ailments. We are re our friends.” Lieut. and Adjt. writes from Lan- tont averse to patents 10re averse athdavi + to W. Bow Ask Your Druggist for Free Peruna {imanac for 1907. Chas HICKS’ CAPUDINE = IMMEDIATELY CURES | L HEADACHES A ] Bh Breaks up COLDS a L\ Jo Fa IN 8 TO 12 OURS S 8 Trial Sorte 0c. At Druggow Work For Small Theodore Gill, the world authority on fishes i'nited States Government $1 a month for his a rich man, on sities have conferred gress Dr, Harrison G other wealthy man, who kn about mosquitoes living devot time the governt $25 Giffor millionaire, is head of States forestry servi comparatively well p being $45 ann Several government figures, wo doing it puts it. Salaries, whom than person, to i a month per things.” h, by seat on ti S—————— tical. and to more than smile is be- coming a characteristic of a simpler and more natural culture, where im- agination still holds sway and people have not forgotten how to laugh, Lightning Flashes, Lightning flashes in a storm are found by an English observer to he much less irregular in period than they appear. Such storms have usu- ally two foci sometimes three from which the flashes radiate, and discharges from each come al intervals The apparent ir- regularity is due to the varying rates the different centers In a July, 1905, the two foc t, and In center emitted Of Iv, & $5 the s0U the storin were hour the northern intervals and flashes at 90 seconds, gave 16 34 and 51 Another explained observation is that great flash there | faint lighting { storm and intervie . Ld, seconds each mentary the fore in region From Malaria. One day a man, app into +3 -pgtauran arently white, 1 ol looked him blood inh light guadroom ovel Here you “Not “But [I know | I am a Malay The head He looked suspiciously Where is he lays { nonpl the: was and from?" the n Mal 1 Sik id Goldsmith's Resurrection, compan) was pla ing Stoops to Conquer Conditional, that spread and unqualified endorsement. hosts of grateful friends as For more than 30 years It has cured more cases of Backache Irregularities and periodical pains, Bloating, Nervous Prostration, I also deranged organs, causing Under all elrcumstances it acts in It removes that wearing feeling, “want-to-be-left-alone” feeling, in, which this medicine cures as well Backache, of either sex, ' Those women who refuse to accept thousand times, for everywhere. Refuse all substitutes. and Local Weaknesses than any other in an early stage of development, Weakness of the Stomach, Indigestion, sensations and ckache. th the female system. extreme lassitude, ‘‘don’t care” and nervousness, diz- melancholy or Sie "Blu eno derstiouien oO ® Organs, fe ney Complaints and draggin as Ch —————————————— d———— EN ‘THE HERD." The solely which aearly «The ng on farms yreeding. yeur BOAR HALF farmer for heads true, THE raising finds the article to bane swine in general in-and-in Many a from give them deterior: who (is stock market this saying ne yYelry Of ras is i farmer vear after] among his the promise for breeding, The selects | which reserves is irobably thi he pigs hose best 2 | 80 gradual it, | LOCK tion, hardly true obser YOR The * roid 108 the neve all | alsed he qualities essential in highest thus tO UCOess jut t ned etrogression rations of weak the |UCCeSs ive gen ¥ the great 1088 come n constitutions and shows in through inbred animals their | assimilate and aay in fonsue the and ng fo th } igs at a time by « ing them thor 5 seghily with the sledge hammer; ime squarely endant holding natural 3 well ear the ins he vit ice (not larger jollar) lone right fon of blood on shime, which the meat While the pigs ng brought to ir handle. will any coaguia the shoulders and prevents perfect curing f 2 bleeding and be {don't drag it causes are the barrel dead, before as fifty-gallon ba add and one-third palls of water and a pint of unleached | Scald the rear of the first pig gently moving the carcass until | halr slips on legs: while head | + scalding place gecond pig cross. | sf boiling water to a el: old one 3¥ i of the barrel Proceed with | ons from barrel and add from Ket ‘ng water, which will raise the tem- perature just right. While the first two pigs are being scraped, hung and thoroughly washed with first hot and removed from the barrel to the heater, when you proceed to kill the next lot. «The BEpitomist, FACTS ABOUT BGGS. An average hen's egg weighs a trifle less than two ounces, but the sxceptionally large egg tips the scale at three ounces--whereby hangs a tale of experiments which the De- partment of Agriculture ls conduct ‘aereasing the size of eggs, By actual trial its experts have found that there is sometimes a dif ference of over half a pound in weight in a dozen eggs—a matter of no small fmportance In the economy of the housewife, who purchases them. At the Maine experiment station efforts chickens large eggs, In egg Is often in the flock, the breeding has do with the matter than any factor. Next In importance the development of a ten lency on the the hens to lay of unl the vear round--not now again a big one, but of approximately that will lay the * biggest smallest obvious that as by the hen it more is {to other is part of ORES form a small size all one, CREF als large the weight WAYS ame made in no attempt heen uch purposes, but the formi wiys mmende Squirrel Nests in Boston Common. A jure nest high up in an eid uiiding women watch and tops anc enough footed things pi ition the very ideas that the birds have This t building squirrels is in nes of tha by as glock sen one ting made wags most interes moves the common animals sing § Transcript. d with joston Whaling as a Modern Business. Whaling with The of to completely the fa a small enterprise com the great industry of jong oll is scarcely he vegetable world AEO oO d lure 4 t 1g oh ay. ugh! supplanted the The bone's has been highe: ome $6.50 a pound today and. a 1 whale average more than 25.000 pounds of bone Two whales will yield a ship a dividend; average catch It costs $15.000, including advances 10 the personnel, later deducted from their catch percentage to outfit a ship a summer in the Arctic. Often the ta worth $120,000, of which abost $25,000 goes to the skipper There's money in whaling, often more than in mining and salmon canning, the north admits, and so even great jawlessness exists than in those Harper's Weekly having =o leviathan arta in the thing it never in pric oo 111 ight will © five are the about : pursuits Breeding Places of Tuberculosis. Tuberculosis is a house disease, and when savages give up their rough, outdoor life and pass a greater part of their time between walls and under roofs it soon makes its ap pearance among them. Yet civiliza tion will march on and houses will always be a part of it. But they need not necessarily be breeders of con sumption. The slums of cities are great breeding places of tuberculosis and municipal sanitation has not been developed to a point of working thor oughly and directly for its preven tion there. This would seem strange to a man from Mars in view of the fact that yellow fever has been stamped out by a similar method and fully oneseventh of the deaths in the United States are caused by consump Ing for the very practical purpose of tion. Cleveland Leader, NOVEL STAMPS FOR 1807. Rix Thousand Presidential Offices At fected—The Change Expected 1° Discourage Post Office Robberies and Also to Enable Uncle 8am to Keep Tab Better, A number ted to all the United for 1907 to be | Presidential post offices will the name of which the Twenty-six of will have these their other have heen fact that stamps $008 explain Of rea the BULKES States postage sued from the 6.000 bear each the State and city In it office Is the post offices POs situated 6 Oi) engraved upon gtamps, while in the case of the offices the names will be the face of the post printed act thea Os after chief the New eriminal Chicago a example of the other partment business office ness “By tl} business is in certain min or offices ary depends up th amount stamps he sells, which the where the postmasters sal of and there is still an other use to be put “There ing post entitled ter that instance, jocated not far are many small places has ‘ he amount of mast- by ti mail nasses through the office. For take a small cluster ¢ the city. nd houses from Say they have a post-masier, number of letters each day is small “Well. along comes a postal tor. looks the receipts and over, and comes the conclusion that the business done does noi justi. fy the maintenance of a post office. Then he tells the postmaster there is possibility of putting passing to a i A — ———— - oe s— stamps fie uses, By this manoeuvre thie permanence of the post office at that. village, although there has the slightest of business to it. “But some post office handle the mail matter, and when he assures particular not been increase will the for the the his the large postmaster of the large office asks to that lowance owing told done as told by not justify greater a growing a business he is apparent Dusi of stam] gale increas This of the city plan of nameg i glamps is not entirely been i Ie followed in Mex Fr 9 4 in 14 of Lhe beria also i 1 principal towne iy Ja the tampa THE AMERICAN QUEEN. Woman in Our Family and Public Life Described for German Readers. most striking and novel POS but the Eu- 211 a wife Among the « the briefly The » home family, and of the great man lamprech mediaeval America * aw. Mam. United States— America 4 bile opinion and the UTeRs in 3 people, takes ils universal chorus he great trinit newspapers is tl dollar, To taadi 10a keynote of woman. governs the politics and American wWo- ¢ are constantly continually exalted beautiful wise and in the world, Woa not add his voice In woman raise man” devoted the most charming woman to him who does schools of America, 100, The education of boys is almost entirely the work of women, who train them to the national ree spect for women. The position of the sex appears still more plainly in the the likelihood of losing the post of fice. “ ‘Now. he says. ‘you use a coupie of dollars worth of stamps each day in your business in the city. Sup- pose that instead of getting them there you purchase them of me. i will get credit for the sale, and the postal business here will aprear to be picking up.’ “This is a reasonable proposition; the resident doesn’t care to be de prived of the convenience of a near by office, so he falls in with the plan, "The same pwpposition is made to gwo or three other residents of the place, They also agree. “The result is that the next time the inspector comes around he finds that & material increase has taken place in the sale of stamps, and will then say to himself: ‘Well, this lit- tle place seems to be growing. ™™ just walt and see about that rural de livery idea. “The postmaster goes from one resi The result is that the American man nervous almost to the point of hysteria, like a woman, always going to extremes; and his conduct and his tastes are feminized. He seldom he fine, strong masculinity of the German man -—From the Muenchaner Neueste-Nachrichien. in Self Defence. An eminent judge of northern Ven mont was fond of telling the fallow. ing story: “At a session of the criminal court over which he was presiding, a man was being tried for stealing a sheep. He had been discovered taking the dead animal home, and when he was arrested there was evidence that the sheeo had already furnished severnl meals for the family. H. was asked if he had anything to say before sea. tence was passed upon him. 7 killed the sheep, your honor, but I did It in self-defense.’ “ ‘Self-defense?” sald the indignant judge. ‘Killed a sheep in selfdefense? What do you mean by such a state. ment? To which the man replied: ‘No damned sheep bites me and lives. "Harper's Weekly, It is dificult to free fools from the
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