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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
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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