' NEWS OF PENNSYLVANIA
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FAKMKKS niO I'IMKJHAM.
State College (Special). - The first
half of January will he an Important
season to the farmers of the State.
First, an Interesting program has
been arranged hy State College au
thorities for the Farmers' Week, to
b held here from .Tanuray 1 to 8.
The schedule shows that the days
hire been divided Into five periods
and for seven days of exercises there
will be eighty-eight lectures and prac
tical exercises on crop growing, feed
ing, breeding, meat dressing, cattle
Judging, batter making, Ice cream
making, poultry, 'cooking, forestry
and horticulture.
The list of speakers Includes thirty
three men and women who are mak
ing a success of their work, scientific
or commercial, as the ease may be.
Following this will be the annual
convention of the Pennsylvania Dairy
Union at Wllkes-narre, on January
14, IB and 16. The program will
Include men prominent In the com
mercial and scientific sides of dairy
work, who will lead in the discussion
of the problems vital to, the dairy
business. Silver cups and cash prizes
will be awarded exhibitors of dairy
and creamery butter. Five pounds of
butter are required for an exhibit.
The Dairy Union will furnish a pack
age for the butter, will pay the ex
press charges on the exhibit and is
sue a certificate of membership for
the year 1908, the butter to become
the property of the Dairy Union.
A banquet will be held Wednesday
evening, January IB, to which all In
terested in dairy matters are invited,
tickets for which can be secured from
the secretary.
A silver cup will be awarded to
the highest entry of certified milk;
also a silver cup to the highest entry
of market milk, not certified, and a
diploma to each entry scoring 90
and over.
The contests will be held In the
armory, where there will be an In
teresting display of mnchlnery con
nected with buttermaklng and dairy
ing. FREE MIHIARY SITE.
Norrlstown (Special). The first
step towards a permanent home for
the Free Library of Royersford has
been taken by the library paying
$1000 to S. B. Latshaw for a lot
183 by 166 feet at Fourth Avenue and
Washington Streets, that borough.
In the deed of conveyance from
Mr. Latshaw to the Royersford
school district, which was recorded
Tuesday, there Is some fine senti
ment contained In the instrument
which Is not usually found in the
bare matter of fact papers in the
Recorder's office.
The deed recites that the Free Li
brary Association, having In mind the
erection of a suitable building for
library purposes at a future date,
had advised the purchase of a suit
able lot, when the authorities of the
school district, having recognized the
propriety of such action and wishing
to stimulate interest in the perma
nent establishment and maintenance
Of such a library, both as to books
and building as will be a help to the
schools and a credit to the commun
ity. The Royersford Free Library is
considered one of the most progres
sive small town affair? of Its kind in
the State. It supplies an abundance
of sound literature and pays the rent
of cheeful well-lighted rooms without
any direct cost to Its patrons and sup
porters. Its chief source of suste
nance consists of a series of lectures
given every Winter, and as these are
of an elevating kind, the people re
ceive twofold Intellectual benefits in
supporting the association.
According to a resident of Royers
ford, the association has taken the
action of the School Board as Indi
cating a wider appreciation for a bet
ter means of perpetrating the spirit
of library projectors, and consequent
ly has decided to uphold the hands
of the school authorities In fostering
a collateral branch of learning not
within the original scope of the pub
lic school system.
LANDLORD IS KIIOT.
Pottsvtlle (Special). A shocking
Christmas tragedy occurred at Don
aldson when, after a trifling quarrel
over a Christmas dluner, Stanislaus
Coteash, a boarding boss, lay dead
under Ms own table and a double
barreled gun with which he tried to
shoot one of his boarders, lay under
him.
The trouble began when Frank
Cashmere, aged 21 years, complained
that no turkeys hail been provided
for dluner. After hot words Coteash
rushed to the side of the room
where his loaded double-barreled gun
was hanging and flrd at close range
at Cashmere. The heavy discharges
shook the little home but the shot
mlBscd the intended victim.
In a frenzy of fear Cashmere rush
ed upstairs annd getting his own gun
be shot from the head of the stairs
and killed Coteash, who was about to
come up after him. Cashmere im
mediately gave hlmselt up and Is now
In Jail here.
Struck By Truin.
Altoona (Special). Henry Miller,
aged 64, of Bedford, is probably dy
ing In the Altoona Hospital from In
juries received by being struck by a
train near Kvereit. tie naa a ticket
to Philadelphia In his pocket and in
tended to spend the holidays In the
Quaker City.
ASKING MORE PAY.
Scranton (Special) Following the
lead of the switchmen, the freight
and coal conductors, engineers and
firemen of the Lackawanna Railroad
are asking for an increase. The con
ductors are asking for an lncreaso of
60 cents a day, while the engineers
and firemen are asking for one of 40
cents per day.
A committee representing the con
ductors has already waited upon the
officials of the company and an an
swer is expected before the first of
the year .
Freak Kar Of Corn.
Hamburg (Special). Solomon
Bhollenberger. of Pleasantvllle, this
county, has quite a curiosity in the
form on an ear of corn of varlouj
colored kernels. There are twelve
rows of grain, of which seven are
yellow four partly yellow and the
other 'red. Strangely, there Is not
another ear of red corn in the entire
Held.
f the London underground
railways paM oel
surface. This is the record for sub
Z auean transportation.
THE PACIFIC LIMITED.
Black Hand In Court.
Pittsburg (8peclal). Five more
alleged members of the Black Hand
woro sent to the workhouse after
testimony was given that assassins
could be hired for $B and 110. Of
the prisoners, three Paulo, Nicola
and Natale Alampn are brothers,
the others are Oulseppl Paxllmonal
and Domonlc Barre.
Domonlc Sapone, across whose face
Is a long gash, testified that it was
inflicted by Paulo Alampa because he
did not accede to demands of the
Black Hand and produce money. Ha
Insisted that, he was dragged from his
bed one night, carried to a dense
woods and there initiated Into the so
ciety against his will. He said that
he was compelled to put up 810 on
this occasion, and that he was so
scared he does not remember what
occurred. He Is only IS years old.
Barre admitted that assassins could
be hired for $5 and $10, and that
he gave Paulo Alampa $5 to kill
Sapone.
The trouble occurred in a railroad
camp In Ohio, and as the men were
picked up here as suspicious persons,
no further action can be taken
against them here. The men sent to
the workhouse came here to spend
Christmas, and Sapone Informed the
police they were here. They make
their headquarters In this city, conse
quently the police decided to send
the mto prison. Nicola Alampa at
first wns let off with n fine, but he
made a sign to Borne person In the
courtroom and Magistrate Brady at
once added a prison term of 60 days
to his sentence. The otherB all were
sent up for 60 days.
For Masonic Cathedral.
Philadelphia (Special). For the
purpose of selecting a site on North
Broad Street, on which It has been
proposed to erect a $1,000,000 Mason
ic Cathedrnl, a meeting of th Scottish
Rite Consistory, the highest order In
the Masonic fraternity, will shortly
be held. The plan for the erection
of the edifice Is necessary because the
apartments occupied by the consistory
In the Masonic Temple hnve grown
too small for the membership and
larger quarters must bo provided.
A committee has been working on
the plan for months, but no word of
It became public until Thursday.
Two sites will be presented to the
meeting for consideration that on
which the old Muhr Building now
stands, at Broad and Race Streets,
and the lot recently purchased by Os
car Hammersteln, at Broad and Pop
lar Streets. Of the two It Is under
stood that the former will be selected,
as it is nearer to the center of the
city.
Money is no object, so far as the
enterprise Is concerned, as the order
has at present $!.".. in ready cash
in the treasury and each member
stands willing to give $100 at a
week's notice.
Km i. tii ics At A DaH.
Philadelphia (Special) Miss Mary
Astor Paul, duughter of James W.
Paul, Jr., of the Drexel firm, made
her debut at Horticultural Hall at a
ball that for grandeur, costliness and
general unusual ness eclipsed the fam
ous "Ball of the Four Seasons," with
which four years ago Mr. Paul Intro
duced his elder daughter.
The flowers alone cost $3B,000, and
for the occasion a brand-new rose,
a cross between the A merican Beauty
and the Sofrano, which it took nine
years to develop, was a rare feature.
The favors were costly.
At a certain hour 500 brilliant but
terflies, gathered from Brazil, Peru
and even India, were let loose over
the guests. These butterflies flitted
everywhere, amid the cries of delight,
from the guests, Costly silken and
painted butterflies formed one of the
features of the decorations.
All the Drexels were there, and in
fact everybody prominent In Phila
delphia society. Col. Anthony J.
Drexel, his beautiful wife and his
daughter, Miss Margarette, came over
from London for the ball. Mr. and
Mrs. Reginald Vanderbllt had been
Invited, but did not come. Just why
Is one of the mysteries of the affair.
The ballroom at the hall was turn
ed Into a replica of a French garden,
cop.ed from the Louis Seize period.
Sixteen boxes, fashioned of plaster
parts, lined the room, having been
built specially for the occasion. A
great fountain had also been con
structed in one end of the room. Es
timates to the total cost of the ball
place It at $100,000.
TEST INFERNAL MACHINE.
Erie (Special). Chief of Police
Wagner made a test of the contents
of the bottle found in the infernal
machine mailed to Archie Carr, 2208
Cherry Street, this city, at the South
Erie post office. He poured two
drops of the white liquid on a piece
of wood and taking It to the open
air touched a match to the fluid.
When the blaze reached the stuff a
sheet of flame at least four feet high
Bhot Into the air, proving the solution
to be a dangerous one.
Carr is employed as delivery man
in a local department store and is in
poor circumstances. He Is married
and has three childrn. Carr says
he has not the faintest Idea as to
who mailed the package and that so
far as he knows be has not an enemy
in the world.
PEACEMAKER SHOT.
Chester (Special). Joseph Jacobs,
a colored man, was shot at Felton
by Alexander Harklns, an aged negro,
because he interfered with him while
ho was scolding his wife.
Jacobs was shot In tho head, and
at the Chester Hospital, where he
was taken after the shooting, an op
eration was performed in the hope
of saving his life. The physicians
say that he cannot live. Harklns
was brought to the city Jail and
locked up.
Hurt In Runaway.
Bloomsbiug (Special). Taking
fright at a trolley car a team of
horses driven by Frod Fausey, of
Greenwood Township, ran away on
Fifth Street and Mrs Fausey, who
was In the carriage, was thrown out
and seriously hurt.
A popular Instrument in Mada
gascar Is the bamboo guitar, mode
from a bamboo cane six feet long.
The cavity serves a the sounding
board. Strings are cut out between
the Joints and are stretched by
bridges.
-Week's Cleverest Cartoon by Maurice Ketton, in the New York Evening World.
THE SOUTH HAS JUST FINISHED ONE OF THE GREATEST
CHANNEL-MAKING UNDERTAKINGS IN HISTORY
b1M
New Orleans, La. One of the
greatest channel making undertak
ings In the history of American river
Improvement will be brought nearly
to completion when the Jetties at the
mouth of the Southwest Pass of the
Mississippi River are finished. These
jetties, after some dredging between
them is completed, will give the
South one of the deepest harbors in
the world by openings to the access
of the largest steamships afloat the
100 and 200 foot depths of the lower
Mississippi River.
The harbor thus made accessible
has navigable water connection with
at least a dozen States bordering the
Mississippi and Its tributaries the
Ohio, the Missouri, the Arkansas and
the Red rivers. About $6,000,000 is
being spent on this improvement by
the United States Government, which
has the work in charge.
The new Jetties were begun four
years ago. They are on a larger
scale and more substantial than the
famous jetties at the Mississippi's
South Pass, an outlet which for more
than thirty years has been tiie river's
commercial entrance. They are near
ly parallel walls, one about three
and the other about four miles long,
lying more than half a mile apart
and built in the shoal water at tho
Juncture of the Pass with the Gulf
of Mexico. Their purpose is to con
fine and thus accelerate the river's
current across a mud bar about three
miles broad, so as to produce a chan
nel at least 1000 feet wide, with a
minimum depth of thirty-five feet.
The swift current which they have
produced, aided by dredging, even
before their completion, has caused
a tremendous scour and has already
made fifty to eighty-five feet of water
in some places, where at the begin
ning of the work the depth was only
a little over a man's head. To make
the uniform contract depth there is
till in several spots about ten feet
of mud to be removed. It is expect
ed that the high water due within a
few weeks will sweep the remaining
mud deposits out to sea by the be
ginning of next summer.
Probably few walls ever have been
constructed under greater difficul
ties than were these jetties. They
are made of willow, scantling, stone
and Concrete. Although in some
places they are not six feet deep,
and although their greatest depth is
barely fifteen feet, they have cost
$2,700,000. Every material entering
Into their construction has been
brought from distances of one hun
dred to five hundred miles.
The jetties have no foundation,
but rely for stability upon their ex
tremely broad bases, being from 100
to 150 feet wide at the bottom. In
contrast to this great width of base,
the concrete capping which forms
the top of the jetties, and which Is
the work receiving Its finishing
touches this week, is only a few feet
wide. The capping Is a sea wall
four and one-half feet high and is
the only portion of the jetties not
submerged. The wall weighs between
two and three tons to each linear
foot.
The submerged structure support
ing this mass of concrete is made
almost entirely of willow poles and
brush. With the aid of frame works
of scantling the willows were formed
into so-called mattresses broad, flat
structures resembling bed mattresses
In form each about two feet thick,
200 feet long and varying In width
from thirty-five to 150 feet. The
mattresses were sunk one above the
other, with the widest at the bottom
and those above uniformly diminish
ing in width as they approached the
surface. The topmost mattresses
were uniformly thirty-five feet wide,
and on a level with the surface of the
water. Heavy broken stone was
spread evenly over the mattresses to
sink them, so that a layer of stone
rests between each of these willow
structures. The greatest number of
supperlmposed mattresses is five.
The Mississippi has done some In
teresting work in addition to scour
ing out a channel, for It has mado
the mattresses practically indestruc
tible to any normal agency of nature
in this region by burying them under
hundreds of tons of mud. These de
posits follow closely the contour of
the Jetties, in conjunction with which
they form new banks of the river.
The only change likely to occur in
the Jetties Is their gradual sinking,
until in time the concrete capping
entirely disappears. This sinking
already has occurred to the jetties
at South Pass.
In the course of many years a new
bar may form by silt deposits in the
Gulf in the now deep water beyond
the mouth of the Jetties, and then the
remedy will bo the extension of the
Jetties a short distance further. The
rate of bar extension during nearly
seventy-five years preceding the
starting of the jetties was between
160 and 250 feet annually, and the
deposits responsible for this advance
were made when conditions, now
greatly changed, favored such accre
tions. Part of the $6,000,000 allotted to
making the channel is being spent in
safeguards several miles above the
jetties to prevent any Increase in the
flow of other large outlets from the
main river to the Gulf. Thin Is being
accomplished by placing stone covered
mattress sills on the river bottom
across the entrances to those outlets.
Several small bayous leading from
Southwest Pass to the Gulf will be
entirely closed up.
THI8 ADVANCED WESTERN SCHOOL
HA8 A CLASS IN WOOING
Courtship Formally Adopted as a Course In Illinois Town and Has 23
Pupils--Some of the Subjects That Will Be Taught.
Greenville, 111. Professor H. G.
Russell, superintendent of the High
School, has Introduced Instruction in
lovemakklng into the school curri
culum. Parents of some of the pupils
declare they do not. want their chil
dren's thoughts turned so early to
love, but Professor Russell and his
wife, who Is his assistant, say they
will see the experiment through.
Russell thinks In time courtship will
be taken out of the realm of en
pyrlclsm and lifted Into the realm of
exact science as chemistry followed
alchemy.
Twenty-three pupils, ten of whom
are girls, constitute the first class In
Hi.' world to receive formal instruc
tion In courtship. Professor Russell
has given them three lectures and
they have written essays. The In
struction will be chiefly through
study of the literature of love, includ
ing the courtship of Miles Standlsh,
"Romeo and Juliet," and other stand
ard works of fiction. Pupils will be
expected to learn:
How to take heart by storm or by
siege.
How to detect the advent of the
grand passion.
How to behave if parental objec
tion is manifested.
How to pay a compliment.
How to encourage a bashful suitor
or corner an elusive girl.
How to allay unfounded jealousy.
How to propose.
How to ask papa.
The etiquette of the engagement
ring.
Deportment during engagement.
Girls will learn how to promise to
be a sister. The year's course will
take the students all the way from
the first sweet sting of love to the
altar.
British Government Orders
Discouragement of Immigration.
Halifax, N. S. The Canadian Gov
ernment has adopted a policy of dis
couraging immigration to Canada
during the winter season as tho re
sult of the great volume which the
influx of colonists attained in Oc
tober Bud November. The govern
ment has Instructed ageuts to stop
all efforts to Induce immigration to
Canada, and an extensive advertis
ing campaign setting forth the ad
vantages of the country bos been
stopped.
Women in the Day's News.
The Duchess of Marlborough visit
ed Ellis Island
Woman suffrage In Finland prompt
ly brings a prohibitionist triumph.
"Be polite to women! " is the motto
of a new reform society started in
Paris.
Mrs. Russell Sage is said to be
tired of recelviug suggestions as to
what she ought to do with ber money.
Miss Margberlta Arllna Hamm, a
magasine and newspaper writer, died
from pneumonia at the Woman's Hos
pital, Nsw York City. Miss Hamm
mkm twlca married.
Norfolk Druggists Soil
Large OjuuutlMcs of Dope.
Norfolk, Va. According to Dr. R.
L. McMurran, of Portsmouth, there
Is a Norfolk druggist who dispenses
fifteen gallons of laudanum dally,
and another druggist whose cocaine
sales average $90 dally. The start
ling statements were made In the
course of a paper Dr. McMurran read
before the recent meeting of the
Seabord Medical Association on "The
Evil Effects of the Drug Habit." A
crusade will be started for the sup
pression of the evil.
HaUs of Congress.
Mr. Frye was mado president of
tho Senate pro tempore.
Congress Is expected to take up
she ship subsidy question again.
Secretary Cortelyou was asked by
thH St ii.ilf tn furnfuh Ri .... k, .,
on tho recent financial stringency.
Senator Aldrlch gave assurance
that a currency bill would be Intro
duced soon after the holiday recess.
A committee presented a memorial
to Vice-President Fairbanks and
Speaker Cannon asking an appropria
tion of $20,000,000 a year for water
way Ironrnvaraant-
New Jetties Ready For Big Ships Lower Mississippi Gets
One of World's Deepest Harbors.
AGAINST KRKEATJVHRTISraa.
Bound Views by an Iowa Editor on
Gratnltoos Publicity.
At n recent editorial oonfab In
Davenport David Brnnt, editor of the
Iowa City Republican, gave his views
on the subject of gratuitous advertis
ing. If newspaper men are Imposed
upon by nil sorts and conditions of
dead beats they have themselves to
blame for It, Mr. Brant said. He
thought it was a mistake even to ac
cept tickets to entertainments, be
cause by so doing the editor places
himself under an obligation that he
will be called upon In somo way to
discbarge. Editors, like other people,
should pay for what they get and
charge for what they do, in Mr.
Brant's opinion.
Among the most persistent seekers
for free ads., said Mr. Brant, are
churches and charitable organiza
tions. Managers of country fairs,
Chautauqua assemblies und street
carnivals are in the same class. The
carnivals are generally promoted by
business men who are friends of the
paper, possibly advertisers In it, and
often, said Mr. Brant, ask of the pub
lisher such favors as they themselves
would not think of granting to any
body. A plea Is sometimes made that a
newspaper ought to support a street
fair because it brings business to the
town, but no such argument is used
as a reason why persons who render
other services than advertising to
-the enterprise should give their labor
for nothing. Mr. Brant continued:
"Let a new enterprise be pro
posed in a city and the newspaper la
expected to push It, and It should
do so to a reasonable extent. Yet
the editor gives what costs many dol
lars, while his business associates
generally push business all day and
only at night are they willing to do
committee work. I have known oi
cases where business men were paid
for their time soliciting stock for a
corporation to be engaged In manu
facturing while the newspaper was
whooping it up free of charge day
after day.
"I submit that it would be only
a matter of Justice, for the promoters
of such enterprises to go to a news
paper and engage spaco and pay for
It, at least in stock of the concern
being promoted. In such cases the
newspaper is the only vehicle of free
use and if there is any reason wby
j this should be so, I fail to see It.
"The publisher who gives his
I space free is doing himself an Injus
tice, for If he happens to owo any
I of these merchants or bankers any
thing and lo not able to meet his ob-
i ligations promptly, he is at once des
ignated a poor business man and the
query is made why newspaper men
cannot do business as others. And
we ask the same question to-day. If
ho would say, 'Gentlemen, w have
space to sell and here Is the price
list,' there would be more respect
for the publisher."
As a result of Mr. Brant's talk the
association to which he belongs
passed a resolution declaring that
county fairs, Chautauquas, etc.,
should pay for their advertising.
FIVE MONTHS I. HOSPITAL.
Discharged llersuae Doctors Could
Not Cure.
Levi P. Brockwsy, H. Second-Ara,
Anoka, Minn., ssys: "After lying
for five months In a
hospital I was dis
charged as Incura
ble, and given only
six months to live.
My heart was affect
ed, I had smother
ing spells anl some
times fell uncon
scious. 1 got so I
couldn't use my
arms, my eyesight
wss Impaired and
the kidney secretions were bsdly dis
ordered. I was completely worn out
and discouraged when I began using
Doan's Kidney Pills, but they went
right to the cause of the trouble and
did their work well. I have boea
feeling well ever since."
Sold by all dealers. 50 cents a box.
Foster-Mllburn Co., Buffalo, N, Y.
Ducks Kline On Ice.
Ezekiel Crawford, of Northport, L.
I., has a flock of Muscovy ducks
which quite accidentally have Invent
ed a new game. They were In the
habit of flying from the barn to the
duck pond upon Crawford's farm and
entering the water with a rebound
ing splnsh.
When winter arrived and the pond
was coated with smooth Ice the ducks
flew from the barn as UBual. Near
lng the surface of the pond they ex
tended their feet and quit flying,
evidently expecting to Bplash Into the
water. They did nothing of the kind.
Their feet slipped out from under
them and they sat down hard and
slid swiftly acrosB the ice until they
bumped against the frozen shore.
"Quack, quack!" said the ducks,
and hurried back to tho barn to try
It again. The result was the same.
Again and again they arc said to
have tried the stunt. Now It la said
they show signs of joy when, upon
retiring at night, they note evidences
of freezing before morning. New
York Times.
A Distinction.
A Journalist at a dinner was talk
ing to William Dean Howells about
literary fame.
"But, after all," cald Mr. Howell
with his gentle smile, "literary famf
Is not so highly regarded by the
people. It Is" I remember when I
was In San Remo some years ago
seeing in a Frenoh newspaper n
notice that bears upon this question.
"It was a notice Inserted by a rat
trap maker of Lyons, and It said:
" 'To Whom It May Concern M.
Pierre Lotl, of Lyons, Inventor of the
automatic rat-trap, beg? to state that
he Is not the same person, and that
he hns nothing In common with one
Pierre Lotl, a writer.' " Washing
ton Star.
Only A Pretext.
Ardup had made half a dozen at
tempts to borrow money of hia
friends, but one and all had pleaded
the prevailing financial stringency.
"That's all pretense," he said, with
bitterness, as he gave It up. "It's
nothing but a case of financial stingy
see?"
To such base uses of the language
may adversity bring a man. Chicago.
Tribune.
Colorado's New Industry.
"There was a time when Colorado
was regarded as principally a mining
State, but that time has passed," said
A. E. De Rlcqules, general manager
of a live stock company, of Denver,
"This winter, for Instance, the State
will take care of 1,000,000 sheep thai
were raised on the grazing lands ol
Wyoming. Montana, Idaho, Texas and
other States. This has become one ol
our great industries, the number of
the sheep taken care of being about
the same as last year. The beet Bugar
Industry 1b large and the fodder from
the beets is fed to the sheep, also hay
and corn. Pens are built, and tho
young lambs, taken from tbelr moth
ers who reared them In other States,
put In these pons, fattened and then
In the spring killed for the best ho
tels ami markets In the East."
Watihington Post.
London's Cannibal Birds.
For years past n hollow elm lu
Kensington Gardens has been occu
pied every winter by a pair of brown
owls, which arrive and loave at about
the same time as tho blackheadod
gulls. They feed on tho London
sparrows, as Is plainly shown by the
relics of the feast at the foot of tho
tree, and doubtless they find It an
easier way of getting their living to
snatch up the incautious sparrow as
he sits at roost than to hunt every
winter in tho open country for birds
concealed In the thicket and for field
mice, which in frosty weather are
generally safely asleep. Besides such
regular visitors as gulls, owls and
carr.'on crows thero are many other
birds which wander Into London dur
ing spells of hard weather and van
ish again in tho thaw. London
Globe.
How The World (.rows.
In a little more than 100 years,
according to government figures, the
population of the world has grown
from 640,000.000 to 1,600,000,000,
an Increase of 150 per cent. At the
end of so many hundreds of cen
turies. In other words, there were In
the world In 1800 only 040,000,000
of persons, and 106 years, from 1800
to 1906, to this number had been
ndded 960,000,000.
The total commerce of the world
tn 1800 was about one .and a half
billions of dollars; In 1900 It was
more than twenty billions of dollars.
Other figures show that in wealth
and the growth of various industrial
agencies the Increase has been far
swifter than that of population.
The overpopulation of the world
Is not a present menace to the think
ers of today, but the thinkers of a
period when there were less than
half as many people In the world as
there are now seriously debated the
Imminence of the catastrophe that
tho overcrowding of the earth would
produce. Boston Globe.
A Silent Household.
James L. Williams, a hatmaker,
and his wife have occupied the same
house, taken their meals; at the same
table together, and been in each oth
er's company almost continually for
five years without speaking a word
to each other.
Five years ago they quarreled and
Williams made a vow that he would
never again Fpeak to his wife. He
has kept It religiously, and so com
pletely was their affection for each
other severed In the quarrel that the
wife has not once begged for a word
from her husband. Their eldest
daughter, Alice, nineteen years olJ.
took sides with her mother, and dur
ing the five years she had never ad
dressed her father, although she Is
a member of the household.
The couple hnve two young chil
dren and have carried on what com
munication was necessary through
these. Even this meanB was used
only in rases of extreme necessity.
New York World.
FIT8,8t. Vitus'Dance iNervous Diseases per
tnanently cured by Dr. Kline's Great Nerve
Restorer. fJ trial bottle and treatise free.
Or. H. R. Kline, Ld..0Hl Arch St.. Phiii , Pa.
Stat or Onio, City op Toledo, i
Lucas Couhtv,
I hank J. Cheney make oath that he i
aniur partner ol the linn ol K. J.CllB-NKV A
Co., doing busmen in th City of Toleilu
County and Mule alorcaaul, and thnt ni i
linn will pay llieainii ol ON K IIUNUKED Dot
I aiis lor uch and every cum ol CATAKIti'
that cannot he ruml hy the us ol II u t -L'ATAIinil
UUM. FlIANK J. CHENEY.
Sworn to uelori. me and ubcnlci1 id SB
preaence, tins Bin day ot December, A. 1)
18S. A. W. UUMfHR.
(seal.) .Notary I'ubb.
Hull Catarrh Curcialaken internally, an
acta directly on the blood and mucoiia m
face ot the system, tiinil lor lo.liinoniiil-
iree. r, J. ISBMM 4 CO.. I oledo. J
Sold hy nil Uruggiita. 75c.
Take Hull's Family I'ills for
'.nstipatit n
Tho lack of railroad transportation
has been the m In cause of keeping
the State of Sinaloa from taking her
position oh one of the leading and
largoHt states of Mexico, it having
35,000 square miles of splendid farm
ing land and thousands of rich un
developed mines.
SUFFERED TWENTY-FIVE YEARS
Makes Novel Tool Chest.
William Baurichter, an eccentric
German of Columubs, Ind., who has
speut the greater part of his forty
five years of life at carving walking
stickB and experimenting In an effort
to build a perpetual motion machine
entirely of wood, has Just completed
a tool cheat, which he has been work
ing on for tho last year. In the chest
are more than one thousand pieces
of wood, and the wood Is of forty dif
ferent kinds, each kind of which is a
native of Bartholomew County. He
has placed a combination lock on tho
ehest, which he says no one In tho
world except himself can open, and
he has offered $1000 to any person
who will discover the combination
and thus opeu the chest after he has
onco locked it. Iudlanapolls Newt
Larger dividends from its chief
subsidy companies enabled the New
York Central to declare Its regular
quarterly rate of 1 H per cent. The
fact that this company and the Penn
sylvania have acted in concert In this
matter looks as If the "big folks"
did not wish to have any unfavorable
developments occur at this time.
With Eczema Her Limb Peeled and'
Foot Was Raw Thought Amputa
tion Necessary Believes Her
Life Saved by Cuticura.
"1 have lieen treated by doctors) for
twenty-five year for a bad case of eczema
on my leg. They did their ht, but
failed to cure it. My doctor had ndvised
me to hnve my leg cut off. At this time
my leg was peeled from tlic knee, my foot
was like a piece of raw flesh, and I had to
walk nn crutches. I bought a set of Cuti
cura Remedies. After the first two treat
ment!! the veiling v-ent down, and in two
months my leg was cured and the new skin
came on. The doctor wns surprised and
said that he would use Cuticura for his
own patient. I have now bocn cured over
seven year, nnd but for the Cuticura Rem
edies 1 might hove lost my life. Mrs. J. B.
Renaud, 277 -Montana St., Montreal, Que,
Feb. 20, 1907."
Escaping from a menagerie, a large
bear patrolled the town of Aaran,
capital of Argovie, Switzerland.
Streets were deserted and houses
closed for several hours, while the
bear raided the fruit stalls. It wast,
shot In a cafe.
A newspaper clipping forwirdeor
by Connul Harry A. Conant, of Wind
sor, states that many depositors from
the I'nited States have been opt nlng
accounts In Canadian banks, an l es
pecially branches In that city.
Piles Cured in 0 to 14 Days.
Peso Ointment I guaranteed to cure nm
esse of Itching, lllind.Itleeilingor i'rotrudnn.
Pile in 6 to 14 dayiormnnev refunded. St)-
Arguments are to be avoided. They
are always vulgar and oftn convinc
ing. Mrs. Window's Soothing Syrup for Children
tec thing, softeus thoguiiia,raiucebfufuuumii
tion, allays pain, euros wind colic. Hoc a bottlt
Men who hold It a divine right to
abuse women ar strangely popular
with women.
Itch cured in 30 minute by Woolford
Sanitary Lotion. Nevr fail. At druggiat.
Self-denial I not a virtus; It Is mere
ly the effect of prudence upon ra-cullty.
How to Do It.
An Irishman out of work applied
to the "boss" of a large repair shop
in Detroit. When the Celt had stat
ed his sundry and divers qualifica
tions' for a "job," the superintendent
began quitting him a bit. Starting
quite at random, he a.,i. ..
"Do you know anything about car
pentry?" "Shure!" '
"Do yott know how to make a Ve
netian blind?'
"8hure!"
"How would you do it?"
"Shure, I'd poke me linger in his
o: riilti'.acii.nu Ladaer-
Onljr One "llromo (juiiune--That
is Laxative Broin I (Juiuiuo. Look
for the signature of E. W. Grove. Used the
World over to Cure a Cold in Ons Day. 28c.
An I'uiueutloued Ancestor.
Mr. B. is very proud of his ancient
lineage, and never lets slip an op
portunity to boaBt ot It. At a dinner
where he had boon unusually ram
pant on this subject a fellow-guest
quieted him by remarking:
"If you climb much further up
your family tree you will come face
to face with the monkey.'' Philadel
phia Inquirer.
The
General 'Demand
of the Well-Informed of the World hai
always been for a simple, pleasant antf
efficient liquid laxative remedy of known
value; a laxative which physicians could
sanction for family use because its com
ponent parts are known to them to be
wholesome and truly beneficial in effect,
acceptable to the system and gentle, yet
prompt, in actiun.
In supplying that demand with its ex
cellent combination of .Syrup of l'igs and
F-lixir of .Senna, the California Fig Syrup
Co. proceeds ufong ethical lines and relics
on the merits uf the laxative for its remark
able success.
Th:it is one of many reasons why
Syrup of rig and Elixir of Senna is giver
the preference by the Well-informed.
To get it beneficial effects always buy
the genuine manufactured by the Cali
fornia Fig .Syrup Co., only, end for sale
by all leading druggists. Price fifty cents
per bottle.
'UNFORTUNATE-
U tho man or woman who, loving
good dinner, must curb r.ielr appetite
through fear of after i tia)q ken .
Parsons' Pills
are an aid tu digestion, iiuure aui nuta
tion of food, and make hatirty eating
poaikble without diatreaa or regrete.
Price ibc., five bottlee.. All druggist.
I. t. mum A CO., Bo. ten, float.
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Jrart. I. M. M. UK1H-H aOUta, Bes ft, AiUau, .
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DVERTISB IN 1 HIS VAVIH. IT WILL PAY
AN IMITATION TAKES FOR ITS
arAii nil. KLAL I IfLC
There was never an lm
tators always counterfeit th
what you ask for, because Ken
Imitations are not advertised.
ability of the dealer to sell yo
good" when you ask for the k
on the imitation. Why accent
ulne by insisting?
nation made of an imitation. Imi-
geuuine article. The genuine la
ulne articles are the advertised ones.
but deiiend for their busl
u souisthlng claimed to ba "tuat
enuine, because he makes more profit
lumutlons when you can get the gen-
RF.FHSF TMTT A TTONTC " what you
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