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Travel from the far East to London, Eng., and other Eurcpean points which has heretofore sailed fron China, Manchuria, the Philippines and Japan through the Suez canal, is likely hereafter to follcw the Royal Mail, which it has recently been deml onstrated, can be brought to London through San Francisco and across the United States three or four days more quickly than via the old route. The traffic department of the Chicago and Northwestern railway has advices that the Russian ministry of the in- terior has arranged with the Inter- national Sleeping Co., for new sleep- ing car service on the Trans-Siberian Arthur, to be weekly at first, tr1- railway, between Moscow and Port weekly later on, and eventually a Train-de-Luxe, to be inaugurated be- tween Warsay and Port Arthur, leav- ing Warsaw daily. At Warsaw con- nection is made with the famous Ex press Du Nord from Paris, Berlin and ether Kuropean capitals. Thus Port Arthur will be within easy reach of Paris, and from Port Arthur the journey is completed in fast vessels across the Pacitice to San Francosco and on the New Overland Limited via the Southern Pacific, Union Pa- cific and Ct zo and Northwestern Railroads to Chicago. Inter-Continen- tal travel is thus practically estab- lished through what had, until re- cently, been supposed to be the wastes of Siberia; now proven to include much rich farming country, which is being rapidly settled. An Enormous Pier. Baltimore is to have a pier, which will be able to accomodate at one time four of the Jargest ships that float. The pier is 935 feet long and 120 feet wide. The water all about it is 30 feet deep. The fisherman catches the terrapin with a pair of tongs on the eastern shore of Maryland. CHANGE OF LIFE, Some Sonsible Advice to We- men by Mrs. E. Sailer, “ DEAR Mrs. PingAM:—When I passed through what is known as ‘ change of life,’ I had two years’ suf- fering, —sudden heat, and as quick chills would pass over me ; my appetite was variable and I never could tell for 3 Fr MRS. E. SAILER, President German Relief Association, Los Angeles, Cal. a day at: a time how I would feel ths next day. Five bottles of Lydia BB, Pinkham’s Vegetable Compound changed all that, my days became days of health, and I have enjoyed every day since—now six years. ‘ We have used considerable of your Vegetable Compound in our charitable work, as we find that to restore a poor mother to health so she can support her- self and those dependent upon her, if such there be, is truer charity than to give other aid. You have my hearty #ndorsement, for you have prevem yourself & true friend to suflarig wo- men."—Mgs. E. SATLER, 7508)¢ Hill 8t., Los Angeles, Cal. —§5000 forfsit If above tes- timonlal is not genuine. No ether person can give such helpful advice to womem who are sick as can Mrs. Pinkham, for no other has had such great experience—her address is Lynn, Mass., and her advice free—if you are sick write her—you are foolish if you don’t. How He Felt While Falling 110 Feet. x EWIS MASON, boilermaker and ironworker, says that a ( fall of 110 feet isn’t so bad. Mason tumbled 110 feet ond down the smokestack of the American : No, I didn’t think of death. Sugar Refinery at New Orleans, La., and fifteen minutes later was complain- ing because the nurse wouldn’t let him smoke a cigarette. “It’s all a bluff,” declared Mason, “this thing people tell you about not thinking or feeling while you are fall- ing. I thought about a lot of things and knew everything that was doing. It never : occurred to me that I was going to die. ‘Mason,’ says I to myself, the first sec- ond of the journey, ‘you've always been a lucky dog; you will be now. You are going to escape,’ and I did. I hit the bottom on a coil of rope, and then I went to sleep for fifteen min- utes. “We had put up the big iron smoke- stack at the American Sugar Refinery. The scaffolding and stay work were on the inside of the pipe—not the out- side. “I was up 110 feet, working with a steel poker. Of course the ledge was narrow and a man had to watch his balance, but being accustomed to it the height never bothered me. I worked up there just the same as on the ground. “In this case I was putting a good power in the hand rod, and was lean- ing over considerably off a perpendic- ular. Suddenly the poker came out and I lost my balance. ' “The first sensation was the only one of fright I had. After the first instant I was never frightened. I made one | grasp at a rope but missed it. I knew then I would go to the bottom of the shaft. There was plenty of time to think and I reasoned everything out. The first was—were there any cross boards near me. ‘No,’ I replied to my- self, ‘they are all out’ That relieved me. I felt pretty good. I knew I had a long fall, but I reasoned that I had always been lucky, and why not now? That was anether consoling thought, two; no boards and always lucky. I thought it all out just as I am telling it now. “The black sides of the smokestack were whirling by. Have you ever gone down in an elevator very fast? Well, just imagine you are going a little fast- er and you have an idea of it. : “When about half way down I had reasoned it all out and was satisfied. I crossed my arms tightly, determined. if possible, to fall right side up. Then the sides of the big stack began to ring. The din was frightful. I thought a million wagons were running over iron crossings. much thinking now. The noise changed to booming cannons. They bellowed and roared. I thought the whole thing was moving, and that I was gracefully floating in the air, sailing in an airship, with the objects moving about me. Nothing hurt me. I must have still had my reason, for I remember distinctly what happened. One very bright thought come to me, and I wondered why I had not reached the bottom. It seemed that I had stopped en route. Then I wondered if I had slipped by the coil of rope and was not going to stop there at all. “The sensation was growing more pleasant. Just as I thought to myself how comfortable I was feeling a beau- tiful light broke in upon the darkness. There was a green lawn and some boys playing tennis. So far as I know per- sonally I never hit the bottom. I went to sleep—a beautiful sleep—as the pic- ture flashed upon me. That must have been when I struck, but I never felt anything. “Fifteen minutes later I opened my eyes as they were carrying me to the ambulance. I pulled up a leg, then an arm, and I knew I was still alive. I said to myself, ‘Mason, you're luck -is with you.’ Somebody asked me it 1 knew what had happened, and I re- plied that of course I knew; that I had fallen down the smokestack. I felt a little pain in my back as they carried me in the hospital. “In the hospital—I've got no use for ’em—they won't give you anything to eat and they won’t let you smoke and roll on the grass. They treated me like an invalid, and only gave me milk toast and some other soft things. So ‘When the nurse went out of the room I Jumped out of bed, got all my clothes I could find and left the place.” Mason is twenty-four years of age, ‘Weighs 170 pounds and stands five feet eight inches in height. “There is only one day I didn’t work,” said he. “The day I fell.” An Exciting Canoe Run. Now, before us, says a writer in Scribner’s Magazine, telling of Cana- dian ‘adventures, ran a strange, wild river of seething hite, lashing among great, gray-capped, dark-greenish bowlders that blocked the way. High, rocky banks standing close together squeezed the mighty river into a tu- mult of fury. Swiftly we glide down the racing torrent and plunge through the boiling waters. Sharp rocks rear above the flying spray, while others are barely covered by the foaming flood. It is dangerous work. We mid- men paddle hard to force the canoe ahead of the current. The steersmen in bow and stern pry and bend their great seven-foot paddies. The bowman I was not doing sol with eyes alert keenly watches the whirling waters and signs of hidden rocks below. The roar of seething waters drowns the bowman’s orders. The steersman closely watches and follows every move his eomnanion makes. Down we go, riding upon the very back of the river; for here the water forms a great ridge, rising four or five feet above the water-line on either shore. To swerve to either side means sure destruction. With terrific speed we reach the brink of a violent descent. For a moment the canoe pauses, steadies herself, then dips her head as the stern upheaves, and down we plunge among more rocks than ever. Right in our path the angry stream is waging battle with a hoary bowlder that disputes the way. With all its might and fury the frantic river hisses and roars and lashes it. Yet it never moves—it only frowns destruc- tion upon all that dares approach it. How the bowman is working! See his paddle bend! With lightning move- ments he jabs his great paddle deep into the water and close under the left side of the bow; then with a mighty heave he lifts her head around. The great canoe swings as though upon a pivot, for is not the steersman doing exactly the very opposite at this pre- cise moment? We sheer off. But the next instant the paddles are working : on the opposite sides, for the bowman ° sees signs of a water-covered-rock not three yards from the very bow. With a wild lunge he strives to lift the bow around, but the paddle snaps like a rotten twig. another, and a grating sound runs the length of the heaving bottom. The next moment he is working the mew paddle. A little water is coming in, but she is running true. Biz Bear Chased Him. “Bert” Banta, deputy sheriff, 1s In Colorado near Creede, spending his va- cation with his brother-in-law, B. E. Putnam. In order to show his ‘‘ten- derfoot” relative a good time Mr. Put- nam organized a fishing and hunting party, and with a camping outfit all went up into the Rio Grande canon. Instantly he grabs fer . It was while there last week that Mr, | Banta had an experience with a bear that will furnish food for many a nar- rative when the deputy sheriff returns | home. Banta’s experience in this way: “Mr. Banta was fishing along the river, deep in thought of the last bear The Creede Candle tells of MI. ' pers or saw them out of three-inch { Farm Topics} White Clover’s Advantage. White clover will germinate and make headway where certain grasses w not thrive. It is easily crowded it will give excellent service as food for sheep for awhile. Prevents Onion Bulb Exhaustion. The custom of breaking down the leaves and seed stems of onions is to prevent the exhaustion of the bulb by the formation of the seed. Some grow- ers do this as soon as the leaves are full grown, by twisting and bending them down, as the bulb is not the root, but the enlarged stem of the plant, this concentrates the force of the plant into the bulb or stem, and so produces a vigorous growth there. The practice may be of questionable effect, so far as this view is concerned, but would certainly be useful in case a seed stalk was forming, as the production of seed would weaken the bulb. The breaking down is done when the bulb is well formed and the leaves fully grown. Shading Enariches Soil. The complete shading of the soil rapidly enriches it, even without the application of manure. It may be that shading causes a deposit ef nitrogen from the air; every farmer knows that wherever a stack of hay or straw has stood for several months the ground underneath is not only enriched but grows much darker in eolor. Any one may try an experiment as follows: Select the poorest spot of ground on the farm, lay over a strip of any length, but about a yard wide, a few inches of straw, and cover with a board, or, if preferred, lay only a board on the ground. If the place is seeded to something after the covering is re- moved, the difference in growth be- tween the portion previously shaded and that mnot shaded will be very marked. A Manure Sled. A good and simple device for hauling manure is to take some old sled run- plank, which will need shoes, or if they | can be bent as in A, they will not need . shoes. “story told at breakfast that morning, ! and he had a rifle hanging over his’ shoulder. He considered himself a dered him in consideration of his cour- ! age, and he came to the conclusion that he was just as brave as the peo- ple considered him. Just then he heard a noise, a snort, then the bushes crash, and to his horror a big bear making toward him. He dropped his rod and gun and started and the bear gave chase. “Along the river bank they flew and the big brute was close upon him, as he could feel her hot breath, and he ‘thought all was over but the chewing, and he imagined he could feel the bear’s sharp claws and teeth ripping his very flesh, when suddenly he came upon a small tree and with a bound he lit ten feet from the ground into the branches. At almost the same instant the bear plunged into the trunk of the tree with such force as to break it down. Banta gave a yell and resigned himself to death. The tree was over- hanging the river and into the water he and the bear both plunged. On ris- ing to the surface both swam for the shore, but the bear stopping to shake gave Banta considerable start, and he put for camp like a wild Indian. He overtook a jack rabbit and, giving it a kick, hollered ‘Get out of the way and let a fellow run that wants to run.’ On reaching camp he never thought of stopping, but kept tearing on down the canon, and he kept his lead, for the bear was compelled to stop repeatedly to paw the mud out of her eyes occa- sioned by the dust from Banta’s heels.” —XKansas City Star, Heroic Boys Give Lives. William J. Carroll, aged fourteen; Amiel Kologewski, aged twelve, and an unknown boy, aged about fourteen, were drowned in the Allegheny River by sinking into a hole left by a sand dredge. The boys were stripped and wading along a gravel bank left by the dredge. About fifty yards away were a number of boys swimming in deep water. One of the lads was seen struggling and crying for help. Another rushed in after him, but the drowning boy clutched him and both were swept off their feet. The third boy went in after his com- panions and was succeeding in get- ting to safety when he was carried off his feet, and the three went down to arise no more. Long Drop of a Woman Miner. Mrs. N. E. Brooke, one of the few successful woman mine operators in the Cripple Creek (Col.) district, had a narrow escape from an awful death re- cently. While being lowered down the Mabel M. shaft, on which property she is leasing, the brakes for some reason failed to act and the bucket fell ninety feet before the engineer regained econ. trol. Mrs. Brooke, accompanied by a miner, was riding on the rim of the bucket, but both fortunately kept firm hold on the cable, and while badly frightened, were uninjured. The depth of the shaft is 135 feet. When the bucket was stopped Mrs. Brooke took the ladder way for the remainder ef the distance, both in and out of the shaft.—Denver Republican. Big Product of Orange Tree. An orange tree in full bearing has been known to produce 15,000 oranges; a lemon tree 6000 fruit. There is a demand for gutta percha 600 times greater than the supply. Next take a plank three inches thick and cut out two pieces the shape of the ones in B, and set them on the | runners, as shown in figure C; then cut worthy hunter, and wore a badge ten- ! grooves near the ends on each side of these pieces an inch and a half from the end, which is shown by a dotted line at F, and bore an inch hole in the runner on each side in a straight line with the groove; then whittle out eight pins an inch through and stick them in the holes in the runners and up along the grooves. Then take two boards $ix inches wide for raves, and bore inch holes in it and put this on top of the pins, which are left sticking up an inch; this board should be long enough to reach out on the end of the runner, where it should be fastened. Now put a shallow box on it, then a box about a foot high, with strips nailed up and down to keep it from falling off. This outfit is handy for hauling manure from the stable.—G. E. Durst, in The Epitomist. Crops For the Silo. With a good three-year rotation of crops for the purpose of filling the silo and feeding the cows through the sum- mer by careful practice, it is possible to nearly doublethenumberof cows to the acre, and make them do better than by a haphazard system of farming. An excellent system of rotation for such work is to divide a farm of sixty acres into three sections, so that twen- ty acres of ensilage can be raised every year, Plant the twenty acres with corn fer the silo each year, and follow it with a rotation of ®oats the second year, and then with grass, sowing about half clover and half timothy This can be mowed for hay the first year, and then plant it to. corn, or two crops of hay can be taken from it, and the corn planted later. By having two seasons of hay the fertility stored up in the soil makes excellent ground for corn, and the crop is pretty sure to be good. The corn for the silo needs to grow rapidly, and by the time it is ready to be cut it will be large of stalk and heavy of yield. On very rich soil a gain of twen- ty per cent. in yield is obtained for the silo. A little fertilizer to topdress the grass each year will prove of advan- tage in making both the hay and the eorn crop better. With a good crop of corn, hay and oats growing on the farm, ample pro- vision for the cows will be made. The pasture field may be kept separate from the highly cultivated fields, out its condition should likewise be kept up as much as possible. Pasture fields are saved, however, and their fertil- ity maintained indefinitely where there is am abundance of ensilage, oats and hay to feed the cows. It is when the heavier feeds are scarce or high-priced that the dairyman ruins his pasture in order to economize on grain and bay. We can make each acre of land produce sufficient food for twice the number of cows ordinarily fed from them if we but adopt some system of intensive farming where heavy erops are annually raised.—C. 8. Walters. NerveRestorer. $2trial bottls and treatisefree aS Bure of a Good Contribution. A rural Virginia preacher took ad- vantage of neighborhood hullabaloo over a robbed chicken coop in the fol- lowing manner: “Dear friends, I'se about to take up a c’lection ta repar dis church, an’ I can’ say to dat, if dar am any nigger here to-night what had a han’ in stealin’ Farmer Jones’ chick- ens. I doan’ wan’ him to put nuffin’ in de plate.” Customs Treaty With China. The customs treaty about to be signed at Peking between the rep- resentatives of the British and Chinese governments will serve as a pattern of one to be concluded by Mr. Conger with China. 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