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' 0 the re- > prem ent grist e Curzon ss., wide- y and as urned to ng. d, acting & Ohio, - holdings the Van- of the of trade r imports | 9% ports de- { acteriolo- for Rho- lague for le h Africa 50 a day William 5 attitude Germany, lment of xhibit at 1d places this pur- ),000. in China ster Con- ming the e failure n a gold | — er, nsequen- eliminary ported to § he Craw- true, that of the mily had t Ormok, 2 Islands, ra. Nine venth in- > disease > post at b who had attending was dis- 10 feared ry large sages of ived, in- own to a £ y, where of horse of the go- . Seofeld, eaten in 1e hoped uture. ance of ¢ > dispute )JOWers yo wert omen -® ' tsetse fly. No insect is so dreaded in Africa as the tsetse fly, the bite of which is fatal to horses. The only effectual pro- tection to the horse is a complete suit of pajamas, which are largely in use. The cloth of which the Priamas 2 are made is sting- Proof. 2 wt nee 5.57 pir Dr. Calvello, an Italian, has discov- ered that mine per cent. of essence of thyme and eighteen per cent. of es- sence of geranium make an excellent disinfectant, when freely used, for thé hands of medical operators. As these essences enter largely into the composi- tion of eau de Cologne, it follows that this scent is a good antiseptic for or- dinary purposes. In his experiments with various vehi- cles, M. Michelin has found that iron tires require greater motive power than either solid rubber or pneumatic. An electric automobile running with five per cent. greater speed with pneumatic tires took eighteen per cent. less power than when fitted with solid tires; and in stopping, the solid tires required an increase of fourteen per cent. in brake ing power. For shallow-draught steamers, both side-wheels and stern- wheels have dis- advantages, especially in the weight of their machinery, while propellers—as they have been used in fixed tunnels— lose efficiency through increased fric- tion as loading sinks the tunnel’s open- ing. In a new English propeller boat for shallow rivers, the stern end of the tunnel is made adjustable by a hinged flap. Raising or lowering the flap keeps the opening just below the surface, and it is claimed that with a moderate load the gain is twenty-five per cent. The search for a welding process for aluminium still goes on, in spite of the claim of several investigators that they have discovered a practical solution of the problem. One of the latest claims is that of Mary W. Emme, of New York City, who has discovered that the result may be attained by heating the two contacting ends of aluminium un- der suitable condition approximately to or above a temperature of 600 degrees Centigrade. To carry out the process successfully the parts must be scrupu- lously cleansed before heating them to the welding point, and it is stated that the result is a mass possessing the same physical qualities of a piece of aluminium which has never been sub- jected to separation. The London School of Tropical Medi- cine has discovered a news parasite ‘which is the cause of a tropical fever fvhich resembles malaria, but which does not yield to the same treatment, and is generally fatal in its results. The new creature dees not inhabit the corpuscles like the malaria parasite, but is free in the blood current, like the filariae, which is the cause of elephan- tiasis; and it is either identical with or closely resembles the parasite commun- municated to certain animals by the It is described as a tricho- soma. Its discovery is too recent to admit of more than a bare mention, but it undoubtedly opens out a pros- pect of cure in a class of cases which have hitherto proved almost absolutely intractable, and once ‘more demon- strates the wisdom of establishing such a school of medical research. The promises of economy gains from burning pulverized coal have for years led to persistently recurring experi- ments and each new venture in the field has been heralded with claims of final success. After all, however, experience in every instance seems to have ultimately demonstrated that it is difficult to obtain combustion of such fuel with as small an amount of air per pound of fuel as can be obtained in the best practice with coal fired on an ordinary grate, and this has always tended to make the economy lower than with the usual method. Besides this, the power required to operate the coal pulverizer and feeder has counted against the efficiency of the plant as a whole, and there is generally some dif- ficulty from the collection of ashes and unconsumed particles of coal in the back connections of the boilers. Judg- ing from all the available data, these drawbacks still remain to be overcome, The Hoodoo at Work. The conductor of an elevator in a big down-town office building appeared nervous a few days ago. “I've half a mind to ask the superintendent to let me off for the remainder of the day,” he remarked. “Why? Because there's evidently a hoodoo of some sort at work, and I feel almost sure that an accident is going to happen to me or to this car. I tell you, the feeling is a mighty uncomfortable one. What has caused me to worry? Well, sixteen people, by actual count, have told me this morning that last night they dreamed about this elevator. Now, you must admit that that’s something more than a strange coincidence. “I guess I'll feel better tomorrow if I rest to-day,” added the elevator man, ‘as he carefully started the car down- ward and toward the basement where the superintendent of the building has his headquarters.— Washington Star. —_— Tailors’ Resourcefalness. If men knew the many artifices the tailor has to resort to in order to make them presentable they would be less ready to make him the butt of ridicule. Truly the tailor has need of padding and wadding, haircloth and canvas, to enable him to clothe his customers in such a way as to hide their deformi- ties, and bring into prominence their BENEFITS OF AN APPLE HOUSE. No one can understand the benefits to be derived from an apple house unless he has one. It is very conveni- ent to place the fruit in, and you are not compelled to sell the fruit right away when prices may be low. Keep them a month or so and you may near- ly double your money. You can keep until April apples that are usually placed on the market say the fore part of January.—The Cultivator. _ CHANGING GARDEN LOCATION. It may be an advantage to change the garden lecation every two years and sow clover on the plot. The reason is that as the garden soil is subject to leaching, like other portions of the farm, the clover roots go down and bring the fertilizing ingredients to the surface. rich by extra applications of manure, a change of location enriches a differ- ent plot every year or two, while the close cultivation destroys the weeds. TREATMENT OF HOUSE PLANTS. House plants require constant care at this season, especially when there are so many changes of weather, as they must be guarded against sudden alterations in the moisture of the room and the rise and fall in temperature. On cloudy and windy days the loca- tion in the room should be selected with the view of protecting against the winds. Tepid water should be used and the earth in the pots should not be saturated, as too much water is as injurious as too little. MANURE FOR THE ORCHARD. There are not many farmers who would be willing to spread forty or fifty loads of stable manure over the apple orchard; yet if they would do so they would find out that apples are profitable, as the manure would In- crease the yield, improve the quality and make them more salable in the market. If the manure is not obtain- able a fertilizer consisting of 400 pounds of bone meal, 300 pounds sul- phate of potash and 100 pounds of ni- trate of soda will not be too large an application for one acre. PRUNING TREES IN THE SPRING. There are two most important things to be kept in mind by the fruit raiser— pruning and mulching. If those two duties are well performed success is nearly always certain. If well mulched, the fertilizing material is thus supplied by filtration from the mulching down to the feeding roots, which is the very best self-regulating method of fertiliz- ing. By allowing this mulching to re- main in winter and early spring the roots are kept moist and vegetation prevented from springing up around bushes, or a heavy sod from forming. « TO FELL A LEANING TREE. ‘A is the undercut. Begin on the op- posite side and when the saw is buried corner it, as shown in the cut, first on one side and then on*the other, and keep it V-shape until the tree falls. Tall, heavy timber is felled in this way and it saves many splits. Farm- ers know that it saves time and trouble to ‘clear land in the right manner.—J. S. Truitt, in The Epitomist. TENDING A YOUNG ORCHARD. In some localities where the soil is too poor to raise these crops with profit, it may be the most economical in cultivation to use a disk harrow. Where field crops can be grown it is best to plant only such crops as can be cultivated, except the cowpea, which may be drilled in and harvested with- out cultivation. To sow oats, wheat or other small grain in a young orchard and let the same grow to maturity and harvest thé same is to invite disaster to your trees. They may not “surely die,” but you will in nine cases out of ten.have cause to regret your action. . You have seen the effect on young clover of the removal of the grain in midsummer, and you may be sure the effect is the same in a modified degree on the young tree. Xeep the weeds away from around the trees by pulling or with the hoe, but leave the soil loose on the top and do not scrape the loose soil off, as I have often seen done, leaving a hard surface to dry out what mois- ture there may be. Cultivation should begin in the spring and continue as late into the summer as the planted crop will permit. It vill be best, where the crop is not cross plowed, to leave a space of four feet on each side of the row of trees for the later cultivation of the tree row with a five-tooth or other one-horse cultivator. The cultivation should then be kept up until August 1. I am an advocate of moderate prun- ing of the tree, and after shaping the tree as I would have it at planting, 1 would remove only such branches af- terward as interfere or that should be removed for other good cause. If some branches grow unduly they may be clipped off to keep the tree sym- metrical. —Address of Senator M. Dun- lap, of Illinois. Sea gulls have ousted the penguins from their rocks in the St. James's Park lake, London. Not less than four hours’ instruction In English is to be given weekly in the points of beauty.~-Tailor and Cutter. | Swedish national elementary schools, As the garden is also made | the est It is pure. It is gentle. It is pleasant. It is efficacious. as It is perfectly safe produces. 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Louisville, Ky. HAD A ROUGH EXPERIENCE. An English Newspaperman Got Into All Kinds of Trouble. Thomas J. Minnick, an KEnglish newspaper man, sought glory by im- itating the old-time American re- porter’s tricle of having himself locked in a Belgian madhouse to se- cure a sensation. The doctors, how- ever, “got on” to Thomas and to teach him -a lesson dosed him with vomiting powders. Next he was put on a diet of sour herrings and no water; at night he wasn’t allowed to sleep and when he complained ha was told he had a tumor in his brain and was imagining ill treatment. He would feel better as soon as the tumor was cut out. When finally the doctors tried to chloroform him and made preparations to operate upon him, Thomas disclosed his identity. But the doctors would not let him off. They sent him under guard to the po- lice station, where he was booked as an imposter and for obtaining the county’s charity under false preten- ses. Oil has been discovered oozing from the banks of the Coon river, near Grant City, in Sac county, Ia. A quart of the oil sent to Ames col- lege for analysis is said to have been found to be 80 per cent pure. Many School Children Are Sickly. Mother Gray's Sweet Powders for Children, used by Mother Gray, a nurse in Children’s Home, New York; break up Colds in 24 hours, cure Feverishness, Constipation, Stomach Troubles, Teething Disorders and Destroy Worms. Atall druggists’, 25¢. Sample mailed Free. Address Allen 8. Olmsted, Le Roy, N.Y. Monterey, Mexico, is to have an electric railroad system thirty miles Sng, calling for an expenditure of $6,500,000. How’s This? We offer One Hundred Dollars Reward for any case of Catarrh that cannot be cured by Hall's Catarrh Cure. F. J. CaeNEY & Co., Props., Toledo, O. We, theundersigned, ‘have known F. 7. Che- ney for the last 15 years, and believe him per- fectly honorable in all business transactions and financially able to carry out any obliga tion made by their firm. West & Truax, Wholesale Druggists, Toledo, Ohio. Warping, KINxAN&MARvIN, Wholesale Drug= gists, T' oledo, Ohio. Hall’s Catarrh Cureis taken internally, aot- ing directly upon the blood and mucous sur- faces of the system. Price, 75c. per bottle. Sold by all Druggists. Testimonials free.” Hall's Family Pills are the bost. The United Irish League claims to have 1,326 branches. - FITS permanently cured.No fits'or nervous- ness after first day's use of Dr. Kline’s Great NerveRestorer. $2 trial bottleand treatise free Dr. B.H. KLINE, Ltd., 931 Arch St., Phila., Pa. A lovers’ quarrel often serves to break the monotony of happiness. Mre. Winslow's SoothingSyrup for ehildren teething, soften the gums, reduces inflamma, tion,allays pain,cures wind colic. 25¢. abottle It is much easier to expound the truth than to nail a lie. Piso’s Cure cannot be too highly spoken of ag a cough cure.—J. W. O’Brinx, 822 Third Avenue, N., Minneapolis, Minn. , Jan, 6, 1900 Hearing, as a rule, is more acute with the right than with the left ear Old Sofas, Backs of Chairs, ete., can be dyed with PUTNAM FADELESS DYES. The English language is spoken by 115,- 000,000 people. 100 Al 25e. 50e. Druggists Genuine damsel cC c. Never sold in bull, Beware of the dealer who tries to sell “something just as good.” The Sabg Dictionary ot — Slang. Only Dictionary of nitions. Instructive as wel NEW DISCOVERY; gives qmick relief and our es worst Book of testimonials and 10 days’ treatment Dr. H. H. GREEN'S BONS, Box B, Atlanta, Ga- its kind i hsbashed: Contains nearly 400 up-to-date slang words and phrases ih defi- as amusing. Price 10 cents, stamps or coin. Se Pub. Co., 503 5th Ave., . DROPS cases. ¥ree. It afilicted with Thempson’s Eye Water weak c¢yes, use NO NOON HOUR. The Passing of This Brief Rest Period in Busy New York. “There is no noon hour in the low- er part of Manhattan,” New York, said an old restaurant man, who has supplied luncheon for business men and clerks for over a score of years. “We used to do seven-eighths of our businesg between ncon and 1 o'clock, but now the luncheon hour extends from 11 to after 3—to after 4 in the Wall street section. I can remember well when in all offices and business houses work ceased at the stroke of 12. and was resumed at 1 o'clock sharp. Now the noon hour is ob- served only in shops and factories. In offices and commercial houses work goes on continuously under the present day pressure of business, and the clerks and other employes go out for luncheon in relays, begin- ning as early as 11 o'clock, and with this change has come a shortening of the luncheon hour in most cases tc three-quarters of an hour—sometimes to half an hour. The chiefs and em- ployers, as a rule, eat late—most of them about 2 o'clock, and down if Wall street the brokers seldom get luncheon until after the exchanges close.” Strongest Jail on Earth. . Graham county jail, at Clifton, Ariz., is unique. It comprises four large apartments hewn from the solid quartz rock of a hillside. The en- trance is through a box-like vestibule built of heavy masonry and equipped with three sets of steel gates. The floor of the rock-bound jail is of ce- ment, and the prisoners are confined exclusively in the larger rooms. Some of the most desperate crim- inals on the Southwest border have been confined in the Clifton jail, and so solid and heavy are the barriers to escape that no one there has ever attempted a break for freedom. The notorious Black Jack was there for months. The wall of quartz about the jail is 15 feet thick. Clifton is one cof the (great copper mining camps in Arizona, and has the rep- utation of being as depraved a com- munity as yet exists on the frontier of civilization. In summer the mer- cury there frequently rises to 120 in the shade, and in the winter never goes helow 40 degrees. Built Thousand Years Ago. Captain Francis Tuttle, of the rev- enue cutter Bear, during her recent trip in the Arctic seas, found a house built by human beings probably thousands of years ago. It was par- tially embedded in a cliff fronting on the ocean, 15 miles southeast of Point Barrow. The cliff rose sheer 70 feet above the ocean. Forty feet above tidewater and 30 feet from the top of the cliff one end of the house was exposed. The ribs of an enor mous whale were used for a frame- work, and over these skins Had evi- dently been stretched. “Bush” Decctoring in Jamaica, “Bush” doctoring in Jamaica is a mysterious practice to which grave penalties, as well as rich profits, at- tach. Its chief exponent has just been fined $75 for breach of the med- ical laws, and certainly cannot com- plain of the wording of the indict- ment. His plan was to stand his pa-! tients along a platform, “mutter in | an unknown tongue,” and to figu out the diagnosis in the sand with a stick. y J WOMAN’S RIGHTS IN RUSSIA. Hotel Planned for Women’s Health. The latest development of the woman’s rights question in Russia has taken the form of a novel pro- posal planned by the “Society for the Care of Women’s Health.” It is pro- rosed to build a kind of a hotel where only women may live, and of which the shareholders are to be exclusive- ly women. Shares in the company will be subscribed for in the form of rent for rooms, and at the end of ten years. by which time the shares will be fully paid up, tenants will be al- lowed to subject their apartments on condition that the new tenant is al- so a woman. The building will be designed by a woman architect, and only women servants will be allowed to he employed there. The rules of the establishment with regard to the exclusion of men will be strict, re- minding one, indeed, of the cloister regulations of the Middle Ages. The building is to be commenced in the spring. Novel Care of A New Gold Field. Fish, gold and whales abound along that portion of the North Siberian coast westward of Behring straits. Wonwerful stories are coming from that section concerning the abund- ance of each. If all these stories are true there will be a rush of gold seekers and whale seekers. The Russian government has already farmed out the control of gold terri tory to prospecting companies, and they are hard at work. That govern- rmaent prohibits anyone else but Rus- siars from catching salmon. There are no labor laws to restrict Chinese laber, and large numbers of coolies are being hurried there to freeze and work for their living. Litter for horses and cows is to be made from spent hops at Dublin. Mother ¢¢ My mother was troubled with § consumption for many years. At last she was given up te die. Then she tried Ayer’s Cherry Pectoral, and was speedily cured.” D. P. Jolly, Avoea, N. Y, No matter how hard your cough or how long you have had it, Ayer’s Cherry Pectoral is the best thing you can take. It’s too risky to wait until you have consump- tion. If you are coughing today, get a bottle of Cherry Pectoral at once. i Three sizes: 23c., 50c., $1. All druggists. If he sayrs take it, If he tells you not to take it, the ity 't take it. He knows. Leave it with him, We are willing J.C. AYER CO., Low oli, Mass. Consult your doctos then do as he bon i Destiny of Canada, Canadians have organized a Prefer- ence League, with the motto, ‘“Can- ada,” the members pledging them- selves to buy Canadian products and manufactures “when the quality is equal to, and the cost not in excess of, foreign articles.” Unfortunately, these conditions seldom, if ever, oc- cur. The manifest destiny of Canada is to become part of the United States, so as to offset our acquisitions in the Southwest. The sooner the fact is recogrized and the nobler motto, “All America for Americans,” adopt- ed, the better for both countries. OIL POSITIVELY CURES Rheumatism Neuralgia Backache Headache Feetache All Bodily Aches AND CONQUERS PAIN. J RE HH HHH CE I Vaseline PUT tp in on, iba hos = ad nce and relieve hi adac x nmengyt as I be fo und to people say > nl the s ame ca ore 0 rFenuin