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Savages Liked Noise.
A Birmingham clockmaker dis
covered that a rival was sending out
large stocks of cheap clocks to the
heart of Africa and doing good busi-
ness with them. Finally he found a
key to the mystery. Savages like
noise. The clocks made by the first
exporter had a particularly loud and
aggressive tick. His competitor had
made a better clock, but it was al-
most noiseless, and the savages would
have none of it.
The great flood of Topeka, Kan., last
year has been found to be a blessing
in disguise. Ever since the district
has not been bothered by the vermin
that before infested it-—mice, rats,
moles, gophers and rabbits.
¥11'S permanently cured. No fltsornervovse
ness after first day” suse of Dr. Kline’s Great
NerveRestorer,%2trial bottle and treatise froe
Dr.R.H. KLINE, Litd., 931 Arch St., Phila., Pa.
Germany has ten trade journals devoted
to tobacco.
I do not believe Piso’s Cure for Consump-
ion has anequal for coughs and colds.—-JoEN
F.Boykr, Trinity Springs, Ind., Feb. 15, 1900.
Monaco is Europe’s most densely popu-
lated spot.
sapan vs. Russia.
It is well known that Japan is a
very small country as compared with
the Russian empire. Its areca is 147,-
000 square miles, while Russia has
3,000,000. In population the disparity
is much less, but still very great—44,-
000,000 for Japan against 129,000,000
for the Russian Empire.
Bewzre of Ointments For Catarrh That
Contain Mercury,
ag mercury will surely destroy the sense of
smell and completely derange the whole sys-
tem when entering it through the mucous
surfaces. Sucharticlesshould never be used
except on prescriptions from reputable p h;
gicians, as the damage they will do is ten Sold
to the ‘good you can possibly derive from
them. Hall's Catarrh Cure, manufactured
by F. J. Cheney & Co., Toledo, O., contains
po mercury, and is taken internally, acting
directly upon the blood and mucoussurfaces
ofthesystem. In buying Hall’s Catarrh Cure
be sure you get the genuine. It is taken in-
ternally, and made in Toledo, Ohio, by F.
J. Cheney & Co. Testimonials free.
Sold by Druggists; price, 75e. per bottle.
Take Hall's Family Pills for constipation.
er .
Our Life Saving Service.
So effective is the life-saving service
of the Uhited States that from disas-
ters to 246 documented vessels on the
coast during the year, having 3862
persons on board, only twenty lives
were lost, and of the 39, 000,000 worth
of property put in jeopardy but a little
more than §1,000,000 was lost.
New Whaling Stations.
Two whaling stations have been es-
tablished in the British Isies and three
more are to be. As a whaling sta-
ticn costs $40,000 there must be some
evidence of a stock of whales still in
British waters.
Bad Smell on Jap Ships.
Travelers say that there is a cer-
tain undefinable smell peculiar to
Japanese steamships that makes life
on board of them not worth living. It
has been traced to “daikon,” a large-
leaved vegetable dear to the Japanese
palate.
CHIEF OF POLICE SAVED,
Newberry, S.
of Police of 2
C.—W. H, Hrrris, Chief
Newberry, says: “I suf-
fered for a number of years with
kidney complaint. There was a dull
aching across the small of my back
that was worse at night and made me
feel miserable all the time. The kidney
secretions were dark and full of sedi-
ment, and lack of control compelled
me to rise a number of times during
the night. Between this annoyance
and the backache it was impossible
for me to get mmuch sleep and my
health was being underinined. I tried
’R number of remedies. but nothing
helped me until I got Doan’s Kidney
Pills. The use of this remedy accord-
Ing to directions promptly brought
about a change for the better. After
using two boxes the backache all left
me, the kidney secretions cleared up
and the action of the kidneys became
normal.”
A FREE TRIAL of this great kidney
medicine which cured Chief Harris
will be mailed on application to any
part of the United States. Address
Foster-Milburn « Co.,, Buffale, N. .X.
Sold by all dealers; price, fifty cents
per box.
New Third Degree Feature.
An entirely original feature has
been introduced into what the police
know as the “third degree,” or the
“sweat Dox” process, by Postoffice
Inspector Williams. It is to read
from the Prager book to the suspect
the petition for the remission of sins
[t was successful with the man upon
hee i was tried. Probably it would
be effective only with susceptible sin.
ners who had had careful religious)
training. Many men who fall inte
the hands of the police could listen to
the entire liturgy ithout making
confession. The incident showed tha
cleverness of Mr. Williams, who tried
the prayer for absolution upon a man
who at one time led a highly religious
life.
No. Maude, dear; a sliding scale is
not necessarily one on which ice is
weighed.
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TOP THE CANES.
Top the blackberry canes when about
three feet high, thus securing a stout
compact bush instead of a long sprawl
ing shoot.
SETTING PLANTS,
In handling and setting out plants,
never let the roots shrivel or dry out.
After plants and cuttings are in the
ground, never leave them just long
enough to dry out and die. Keep them
moist—not wet and sodden, but moisi
all the time. In setting out plants,
especially strawberries, spread out the
roots and make the ground very fine
abzsut them. In trenching stock, pul
the roots down deeply, and cover well
half-way up to the stems. The gar:
dener who fails to carry out the prin:
ciples under this number has not
learned the letter A of his business.
VARIETY IN FRUIT GROWING.
The writer was struck by an inci
dent which occurred recently and
which leads to this article. In con
pany with one of the best fruit grow:
ers of the country we visited a sec
tion famous for its apples. On one
or two farms on the outskirts of what
might be termed this apple belt were
orchards which were not at all attrac:
tive. My friend called my attention
to them and remarked that for years
he had tried to persuade the owners
to give up trying to raise apples and
to devote their soil to crops which
would give better results. He claimed
that the larger part of one farm was
a natural soil for celery, and that
‘the other farm should be given over
largely to small fruits and particular
ly strawberries. Neither of the owners
could be made to see that he would
not duplicate the business of the peo
ple near him “in apple growing. This
is the case in many sections. One mar
will make a success in growing some
particular crop by reason of having
soil particularly suited for it, or be
cause he understands how to grow
that crop.
At once every farmer within easy
reach of him will put in the same crop
some of them giving up crops with
which they had made splendid suc
cesses. Look over the soil and your
capabilities thoroughly and don’t grow
potatoes because Jones had been suc
cessful in growing them. Find out if
you know how to grow potatoes and
if your soil is suited to them; if so gc
ahead. If not, stick to the crop oui
of which you are now making money
because it is suited to your soil and
because you know how to grow it,
REMOVAL OF LARGE TREES,
In reply to a correspondent would
say that one of the simplest and most
satisfactory contrivances for removing
large trees on the farm or eisewhere
we have ever seen is shown in the
accompanying illustration. In con
struction it is v¢rv simple and cheap.
It can be made and used on any far
The device consists of three heavy
pieces of oak timber or other hard
wood, five to eight feet long, the size
depending largely upon the size of the
L trees to be removed, The rear cross
It piece is bolted on the lower bases, as
shown in the picture, and a heavy log
chain is attached to the hooks or rings
In the front pieces. as illustrated.
Is dug around it, leaving a ball of
earth as large as desired. The appara.
tus is slipped around and under the
sides of this ball of earth containing
the tree. As the sides of the boat are
cut out and rather shape, these are
SLED FOR HANDLING TREES,
irawn together with a log chain by 2
team of horses or block of tackle
By drawing this up tightly the points
we brought together, thus raising and
qfting the ball ef earth and the tree
i1pon the runners. When everything is
n readiness, two or four horses, as the
:ase may require, are hitched to the
hain and the tree is drawn out, the
ront part of the opening having been
slanted for that purpose.
When a tree is to be reset, a hole
arge enough to accommodate it is dug
vith both sides slanting into it so that
he horses can be driven down through
ind out the hole, thus drawing the tree
tn place. By loosening the chain and
iitching the horses to the other end
if the boat, this is easily withdrawn,
hus leaving the tree in position. By
illing the hole and watering carefully,
arge trees can be casily removed, even
n midsummer, without serious dis.
wrbance. The same apparatus was
ised for transplanting 2 iarge block
if maple, cedar and other ornamental
rees; it was designed, made and used
yy Alexander Mayer, of Long Island.—
range Judd Farmer.
abound in the Inland
Oysters Sea
In removing a large tree, a trenchj
MAY BE A BUTTON FAMINE.
Shortage Reported in the Production of
Vegetable Ivory.
The production of vegetable ivory
during the past season has been very
small and very heavy purchases of
the available supply have been made
by Germany, the result of the two
combined influences being that the
price of this product has been ad-
vanced from twenty-five to thirty per
cent. during the last ninety days.
Though perhaps not one person in Q
thousand is aware of the fact, nearly
every nan and boy in the United
States is daily wearing vegetable
ivory, as the greater part of the coat
and vest button supply of the world
is made from this product. The nuts
from which it is made grow wild in
the forests of Colombia and Ecuador
and are imported into the United
States in quantities varying from
8,000,000 to 10,000,000 pounds a year.
Each pound makes several hundred
gross of buttons, which are dyed to
match the color of the cloth with
which they are to be used.
The nuts grow upon a tree somewhat
similar to the palm, the fruit growing
in a pod, larger than a cocoanut, which
contains a large number of nuts, from
the milky inside of which is produced
the hard substance used in making
buttons. The nuts are gathered by the
South American Indians and taken in
boats to the nearest transportation
point. The market price here is from
two and a balf to four and a half
cents a pcund.
WISE WORDS.
The only way to have a frieml is to
be one.
Prudence is merely well trained com-
mon sense,
A day without a good deed leaves
you in debt.
The best talker is a man who knows
when to stop.
Abuse is an indirect species of hom-
age.—Hazlett.
Personal force never
fashion.—Emerson.
If you would be wealthy, think of
saving as well as getting.
Conceit' may puff a man up, but nev-
er prop him up.—Ruskin.
Good qualities, like good steel
knives, grow dull of edge unless they
are used.
No man ever did a designed injury to
another but at the same time he did
a greater to himself.
No soul is desolate as long as there
is a human being for whom it can feel
trust and reverence.—George Eliot.
Make yourself an honest man, and
then you may be sure that there is one
rascal less in the world.—Carlyle.
Self-trust is the first secret of suec-
cess, the belief that, if you are her
the authorities of the universe put you
here, and for cause, or with some task
strictly appointed you in your consti-
tution, and as long as you work at that
you are successful.—Emerson, :
goes out of
®* Franklin’s Idea of Nero.
Seven-year-old Franklin is one of
those bright and
whose fathers would like to tell all
about them if they dared, but who
fear the wrath of their fellows and
hold their peace. Franklin goes dailg
‘to a Camden (N. J.) school with his
older sister, who is in the eighth grade
and knows a lot about ancient history
stories for the lad to hear. She was
telling him the other day all about
“wicked Nero, who fiddled while Rome
burned, and the boy was duly im-
pressed.
to discover whether the
imparted had taken root,
asked the boy:
“Who did I tell you about’ to-day ?”’
“Nero,” readily replied the young
learner.
“Who was he?’ was the next ques-
tion.
There was a bit of hesitation, but
finally the answer came out with a
twinkle:
“Ob, he was a bird.”
“Well, what did he do?”
“Ate worms,” was the unexpected
reply, which gave the tableful of din-
ers something of a shiver.—Philadel-
phia Record.
knowledge
the sister
Vise Man of the Trolley.
“Yes,” said the conductor, as he gave
the motorman the double ring, “I can
tell what day of the week it is by
the size of the money these young
lows have. Now, there is that kid in
front just gave me a five-dollar note
and made me hustic for change. That's
e
fel-
his salary. He'll be walking down
town next Friday morning. That
young woman there, who just gave me
a dollar bill, had to look through a
pocketbook full of samples on Satur-
day morning to find a nies el.”
“Pui this is Mondays remarked the
observant patron, “and I saw a man
give you five cents Just now. How do
you account of that?
“Oh, that's easy,” said
of the cord; “he’s married.”
News.
—DBaltimore |
The Largest Oil Barge.
The biggest oil carrying stee. varge |
in the world, Standard Oil No. 94, re-
cently built at Shooter Island, arrived !
at New York recently on her
from Port Arthur, Texas, with 50,000
barrels of dil, the largest cargo tha
has ever come from the Lone St
State in one bottom. The barge made
the trip in ten days, in tow of the big
ocean tug Astral. ,
fivra+ wel
first ip i
r
Sa ee
Three Irish Proclivities,
Three great qualities of the Irish
language, said a delegate at the Irish
Teachers’ Congress lately, were that
it was the language in whicl: they
could pray the most fervently, curse
if Japan. They are served in tle res-
aurants for five cents a dozen.
the most bitterly and court the most
' sweetly.
alert youngsters!
and things which make wonderful |
At dinner that night, in order |
the. knight |
FINANCE AND TRADE REVIEW
CONFIDENCE IS RETURNING.
proving Regardless of the
Labor Troubles.
The advices received frem special
agents of the International Mercan-
tile Agency, at the leading trade cen-
'ers of the country, are in the main
satisfactory. Confidence in a good
fall and winter business increases
from week to week Current activ-
ity in the different industrial lines
| is not great, but it is better than it
{ was a year ago, with the very whole
some influence of a faith in better
| things.
There has been good growing
weather for the crops, which are ap-
! proaching harvest under continued
improved conditions. In the spring
wheat section of the northwest some
rust has been discovered, which will
reduce the yield. arvesting is in
progress in nearly all of the leading
winter wheat states, and the results
are better than farmers thought they
would be two weeks ago. it is be
ginning to be believed, though, that
the total yield will leave a small ex:
portable surplus and that the price
of wheat and flour during the next 12
months will be high. The specula-
tive months are now at the top prices
for this movement, having been help-
ed by a war scare which produced an
opposite effect on sfocks.
The returns on wheat in the south-
west have stimulated business ib
that part of the country. Collections
in the St. Louis district have far ex-
ceeded those of last year. Fall or-
ders being received are beyond ex-
pectations. Boots and shoes have
been in especially good demand,
though clothing is slow. Dallas re-
ports bright trade prospects.
The first symptom of discourage:
ment that has been shown at Kansas
City is apparent this week in reports
of a slack condition of trade in most
lines. Chicago retailers are said to
be more pessimistic than they ought to
be in view of actual events. The
packing house strike casts a shadow
over trade there, even with advance
orders for clothing, mens’ furnish-
ings, shoes and wearing apparel
quite satisfactory. Indianapolis in-
dicates some improvements ‘in dry
goods and shoes, though with hard-
ware behind last year.
The most gratifying trade state-
ments of all are those from Pittsburg.
This is due to the improvement that
has come about in the iron and steel
trade. The tone of business is cer-
tainly much better than 1t has been,
and a sharp revival is not improbable
after election.
MARIE IETS,
PITTSBURG.
‘Grain, Flour and Feed.
Wheat—No. 2 res $ 98
Rye--No. 2 81 2
Corn=-No, 2 Yellow, 56 57
No. 2 yin, shelled 57 53
Mixed ear...... 54 55
Bates Neo, o ri 16 47
2 white 4D 45
Flot ter 53) 5 35
Straight winte . 510 520
ase Trirmothy Tal TB 2406
Clayer No. I... ..... s.c11 00 1150
Feed—No white mid ton.. ...280) 245)
Brown middlings........ ...2100 22
1 Branchulls,.. ... 1900 19 50
iw heat . 950 1000
Oat.............covivssiecd roars 950 1000
Dairy Products.
Butter—Elgin creamery.. 21
Ohio creamery 18
Fancy country roll.. 14
Cheese—Ohijo, new ... .. nse
New ones new. i... al 9
Bout, 8 Etc.
‘Hens—per Ib.. .
Bi Uhickens—dressed -
Turkeys, live. - . ;
Eggs—Pa. and Ohio, fresh. ......... 18 19
Fruits and Vegetables.
Potatoes—New Ee! HG 200 2N5
Cabbage—per bbl . 150 175
Onjons—per varrel . 2. 32 3850
i Apples—per barrel 958) 3 0y
BALTIMORE.
Flour— Winter Patent .. $4 90 20
[Wheat =Ro 2red..... 87 82
Corn—mixed { 56 57
i "Eggs . 17 18
Butter Een aT 19 20
PHILADELPHIA .
Flour— Winter ton: 5 535
| Wreat—No. 21 $7 88
torn—No, Ay 54 55
Dats—No. 2 white. ....... 48 49
| Butter—Creamery, extra 17 18
¥ Eggs—Pennsylvaiia fir L firsts 19 2
A NEW YORK.
' Flour—Patents, 5 5p
Wheat—No, 2 red. 107
Corn—No. Zoi 58
[puis Ro, 4 2 White.. 44
{ Butter—Creamery 17 18
NES... raenes.n 18 av]
| ——
! LIVE STOCK.
| Union Stock Yards, Pittsburg.
i Cattle. °
Prime heavy, 1450to 1606 Ibs......§6 00 6 25
Prime. 1500 to 1400 lbs _. 575 0600
| Medium, 1200 to 1300 1b, 540 570
i Kat heifers 4 00 4 85
Butcher, 900 to 1000 Ibs. 450 500
| Common to fair... 300 370
{ Oxen, common to fa 00 100
' Comm on togood fat Be and cows 250 350
i iIMilchcows,each............,....... 2650) 2500
i Prime heavy hogs. 5 580 5 90
{ Prime medium wei : 600 605
| Best heavy yorkers a medium : 6 10
Good pigs and lightyorkers . 5 40
{ Pigs, common 10 good 485
Houwghs. |... |... 140
| Bags... rie 425
Extra,medium wethers
i Good to choice
| Medium ..... .
} Lommoz to fair.
{Spring Lampe i. 8 400
..83 470 4 99
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Vealextra.......................... 800
i Veal, good to choice. 4 00
i Veal, comnmon heavy. 350
Cancer and Decr.
An inquiry by Dr. Alfred Wolff into the
myster cause 1
an unexpected cc on Ww
temperance adve new and
argument. Dr. ;
the districts of hig
those in which
drunk. Bavaria,
list in Germany
both great heer-
France the statict gh more
ing. There is the most marked
between the high cancer mortality
drinking departments and the low
ontrast
in beer-
death
eisewhere—Londou Tit
Trade Conditions Are Said to Be Im-.
Mrs. Anderson, a prominent society $f
woman of Jacksonville, Fla, daughter of
Recorder of Deeds, West, who witnessed
her signature to the following letter, praises
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