Up ern- \ of- ould vere has is ated upon lonel regi- a. e life ljoin- ailed. Evan arles boiler near build- d. >. was id at ne at lo. harge State ny to after d and by a train Love- mpact fo the g Chi- in Bra: by the © the rt was ‘torney st and erstate mands ion by ober 1, will be hin the North Dakota Solves the Adultera- tion Problem. North Dakota seems to have found the key to the question, ‘How shall we protect the people from frauds in manufactured products?’ a plan which is applicable to foods, bever- ages, materials used in the arts, etc. A new law has recently gone into ef- fect designed toc make it impossible to deceive people into buying inferior and adulterated paint under the im- pression that they are getting real paint, viz.: pure white lead and lin- seed oil. The North Dakota lawmakers did not attempt to absolutely prohibit che inferior pigments, or mixtures of pigments. They adopted the slogan, “Let the label tell,” and then left to the people to buy whichever they wished. Under this plan, if any one wishes to buy a mixtureof rock-dust, ground quartz and other cheap elements which are found in many paints and so-called ‘‘white leads,” no one can object; for they do it with their eyes open. But if they prefer genuine white lead and linseed oil, they can be sure of getting it, for none but the genuine article can bear a label which says “pure white lead.” In all other States mixtures are of- ten sold as pure white lead which contain little—sometimes no—real white lead. It would seem that were this same principle applied to food, beverages and all other preparedarticles, where .deception is practiced upon the buy- er, the question would be solved. It would leave us free to buy what we pleased, but would protect us from unwittingly buying what we did not want. Suicide of Abused Mule. There is reported from the Morel district of Switzerland a case of mule suicide. The beast had , received rough usage and was being driven daily with a heavy load back and forth from Binn valley to Morel. The other evening, as the muleteer had added, as usual, his own weight to the tired mule’s already heavy load, the beast plunged and reared so violently that the man was thrown with violence, breaking his arm, while the pack was also flung off. Bolting then along the torrent side, the mule was nearing the bridge of Schert at full gallop, when a party of men barred the way. Seeing escape thus blocked and re- capture inevitable, with a return to the old unbearable cruelty, the animal stopped, turned to the torrent flowing at a great depth below, and with a side leap plunged headlong into the abyss.-—New York 4Tribune. Kills Off Mosquitoes. One good thing seems to have come out of the marine hospital service ex- perience. It is the discovery and an- nouncement that the burning of a dis- tillation of pine wood called pyro- fume will effectively free houses and single rooms of mosquitoes. It is more deadly than sulphur and is not injurious to paints, metals or clothes. The fumes of this pine tar kill mos- quitoes instantly, but do not harm human beings. But while this may be an excellent discovery and handy to use about the house, it in no way approaches in value the drainage system of mosquito destruction. While pyrofume kills the few mosquitoes in a house, the system which destroys their breeding places aims to kill the great bulk of the whole noxious, stifiging, pestiferous brood, and in some places has already accomplish- ed this desired result. Value of Our Railroads. The 220,000 miles of main track of the railways of the United States represent property to the extent of $16,000,000,000, or as much as the to- ‘al value of all the property in the country in 1860, the year of Lincoln’s zlection. Their income of over $2,- 100,000 a year is very nearly four imes the annual revenue of- the revenue of the United States govern- nent. The number of men on their iolls is 1,500,000, an army as great as ‘he combined forces that Oyama and Linevitch had in Manchuria at the ime of the peace of Portsmouth. The ‘ailroads are a vast interest. Any- hing which would hamper them in heir legitimate activities would deal + hard blow to every important in- lustry in the country.—Leslie’s Neekly. GOOD AND HARD Results of Excessive Coffee Drinking: It it remarkable what suffering some persons put up with just to sat: isfy an appetite for something. A Mich. woman rays: ‘‘I had been using coffee since I was old enouzh tg have a cup of my own at the table, and from it I have suffered agony hundreds of times in the years past. “My troub:e first began in the form of bilious colic, coming on every few weeks and almost ending my life. At every attack for 8 years I suf- fered in this way. I used to pray for death to relieve me from my suffer- ing. I had also attacks of sick head- ache, and began to suffer from ca- tarrh of the stomach, and of course awful dyspepsia. “For about a year I lived on crack- ers and water. Believing that coffea was the cause of all this suffering, I finally quit it and began to use Postum Food Coffee. It agreed with my stomach, my troubles have left me and I am fast gaining my health under its use. “No wonder I condemn coffee and tea. No one could be in a much more critical condition than I was from the use of coffee. Some doctors pro- nounced it cancer, others ulceration, but none gave me any relief. But gince I stopped coffee and began Pos- tum I am getting well so fast I can heartily recommend it for all who suffer as I did.” Name given by Postum Co., Battle Creek, Mich. Read the little book, “The Wellv lle.” “There's a reason.” ¢ Road to! President Ropsevelt Converted fo thie New-dtyle a VODPOD IDOOIDEIIDIOCDIDODIDEDEIDID 00 DOVES President Roosevelt announced his conversion to the spelling reform movement. He has issued orders to Public Printer Stillings that all mess- ages from the President and all other documents coming from the White House shall be printed in accordance with the recommendations of the spelling reform committee headed by Professor Brander Matthews, of Col- umbia, and backed by Andrew Car- negie. Spelling reform had its greatest impetus when Andrew Carnegie made an offér to finance it. For many years professors and others have been laboring to have the public accept reforms in the spelling of cer- tain words. The public, while admit- ting that the existing spelling is a philological monstrosity, refused to take kindly to the suggested changes. When Andrew Carnegie announced himself as a convert to the reform the matter was discussed more than at any time withinthe past 100 years. Mark Twain promised to take it up after Mr. Carnegie had announced his conversion' and had agreed to finance the organization of reformers calling themselves the Simplified Spelling Board, of which Brander Matthews is the president of the Ex- ecutive Board. This board announced at the be- ginning that it did not propose any radical or revolutionary scheme of reform, but simply wanted to make easy the spelling of certain words. It selected 300 words which it asked the public to accept. Following is the list of 300 words already given out by the Simplified Spelling Board in which changes are proposed: NEW FORM. 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List of 300 Words That Her: Documents From the White House Will Be Printed According fo the Recommendation of the Matthews Committee. 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Mrs. Charles M. Preston, of Elk- land, Pa., says: “Three years ago 1 found that my housework was be- coming a burden. 1 tired easily, had no ambition and was failing fast. My com- plexion got yellow, and I lost over 50 pounds. My thirst was terrible, and there was sugar in dy the kidney secretions. My doctor kept me on a strict diet, but as his medicine was not aelping me I began using Doan’s Kidney Pills. They heiped me at once, and soon all traces of sugar disappeared. 1 have regained my former ‘weight and am perfectly well.” . Sold by all dealers. box. Foster-Milburn Co., N. Y. 50 cents a Buffalo, Selden Waited Long. Twenty-five years ago, writes Leroy Scott in ‘Technical World’’ magazine for September, a young man with a scheme for a carriage to be run by a gasoline motor cailed upon a large manufacturer of vehicles and farm implements. The young man had spent years upon his patent—its suc- cess nieant fortune to him, and also triumph over the men who had laugh- ed at himi. So he used his best elo- quence to induce the manufacturer to put his automobile on the market. But the manufacturer shook his head, “You've been wasting your time on that scheme,” he said.” “And if 1 went into it, I'd be wdsting my money. No, sir—even if it worked nobody’d ever care to ride in your ‘explosion buggy.” The young man was George B. Selden, and what this manufacturer said was also said by dozens of others. To-day there are in use in the United States, about 70,000 “explosion buggies,” and about 70 per cent of all gasoline automobiles made in this country or imported into it are licensed under the Selden pat- ent—the royalties paid during the last three years amounting to $814,- 182. The Skirt Under a Ban. The most injurious garment, ting the corset out of the question for a time, is undoubtedly the skirt. This universally worn skirt impedes a woman’s movement; scavenges the streets; drags round her feet, and so produces unnecssary fatigue; requires carrying, burden to women with parcels, um- brellag, and babies; causes falls in going upstairs or getting in or of ommnibuses or trains: causes death by fire, and, above all, is detrimental to health when . worn for cyeling or any other outdoor pur- suits.—-Itational Dress Grzette; TERRIBLE SCALY ECZEMA. Eruptions Abpeanct o on Chest, and Face and Neck Were All Broken Out --Cured by Caticura. “I had an eruption appear on my chest and body and extend upwards and down- wards, so that my neck broken out; limbs as far as the knees* I at first thought 1t was prickly heat. But soon scales or crusts formed where the break- ing out was. Instead of going to a phy- sician I purchased a complete treatment of the Cutieura Remedies, in which 1 had grea; faith, and ail was satisfactory. A year or two later the cruption appeared again, omiy a little lower, but before it had time to spread 1 procured another supply of the Cuticura LKemedies, and con- tinued their use until the cure was com- plete. I: i: now five years since the last attack, and have not seen any signs of a return. have more faith in Cuticura Remed es ‘or skin diseases than anything I know of. Xmma E. Wilson, Liscomb, Towa, Oct. 1, 1905.” Lawmakers of America. The British empire has 6S legisla- tive bodies. In 1963 they passed about 1,900 acts and ordinances. The state legislatures of the United States in that year enacted more than 14,000 laws and resolutions, of which more than 5,400 were general and the remainder were local or private. In Anierica it is not always the most populous state that needs, or seems to need, the most legisiation. In 1903 North Carolina led with 3,200 en- actments. —Philadelphia ledg Too Many ‘Rabbits. A writer describes a plague of rab- bits in' Australia: “A farmer barri- cades himself in with miles upon miles of wire fencing solely to keep out the rabbits. They eat their way up to the barriers and in the fight for the green land within the wire they die in myriads. All round the en- closed land they lie in heaps of in- credible size. Swarm after lows on, and at last the heaps of dead are so high that the late comers make their way over the fence and the farm is ruined.” swarm fol- French Prize for Poets. A Prix de Rome for poets, similar to that which is accorded to painters and sculptors, has been decided upon by the French academy. A yearly prize of 3,000 francs is to be awarded the poet of either sex whose poem will be declared by a jury of distin- guished literary men to be the best. The first Prix de Rome for poetry has just been awarded to a young man of 22 for a poem called *‘‘Les Familiers,”” which was chosen out of 300 MSS. submitted. Lament of the Gourniand. Nothing new tc eat has heen covered for several centuries The monotony is not breakfast; it S0, i are dis- past. confined to is equally, if not more lunch and at dinner. There acefully few animals fit to okapi, which seemed to difficulty, is a bitter ointment, because there are three cim himn know vo of those are stuffed.— nts of disap- | only put- | tis modern hotels to write off $ 0.000 a year as { the loss for silverware and c hina fe by guests in the course of 12 |! moi - persons will have sot { isits to New York and take spoonsg, knives, forks and any sort of all ware which they -ca slip in t pockets. The es has grown so that the big hotel men now purchase cheap hardware for the use so as lo add an intolerable | out | frequently | i Manitoba | wheat from and face were all | also my arms and the lower | | of {ransient guests, but the figures of ces run up in three of the city hotels the $26,000 mark. The women are ined for this sort of theft proof seems to be against them. It is not rcgarded as theft, but: as a sniart fad, and I have vet to hear of one. woman denouncing the prac- tice. On the ocean steamships this souvenir business has grown out of bounds. On one trip of a New York liner to this side one-half the butter plates and one-third of . the spoons were out of services before Sandy Hook was reached.—New York Press. To Measure Niolecules. An apparatus for measuring the seveniy-n:illionth part of an inch has been made by Dr. P. Shaw, of Not- tinghanm: university, England, says “Technical September. ciple of World Magazine” for It works upon the prin- electric touch, and consists of a fine micrometer screw and ‘six levers. ‘I'he apparatus is so sensative and delicate that it is impossible to manipulate it before an audience. It is hung by rubber bands, covered with thick felt, and must be worked at dead of night, when there is no trafic. ior factory . working. The smallest c¢istance that this mechanism is about the distance be- solid and a liquid molecule. tween a Dr. Shaw’s invention was first made in 1800, but its great improvement of late has made it the wonder of physicists {iroughons the world. FITS, St. Vitus Dance:Nervous Dlschsosper: mane ntly cur ed by Dr. Kline's Great Nerve Restorer. $2 trial bottle and treatise free. Dr.H R, Kline, I Ld. :931 Arch St., Phila., Pa. Germany is.now making 1,800,000 tons of beet sugar yearly, and export: ing more than a million tons. Mrs. Winslow’s Soothing Syrup for Children teething, softens thegums, reduce sinflammna- tion, allay: pain, cures wind colic, 2 he abottle An Old Phrase. The plirase ‘‘his mothers white- headed boy,” is as old as the hills in Ireland. It appears in many of the Irish fairy stories of the last century. Irish mothers who knew good fairies always kept the secret for the “white-headed boy’’ of the family. Gerald Griffin, in one of his best short stories, years ago used the phrase as one he had borrowed from an cold Celtic book. Wheat Yield in Manitoba. estimated by the Premier of that 100.000.600 bushels of will he available for export the northwestern provinces of Canada, at the close of the harvest and he states that it will take the railways a year to carry this quan- tity to the coast.—London arent Big It is You CANNOT | allinflamed, ulcerated and catarrhal con- ditions C f the mucous membr ane such as nasalcatarrh,uterinecatarrh caused by feminine His, sore throat, sore mouth or inflamed eyes by simply dosing the stomach. But you surely can cure these stubborn affections by local treatment with Paxtine Toilet Antiseptic which destroys the disease germs,checks discharges, stops pain, and heals the inflammation and soreness. Paxtine represents the most successful local treatment for feminine ills ever produced. Thousands of women testify to this fact. go cents at druggists. 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