SHARIA
whi
Loo 0K Navel Core.
A Title boy and girl were at oppo
of & long room, ‘pretendivg |
lor and county it as one of her great. |
t over 5 “mikebelieve” tele |
his the doctor?” calied the little |
madam. RH is,” soswerad the |
had better come over at once
© & very sick lady | am nurs
8 the Hitle ge
ory serious case” sald the jittle |
. “What bave you done for |
i pot have drawn jt better myself” }
: gave ker two sheets of blotting
replied the ingenious Httle |
Was It red or black Ink? aquired :
B physician.
replied the nurse.
ben,” replied the doctor, © a plas |
T of white blotting paper on the |
§ of her fest will cure ber com
5
AE Amusing Journey,
his is a same that may be playsd |
i ration whatever, as x
regired, pot even
It is. therefore well |
for it may be Suggest
players chooks 8 Jeader, and |
sent themselves in 8 elrele, with |
leader in the center. He, of
je, sta As the game may be |
retood from an flinstration
| suppose the leader to begin it
oung people. you are aif supposed
commercial travelers about to
Journey to any part of the |
that you may prefer. on busi
will ask each of you, if you
el] ma where yon are going, |
AL you intend to do when you
ired that eavry answer to
ov to Utah 10 urge nse :
: Vio Vienna to visit va
is. Win Washington to
wages, ¥ to Yazoo fa
when played byt the ald
; girls, of even n by adults, ts
ETH answers that are
: ne time to think them up.
wi ack
‘to Know Just the cun- |
Hay tha ever two little birds |
me tell you—because ts
¢ porch of & quiet farm-
“had picked aut the very
Tv wanted; Land Bow Shey :
| horns joy!
beautiful, Jong, white,
! home? They flew down
nti sly. They fitted this way |
the rest. Aunt Lucy was 30 pleased
at what the cute little oriolea had
done, that she determined they should
have all the pretty threads of hair
they wanted. So that viry afternoon.
she took some of Mary's golden locks.
a few more of grandpa’s and some of
het own glowky black hair
and spread them on a bright
cloth on the porch Then
she warned the family to Koop very
quiet and ase what happened In less
than an hour the oriolex had taken
| every hair and carried it to thelr tree.
Before many days the pretty nest was
done and the birds were enjoving their
Dew home,
In the fall, after the oricles had left
thelr elm tree home, Aunt Lucy had
{ some one cllmb the tree and god the
nest. and there wo curiously woven into
the lining, were the soft white, golden
and black haire
Aun Lucy keeps the nest in her par
i est treagures Primary Kidncation
Ban Lh A
Last of the Photographs,
came home you may be sure it ereated
a tremendous segsation throughout
the menagerie, The animals all crowds
; ed round to look at it, and the polas
i fx they grunted, squeaked, squenied
| and bellowed taetr Seren apinions
. was simply Jdeafenin
YER Bilas Vers tail” ited the par
of.
“And his rank ix lifeiike: I could
braved (he donkey, wha ag vou know,
in very mood oar drawing things
at drawing carts than elephants
i "And his dear Hittle eyes” stzhed
{ the sentimental Jove bird “How
gweet'” :
“Fhidlesticks” sald the goshawk”
i “Hs no mare lke him than Hike ma"
i And he stalked off muttering to hm
| self, “Sweet little eyes, indesd! 1
i wonder the silly thing didn't say ‘Dear
Httle feet while she was aboit i JUs
lekening the way she fatiess that
LC Ereaml booby, and I wonder what Mrs
Elephant f2 abou to allhw UY
But Papa Elephant was beaming: he
took ro notice whatoder of the gos
{hawks remark. T think R's preity
fair,” he sald modes dy. land tomo
row you shall take halyy fo be photo
. graphed, toh, my dear.” hie added. turn:
ing to his wile, who looked quite a
ize Iarger than oausl with pride and
importance.
86 the next morning they went,
ss
ma'am, a real beanty: there's no doubt
about that” sald the mogkey, patting
Ris head on the side and sary eying
little Miss Elephant with an admi ring
smile,
Now. az Baby Elephant was very
| short and very fal with vory large ears
WU Fr a A BT
Cand very Httle eyes. and np nasty sulky |
: temper, she was not hy any means a
| Beanty, but, of course. her fond mam
. ma thought her love! 3, and gute
. | agreed with all the flattering rniaArks
_ of the cunning monkey.
“Turn your toes out. toy dear. and
sald, smiling with gratified material
vanity A: the stampy little abiset,
| and look pleasant ”
4 “Rhent” replied the animal child,
pearly shutting Ber little eves, and
tarning up her trunk, as zhs had no
i
| of coughing at once, while Mrs. Eis
_ phant tried to coax her refractory off
pring into good behaviour and after
| B61 into the proper position.
0 | “Playful littie pet ” said the monkey,
smiling as affabiy as he could,
“Ob. yes, it's all her playful disposal.
tion.” assented Mrs Elephant eager
ly. “She ts soch a gidiy litthe thing
like 8 Kitten, vou know.” :
Oh, very ike a kitten: very much
80 indeed.” agreed the donkey polite
brat” he muttered to hlmssif
But at last he managed to get Miss
the photograph and ren off with it
{ Into a dark cupboard ai the end of
the room, which smelled like a partic
e | ularly nasty chemist's shop,
While he was gone Miss Elephant
would mrwse herself by trying to look
through the camera although her
mamma repestedly told her to leave
it alope and come and sit down like
a goodi ohild: and at last she got her
head under the plece of black cloth,
as she had seen the monkey do and
could not get out again. ln her strug
gles she knocked the whole thing aver
and fell on ft. which Broke i into lide
pices =
And just then the monkey ran back
in a state of greaf excitement to say
he must take another photngranh as
1 cap off the cagiers. and thereforn here
| as no portrait. Bot glass the appara.
198 was smashed: Bo more pilfjures
could be taken, and Mrs. Elephant,
who had put her best bonnet an ine
tending to have her own photograph
taken az well as a surories for Papa,
fairly cried with disappointment
Miss Elephant a good whipping when
she got homie and sent her to bed
without any supper. which served her
right. Chicago Record Herald,
A Sugwestion.
“No, I'm not very well impressed
with the house.” sald the prospective
tensat. “The vard is frightfully small:
there's hardly room for a single flow:
4 | er bed”
“Think 20?” replied the agent: “hut
| —er—mightn't you vse folding Hower
beds?*=-Philadeiphla Preus,
rogues were baving suck 3 a stood time, | 1:
when Aunt lucy happened to py
them. She laughed aloud and of |
{ course that frightened the birds and
| grandpa awoke. But wait-—fust hear
He Fears the Sprace win Es Fxhaunted
of destruction from careless and
mills
When Papa Elephant's photograph |
L yoars, taking account of the growths,
though I think perhaps be ls batter |
LC among the older lumbernes seems to
ba that the Washi Bon experts fhe |
opens the amount of standing Spree
i periende of more than 25 years in
“Bha will make 8 lovely platare, perie more than 25 years in the
Inet your ears flop a Jittle more” she |
"Dio as the gentleman tells you, dusky,
The monkey discrectly had a load ft | coursa the continuance of their bust. |
| thia™
several attempts she was induced to |
Iv ont lomd. "Nasty {itemperad little |
Elephant In a corner and hastily taok |
he found he had forgotten in take the |
But I am ziad to say she gave littla
growth the hums will disappear on |
These valleys are on St. John waters.
80d the ¢ut heretofore bas gone to |
WARNING CIVEN BY AN EXPERT TO
LUMBER MEN.
=
nn Contury by the Fresent Demands
and Methods of Both the Pulp «nd Huw
Mills «A Call for Seientifie Forestry,
A dlgcussion Is now going on among
Munbermen, woodsmen and forestry
experts ax fo whether or not the
eprice forests of Maine are in danger |
wasteful methods of éatting and from
the immense demands made upon
them every year by puip mills and saw
Henry Grinnell, an expert from the
forestry division of the United States
department of agriculture, who has |
been making a tour of imwprotion In |
the northern Maine woods for ons of
the hig pulp companies. went to Ban
gor the other day and in an address
to fumbermen at the hoard of trade
roams declared that with a conting
ANCE of preasnt methods of leguing
the forests would be sxhausted in Jess
than 100 years,
On the other hand President F. 8 |
Lyman of the Cuoshnoe Fibre company |
of Augusta, one of the most experi |
ened mon in the 2tads in all matters
pertaining to lumbering. says that |
there is mores spruce standing in |
Maine than can be cut off in rountives |
that the end of ithe sprode supply is
BO roarote that worry on the sublset
is absiyrd.
Mr. Grinnell told the Bangor jumber |
men that i required two or three cen i
turbeg for a spruce tree to attain A |
gize suitable for Dumber but Me Ly |
man gays he has cut good sized spruce |
on and that had Been “i mo west for grin
44 years before, he general sonnion
oriox on some phases of lumbering uve |
not entirely accurale, st least as wp
plied to Maine
it is generally conceded, however, |
that a reform is needed in lumbering |
methods in this state and the present |
fiction must result in great good,
The owners of timber lands, the pager
amd pulp manufacturers and the am
ber mill owners are all interested in |
the situation. The preservaien sed :
propagation of the gprave forests must :
Be mors carefully looked after, for the |
benefit of ail }
E. ¥ Ring of Orono, state land |
agent and forest commissioner fa
making Arrangements to axceriain ms |
BOON as possible after he spring
in Maine, He has had & practical ex
winris of northern Maine He knows
the counties of Penobscot, Piscataquis |
and Rroustook. as far as the lumber |
| &FOWth is concerned, as thoroughly as | Kestion arses from the morsel of fru):
any man living
He says thers Is & vast amount of |
spruce in the Allegash country. and |
now that the railroads are penetrating
that region in various directions the |
timber can be more cheaply brought |
to market. When the winter is ended |
Mr. Ring proposes (0 send experiepesd
woodamen foto the forests to explore |
and report the ccadition and extent
of the prowth.
"What the state of Maine needs” ;
says Mr. Ring “is a modern aystem |
of forestry adapted to conditions in
this state. which in many cases will
radicaily differ from systems practised
in other countries
“In certain sections lumber ard pa
per companies have invested large |
sume of money in mill plants and of |
Bek depends pon the future supoly |
of timber, Buch companies would nd !
it more profitable to adopt a system |
of forestry which would give the best |
results ;
“In my opinion, the timber on the |
Kennebec and Androscoggin is ent to |
much better advantage than they cut |
tn other waters of the state. The rea. |
son for this is that on those two rive
ers ihe land {8 owned largely Ly the |
companies that own the mills, while |
the reverse Is the case on the otler ;
rivers,
“For instance. on the Penobscot the |
wild lands, wilh few exceptions, are |
owned Ly one viass. who sell permits |
to the lumber eperator. ha selling his :
our to the manainotyrer, often buying
stumpage by one scale and aeilivng the
logs by another,
“The influence of situation and soi!
spruce is very marked, It is not a fas
tidious tree. for it occupies all situa
tions and soils dow, wet SWAmDE,
abrupt, rocky slopes, and the tops of
mountaing and ridges, as well as
good soil. The best spruce is found
on moderate slopes with [raitful soil
“The loss by cutting High stumps |
and leaving large tops in the woods is
something that can vasily be rome
died; I may say that this fault ix he
Ing overcome by the lumber aperators, |
It is well known that when a crowd.
#4 stand of spruce is thinned, the trecy |
remain STON
3
re rapidly than
“In some parts of the spruen |
growths, wher wt is dense and!
the climate coil a deen laver of Wb
mas or vegetable mould accumulates |
an the tree, retarding ts growth ;
such localities trees six fnches fn
dismeter have baen out which showed |
15% ‘annusl risgy. while ander more
favorable ronditions spruce has been
known to increases one Inch in a vear
By cutting or thipning out suck a
those trees that ure left and they will |
grow much move ranidly”
Experts say that the best quality | Ia
of spruce standing in Maine today is
to be found in the Allegash and Fish
river valleys in Aroostook county.
Brunswick although the land iu dwned
by residents of Maine The Soutem
plated extension of the Bangor & :
Aroostook railroad from Ashland to |
Fort Kent will bring this timber to
the Maine pulp and sawmills there
it rightfully belongs
In the oginlon of Mp Ring, tha
amoint of sprace now standing In
Maine has been greatly underestimat
ed. Good Sudees ro that there is
now standing in the state not less than
27.000 BE 00 foe of’ spree, and they
BAY that this with the increase by
growth, is sufficient fo kecp all the
sawmills and palp mills Milly supplied
for an indefinite period,
The total Jog cut ln Maine is about
BHLO00.000 feet annunily. and half of
his i8 need by the pulp mills Some
| regard the coming of the puip milla
{as a calamity, but A prominent pulp
manufactarer polntd out that the pulp
mill i5 a blessing rather than a © nrae,
because in making a tess into paper
ten times as much money is eX prnded
a8 in making the free nto itmber.
“If the sproce 8 to be cut,” save
this pulp man, “why not got as much
| benefit from it as possibie? New |
York Sun. .
BOTH FooD AND MEDICINE.
ely Sa
i The Fruit Cure for Same 67 the Like of
the Momsen Body,
hae curative value of fralt Ww be
coming more and more (insisted unon
{BY those who make a si dy of die
tetios rapes are recommended for
| the dyspeptic. tha consumptive, the
| anacinie, and for those with a tendency
Pte gout and liver troubles Blas
aiso, are said to be a cure for gouty
and rheumatic tendencies. The acid
frwits, especially ledions and oranges,
Are particalariy good for stomach
Diroubies apd rheumatisny
1 is por sufficient By the adya-ates
| of the fruit dure 10 est a stall quan
tity at breakfast or dloner. Ons abonid
eat from two ta elght pounds of BiBpes
& day. > oranyes are the sumtive !
| agency, the number to be eaten in a
day way CRY from three fo aby
A healthy condition of the belly dee
pends upon a perfoct balance of foods
taken. There dre niany other factors
Centering into the Question. but this
feature must aot be forgotten Few
peuple there are wha can kesp hanithy
without {rule
How abeurd some One savas 0 be |
todd to sar frajt when evarybwddy ents
iL Yes. but how do you eat 7 Do
You take a definite amount of it the
sane a5 you do of mest and potatoes,
ar do you eat it as yon do candy?
if you suffer from an acute atisck
| of indigestion after a dinner of soup.
meats, plekles. sauees, salad cikes
Pastries, with splves and condiments
enough {a blister rhe skin to say
nothing of the delicate fining of the
stomach, pray do aot aver thay indi
takan at the end
Be honest with your stomach for a
. month. Fai no mare than you osid of
sitaple food (nto whieh the trie uy.
uries of pature such as applies, ap
AugHN, pears or other riot, shall enter. |
: Try. if only a» au Hsteresting exper.
ment. to sat sparingly of the crader
articles of dist, aml more of those
. #uited to your real needs, and see to
it that fruit forms a part of east
meni
“Bug thers are sd many hinds of
feliz that | cannot sat”
“There it is again. Because vou cane
BOL eal geventesn kinds of fond at one
meal ening with fralt. it of course. |
Was the apple or (he strawberries that
did the harm.”
“But doesn't frult make the blood
“It vertainly does, and we are might ¥
gad of ft. Ask any doctor who has
pravtised medicine for 120 vears with
; his eyes open, and he will tell vou that
the great majority of grown-un folks
bave blood too thie
“The minerals and natural acids of
| the fruit are the very hest conceivable
remedies for this thickennd condition
af the blood, Fruit then becomes bot
a fruft and a medicine. ~% Beoespity
and a most delightful huxury ~8era-
Ltaige Clintr.
AT Tr TT mA SHAG A BA ly
Barns from a Cald Salwianen,
That a man ean saetain serious
burns from & small gpeantity of roid
| mineral wnbstance carried in his po
: of geema almost foo abaurd for belle
i YEU there Lx ne doubt thar this para
| doxieal accident has taken place. It
on the character of the distribution of | i
gnown that Roentgen rvs,
thy intense and in sufficient
Cy long duration. syerclise a destruc
{tre action upon the alin, which ponds |
Don and leases an cpen sore that 9
i alow to heal. The almiiar ravs given
{oat hy certain minerals and ealled
! Becqueral rays,
alter thelr digeaivere
er. nw appear to he capable ar veey
ghort range of inflicting “huras” ali
P14 bas been ree ty announced that
ithe invigidie rave enitred by radiam,
ane of thes unbatapivas hpve an ae
5 > an WA OE
pecially avtive
skin Literary Digest.
Hopaioks Unwe.
The laziest man in Seo tinnd ba gail
ta have heen the |
alior
3 hia
shopamtes. apd Sarria
Phy way of a file. On the way
they mer a farmper, who asbed if the
tan wis dead
UXaT owas the reply. “hut we ine
tant to. bury him. He 3 that lazy
he should not be allowed ta lye
the farmers v
ul when tha in #
i ba thought he con 1 sat
fo or three bollod potatoes,
» Are they peeled?” {nguired the man.
Na, returned ode farmer
on London Answers,
owpon the human
Net Generally Known That Tins Gov.
ernment Maintains One,
fu a Httle honse in South Washing
ton 8 jocsted a Federil instibation
without which the Bmithsoaian [nsti
tiation and National muossiam coald not
exit. It iF the deuartenent of the
chief polsoner. Mr. Joseph Farmer,
The office of chief polsaner was not
Cunngaal in countriey ruled by despots,
but it may be a surprise to many to
earn that such an ofee 8 maintained
by our resmbdican firm of administra
tion. However, Mr. Fomor, unlike
bis cotemporaries in Tuckey, Spain
Arabia, ete, & not ongaged in putting
abmaxions anid sxuberant statsgimon
out of the way. but in placing the ob
jects on exhibit in the tnetitution and
masenm beyond the reach of thisves
tus and cockroaches Everything
that is received by these institutions,
whether it ig a rave book, a Philip
pu bolo, or & stuffed and mounted
animal, is sont to Mr. Farner to be |
psisaned. He ia gn expert in the
preparation and ase of pressreative
camponnds For stuffed animals and
Girds he finds that areesnical com.
pounds bring the best roaults. Every
et of metal recvives a coating of
soniething that prevents rast. while |
fabrics, Basketry. slike fos. ete, are |
potsoned in siteh the same manner ax
stalled animals. Even ha ahnlves |
anc) cates of the Masenm. in which the
ehjiots are place. have passed
through Mr. Farmers hands sad have |
boon treated to a Mild that eauses a |
bug, math or cockromch to think that |
ber te walling over 4 med Hot iron the
minate he siriios thelr surface. Hy
Why Resent Discoveries of
in Alaska Are Important.
The price of platinum one of
raver of the precious metals, now em
¢oeile that of fine gold, being
ounce. In 1880 the price was only §
per punes but owing to the gr
increase {n demand it has been |
iy rising. Platinom somewhat
semblos sliver in sppeatance, |
a rather duller luster. It is ex
ly resistant to acids and atmosphene
agents tending to corrosion. and
we be much more largely need
# it not for the rather Hmited eg ap
wh and resulting high price. The de
mand iy in excess of the supply, and
ita price will probably continne ©
Figs
2
2
these means the miseam ia forever
fread from vermin
Anant Losaos by u ire,
During the year 1906 (hoa pees]
TOM fires in the United Riaras
whieh hore? 08.0480 pieces of pron
erty and desler vod sidney tenragented
by FI60029 85 OFF thous Stres 29.13
par oent originated row dantatiee
fen apd smoke stacks overheated
stoves and stove piven reietion fn ma
clnery, faultily natailed or degmmer.
ated aleetrie wires and lights eit
ste atetdanta and oxi ploslianeg af ens
olin, climicnla. dust sie Lamp ac.
crdenia oo Bhar rarelos dan of
math wi, cigira, oliretton and tha
eo pipes. ashes hot coals. open fire]
places and grates. phimbers’ furnices
candies and gas lets wore ressnel
Ble for DRA0 per cant.
tant-of 31.03 ser cant, Flos origina:
ag from erie and misehinf, soch as
[78 Som an Trion bargivrs, drank
an men, oetics asd mischievous
chlldren were responsible for 8.53 por
cant, Fires of unknown origin
btarped 31.15 per cant Ir is esti
mating, however, that at least 530 per
cent. of the ilres of ynksown origin
are caused by incendiaries Of the
cagues whlch may bw considered un
avoldalie lghining was responsihle
for 015 per vant of the lous Span
taneous combustion: canged 4.95 per
cant, thy remall of rarelisi or ignor
aut handling of infassmable material
Exploring Tibet.
The Japaneses Buddhist priest Mp
Nokia! who went to China in Nera :
bor, 1888, to viet Lasan, Tibet,
studs the Lama philossdbhe, is Hs
making bis third witempt to remed
Pratuerty oxi}
posed to fire orgioative an other
CC pravuliss was destepyed to thal ex.
that forbidden land. his two precious
attemots Raving ended In faildre The
first attempt was made hy way of
Srechuen api the second Iw that of
Kang, asd now he lg try ing the Wane
HEN riante, Miza B. RR Seidnors
Fornign Secretary of the National
Gaographioal Soctety, Is confideht that
be will reach Lassa this time.
The Royal Visit to Ireland.
It 1s said on pretty good authority
that the projected vislt of the King
and Queen to lreland will got take
place for some tims The story is
that the “dissrbed” districis of Ire
aad are inereasing in number and
that during the winter it may become
fecesRary to takes sueh Strang mons.
to have a royal visit for same than
cures that #4 would hardly be desirable
i
Ancumatiom
Neursigis,
Sciatica, Lumbago,
Stiffness.
Sprains,
‘Soreness,
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