(.if hirvesung tweoras if iho West. The farmers of the San Joaquin val ley, iu California, utilize the largest ma chines in the world tor harvesting ami threshing their wheat crops. These machines are combine! harvesters, that cut, thresh, clean, sack and dump the grain on the ground ready to be stor ed. The traction engines which oper ate them are of 50-horse power. Last season some great records for harvesting were made. A twenty-foot sickle har vester, with what is termed a four-toot extension cut, threshecj, cleaned and sacked 1,772 bags of i/heat, or over 3,- 000 bushels a day. 1 UPRIGHT I m ft Straight and strong is thr jm to statue when the twists uud im curvatures of 1 jfe i I . -*#' Lumbago % I M 1 S arr r,,ro^nn< * ft to jjjll et: anUUeued stf I s&s & | Ml A Jacobs t S MIL 0 I to ft iti ft Marconi's Great T?.s'<. In liis Dorsetshire laboratory, week m and week out, works Marconi, the ma gician cf wireless telegraphy. He only visits London to attend meetings of the board of directors, and, thrice happy, he is spared the reading of all save the most pressing business letters. His dis covery has been natented in every civ ilized county, yet Marconi is aware th-it competitors are running him hard in the race for improvements and consequent ly he is never content with what has al ready been done. "We have proved the efficiency- of Marconi's invention for a distance of 98 miles," said Major Flood Page, the secretary of the Marconi Company, "and I wish you could tell us how to cross the Atlantic." It is the solution of this distance dif ficulty which is now taxing the ingeni ous brain of the tireless Marconi. The curvature of the earth over so many miles of sea causes the trouble. To speak to Ostend, over forty miles, of water, necessitates the erection of a mast of communication 40 fect high, which is at the rate of a foot of mast per mile of distance. By this calculation, wire less telegraphy between Southampton and New York would require 011 either side a mast measuring about three thou sand fect in height—nearlv as high as Snowdon and 19 times the height of the Nelson Column. But Marconi is san guine of his ability to solve the mast problem, though it will, of course, take some high thinking and deep reflection. —London Express. Best For the Bowels, No matter what alls you, headache to a cancer, you will never got well until your bowels are put right. Casoap.ii.th help nature, cure you without a gripe or pain, (troduce easy natural movements, cost you ust 10 cents to start getting your health tack. Cahcauets Candy Cathartic, the genuine, put up in metal boxes, every tab let has C.U.O. stumped out it. Bow axe of Imitations. In Baltimore they have eight school? in the city jail. Attendance is compul sory. (■nrficlil Headache Powders Cure. One woman writes: "Periodical headaches from which I suffered lmve been ontlrely cured. Am now soiling Powders to my friends." Send to Garfield Tea Co., Brook lyn, N. Y., for frea satnplos. The public buildings of England alone are valued at a sum approaching £ 250,000,000. Dr. Bull's Cough Cures n cough or cold at once. £*> Conquers croup, bronchitis | IB f9 grippe aud consumption. 75c. J U ttfr JS—-4 UNION Tlie real worth of W. L. Douglas #3.00 anil M tt.'i.r>o shoes compared f' with other makes Is 84.00 to 85.00. f / v* Trji Oiirttl Gilt Edge 1.1 tie L-&A 'fij cannot bo equalled at r* any price. Over 1.000,- y f 000 satisfied wearers, 5 s„\kr, Oro pjlr oMV. I, Doughs IIFAST COLopF $3 or $3.50 shoos will *5 crYnpTc Positively outwear ' S Y\V two pairs of ordinary L fA-r • : V\ " ... $3 " 53.50 Wo are the largest makers of men's 83 and 83-50 shoes In the world. We make ami sell more 83 and tt3.RO shoes than any othev two manufacture I'M In the U. ftj. The reputation of W. L. BCPT Douglas SO.OO and $3.60 shoes for nrpr BE ' ST EES ' $3.50 ssrftsr's.firiflE s3.oo the standard h-n aluuv? been SHOE. £32 "moWA TSS SHOE. than they can (ret elsewhere. TUF. *CHA!t<>.\ TTT7T7T W 1.. In.and f3.M> ahc.es aro sold than any other make is became THEY AHE THE. IStYl'. > our dealer should keep them ; we givo ono dealer exclusive sale in each town. Take no •uslMtifule! Jniitt on having W. L. Douglas slioea with name end price stamped on bottom. If vourdeolcr will not pet than for you. si nd dirict to factory, enclosing pric-o and Wv extra for carriage. State kind of leather, size, and width, plain or cap toe. Our shoe J will reach you anywhere. Catalogue Ires. U'. JL* itouglus Shoo Co. ISrocklwu, Alius. (|ENSION^^fS.% Symi'i eivii war. Jsu!ju<li<-ut in;;. i.uiua.atty aluce^ OUR BUDGET OF HUMOR LAUGHTER-PROVOKING STORIES FOR LOVERS OF FUN. The llcuson, Yott Plainly Tan See His Conjecture Their Plight Worse A Happy Exit—Too High—Hurried—His Preference—Doing His Best, Etc., Etc. "There is plenty of room at the top," Said the poet, a trifle erratic; And he chortled with glee As he said: "Don't you see, That's the reason I live in an attic." —Philadelphia Record. Ills Conjecture. Myer—"l wonder what causes con cussion of the brain?" Gyer—"A collision between two trains of thought, 1 suppose."—Chicago News. " Their Plight Worse. "He's been talking golf so much late ly he seems to be actually going crazy." "Gracious! Then what must be the condition of the people he's been talk ing to!" r A Happy Exit. "Tubbs Is somewhat of a snob, Isn't he?" "Snob? Say, he'd die happy if he could get run over by a millionaire's automobile." Too High. "D'Auber doesn't shout so much about 'high art' as he used to." "No, the last thing lie exhibited was skyed by the committee."—Philadel phia Tress. Hurried. The Idler—"How would j-ou like to live a hundred years?" The Busy Man—"l'd like to, but I nin afraid I couldn't fiud the time."— Indianapolis Press. His Preference. "Do you boll your water before drinking it?" "Boil It? Well, I guess not. I'd rather drink a menagerie then a ceme tery any day."—Life. Doing His I' est. "Lester, dear," said Mrs. Gid (lings, anxiously, to her husband, "I don't like that cough of yours." "I'm sorry," replied Giddings, "but it is the best I have."—Tit-Bits. Unready. "Every avenue to success is now open to you!" said Fate. "And I haven't a decent street dress to my name!" faltered Woman, tears dimming her eyes.—Detroit Journal. Quiet ProHiiie. "Well, I wonder how this marriage happened to be brought about?" "They simply fell in love with each other." "How unromantlc!"—Denver News. The Shadow. "What profession does your friend follow?" "That of the liglit-flngered gentry." "You don't mean it?" "Yes; he's a detective."—Catholic Standard and Times. hot Arty For Him. Cholly—"Die Chappie, why don't you have a pair of these rubber heels put on your shoes?" Fweddy—"lt would he too much trouble to keep them inflated, deah boy."—Chicago Tribune. Farther Proof of Hie Ability. "Yapp has greatly misrepresented his assets to the counsel for his credi tors." "Well, that's only additional proof that his .lie-abilities are great."—Phila delphia North American. Sure to Object. "If we could see ourselves as others see us," began Miss Quotem, "we should—" "Very promptly inform them that they were mistaken," interrupted Mr. Flyppe.—Baltimore American. Touching. Here the fellow borrowed $lO of me. "Your friendship is pure gold!" he cried. I wrung his lmnd. "Don't mention It!" I protested. "Your Midas-toucli would turn any body's friendship to gold!" Then I laughed boisterously. Tile Hail That Failed. "All hall!" Everybody hiiled. But he to whom their acclamations were directed passed them with stern ly averted face. Bo It was the people walked home, for he was none other than the motor man of tne last car.—Detroit Journal. Finding Fault Kaviy in tiie Game. Bride—"You can't Imagine how hate ful Jack is to me, he Is so selfish, mother." Mother (sympathetically)—" Why, what does lie do?" Bride—"He lways wants to go out to the theatre, and things like that, .iust the very time when 1 want to stay home."—Collier's Weekly. Quiet True. "Y'oii disapprove of some of the con ventional Actions?" "I do," nuswered Miss Cayenne. "And yet I have heard you exclatm to a number of peopl„; 'I am delighted to see you!'" "The remark was perfectly true in each case. I shouldn't enre to be blind, you know."—Washington Star. The Deluded Canine. The dog Is one 01 the most intelligent of animals," remarked Willie Wash ington. "So I have lizard," answered Miss Cayenne. "And he Is the most loyal admirer a man can have." "Yes. I never could quite reconcile those two assertions."—Washington Star. WANT AN IDEAL PAPER. Dr. Parkliurst Says Endonineut Fund Will Bo Established. Dr. Parkliurst makes the statement that a syndicate of wealthy men has under consideration the establishment in New York City of an "ideal" news paper. He declares that an endowed theatre is also a possibility for New York. "There are those," he said, "who are anxiously considering the matter of establishing a journal for the pur pose of telling the truth and suffi ciently capitalizing it, so that it will have no trouble in telling the truth. There is also being considered the matter of establishing an endowed theatre. . "It has come to be a fact in this city that a theatre as a rule cannot be made to pay unless there is more or less of that in it which is objection able. The only way a first-class thea tre can be maintained Is by its being endowed. "The same applies to the average newspaper. "The paper now under consideration would cover all the ground covered by the New York papers. It would be equal to any one of them in resources. It would be foolish to undertake to run a paper in any other way. It would be dead before it was born. "The papers now are run on a busi ness plan. They are not leading the public. Boiiie papers are run for po litical ends, because with them poli tics is going to put money in the till. "The ideal paper would be a paper with just as much enterprise as our most enterprising papers at present have. "It must have the news. You take market reports. In all papers they have to be truthful. Now, when the same truthfulness is observed with re gard to other matters as is observed with market reports, then people are going to know what they are reading. "Partisan papers will give you only what is favorable to their side upon every political question. They will not give you the rest. Telling only a part of the truth is often equivalent to tell ing a whole lie. It may conceal that which it is essential you should know in order to get at the whole truth. Telling half suppresses the rest. "Partisan papers labor to tell you only half the truth. When I say par tisan papers, it may not be simply in regard to matters of politics, it may be in regard to other matters just as well. Wherever a paper is run for the promotion of an interest it will hold baek just as much as will stand in.the way of the promotion of that interest, whether it be politics or whether it be business. "But let me tell you wlmt I mean. The people lend the press, rather than the press the people. The partisan pa pers are taking the position that they are with regard to a broad spirit and a hroadminded candidate in the com ing municipal campaign because the people are going to demand it and the papers know it. "We have papers here in New York that to-day are fighting l'latt with all their might. Not a great while ago they were standing up for him. Flatt is the same now that he was then. llow much influence have such papers with the people? "Such things show that the papers are willing to shift their sails accord ing to the wind that is blowing, and indicate that they are not animated by truthfulness and an irreversible moral impulse. "What we want is a newspaper with a high moral purpose, which is un shakable and unpurchasable, and then it will be a power. What we want is a newspaper with convictions—con victions that are deep enough to run down underneath below the stratum of present circumstances a paper whose tone will not be affected either by its small or great patronage."—New York World. Children In German Factories. In 1809 there were employed in the factories of Prussia 420,704 women and girls. Of these, 025 were under fourteen years of uge; 40,831 between fourteen and sixteen; 148,331 between sixteen and twenty-one years, and 225.077 over twenty-one years of age; 105,891 of these women and girls were employed in the Prussian cotton mills. During the same year no less than 032,283 children between six and four teen years were employed in Prussian factories. The otlieial report states that in some parts of Saxony little boys and girls of four and five years have been employed. The Prussian Minister of the Interior lias taken the most rigorous steps against the em ployers of these little children, and a number of manufacturers have been arrested. Autoenrtlc Patriotism, The practice of nutocaring is becom ing more aud more fashionable at the Cape, says the Autocar. There was an automobile race at some sports: held at Neylands, a suburb of Capetown, which created great excitement, and Kir Alfred Mllner went round tie ground twice in the winning car, while the band played "God Save the Queen" and "Itule, Hritahnia," and the whole crowd cheered their heads off. ft in Letter of Recommendation. A young man from Bowling Green, Mo., applied for work in a store lo ■cated some distance from his home. He presented the following letter of recommendation and was engaged on the spot: "I have found him indus trious, truthful, intelligent and sober. have observed also that his services about the house were satisfactory to my wife, and anyone who can get along with her Is a peach.'* JfeHoUSEHoLD : A Good CleAnlng Fluid. A cleaning fluid that is a useful ad junct to the household supply closet Is made as follows: Dissolve one-half ounce of Castile soap in one quart of soft water, and add to it one-half ounce of glycerine, two ounces of aqua j ammonia and one-half ounce of spirits of wine. Applied with a soft sponge the fluid will remove spots on furni ture aud carpets as well as ou clothing. About Damp Table Salt. One or the petty annoyances of the table is damp salt, aud housekeepers who are solicitous and particular about everything else seem to be singularly btuse in this matter. Aside from the dampness of the salt, little attention is paid to the quality. It seems to he taken for granted that salt is salt without any degrees of excellence. Nothing should be used but prepared table salt, which can always be got, and little trouble is now experienced in getting salt so prepared that it will shake out freely. In any case, tk dilHculty can always be overcome by beating the saltcellars before each meal, or by mixing cornstarch wltli the salt in the proportion of one part of starch to ten of salt. The heating of the salt vessels is the preferred method. The same observations to some extent apply to pepper. Keep the boxes dry by heating before use. School Luiichtoiiß. A statement by a Government ex pert concerning the food value of nuts Is a boon to mothers who must provide children with lunches to take to school. According to this expert, one pound of nut kernels is equal In food value to one pound of wheat flour, and, generally speaking, nuts are not indigestible. If they appear so, It Is because they are eaten either irregu larly between meals or topping a heavy meal when the stomach is not In proper condition to handle any hearty food. Used as a substitute for other food they give no bad results un der ordinary circumstances. Furthermore, the housewife will re flect. nuts as food are valuable from the fact that they require no cooking. Also, they nre easily carried and chil dren like them—two points of impor tance to the conscientious mother, who, putting up school lunches, finds commonly that her dietary theories require something like a steam-boiler and a horse and wagon to complete the operation; then when this health food is laboriously compounded and duly conveyed to little Johnny, for sooth! he loathes it aud slyly substi tutes green cucumber pickles and cream puffs purchased at the lunch counter just around the corner from school. All healthy children will eat nuts, especially peanuts, which the Govern ment expert assures us are so nutri tious that one quart is equal in food value to a pound of rump steak. The money cost is five cents. The tired mother, therefore, -who endeavors strenuously to keep up with duty as defined by modern science for the household, may start her boys and girls off to school with n generous bag 01' peanuts each morning, and revel in the unaccustomed joy of knowing that thus in one particular has she fully satisfied the desires of human nature and the authority of expert opinion.— Harper's Bazar. Ho! UP l Apple-Mint Jelly—Steep two hunches of chopped mint in one pint of hot water for ten minutes. Strain and add six apples, peeled, cored and chopped. Simmer until terder, strain through a fine sieve, add the juice of two lemons, one cupful of sugar and one-half box of gelatin softened in one cupful of colli water; strain again through cheesecloth Into n platter and when cold cut in cubes. Cream of Pumpkin—Take one and a half cupfuls of chopped peeled pump kin and the green stalks of celery. Fry a light brown in a tablespoonl'ul of butter. Add three pints of water, one teaspoonftil of salt and one salt spoonful of pepper. Simmer until soft enough to rub through a sieve. Thick en with or.e tablespoonful of flour rubbed into 'he same amount of but ler, add one-half cupful of hot cream and serve with croutons. Heidelberg C'nboage Select two small, linn ueads of red cabbage and shave them in thin slices. Put two heaping tahlespoonfuls of butter into a sauce pan; when hot add the cab bage, one teaspoonful ot salt, a very little pepper and three tahlespoonfuls of vinegar. Stick four cloves into one onion, buiy it In the middle of the cab bage and boil for two and one-half hours. Should It become too dry, add a very little water to prevent scorch ing. The tail of a cat is a wonderful piece of mechanism, plain and simple as it looks. There are more muscles in il than In the human hand. Jews and the Number Thirteen. 'The Jewish people are exempt from any taint of superstition relative to the number 13. They believe with the cricntals that it has something divine in its juxtaposition of figures, and they derive their knowledge from their men of biblical culture. Thirteen cities were dedicated to their ancient priest hood; 13 high priests descended from Aaron; 13 kings sat in the council of the ancients; on the 13th day of the month Nisan, the sacred and impos ing rites of Passover occur. --- Edward Everett Hale gives the fol lowing three good rules for life: First, live as much as possible in the open air; second, touch elbows with the rank and file; third, talk every day with a man you know to be your superior. It is confidently asserted that the largo decrease in infant mortality in this coun try during tho past decade has been brought about in 110 small niensure by the universal use of Costoria—it being in | almost every home. New York city owes more by s6o.oo D ,- 000 than all the 45 States in the Union together. Carter's Ink lias a good deep color and it does not btralu theeyea. (. arler'b doesn't latio. Merchandise exports from France in October increased $1,300,000 over 1899, and imports increased $4,000,000. Tlie Best Prescription for Chills snd Fovor Is a bottle of GKOVE'B TASTBI.KH9 CHII.L TONIC. It LA simply iron and quinine In a tasteless form. No euro— no pay. Trice BOc. j It is estimated that it costs $550,000,- 1 000 every week to run the railways of j the world. Plso's Curo for Consumption Is an Infalli ble medicine for coughs and colds.—N. W. BAMUEL. Oeoan Grove, N. J„ Feb. 17, lUOO. An estimate of the rice acreage in Eastern Texas this year places it at 30,- j 000 tons. Drugs have tlioir use, but don't store them in your stomach, l'.eeman'n Pepsir Gum aid 9 natur# to perform its functions. Dikes of Japan cost in the aggregate I more money than those of the Nethcr | lands. Frey's Yormifngo, 2.1 ft*, | Eradicates worms. Children mnde well and j mothers happy. Druggists and country stores. I Cincinnati is enjoying a street-car -1 line boom. Eight lines are to be ex- I tended. To Curo a Cold In One Day. Take LAXATIVE PROMO QUININE TABLETS. All druggists refund tho money If it falls to cure. E. W. UKOVE'S signature Is on each box. Sißo. Thus far in 1900 England has import ed 19 per -cent, less foreign grain than in 1599. Mrs.Wlnslow's Soothing Syr ip for children teeth in.', softens theguim. reduces inflamrmv tion. allays imin. cures wind oolic.~s<; a buttle. A bill lias been prepared for introduc tion in the Georgia Legislature provid ing for the use of the Australian ballot at all future elections. PUTNAM FADELESS DYES do not spot,streak or givo your goods an unevenly dyed up j pearaDce. Bold by all druggists. i Handwriting Characteristic of a Person. | The inexperienced ones are blissfully unaware that handwriting is really a physical characteristic of the human body, which is innately peculiar to its owner. You may, indeed, alter its gen eral form, like the man who writes anonymous notes, or cover it with make-up, like the man who forges a sig nature—the actor does both to his voice and face on the stage—but this, after all, is the most you can do. You cannot destroy or even temporarily get rid of the characteristics of your writing it self. It is as much a part of the ex pression of your being as your manner of talking or your gait in walking, and that it cannot be destroyed is the more certain because no one. no matter how much study he might give it, could ever find out all of the unconscious charac teristics of his handwriting. 4Q, FOP. GOUT, TORPID LIVER AMD CONSTIPATION. life/ No medicine in the world can relieve you like the Natural Mineral Laxative Water, provided by nater* herself and dis- A covered more than 30 years ago and now used by every Jfffi-M 1 A nation in the world. limyadi Mms vtfS&Bn / irv Recommended by over one thousand of the mcst famous / /|\\ physicians, from whom we hive testimonials, as the safest and iSnil / f i best Natural Laxative Water known to medical science. jSP*|B3 I * ' Its Action is Speedy, Sure andtjcntle. It never gripes. | wjjj I Every Druggist and General Wholesale Grocer Sells It. cWI/ ACSf f° r *-ho full name, I RI Ijr Label with jf/ ttwll " Ilunyadi Janos." | ULvL Red Centre Panel. ® Sole Importer, Firm of Andreas Saxlehncr, 130 Fulton St., N. Y. the Farmer's Wife. ) til ""air" ||| wv And every other man and woman who is desirous of benefit "g from the experience of those brainy and patient souls wll° have been experimenting au 1 practising tlio re- P "l WP" I sll ' t9 °' thoso experiments, generation after generation, B I 1 I I to °htain tbe best knowledge as to bow certain things fill £Wnf| C' l " be accomplished, until all that valuable information * 9 gathered together in this volume, to bo spread broad- (I*,?s > east for the benefit <>f mankind at the popular pn 3® Cenln ia Collage Stumps. j., X'it The low price is only made pos- L' '-Y*y (i.li) t ' le enoi| uous number of \ [Ft. \8 ij a" 1 |ri|t { the books being printed and sold. [ aIW w ** treats ol almost everything la the way of Household matters, including /*W\ FOR FA.II'I.V CMK. I I DISEASES OK Till! IKSItSE, 's®' ® aWSS2?Sf! Sffi S&.&K" <£* (fit) g ,tom wr ,h i ! n ss h @ &a*cSr.;&!Si^i: euo,,eu 10 11 jaMtssr- IMobt 1 Mobt B * us,yiue o*Too numerous to mention—a veritable Household Adviser. In an • • (vjj) emergency such ils comes to every family not containing a doctor, this book is worth many times its low price. Sent Postpa d for 25 Conts In Stamps. JSk BOOK PUBLISHING HOUSE, Sf V®' 13* LEONARD STREET. NEW YORK CITY O) European Nations Carelul of Horses. In France there is a rule by which* horses and mules in excess of nee 1 J*C handed over to be fed and cared at a price, to farmers, who agree to repro duce them in good condition or pay for deterioration. In Germany, w eve: horses are bought between three unci six years of age, they are kept at re mount depots till matured. Italy ha two horse-training establishments where new purchases are handled and developed till tit for cavalry service, i & In 24 hours nearly 700 trains pass ill and out of New Street station, Binning-* ham. Ifloiv'ft Tills ? We offer Ono Hundred Dollars Reward for any ease of Catarrh that cannot be cured by Hall's Catarrh Cure. F.CHENEY & Co., Toledo, O. We, the undersigned, have known F. J. Che ney for the last 15 years, and believe him per fectly honorable in all business transactions and financially able to carry out auy obliga tion made by their firm. WEST FC TRUAX, Wholesale Druggists, Toledo, Ohio. WADDING, KINNAN MARVIN, Wholesale Druggists, Toledo, Ohio. Hall's Catarrh Cure 1* taVen internally, act ing directly upon the blood and mucous sur faces of the system. Testimonials sent free. Price, 75c. per bottle. Sold by all Druggists. Hall's Family Pills are tin- best. For the first time since the opening of Oklahoma farmers complain of too much rain. Garfield Headache Powders relieve men tal exhaustion. A single leaf of the orange tree, fully planted, will often take root anq grow. i Q\iickly C\ires Colds Neglected colds always lead to something serious. They run into chronic bronchitis 1 which pulls down your general ! health; or they end in genuine consumption with all its uncer ! tain results. Don't wait, but take Ayer 9 s Cherry- Pectoral just as soon as you begin to cough. A few doses will cure you then. But it cures old colds, too, only it takes a little more time. We refer to such diseases as bronchitis, asthma, whooping-cough, consumption, and hard winter coughs. Three sizes: 25c., 50c., SI.OO. All drug gists. J. C. AYER CO., Lowell, Mass. DR. SHAFER y Tho Urine ttpclalist (Water \ Doctor) can detect tiuiloxplain VA ■> the most compllcutcd chronio V disease by the urine ;ifeurable, H H successfully by mail. Bend 4 cents for mailing case v for urine. Consultation, anal- T of urine; report ami book on this new science, free. TIPV 7- L CEAFEB, L £., 423 Ponn Ave, L -—First Floor, Pittsburg, Pa. PATENTS Hp 3111.0 11. STKVKNS A CO., I'-Htab. I***. Div. HI:- HTLI Street, h Ami I NC.TON. I>. C. ltranch offices: Chicago, Cleveland and Detroit. J'. N. U. 62, 1900. NEW DISCOVERY; ctw ilk VkJJ I O I quick !••• Iv nnd cu'r-s woni| caniß- Boon of tOßtimoniald and 1() days' treutiuout Free. Dr. H. U. OUEEN'S SONB. Box B. Atlanta. U*.
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