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' The latest thing in the hospital line
Is an infirmary for sick wheat, where
(various ailments of the kernel are
•treated and in tnauy eases a perfect
pure is effected.
b There is an immense annual loss re
sulting from wet or diseased wheat.
(The loss from loose smut alone Is at
least $18,000,000 a year. The Depart
ment of Agriculture has disseminated
a great deal of Information among the
farmers in regard to tho diseases of
wheat and the means for bringing
about a cure, hut not much benefit lias
resulted from the information. In the
large wheat sections of Manitoba and
the Northwest the same conditions
prevail, and It was with the object of
reducing tho loss to a minimum that
the wheat hospital has been estab
lished at Tort Arthur, at the north
west end of Lake Superior. Here an
elaborate system is in use for restor
ing diseased wheat to a healthy state.
The building is in the form of a largo
elevator, very similar to the common
grain elevators of the United States
and Canada. It is supported out in the
lake upon crib work, so that vessels
may come alongside and carry the
cured wheat directly to the East or
foreign ports. About 2.000,000 bushels
of wheat are treated in the hospital
every year.
Where the disease of the wheat is
of n very virulent type, it Is impossi
ble to improve It in health. Diseases
known as "stinking smut" or "hunt"
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" WHEAT HOSPITAL," POUT AUTHOR
CANADA*
are beyond all help. In the advanced
stages of those diseases the whole ker
ael is infected with the germ and be
comes u mass of spores, which have
consumed all the nutritive parts of the
kernel, leaving only a thin shell on tho
outside. When this oreaks there is a
countless number of germs released,
which have a fetid odor and are ruin
ous to flour with which they come in
contact. Kernels that are intact In
side the brown skin can he successful
ly treated, even though they are so
black with smut as to be Irrccogniza
ble as wheat. In addition to tills un
sanitary or dirty wheat, there are ker
nels that get the dropsy; that Is, they
become saturated with water, aud are
unfit for anything except stock fodder.
Sometimes an entire crop will he af
fected iu this way, aud it usually
proves to be a total loss.
The drying plant of tho hospital Is
capable of treating 11500 bushels per
hour. Tho plant includes a series of
frames of perforated metal, through
which hot air is forced until the wet
wheat is completely dried. The wheat
is divided into three classes, depending
upon the amount of water It contains,
and this condition corresponds to the
stage of the disease. "Tough" wheat
contains about live per cent, of water,
"damp" wheat about eight per cent,
and "wet" wheat about iitteeu per
cent. Normal wheat contains about
four per cent, of water. After wheat
in any of the stages of the disease re
ceives the treatment given at the hos
pital, it comes out in a normal condi
tion aud ready for the market as first
•class wheat.
Scouring is the treatment given for
s. -,ut. The dirty, wheat is passed
through rapidly revolving machines of
metal and tho dirt is removed by fric
tion. In one stage of tho treatment
the wheat is thrown froni the top of
the elevator to the bottom floor, and
the erosion is such tliut in a few
months pine planks, two aud a half
Inches iu thickness, will ho completely
worn out. As a great amount of dust
is thrown off from the smutty wheat
in tills treatment, the employes in the
hospitals are compelled to wear face
masks. These are made of hard white
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ATTENDANT IN A WHEAT HOSPITAL,
SHOWING FACE PROTECTOR.
rubber, with holes in the sides, iu
which are placed small pieces of
dampened sponge that absorb the
dust as the workmen Inhale (he air.
Over their eyes arc worn a large pair
of close-fitting glasses. With tliU
head dress they look almost like div
ers.
It Is said that wheat passing through
this treatment is better for milling pur
poses than the normal wheat, from tlie
fact that a part of tho coat, which has
to be removed in milling, is removed
by the treatment. There is none of
It used in the flour mills of this coun
try, however, most of it being shipped
to Europe and Eastern Canada.
Discovery of Kxtraordlnary Plant.
What is probably the most extra
ordinary plant ever discovered has
now been found by E. A. Suverkrop,
of (Philadelphia, who, during trips to
South America, has for some years
been contributing to the collection of
his friend, Professor N. E. Brown, of
the Herbarium, Kow Gardens, Lou
don. The amazing plant which Mr.
Suverkrop has now found is an orchid
that takes a drink whenever it feels
thirsty by lotting down a tube into the
water, the tube, when not in use, being
coiled up on top of the plant
"One hot afternoon," says Mr. Su
verkrop, "I sat down under some brush
wood at the side of a lagoon on the
llio de la Plata. Near at hand was a
forest of dead shorn trees, which had
actually been choked to death by or
chids and climbing cacti. Ija front of
me, and stretching over the water of
the lagoon and about a foot abovo It,
was a branch of one of these dead
trees. Here and there clusters of com.
mon 'planta del ayre' grew on it, and a
network of green cacti twined around
it.
"Among the orchids I noted one dif
ferent from the rest, the leaves, sharp
lanechoad shaped, growing all round
the root and radiating from it. From
the centre or axis of the plant hung a
long slender stem about one-eighth of
an inch thick by one-fourth inch wide,
the lower end of which was to the
water to a dopth of about four inches.
"I at once went over to examine my
discovery. Imagine my surprise when
I touched tho plant to see this centre
stem gradually contract and convul
sively roll Itself up In a spiral like a
roll of tape.
"But more surprising yet was the ob
ject and construction of this stem. I
found on close examination and dissec
tion that it was a long slender flat
tube, the walls ab'out 1-32 of an inch
thick, cellular in construction, open at
the outer end and connected at the In
ner end to the roots by a series of hair
like tubes.
"By subsequent observation I found
that when the plant was in want of
water this tube would gradually un
wind till It dipped into the water. Then
It would slowly coil round and wind j
up, carrying with it the amount of
water that that part of the tube which
had beeu immersed contained, until
when the final coil was taken the water
was dumped, as it were, direct Into
the roots of the plant. The coil re
mained in this position until the plant
required more water. Should the
plant, however, be touched while the
tube is extended, the orchid acts llko
the sensitive plant (mimosa) and the
colling action is much more rapid.
"I found many of those plants, all
directly over the water or over where
the water had been. In the latter case
it was almost pitiful to see how this
tube would work Its way over the
ground in search of the water that was
not."
Little Known About Morocco.
Nobody knows what the population
of Morocco is. Estimates place it all
the way from 2,5011,000 to t),400,000,
says a correspondent of the New York
Press. A large jiart of the country is
totally unexplored. The French lately
have gone In behind Morocco and ex
tended the boundaries of Algiers, so as
to take in the Tuat region, a chain of
fertile oases through which run the
caravan rotes. The Sultan has expos
tulated and Is still expostulating, hut
with no effect so far as can be seen.
Morocco is sometimes called the "sick
man of the West," hut those best in
formed believe that it is a pretty lively
sick man. -•
England Tears Timber Famine,
If It were not for the foreign sup
plies England receives a timber turn- •
ine would have overtaken the country
long ago, because the homo-grown sup
ply has not been able to moot a tithe
of tho demand for long enough, and
that only of Inferior kinds of timber,
says a British agricultural Journal. If
the foreign supply of fir alone was to
fall off sensibly now the whole building
trade of the country would come to u
partial standstill and the wagon com
panies would bo next to idle.
The steeple of tho Cathedral of Ant
werp, Belgium, is 17(1 feet in height,
which makes it the highest church
steeple iu the world.
SOME STARTLINC FACTS ABOUT
THE VICE OF INTEMPERANCE.
The Worst Drink of All Is Absinthe—lt
Will Produce tlie Same ETIU a? Al
cohol and in Addition Will Kill
Man's Conscience.
It is a great folly which induces man to
day to be indifferent to the healthy drinks
which nature supplies. He turns his at
tention to manufacturing alcoholic drinks.
He has thought to find alcohol a source of
joy. a source of vigor. He has only found
in it unhnpoiness, ruin, decreptitude and
illness. It is not enough for man to lose
bis reason through alcohol. He wanted
still further to do something to satisfy his
| worst instincts. lie must have a sovereign
I liquor that would not only produce all the
above results, but would also deprive him
I of his conscience. So he invented absinthe.
Working people in the great towns, women
of the people, the idle peasantry, are
duped by this dreadful liquor. They arc
not aware what a Satanic poison thej' are
imposing on their delicate brains. The
moment they create such an appetite is a
dark hour.
Who could possiblv remember the acts
of barbarism, the acts of fury created by
the magic green liquor, which is filling the
asylums? See, there, a man whose body
is in a perpetual trembling condition. ITo
has a good foot, a good eye, and he is en
raged that he ean no longer work. He is a
drinker of absinthe.
Roe, again, another! Suddenly his fnee
pales, ho is covered with perspiration, he
wears a frightened lo>k. He has had a mo
mentary unconsciousness and a sudden diz
ziness. In a moment he has lost conscious
ness of his surroundings. That man is an
absinthe drinker. See a poor bricklayer
lying on a stretcher. They are taking him
to the hospital, where he quickly will die,
leaving forever his wife and children. He
has fallen from a scaffolding. A sudden
unconsciousness caused him to lose his
equilibrium. He is killed, caused througli
absinthe drinking.
Another instance! The peonle are ter
rified to see an unhnptov man beating 1 lie
earth, a victim of a violent attack. His
tongue is bitten by his teeth. A bloody
foam runs out of his mouth. ITis features
arc all distorted. He is an epileptic, and
it is the work of absinthe.
See below in the court where there arc a
number of insensible persons. A man i?
seized with an indescribable despair. One
Saturday in his holiday hour he hail drunk
frequent little sips of absinthe. On return
ing to his lodgings he was suddenly seized
with a violent rage. He killed his wife
and two children without having the Icnsl
consciousness of what he was doing. He
energetically denies that he did the deed
to persons who know him. He knows
nothing about if?. The absinthe drinking
made of this man a dangerous automaton.
See, egain, this woman! She rocks the
child in the cradle. Suddenly she is seized
by the most terrible convulsions and ill
treats the child. Ask the cause of tin's
cruel treatment and we shall point to the
fatal absinthe! It is a murdexer. Dante
in supposing the terrors he described did
not know anything more terrible than this.
—Banner of Gold.
Are acou r!uj Allen's Foot.Ease 1
It Is the only cure for Swollen. Smarting,
Tired. Aching. Hot, Sweating Feot, Corns
and Bunions. Ak for Allen's FootrEaio, a
powder to bo bhakou into the shoes. Cures
while you walk. At all Druggists and Shoe
Stores, 25c. Saraplo gent Pi(EE. Address
Allen S. Olmsted. L:-Boy. N. Y.
We pay In the neighborhood of $50,-
000,OOU a year in taxes on sugar.
I> Hcailnelars ! Headaches 1
There is no excuse for a hoadochej tn*
Garfield Headache Powders euro them quick
ly aud surely, aud mako one leal well; they
never harm. Try them.
J3y tho game laws of New Hampshire no
individual is allowed to kill more than
iiiteeu partridges in one day.
•Must What We Thought."
An exchange devoted to the liquor busi
ness quotes a prohibition paper as saying:
"We are opposed to the free and unlimited
coinage of drunkards." and adds: "So are
we. And so is every decent, self-respecting
liquor dealer." As every liquor dealer
fives his whole time and energy to the mak
ing of drunkards it must follow that there
is not a "decent, self-respecting" man
among them. Well, that is just what we
thought.—Pittsburg Christian Advocate.
Very Significant.
The London Daily Mail, in & recent arti
cle on the beer poisoning at Manchester,
relating to a party of workmen in Not
tinghamshire who were supplied with beer
from the Manchester district, says: "The
only man who escaped was a total ab
stainer."
Piles Cured While You Sleep
You are costive, and nature Is under a constant strain to relieve the condition. This causes a rush of blood to the rectum, and before
bng congested lumps appear. Itching, painful, bleeding. Then you have piles. There are many kinds and many cures, but piles are cot cura
ble unless you assist nature in removing the cause. CASCARETS make effort easy, regulate and soften the stools, relieving the tension and
giving nature a chance to use her healing power. Piles, hemorrhoids, fistula, and other rectal troubles yield to the treatment, and Cascarets
quickly and surely remove them forever. Don't bo persuaded to experiment with anything else!
jas Atchtson v^iofce.
1-of- ttg gafßnred tho tort ores ©IT tlio
yr-'' /!v "V-' 1 ' W\ *7 of domnctl Trim protruding Piles brought on not i
T to conJrtiTOlion with wbi£h I wm nflLlotoil for
iwJ-g iMirfJiSrS Iras|A ' twont7 yearn. I ran across your CASCA- *P ?
&¥ "C RETS in tho town of Newell, la., and dov
jfßairlSy figEmY vw novcrfouml anything to equal them. To-day ,
j£~y J I am entirely xreo from piles and foelllhoa
new man." H. j
THE TABLET UGGISTS
siSili
oft'AJft'.Vhi 1.1 a. Uook fire by wall. Add: tt'SKIiU.NQ Uk.'lldfiV CO., Ni?York orCUealfw
King Bacchus and BU Prim© Minister.
Sir Wilfrid Lawson at a Band of Hope
meeting said "Bacchus was the king of this
country (Groat Britain) and the brewei
was his Prime Minister, and they had s
lot of fellows going up and down the
fitreets roaring 'Britons never shall he
slaves/ though they are the slaves of the
liquor power and send to Parliament any
body whom the liquor power tells them to
send there. Well, after all these years of
temperance work it was rather depressing,
no doubt, but they all knew it was hard
to twist and turn people who had grown
up on one line. There was a saying tKat
there was no fool like an old fool; he felt
the truth of that as he got on. (Laughter.)
But what did the Band of Hone do? It
realized the difficulty, and it left the older j
people to be looked after by other organi- ,
rations, and said it would do what it could
to train up the children so that when they
grew up they would set themselves and
their country free from this curse. He re
membered rending that in the days of the
French Revolution in one of the French
towns a lot of children used to go about
waving a revolutionary banner and say
ing, 'Tremble, tyrants; we are growing J
up!' That was what they wanted the
children to say. Tremble, brewers. We
are growing up!' Ah, ah! they were trem
bling already. What did one of their great
men say at a meeting not* long since? ■
Speaking of the bill to prevent children
being served with liquor in the public
houses he said: 'This will never do. They 1
are destroying our future customers.' Ah! i
he often thought how much better the
liquor men understood the temperance
question than wo do. The liquor men
were right, for the Band of llopo wanted (
to teach the children to boycott the publi
cans. They must do something of that 1
sort, for the publicans would not go on
strike on their own accord. They heard
of all kinds of strikes, but they never i
heard of a strike of the liquor men. If (
they would only go on strike for a month
there would be a sort of temporary mil
lennium." I
Up to ISSO France lia-d only private
high schools lor girls. Now there are
lycoums, supported by the state, and :
28 by cities.
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-—A Remember, though she may be charming and
- Of face most enchanting, of figure most neat,
-- Should she not be well trained it would be a
Ereat pity
mj That you and your lady-love ever should meet.
In choosing a wife, my dear fellow, the best trick
EggS, cr—ls, first, to consider her womanly gifts,
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How He Scared the Tiger.
If not interfered with the tiger will
generally run from rather than attack
a man. A writer from India tells a
story of how, having sent his gunS
and luncheon on liefore him, liis atten
tion was arrested by a rustle in the
jungle, and, looking that way, he saw
a tiger crouching low coming rapidly
toward him. lie says; "My first
feeling was one of horror, for it seem
ed ail up with me, the tiger being very
olo9e and in a rush. Of course, it
was not me, but the pony that lie
wanted, but had he knock<Nl out the
latter his own f<nrs at finding a man
nnder him would have made him maul
nie, too. There was but one thing to
be done, namely, to put a bold front
on it and try to frighten him, and I,
therefore. Instantly wheeled the
pony's head toward Mm, shouting at
the same moment. The tiger stopped
short and stared at me, but be did not
offer to retreat. I then moved the
|K)iiy toward him, shouting loudly as
I did so. aud the tiger then turned ills
tail to me. and, having retired about
30 yards, he sat bolt upright on his
haunches and stared at me.
"I was naturally desirous of with
drawing from an interview so unpleas
ant to me in my unarmed condition.
I therefore rode straight at the tiger,
waving my arms and sternly ordering
him off, and before I reached him lie
decided to move himself, this time
somewhat hastily, In marked contrast
to Ills previous orderly, not to say dig
nified, retreat, and, having at last
routed him, I lost MO time in cantering
over the remaining portion of the
Jungle cart track until it emerged
tipon the high road." Spokane
Spokesman Review.
The building operations in April,
1901, in St. Louis are 25.57 per cent
In excess of those of the same month
of 1900.
• PUTNAM'S FADELESS DYS produces the fast
>.e®t and brightest colors of any known dya
•tuff. Sold by all druggists.
* There are 4000 tons of stone in the py
ramids of Cheops. It could be built for
$20,000,000 to-day.
Some men aro too lazy to even stand in
their own light.
Massachusetts uses more postage stamps
per capita of population tnun any other
State in the Union.
FITS permanently cured. No fits or nervous
ness after first day's use of Dr. Kline's Great
Kerve liestorer. $2 trial bottle and treatise free
s)r. B. H. KLIXE, Ltd., 931 Arch St.. Phlla., Pa.
Xhinvegan, the famous seat of the Mac
leods, is said to be the oldest inhabited
|)rxvato house in Scotland.
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Mrs. Winslow's Soothing Syrup for children
teething, soften the gums, reduces inflamma
tion, allaya pain, ourus wind colic. 250 a bottle.
Even the beo in a bonnet may have a
feting in its tail.
Piso's Cure for Consumption is aninfalliblo
medicine for coughs and coIds.— N.W.SAMUEL,
Ocean Grove, N. J., Feb. 17, 19i)0.
In baseball as in cookery the best batter
takes the cake.
8. K. Coburn, Mgr. Clario Scott, writes
•T find Hall's Catarrh Cure u valuable re
medy." Druggists sell it, 75c.
Poverty wy be no disgrace, but it's
fenighty unoomf or table.
f Garfield Ilcadacho Powders cannot be Ira
proved upon ; they euro headaches qnickly;
th'jy aro not cathartic and do not in any way
derange the system; they are harmless, pleas
ant to tho taste and good for all.
' A reasonable amount of egotism keeps a
taan from brooding too much over his
neighbor's su/ceas.
Tho first United States coaling sta
tion on foreign soil has boon completed
at Piclialinqui, on the west coast of
Mexico.