p||p N D VSTRJ/Sj Tile human system can endure heat of 21-2 degrees, the boiling point of water, because the skin is a bad con ductor, and because the perspiration cools the body. Men have withstood without injury a heat of 300 degrees for several minntes. A non-corrosive, non-poisonous alloy of aluminum has been discovered which may take the place of copper in the manufacture of nails, staples and tacks. The new material is not af fected by the weather, and will not de l teriorate; it is lighter than copper, and " ♦ four cents a pound cheaper. Fall River, Mass., produces more than three-quarters of all the print J cloths made In the United States, bus one-seventh of all the spindles in the country and about a fourth of those in New England, and more than twice as many as any city in the country. Its mills turn out more than 1500 miles of cotton cloth every working day. Fossilized tropical fruits have late ly been found in coal mined In Spitz bergen. The discovery opens up a mar vellous line of geological speculation. Spitzberger is 400 miles northwest of tho northernmost point of Norway, and is subject to extreme cold and lies for half the year in the gloom of the Arctic night. These conditions add to the mystery of the existence of tropical vegetation in the region. Sawdust mortar—a mixture of saw dust and lime—lias lntely been men tioned a number of times as a good covering for steam pipes, with the virtue thrown in of affording a means Tot utilizing waste sawdust. Something like twenty years ago a covering ol' this general character, made up of sawdust and plaster of parts, was used with satisfaction in one large steam plant, not only for steam pipes, but for tho boilers as well; but the develop ment since then of specially manufac tured uon-conduetlng coverings in sections at a cost about as low as that of the honic-inade product, long since led to the abandonment of the latter. Professor Albert F. Wood, physiolo gist of tile United States Bureau of Plant Industry, undertakes to explain how foliage is covered by frost. "Au tumn leaves containing sugar," says the Professor, "such as the maples, sumachs, gums, etc., easily oxidize, and thus form the rich reds, purples and violets so beautiful to the eye. That is why these, especially the hard maples, give the most beautiful au tumn leaves. Autumnal oak leaves do not attract admiration, because they i contain much tannin. The oxidation # color of tannic acid is dirty brown. Leaves which die quickly never give autumnal colors. The most gorgeous autumn loaves are produced by a long drawn-out fall, whose days gradually cool from summer heat to winter snow." Although the sale of arsenic Is pro hibited in that region white arsenic is eaten freely by the peasants of Styrla and the Tyrol. Because of its efficiency in warding off fatigue and enabling those engaged in hard physical work to endure the strain it is an article of daily diet among the people of that re gion. A district physician states that the arsenic is usually taken before meals in a cup of coffee, and while the first dose is minute the amount taken daily is slowly increased until it reaches an average of fifteen grains. Those working in the arsenic factories of Salzburg are said to become arsenic eaters to avoid being overcome by the fumes of the drug. Immunity from f infectious diseases, a fresh, youthful appearance ami longevity are some of the advantages the arsenic eaters us ually enjoy, hut there Is always a dan ger of sudden death. Arsenic eating Is indulged in by the women as well as by the men. Carncgles' Earhloius. The Carnegies, who have been prom inent In Scottish history for five cen turies, enjoy two separate Scottish earldoms—those of Northesk and Southesk—which wore conferred re spectively on the eldest and second sous of Sir David Carnegie, in the sev enteenth century. The earldom of Southesk was attained in consequence of the participation of the fifth Earl in the rising of 1715, but was restored in favor of the present peer in 1555. Kinuaird Castle, tile family seat, on v tlio River Eske, was built some fifty iyears ago, and with its steep roofs, .-''numerous turrets, long stone balconies and balustraded terraces, is a singu larly perfect reproduction of the old Bcoto-Frencli baronial castle. Some of the trees in the extensive deer park are from 300 to 400 years old.—London M. A. P. Hotel Expense For Linen. The advnuce in the price of linen adds heavily to the expense of tnain- Staining the equipment of the big ho tels. The manager In one of the big 1 hotels said not long ago that he paid I $50,000 a year for linen to keep up i his supplies, and that looms were run | all the year round at Belfast for his I hotel. The wear and tear and loss of If hotel furnishings make it a more ser ■ ious item in the expense account than f the patron realizes. When a Man is Angry. Every time a man gets mad, tbe ill tamper passes from cno to another Jr those around him until it finally reaches a hoy, who slaps his sister, or 4Jrtcks the dog.—Atchison Globe. GREATEST TEXAS RANCH. Given to Men Who Provided the State Capitol. Texas Is noted for the number and extent of its ranches. Of a total of several thousand to several million acres, the large ones averaging 50,000 acres. The greatest Is tho "X. I. T.," in the Panhandle, which embraces half a dozen counties and contains nearly 3,000,000 acres. It belongs to the Capitol syndlcato, a company of men who received this vast territory some twenty years ago in return for providing the magnificent state house at Austin. The ranch is divided into several sections, each managed by a foreman and each connected with the headquarters by mean 3 of telephones. The whole is run with tho system and dispatch which characterizes all great industries. On this ranch now run considerably over 100,000 head of cat tle, and an idea of the size may be gained from tho fact that the pasture fence extends 210 miles In one direc tion and 25 miles in another, making a total of about 5,000 square miles. Prom time to time small parcels of land have been sold, and meanwhile valuations have appreciated from 50 cents an acre to four times that amount. Insuring the King's Life. London life insurance companies are fairly besieged with applications from people who are anxious to Insure the life of the king until after the cor onation next June. The rush Is so great that insurance rates have jump ed to a surprising figure. Ordinarily the annual premium for a policy on tho sovereign's life is about sls for each SSOO, now it is $75. Most of the persons taking out these policies are making special business arrangements in connection with the coronation — theatrical managers, hotel proprietors, re.al estate agents, etc. Tho tempta tion to embark in speculation In the same direction is, however, proving too strong for many financiers, not ably members of the London stock ex change, who are taking out policies on all sorts of pretexes, generally giving as their kasis of risk certain mythical "holdings in seats along tho route of the coronation procession." Uniform Gorman Postage. Stamp collectors will bo interested in learning that one of the German states will disappear as a stamp is suing country in a few months. At present the kingdoms of Wertumberg and Bavaria are the only states of the German confederation which have their own special postage stamps. It has long been tho desire of the Gor man emperor to have uniformity in this respect. Quite recently the Retch sanzpiger announced that after April 1, 1902, Wurtemborg wll cease to issue its stamps and will use those now In use in Germany generally. Hereditary Naval Families. There are British naval families which have supplied officers to tho service for the greater part of two centuries and in some caßes for long er. Nothing, indeed, is much more common than to find in the navy of to-day an officer whose great-grand fathers have served before him, and most of whoso relatives have been either the children or the parents of naval officers, If not themselves naval ofllcers or the wives of such. Six Thousand Questions Asked. During the session of the British Parliament that began on January 23 and ended on August 17 no fewer than 0,448 questions were asked in tho house of commons. This numbor has only once been exceeded, in recent years at any rate, namely, in the ses sion 1893-4, when the number of ques tions was 6,534. But the house sat on 226 days during that session, whereas there was only 118 sittings during the recent Bession. Ten years ago about 60 foreign fire Insurance companies carried on a lu crative business in Chile, experienced hut little competition from the half dozen Chilean companies then exist ent. Now Chile counts 23 tiro and marine insurance companies. ill Why BccaMse |H If# #■* jg jt 11 I Its component parts are nil wholesome. !®i| II %w It acts gently without unpleasant after-effects. 111^ %■ ; it** 1 r ls • B It is wholly free from objectionable substances. 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J \ 4 V ij!• I 3$ jj[ 1 If you use it you have the best laxative the world jj|ji j. Si IIS' nrrvlnppc San Fra.l\cloco, Cal. ill || si f| produces. Louisville, Ky. New York. N. Y. ijljj | W gj IS FOR SALE Itr ALL LEAUIXO DRUOOISTS. Iljl ; % TILLEY TELLS OF SAMOA. Extreme Hospitality of the Natives Had to Be Curtailed. While Commander Benjamin F. Tllley, commandant o£ the United States naval station at Tutuila, Samoa, who has just been vindicated on a charge o£ intoxication, was in Washington recently ho submitted to Secretary Long his anual report. He says that the Tutuilans are a gentle, kindly, simple-minded people, and that the form of government Insti tuted by the United States has proved popular with them. He recounts the numerous improvements in the system of self-government suggested by the people and eagerly agreed to by them. Every once In a while, says the report, tho whole village would make up Its mind to go on a "molanga," or visit ing party. All work would be abruptly stopped and all ages and soxes would start on a wandering holiday. The spirit of hospitality is cultivated to an extreme among tho natives, and at every village visited by the rovers the hosts felt it their bounden duty to entertain lavishly. Tho visiting party would stay at one village as long as their entertainers could provide food for them. When supplies ran out they bade hasty adieus and moved on to the next village to bo "entertained." Another custom was the bestowing of presents of great value at weddings and other ceremonies, a practice which was carried to such excess that a single wedding often impover ished a whole village. But much of those practices were stopped upon the suggestion of Commander Tilley. BUFFALO BILLS ISSUED. New Ten-Dollar Notes Have Largest Figure Ever Used. The first of the new issue of ten dollar buffalo bills have just been plac ed In circulation by tho treasury de partment. The noto is named buffalo bill because of tho central figure, which is a large buffalo, standing in a position as though to charge on an enemy. It Is tho largest single figuro over placed on a treasury note. Al ihough the buffalo bill has been In cir culation only a short time a number of them have found their way back to tho treasury for redemption, being either too mutilated, smeared or dis figured for further use. In all of the bills thus returned the buffalo has been sadly disfigured. The explana tion for the short life of these bills is that they were put into circulation before being properly cured. There was a groat demand for ten-dollar notes at about the time the new ones came from the engraving and printing bureau and the buffalo bills had to go out before they were properly cur ed. OCEAN-TO-OCEAN RECORD. Sixteen Hours and a Half Cut Off By Railroads. The recent 15,000-mile race of the mails over the Pacific ocean, across the mountains and prairies of tho United States, brings to notice tho wonderful gain in time of American malls from ocean to ocean, and this within a period of less than three years. Since January 1, 1899, there has boen taken off 10 hours and 30 minutes of time between New York and San Francisco. A gain of 1 hour and 40 minutes -of this time has been made since November 3 of this year by the Northwestern, Union Pacific and Southern Pacific systems. Colorado Colony for Consumptives. An interesting experiment is in progress near Barnum, Col., which if successful may prove of great value to many people who find themselves suffering from consumption in an in cipient stage and cannot afford to stay in Colorado long enough to effect a permanent cure, or even to go there at all. A co-operative colony for con sumptives has been started on a ten aore tract of fruit land, and tho pa tients there livo In tont3 and work outdoors. A promising substitute for rubber has recently been made from the shoots of the Rocky Mountain grease wood plant. There are 250 clocks in Bucking ham Palace, and it is a work of no small importance to keep them all go ing. Some of them are as old as the time of Louis XVI., and tho works are still in good orillr. The King does not like a useless clock, and when the works of an antique timepiece fare worn out he has them replaced with now cues. ProgtrntA With Itbnnmatio Fever Six Times Within Twenty Years. This was the case of Mr. Eli Wiltshire, of Landsdown Terrace, Calne, Wis., who, dnring this time, suffered the most intenso agony. lie writes: "I heartily indorse the testimonials which you publish of St. Jacobs Oil as a pain killer, for I have been a sufferer from rheumatism and kir ;rod complaints at difforent times during the last twenty years. I have been laid prostrate with rheumatic fever six times during that pe riod, therefore I consider I know some thing about rheumatism. During all of theee twenty years I have tried various ad vertised rheumatic remedies, oils, oint ments and embrocations. Nono of them gave me much relief, but when I tried St. Jacobs Oil I found quite different results. It eased the pain almost immediately, and haa done for me what all other remedies put together never began to do. "I could give you several cases that have been cured, which have come under my notioe, and through my recommendation; also one of toothache, one of faceache and one of sore throat. "I have recommended St. Jacobs Oil and shall continue to do so by ovcry means in my power, as I consider you deserving of every support A barrel of gaeoline confined m a cellar has twice the explosive force of a barrel of gunpowder. Wisli All a Happy New Year. Ilftppinoss that comes with good health is given to all who use Naturo's gift, Garfield Tea. This Herb Curo cleanses tho system, purifies the blood and removes tho causo of aisoase. Australia haa more than 1000 news papers. Electric currents from lightning, of 10,000 volts intensity, have been measured while passing down the con ductors of tho Eiffel Tower. Each package of TUTNASI FADELESS DYE colors either Silk, Wool or Cotton perfectly at ono boiling. Sold by all druggists. Grade crossings in Europe aro unknown. Moat things grow smaller aa they are contracted except debts. Jerusalem's Ancient Water Supply. The aqueducts and reservoirs of Jerusalem show that there was abundant provision for running water in the ancient city. Within the last few weeks they have brought again into the service of tho city, which for many centuries has been dependent ui>on small accumulations of rain water. The water is piped from Sol omon's pools, nine miles south of the i city, drawing water from the sealed fountain mentioned in the "Song of ( Solomon." It is a deep subterranean spring:, which flows through an arched channel to a distributing chamber. A Christmas LMnner Thai Was Not Eaten Bocause of indigOßtion! Thla sorry tale would not bavo bcon told if tho system had been rogulatwl and tho digestion nerfectod bv the UHO of Naturo'B remedy, Garfield Toa. This wonderful Horb medicino euros all forms of stomach, liver and bowol dorangomonts. cloannos tho system, purifies tho blood and lays tho foundation for long lii'o and con tinued good health. A friend in need is a friend —who usu ally wants to borrow a fiver. How's This? Wo offer Ono Ilundred Dollars Howard for any case of Catarrh that cannot bo cured by Hall's Catarrh Onro. F. J. CIIENKY A Co., Props., Toledo, O. We, tho undersigned, have known F. .T. Che ney for tho lust 15 years, and beliovo him per- | fectiv honm-ablo in all business transactions and financially able to carry out any obliga tion niado by their firm. WEST & TRUAX, Wholesale Druggists, Tolodo, Ohio. WALDIKO, KJNN.VN TFC MARVIN, Wholosale Druggists, Tolodo, Ohio. Hall a Catarrh Curo is taken internally, act ing directly upon tho blood and mucous sur faces of the system. Price, 75c. nor bottle. Sold by all Druggists. Testimonials ffee. Hall's Family Pills are the best. The cost of painting the Tower Bridge, London, is $25,000. Beet Fov the Bowels. No matter what ails you, headache to a cancer, you will never get woll until your bowols are put right. CASCARETS help nature, cure you without a gripo or pain, produce easy natural movements, cost you just 10 cents to start getting your health buck. CAS CARETS Candy Cathartic, the genuino, put up in metal boxes, every tablet bus C. C. C. stamped on it. llewaro of imitations. When a man is dropped for non-payment of dues he is generally broke. A Good Way to Begin 1002. Cleanse tho system, purify tho blood and regulate the livor, kidneys, stomach and bow els with the Horb medicine, Garfield Tea, in suring health and happiness for tho Now Year. The feminine surplus in Massachusetts is 70,398. FITS permanently cured. No fits or nervous ness after first day's use of Dr. Kline's Great Nerve Itest-orer. 4 J trial bottle and treatise free Dr. It. 11. KLINE, Ltd., 931 Arch St., Phila. Pa. There are three telephone circuits be tween New York City and Atlanta. Mrs. Winslow's Soothing Hyrup for ohildren teething, soften tho gums, reduces inflamma tion,allays pain, euros wind colic. 25cabottlo. It takes a wiso man to get others finan cially interested in a fool scheme. Piso's Cure cannot bo too highly spoken of as a cough cure.-— J. W. O'BRIEN, 322 Third Avonuo, N. f Minneapolis, Minn., Jan. 0, 1909. The man who knows tho least shows it the most. A Union Soldiers' Home. A remarkable soldiers' homo will be that now building at Johnson City, Tenn., where both Union and Confed erate soldiers in tho Civil war and vol unteers In the war with Spain are to be harbored. This home will comprise 35 buildings, among them a memorial hall, a mess hall, a chapel and a can teen. They will occupy a site a mile and three-quarters long and three quarters of a mile wide in the heart of the mountains. The grounds will bo laid out by a landscape gardener, Sugar exists not only in the cane, beot-root and maple, but In the sap of 187 other plants and trees. I Bronchitis| I" I have kept Ayer's Cherry Pec- f i toral in my house for a great many t! years. It is the best medicine in J; the world for coughs and colds." (I J. C. Williams, Attica, N. Y. u All serious troubles begin with a |j tickling in the throct. |! You can stop this st first fj in a single night with Ayer's Cherry Pectoral. I Use it also for bronchitis, i consumption, hard colds, I and for coughs of all kinds. | a Three sizes: 25c., 50c., sl. All druggists. f j ■ Consult yonr doctor. If ho says talco it. B H then do as lie says. If ho tolls yon not M E to tako it. then don't tuke it. Ho kaows. M H Louvo it with him. Wo aro willing. w| J. e. AYKIt CO., Lowell, Mass. | P N U 52. 'Ol Capsicum Vaseline Put up In Collapsible Tubes. A Substitute for and Saporior to Mustutl or nn j other plaster, and will notblißter tho most dedicate skin. The pain allaying and curative qualities of this article are wonderful. It wUI stop the toothache at once* and relieve headache and sciatica. We recommend it ns the best an-.l safest external counter-irritant known, also as an external remedy for pains in the chnst and stomach audull rheumatic, neuralgic und gouty complaints. A trial will prove what we claim for It, and It will be found to be Invaluable in the household. Many poople say "It is tho host of all your preparations.'* Price, 15 cents, ata'.l druggists, or othor deal) s, or by sending 1 this amount to us lu i outage stamps we wiU send you a tabo by mail. Mo article should be aecepie.l by the public unless the same carries our label, as otherwise it Is not genuine. CLILESEBROUGII FLANUFACTURING CO., 17 State Stroct, New York Oity. The Beet Sugar Industry. A most Important article giving Messrs. Oxuard's and Cutting's view# on the beet sugar industry in this country appeared on the editorial page of the New York Evening Post of De cember 12 last, and as every house hold in the land is interested in sugar the article will be of universal interest. THE BEET SUGAR INDUSTRY. The Evening Post bids the heartiest welcome to every American industry, that can stand on its own bottom and make its way without leaning on the poor rates. Among these self-support ing industries we are giad to know, I. the production of beet sugar. At all events, It was such two years ago. We publish elsewhere a letter written in 1599, and signed by Mr. Oxnard and Mr. Cutting, the chiefs of this indus try on the eastern side of the Rocky Mountains, showing that this was the happy condition of the trade at that time. If parties masquerading as beet sugar producers are besieging the President and Congress nt this mo ment, and pretending that they will be rained if Cuban sugar is admitted for six months at half the present rates of duty their false pretences ought to be exposed. The letter of Messrs. Oxnard and Cutting was probably written for the purpose of inducing the farmers of the Mississippi Valley to go more largely Into the cultivation of beets for the sugar factories. This was a laudable motive for telling the truth and show ing the large profits whicli awaited both the beet grower and the manufac turer if the Industry were persever ingly and intelligently prosecuted. To this end it was pointed out that farm ers could clear SO3 per acre by culti vating beets, and might even make JIOO. But in order to assure the culti vator that he would not be exposed to reverses by possible changes in the tariff, they proceeded to show that the industry stood in no need of protection. The beet sugar industry, these gen tlemen say, "stands on as firm a basis as any business in the country." They point out the fact—a very important one—that their product comes out as a finished article, refined and granulated. It is not, like cane sugar grown in tho West India Islands, a black and offen sive paste, which must be carried InJ wagons to the seaboard and thcnco byj ships to the United States, where, af ter another handling, it is put through! a costly refinery, and thcu shipped by| rail to the consumer, who may possi bly be in Nebraska, alongside a beet sugar factory, which turns out the re fined and granulated article at one fell swoop. Indeed, the advantages of the producer of beet sugar for supplying the domestic consumption are very great. We have no doubt that Messrs. Oxnard and Cutting are within bounds when they say that "sugar can be pro duced here cheaper than it can be in Europe." The reasons for this are that— "The sugar Industry 13, after all, merely nu agricultural one. We earn undersell Europe lu all other crops, and sugar Is no exception." It follows as naturally as the making of flour from wheat. If we can pro duce wheat cheaper than Europe, then naturally we can produce flour cheap er, as we do. But the writers of the letter do not depend upon a-prlori reasoning to prove that they can make sugar at a proflt without tariff protection. They point to the fact that under the McKinley tariff of IS9O, when sugar was free of duty, the price of the article was four cents per pound. Yet a net proflt of $3 per ton was made by the beet sugar factories under those conditions, not counting any bounty on the home pro duction of sugar. They boast that they made this proflt while working under absolute free trade, and they have a right to be proud of this result, of their skill and industry. Many beet sugar factories had been started in bygone years, back in the sixties and seventies of the nineteenth cen tury, and had failed, because the pro jectors did not understand the busi ness. Since then great progress has been made, both here and abroad, in the cultivation and manipulation of the beet. What was impossible thirty years ago is now entirely feasible. The industry is already on a solid and en during basis. There are factories in the United States, these gentlemen tell us in their letter, capable of using 350,000 tons of beets per annum at a profit of 93 per ton, and this would make a proflt of $1,050,000 as the in come to be earned under absolute free trade. It must be plain to readers of this letter, signed by the captains of the beet sugar Industry, that the people In Washington who are declaiming against the temporary measure which the President of the United States urges for the relief of the Cuban peo ple, are either grossly Ignorant of the subject, or are practising gross decep tion. Tlie tenable ground for tliem is to say: "Other people are having pro tection that they do not need, and therefore we ought to have more than we need." This would be consistent with the letter of Messrs. Oxuard and Cutting, but nothing else Is so. DROPSY Bow* Hi tt•fnmtulN a„ l I<> <ln v* Fre©. L*. H. U. SutaElTh fiwfttf, L.X C, Atlanta. CA, MCILII KNNV'S TABASCO jg Wiltlit All 11'HAIIS. r J !
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