THE GIANT CACTUS. One of the Chief Sights on Far West ern Deserts. No one ever saw the giant cactus on the sandy desert of Africa. Here alone do these tall monup'.ents guard the graves of words. To get.,out on the deserts day after day and meel the ear of the Sphinx and listening at her locked lips. And to go out in .April and seo them suddenly abloom as though the lips of the Sphinx should part and utter solemn words. A bunch of white flowers at the tip of the obelisk, flowers springing white and wonderful out of this dead; gaunt, prickly thing—is not that nature's consunimage miracle, a symbol of res urrection more profound than the lily of the fields? And in April also the lesser cacti are abloom with gorgeous flamming colors—each dragon bears a jewel in its teeth as a tribute to the fervid sun. And if a few drops of rain just moisten its crust, it is strange how suddenly the sternness of its inood will change; the entire-face of the pale earth will 'become softly green in a night, gratefully veiling it self close with a silvery leafage tiny and tender and delicate: and masses of California poppies will spread out their patches of cloth of gold. <■- Will Pay Excess Fares Back. ▼ It is announced by the passenger department of the Pennsylvania lines that a part of the whole of the excess fare charged l on the "Pennsylvania special" between New York and Chi cago will he refunded In case the stip ulated time is not made. The fare will be refunded at the rate of $1 an hour, but no money will be given back to the passenger in case the train Is not two hours late. If the arrival at New York is two hours behind the schedule of the "special" $2 will be refunded, for three hours S3 and for four hours the entire amount of the excess fare, which is sl. The trunk line committee took the matter of ex cess fares up the past week, result ing in this conclusion. The Gentle Bloodhound. Bloodhounds, notwithstanding thai \ a club was established In America \tiavo not caught on in public favor fjfhere is probably no breed whose true characteristics are less under stood. a widespread idea existing that this is a ferocious animc I, for which, however, there is no Ju: ideation, as the modern bloodhound is a noble and sensible creature peculiarly sensitive to kind treatment. There is no breed of dog whose olfactory organs are de veloped to the same degree; thus his ability to hunt man by the scent ol his footsteps; indeed, for tracking purposes ho stands preeminent. In 1900 there were made in this country 21,254,000 gross of buttons. Ladles Cm Wear Shoe* One size smaller after using Alien's Foot- Ease, a powder for the feet. It makes tight ornowsnoes easy. Cures swollen, hot, sweat ing, aohing foot, Ingrowing nails, corns and bunions. At all druggists and shoe stores, 25c. Trial package Fiike by mail. Address Allen 8. Olmsted, Le Roy, N. Y. __ V Poachers using small explosive bombs Mflve killed a great number of salmon iD /the River Dee, England. FITS permanently eured.No fits or nervous ness after first day's of Dr. Kline's Great Nerveßestorer. s2triul bottle and treatisefree Dr. R.H. KLINE, Ltd.. 'J3I Arohßt.,Phila., Ta. Kamskntka has many volcanoes, the only ones in Russian territory that are still ac tive. 8. K. Coburn, Mgr. Clarle Scott, wrftes: "I find Hall's Catarrh Cure a valuable remedy." Druggists sell it, 75c. Tigers killed 357 persons and panthers 295 last year in the Indian Central Prov inces. Mrs.Winslow's Soothing Syrup for children teothing, soften the gums, reduces inflammn tion,allays pain,cures wind colic. 25c. a bottle There's a difference between having something to say and having to say some thing. Plso's Cure is the best medicine we overused for all affections of throat and lungs.—W*. O. ENDSLEY, Vanburen, lnd., Feb. 10, I'JOO. W The averago duration of life in towns is JfWlculated at thirty-eight years, in the / country fifty-five years. c - - v - r rr Long Hair "About a year ago my coming out very fast, so I bought a bottle of Ayer's Hair Vigor. It stopped the falling and made my hair grow very rapidly, until now it is 45 inches in length."—Mrs. A. Boydston, Atchison, Kans. > There's another hunger than that of the stomach. Hair hunger, for instance. Hungry hair needs food, needs hair vigor— Ayer's. | This is why we say that Ayer's Hair Vigor always restores color, and makes the hair grow long and heavy. n.o ■ mu. aii dntiuts. If your drugcift cannot supply you, ■end us one dollar find we will express you a bottle, lio sure and give the nam* of your nearest express office. Address, J. C. A YKR CO., Lowell, Mass. Liver Pills That's what you need ■ some thing to cure your bilious ness. You need Ayer's Pills. Want your moustache or beard a beautiful brown or rich black 1 Use Buckinghem'sDye SOcti of druggi.tsoi R P. Ha" It Co , Nashua N H &£ c .V e £rl£ ThornSissn's EyeWator 4^ It rood or Chicks. When one first changes from the set ting hen to the incubator and uses a brooder for the little chicks, it is dif ficult to become accustomed to the loss of the mother hen. At first it seems cruel to compel the fledglings to huddlo around the brooder and have no moth ed to cluck to them, but we soon find that this loss is more than offset by the many advantages the brooder af fords. The chicks are never neglected, and always have a place of refuge when cold or in danger. They are constantly under our care, and we can l attend to 400 or 500 with as little trouble as we can look after a brood or two under the care of a hen. They are never the victims of mites, and do nob have gapes and other diseases from which young chicks so often suffer. We soon learn to know their wants, and can raise 95 percent of those that hatch. —Home and Farm. Fattening Chicken.. At the Ontario Agricultural college they decided Uiat there is more profit in fattening chickens at three and one half pounds weight each than in those of four, four and one-half or more pounds. The three and one-half pounds, and those weighing less than three pounds, made a pound of gain at less cost tnan heavier weights, but the three-pound chickens were rather small to be fed by the cramming ma chine. The best results were obtained by feeding out of a trough, in slatted coops, for two weeks, and then with the cramming machine twice a day for ten days. The seJond best results were obtained by feeding in the trough for about twenty-four days. The cramming machine will not pay if feed ing for the ordinary market, or if one cannot well spare the time for individ ual feeding night and morning. For ducks there is no advantage in feeding in coops or with cramming machine, as they grow as well and fatten as fast when fed loose in a small yard. The duck's crop will not hold any more than it will eat of its own accord. Keep the Skim Milk. There are several reasons why the pal rims of our creameries should not allow their skim milk to be taken from the farm. Among these reasons we enumerate the following: First—Nn creamery proprietor that we havo yet known of will pay for the skim milk anywhere near what it is worth to feed to young pigs and calves. What is the skim milk worth to the farmer? As a pork making food at present prices for live hogs it is worth from 25 to 35 cents a hundred pounds, the latter price depending on the young age of the pigs it is fed to. It is worth just as much fed to heifer calves of good dairy blood, or to young beef bred calves. In both cases they may be fed till they are a year old. The last winter, considering the high price of feed of all kinds, skim milk has been worth several cents more a hun dred than usual. Second —Its value as a fertilizer to the farm is 7 cents a hundred. Third—No farmer that is a farmer can afford to sell his skim milk for what the creamery man can afford to pay him. Fourth—The demand for caseine 13 very limited, and there are already signs of a glutted market, while the prospecU for pork, beef and likely dairy bred calves and young stock are as good as ever. We always take it as a sure sign that the patrons of a creamery do not know the full meaning of dairy farming or understand how to bring out its best profits when we see them selling their skim milk to be taken from the farm. A shallow reasoning farmer may be caught that way, but not one who knows his business as a dairy farmer ought to know it. —Hoard's Dairyman. Hreed Not Feed. There are so many requests for im proved rations which will increase the quality of the milk and cream of dairy cows that one might he. convinced that our dairying is rapidly awakening to the new order of things. But it must be said that most of these inquiries voice a desiro which cannot be grati fied by any mixture of feed. They ask that a feed shall be devised which will improve the richness and quality of their milk. Most of them have been feeding fairly rich foods, and the cows have not been suffering from any lack of nourishing rations. The only an swer to these requests must be that the cows must he changed, and not the food. Not it is an excellent thing to have an idoal ration for dairy cows, and to feed them consistently with it, but such a ration fed to poor cows would not yield any good results. It might In the long run gradually im prove the quality of the milk and cream, but not enough to make the difference in the cost of the food. It one wishes to use such an idoal ration, he should also undertake to breed his herd up to a higher standard. If he is not willing to dispose of his cows for better stock, he must at least intro duce new blood every year. The herd must be headed by a fine bull, which will bring up the standard of averages, so that the ideal ration can produce its beet results. There arc plenty who maintain that it is impossible materially and perma nently to change the percentage of fat in a cow's milk by Improved feeding rations. Uaquer.tlonably this haa given a good deal of dissatisfaction and caused a good deal of discouragement in many quarters. But it should not. Temporarily improved rations taay show a change for the better in the fat of the milk, but it is small and not permanent. Consequently those who have tried it and found that there was no continuous improvementgaveup the work and fell back into old conditions. There is only one thing to say to such men. It is necessary often to change the cows first, and then change the feed. Doing the latter without the former will often produce no good re sults. —Dr. A. T. Morse, in American Cultivator. Maintaining Fertility. The quality of the soil in Indiana as it came from the hand of nature was for the most part" excellent, the sur face having been densely-covered with fine timber —walnut, yellow poplar, elm, sugar, ash and beoch; where this forest was removed the earth was soon decked with that king of grasses, Ken tucky blue grass. Our upper sol* has been formed by the disintegration of sandstone, by which deposit and decay of forest leaves which the hand of time has annually thrown upon the earth for centuries, by the decay of vast quantities of roots of trees affll wild plants, and by the action of frost and chemical substances deposited by melting snows times without number. All this humus mingled with sand and underlying clay has resulted in a soil known as clay loam, a strong, rich soli when the first furrow was plowed. By constant plowing and tramping, ex posure to fierce sunshine and robber winds, with little or nothing returned in the way of manure, with numerous surface washings, our tillable land is being depleted and becoming incapable of original results. How then shall we proceed to recover and maintain the lost fertility? The course of treatment which I would suggest may be thus stated: 1. Application of real manure. 2. Green manuring. 3. Resting and setting in grass. 4. Deepening soil by tile drainage. In applying barn-yard manure we find on the average farm the amount too limited to cover much surface, so must increase tho supply. The more stock kept under shelter the greater the amount of manure saved; and it may be increased by careful attention to bedding, using an abundance of straw, leaves or sawdust All stable manure should be hauled directly' to fields and spread; all yards where stock Is kept should bo scraped when the conditions are favorable, and the ac cumulations hauled. Land that is not too poor to produce a crop of some groon stuff, whether it be weeds, clover, rye, cow peas, or beans, can be materially improved by turning under the crop, providing it he done before the seed ripens. A farm er of wide experience in this country, in farming a piece of creek bottom al ways sowed his ground to rye in the standing corn the last of August or first of September, as an aid to fertili ty to the coming corn crop; the ex cellent crops raised proved the wisdom of this plan. Another way of building up land is to allow it to lie in pasture; however it may lie explained, land can produce a crop of grass each year and if not too closely pastured continually grow bet ter. The decay of grass roots, the ab sence of surface washings, the drop pings of animals will cause increased fertility if the surface is not unduly tramped. The fourth method is mechanical in its application—ridding the land of water-soaked conditions, making the soil mellow to a greater depth, raising the temperature by admitting air and warm rain water, causing it to draw more nitrogen from the air, in short, putting it in condition so the roots of plants will penetrate it and bring up soil properties as yet not available. Good farming, be ii remembered, is raising large crops and at the same time increasing the fertility of the farm.—A. B. Milligan in Agricultural Epltomist. Hints for tho Farmer. Sheep do not thrive on hunted pas tures. Milk strippings yield the most and the best butter. Have water convenient for your sheep. They drink little and often. The manner In which butter is put up always detracts from or adds to its price. Eggs for setting purposes should he chosen from the hens that are the best layers. The younger the pigs are when they arrive at the market weight" file great er will be the profit. Young pigs require a warm, dry pen. and should he attended very closely during the first few hours to see that al are suckle I and that none are chilled. The best authorities say that thor ough drairago will increase the product at least one-third. Drainage will often convert useless land into the most pro ductive. Young calves should never be al lowed to roam over large fields, or bo exposed to the scorching boat of a summer sun, or have their usual grain ration neglected. There is no secret or mystery about tho breeding or raising of good horses. Random and ill-directed efforts pro duce unsatisfactory results, while in telligence brings ample reward. Some farmers draw out tho manure and put it in the field in large heaps, where It heats and rots. Unless great care be exerolsod much lose will be sustained by tho6e practising this method. Four strong arguments against dark hams: Less milk from the cows, leas butter per gallon of milk and poorer butter, with the cows lees thrifty and healthy. Let the light shine in freely when it does shine. SIX TABLES IN ONE. Noral Plec* of Furniture I)ilrned for HHrvardgAsrroiiomieAl Olmrvillory, One of ffle first results of the recent Anonymous gift of $20,000 made to the Harvard astronomical observatory is a new study table for the director's of fice. The table Is probably unique among study tables the world over. It was worked out by Prof. Pickering and Mr. W. P. Gerrish, also of the observatory, and is practically six sep arate tables of ordinary size, each pro vided with its own bookcase. But in stead of having to move around from table to table, and from shelf to shelf, tables and book shelves move around to whoever is using them. These tables are joined to make one big cir cular table which revolves horizontally on an axis so that each section can be brought easily within working distance of a stationary office chair. The book case, situated in the centre of the table, revolves independently, so that any book may be brought within reach without disturbing the table itself. The main axis of the table proper, the part used as a writing desk and covered with the materials of the vari ous subjects which are constantly tak ing up the director's personal attention, rises from floor to ceiling and turns slowly around as one section after an other passes in review before the sta tionary chair in which the director is seated. Above this table and in the centre of it is the special library con taining all the books and pamphlets likely to be needed in the day's work But there are really six little libraries, and between each of them another smaller triangular compartment for pens, ink, mucilage, letter scales, pa per weights, and all yie other things that accumulate on an ordinary desk. Each section is about four feet long by two deep, and in addition has two good-sized drawers for stationary, stamps, envelopes, measuring charts, diagrams, photograph slides, and the other paraphernalia of modern as tronomy. One section is, therefore, for scientific corerspondence. Two sections are dovoted to photometry— the constant record of the light or brightness of the stars. Another sec tion is for studying and comparing the records of the thousands of spectro scopic photographs yearly taken by the observatory instruments. Another is devoted to the proof sheets of the ob servatory annals, bulletins, and cata logues. The new revolving table is thus very like the whole observatory in miniature. In fact, every bit of scientific information that goes out from the observatory will ride round and round upon it in process of being digested.—New York Times. Tlcket-or-I.eiive Mnn'e Romanes. Ambrose Winterton, a ticket-of lcave man, has been charged before the Torquay magistrates with failing to re port himself to the police. The prison er told the bench a romantic story. It was because he wanted to bury the past and lead an upright life that he had not reported himself. Confine ment in prison had seriously affected his health, and on his discharge on license he was ordered to the south of France to regain his health. He, however, found that the French cli mate did not agree with him, and he decided to return to England. On the way homo he met a young woman of means. They soon became on very friendly terms, and eventually they were married. Being anxious that his wife should not learn anything of his previous career, he decided to settle In Torquay, believing the vigilance of the police would not penetrate so far. Mrs. Winterton, however, noticed that her husband was sometimes depressed and came to the conclusion that something was weighing on his mind. She ques tioned him on the subject, and a month later he confessed he was a ticket-of-leave man. The bench now sent him to prison for a month. —Lon- don News. r.ivpn Away Nickel*. A shopkeeper is this year calling the attention of customers and those he desires as such to his wares by a novel method. The person to whom it is addressed receives by mall a well filled envelope, with no external markings to indicate its contents, but up in the left hand corner of the envelope are printed the words: "The five cents is inside." The appearance of the envelope, to gether with the notice, is calculated to induce curiosity at once. The state ment that the five cents is inside is true, for, on opening the letter, a bright rew nickel of 1002 date is found tucked nway between the middle pages of a pamphlet. The explanation given in the pamph let is that the sender is not a stealer of other people's time, and that as it was calculated that the recipient would use up five cent's worth of his own time in reading the shopkeeper's story the latter had decided to be honest and pay for the time used or "purchased" as he puts it, and he therefore inclosed a nickel in payment. Whether the method pays the shop keeper is not yet a settled question.— New York Sun. The ltoy und the HUB • The boy In the boarding house was at breakfast, and was trying his best to eat his egg quickly, so he could take the only one remaining in the dish be fore another boarder, who he thought had designs upon it could appropriate it. He was a email boy, much given to using large words at random. Tho egg still remained in the dish when he was ready to cat It, so, looking across the table, he remarked apprehensively: "Is that egg occupied? If it isn't I should like to have It." The other boarder smilingly replied, while passing the dish: "I hope not. If It Is you are welcome to It"—New York Sun. PELVIC CATARRH CAUSES Palpitation of the Heart, Cold Hands and Feet, Sinking Feelings—Pe-ru-na Cures Catarrh Wherever Located. • Mrs. X. Schneider, 2409 Thirty-eeventh Place, Chicago, 111., writes: "After talcing sex>eral remedies without result, I began In January, 1001, to take your valuable remedy, Peruna. I was a complete wreck. Had palpitation of the heart, cold handsand feet, female weakness, no appetite, trembling, sinking feeling nearly all the time. You said I teas suffering with systemic catarrh, and 1 believe that I reoeived your help in the nick of time. I followed your directions carefully and can say to day thwt lam well again. J cannot thank you enough for my cure. 1 will always be your debtor. I have already recommended Peruna to my friends and neighbors and they all prai#e it. I wish that all suffer ing women would try it. 1 testify this according to the truth. >' —Afro. X. Schneider Over half the women have catarrh in WORK FOR THE CADDY. Then Knox Ended the Vacation of Beef Trust. While Attorney General Knox was away recently recovering from his serious illness, his family were rather uneasy lest he should have a relapse. The attorney general was traveling with a physician who is a persoual friend. He sent no word' to his home as to the progress of his recovery, but after leaving Fort Monroe for New York he sent a mere notice of his change in address from the Virginia resort to New Rochelle. Two days later Reed Knox, the attorney gen eral's son, who is familiarly known as "Judge," walked into the office of Mr. Long, the private secretary of Mr. Knox, with a joyful smile on his face. "I know the governor's all right now," said young Mr. Knox. "How do you know it?" asked Mr. Long. "I know it because he telegraphed from New Rochelle to-day for his golf shoes and clubs. I reckon vacation will soon be over for the beef trust." And it was. DOT LEETLE CHERMAN BAND. Most of the Players Are From Black Forest and Hire Out. Yery few people know how or where German street bands spring from; but they may be interested to know that it is a regular business, carried on bv agents who are of the same nation ality and who are fairly well estab lished on this side. Most of the men who come over are from the Black Forest, and have a little knowledge of brass instruments, and they im mediately make for an agent of this description. One of these agents keeps all kinds of brass instruments in his house, and could turn out his German bands by the dozen to annoy the poor, suffering rate-payers of the district. There may be many more, we know, who may have commenced in the same way before they appeared as full-blown professionals. Back to Country. When the use of electric power be comes general we may look forward to a considerable decentralization of industry. We may see "garden cities" spring up all over the coun try, and the old country towns will again become active centers of life and industry. At present nearly all the industries that were once carried on in our villages have been killed by the fact that no source of power is. available which can enable them to compete with their rivals in the city factories. Electrical power will change all that. Dyeing of Milk. Evidence is accruing that the prac tice of adding artificial coloring mat ! ter to milk is increasing. Samples are' commonly met with thus colored to! give them a rich but false creamy | aspect. The natural color of milk j bears no relation necessarily to the; amount of cream present. Annatto is; the dye commonly used, and it is for-; tunate that it is harmless. Certain \ coaltar dyes have, however, been de-1 tected in milk, and among them the sodium salt of dimethylaniline-azo benzene-sulphonic acid. Great Testimonial. George J. Charlton, general pas-; senger agent of the Alton road, is in j receipt of a postal card, dated at; Joliet, 111., June 20, as follows: "Five years ago I used your road to Joliet and have never used any other since." i The writer does not sign his name, but | gives his number, which indicates that ho is still in the penitentiary. He also gives the official number of the Stato penitentiary building. There were 927,062 births in Eng- j V*ad and Wales during 1900. • so;ue form or another. And yet, probably, • not a tenth of the women know that their • disease is catarrh. To distinguish catarrh • of vurious organs it has been named very • differently. 2 One woman has dyspepsia, another bron • chitis, another Bright's disease, another J liver complaint, another consumption, an • other female complaint. These women J would be very much surprised to hear that • they are all suffering with chronic catarrh. 2 But it is so, nevertheless. ® Each one of these troubles and a great many more are simply catarrh—that is, 1 chronic inflammation of the mucous lining of which ever organ is affected. Any internal , remedy that will cure catarrh in one loca tion will cure it in any other. This is why Pert ma has become so justly famous in the cure of female diseases. It cures catarrh wherever located. Its cures remain. Pc runa docs not palliate—it cures. Hon. Joseph B. Crowley. Congressman from Illinois, writes from Robinson, 111., the following praise for the great catarrhal tonic Pcruna. Congressman Crowley says: "Ifrs. Oro-wlcy has taken a number of bottles of Pcruna on account of nervous troubles. It has proven a strong tonic and lasting cure. I can cheerfully recommend it."—JT. JR. Crowley. A catarrh book sent free by The Pcruna Medicine Co., Columbus, Ohio. If you do not derive prompt and satis* factory results from the use of Pcruna, write at once to Dr. Hartman. giving a full statement of your case and ne will bo pleased to give you his valuable advico gratis. Address Dr. Hartman, President of The Hartman Sanitarium, Columbus, O. THE DIPLOMATIC SERVICE. ' Uncle Sam Expends a Large Sum of Money Every Year. The United States government ex. pends every year for the mainten ance of the diplomatic and consular service about §2,000,000, and some of this, but not much, is returned to the treasury in the form of consular fees turned over to the government. There are five countries of the first rank in the estimation of the state depart ment, but these are not the five great powers of Europe. Four of them only so rank—England, France, Germany and Russia. American ministers in the east —or ambassadors, as they are more properly called in London, Paris, Berlin and St. Petersburg—re ceive $17,500 a year. The ambassa dor to Mexico ranks with them, get ting the same salary. The second group of countries deemed of import ance by the state department are Italy, Austria, Brazil, China, Spain and Japan. The American ministers in these_ get $12,000 a year. Next come Argentinea, Chili, Colombia, Costa Itica, Guatemala. Honduras, Nicaragua, Peru, and Salvador, all South and Central American coun tries, the American ministers in which got SIO,OOO. So does the minister to Turkey. Then follow Belgium, Den mark, Holland, Sweden, Corea and Venezuela, at $7,500; Greece, Rou mania and Servia at $0,500, and Bo livia. Portugal and Switzerland at $5,000. Scottish miners have declared themselves in favor of abolishing Saturday work. The taxable value of Beaumont county, Tex., has increased more than $20,000,000 in a year. I did not know what it was to eat a good breakfast in the morning - . By noon I would become so sick and have great pain and discomfort. I got so that I would do without eating as long as 1 could, so as to avoid the misery. At night I could not sleep. The doctors said I had nervous indigestion. I heard much | about Ripans Tabules and at last 1 thought i would try them. I had only taken one box when 1 obtained relief. At druggists. I The Five-Cent packet is enough for an j ordinary occasion. The family bottle, (10 cents, contains a supply for li year. Genuine stamped CC C. Never sold In bulk. Beware of the dealer who tries to sell "something lost as good." Dr. X. X. ABIE* '* BOH*. B*x B. Allan*, ut. | I'. N. V. IK.
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