MAKING BIG TRAYS.
A Method of Making Ones* That Ar
Absolutely Waterproof.
The development of bromide en
largements and the use of large sized
plates render necessary dishes of a
size which are very expensive to pur
chase and often very unmanageable
on account of their excessive weight,
especially if they are of glass or por
celain. In consequences of the ex
▼ pense home-made trays are often em
\ plcyed, but these are very likely to
leak and then become very bother
some. Perhaps the most general ex
pedient is the lining of a wooden tray
with oilcloth or sheet rubber, but such
a tray usually has wrinkles and folds
on the bottom, and hence is not par
ticularly economical of solutions, be
sides being very likely t leak. Sheet
lead may be employed as a lining,
but the trays then become very heavy,
A process frequently advocated is the
painting of the inside of a wooden
tray with asphaltum to make it water
tight. In order to make this effec
tive, several thin coats must be given,
with thorough drying between, and it
will then be found that he asphaltum
% will not resist the prolonged action
of photographic chemicals. The pro
cess which we found to be most effec
tual is to paint the tray with a coat
y of glue to which has been added 5 or
| 6 per cent of bichromate of potasium.
/ > By exposing to sunlight for two or
three hours, the coating becomes ab
solutely waterproof. We usually give
three or four coats of glue, with thor
ough sunning after each, and find that
the resulting tray leaves little to be
desired for lightness and durability.
Charging Women Less Than Men.
At the old-fashioned inns and res
taurants in Sweden it is customary
to charge less for women than for
men on the theory that they do not
eat so much. At some hotels in Sweden
a man and a wife are charged as one
and one-half persons if they occupy
the same room. A husband and wife
may travel as one and one-half per
sons by railway, and also by the
post routes, furnishing their own car
riage.
Hall's Catarrh Cure is a liquid and is taken
internally, and acts directly on the blood
J and mucous surfaces of the system. Write
W for testimonials, free. Manufactured by
F. J. CHENEY A Co., Toledo, O.
The largest coral reef in the world ia
s the Australian barrier reef, which is 1100
miles in length.
FITS permanently cured.No fits or nervous
ness after first day's use of Dr. Kline's Great
Nerveltestorer.i'Jtrittl bottle ami treatisefree
Dr.lt. H. KLINE, Ltd., 931 Arch St., Phila.,Pa.
France's 10,000 doctors average le.ss than
$750 a year professional income.
Mrs.Winslow's Soothing Syrup for children
teething,soften the gums, reduces inflamma
tion,allays pain, cures wind colic. 25c. übottle
It's the tiresome people who bore their
way through life.
lam sure Piso's Cure for Consumption saved
my life three years ago.— MRS. THOMAS BOB
BINS, Mupie St., Norwich, N. Y., Feb. 17,1903.
There is a difference between being out
spoken and being out-talked.
PUTNAM FADELESS DYER color more
sPgooils, per package, than others.
Some people love their neighbors for
what they can get out of them.
My
"An attack of la grippe left me
with a bad cough. My friends said
I had consumption. I then tried
Ayer's Cherry Pectoral and it
cured me promptly."
A. K. Randies, Nokomis, 111.
You forgot to buy a bot
tle of Ayer's Cherry Pec
toral when your cold first
came on, so you let it run I
J along. Even now, with j
\ all your hard coughing, it |
will not disappoint you.
There's a record of sixty
years to fall back on.
Three sizes: 25c., 50c., sl. All drufglais.
Consult your doctor. If ho says take It, 1
then do as ho says. If he tells you not |
to take It. then don't take It. He knows. |
Leave it with him. W* are willing.
J. C. AYEK CO., Lowell, Mass.
Headache ?
Appetite poor? Bowels con
stipated? It's your liver!
Ayer's Pills are liver pills.
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' Want your moustache or beard a
beautiful brown or rich black? Use
4 Buckingham's Dye
50ct. of druggists or R. P. Hall it Co., Nashua, N.H.
Genuine stamped CC C. Never sold In bulk.
Beware of the dealer who tries to sell
"something just as good."
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CMOS- Boos of toatimoniais Olid 10 dnyiT treatment
m ' Ifree. Dr. H. H. OABEN'B duMb. BJX B. Atlanta. Oft
P. N. U. 42, 'O2.
U Beat Cough Syrup. Tastes Good. Us© M
Eel In time. Sold by druggists. £1
A Miracle of Irrigation.
By Ray Stannard Baker.
SF ever inon worked miracles, they hnve worked them here
In the Western valleys. If ever something was created
from nothing, these men have done it. Thirty-live years
ago the Salt River Valley, Into which we had driven, was
all a parched desert, uninhabited save by a few lean In
dians and two or three hardy traders, whom the sand and
the cactus crowded down close to the water of the river.
It was a thousand miles from the nearest railroad—an un
known, desolate, forbidding land, a part of the Great
American Desert, which travelers said would never support human life.
To-day the Salt River Valley contains a population of over 25,000. It has
three cities, one, Phoenix, the capital of Arizona, having electric lights, an
electric car line, good hotels, churches, and other buildings, residences sur
rounded by trees, lawns, and a wilderness of flowers. More than 125,000
acres of land round about are laid out in farms, highly cultivated, with
orchards of oranges, almonds, olives, and figs, and grain and hay fields.
Thousands of cattle feed in the rich meadows, and there are bees, chickens,
ducks and ostriches unnumbered. Richer soil than this once desert valley
does not exist anywhere in the world except In other once desert valleys.
Here one may behold the startling spectacle of orange groves in bearing
worth SIOOO an acre on one side of a fence, and bare cactus desert on the
other, both having the same soil, the same opportunities, hut only one hav
ing water. Here, when a man builds liis fence of Cottonwood posts, such
is the soil and such the water that the posts take root and grow into trees,
so that the wire of many old fences Is seen running through the centre of
large trees. Here a farmer rarely needs to use fertilizer, for the river
comes in bearing rich silt and spreads it over his fields; and he mn.v some
times cut two or three or more crops a year from his alfalfa fields, and
then pasture them during the winter—winter which is in reality a continual
spring.—The Century.
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Problems of To-Day.
By Governor Odell, of New York.
f ROBI.EMS of the most important character nre ever before
' ' us, which demand integrity of purpose and wisdom of action
in their solution. The successes of arms have given way
I J to the demands of our commerce; the upbuilding of our
Nation exacts tribute from our citizenship. The duty of the
■1 State calls for the encouragement of labor and the restraint
of greed.
U _____ n The capital of the individual Is inadequate to cope
with these great problems, and a community of Interests
lias been evolved before which all obstacles nre removed, and there seems
to be no limitation to our power or to the influence we may exert upon
the destinies of the world. Wealth and its accumulation might prove dan
gerous to the simplicity of our Government were it not that over and above
nil there Is a religion that teaches the brotherhood of man. For, after all,
the greatest product of our country is man—man self-reliant, courageous and
determined, whose faith is In himself and in his God.
The foundation of wealth is labor, no matter what form It may take,
its existence without labor would be both impossible and useless. All prop
erty, therefore, being labor, It should be conceded equal rights with, but never
In excess of that which is given to its creator.
These ore some of the problems that the changed conditions incident
to our present commercial development hnve projected into the affairs of
State. Respect for law cannot all he on one side. Greed should never pre
vail or be permitted to conquer the honest intentions of our employes.
Powers that nre prejudicial to tho health, the morals or the well-being of
any of our citizens nre sure to lower thc-standard of our citizenship. If we
should have other aims than this we would hnve fought in vain for repub
lican principles of Government and the sacrifices of our forefathers would
have been fruitless. We must depend upon a broad statesmanship upon the
part of our lawmakers and upon the patriotism of a free people for tho solu
tion of the problems that confront us.
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Simplicity and Regularity
Cardinal Laws of Health
By Mme. Adelina Patti.
f "fc O be healthy is the natural state, and disease is. in nine cases
' J out of ten, our punishment for some indiscretion or excess.
I -- —- I Every time we are ill It is part of our remaining youth
| I which we squander. Every recovery, whether from head
| I ache or pneumonia, is accomplished by n strenuous effort of
3 I vitality, and Is therefore a waste of our capital of life.
\ | Therefore do not let yourself be ill.
i The best plan to avoid illness is to live regularly, simply,
with frugality that stupid persons alone will deem painful
br eccentric.
Sleep eight hours in every twenty-four.
Ventilate the rooms you work and sleep in. Very few people, even among
(lioso who think they are well up in modern ideas, have any conception of
what ventilation means. Even when my voice was the only thing I had in
the world, I slept with my windows wide open, summer and winter, and
never caught cold In that way.
Examine seriously into your list of social obligations. Have tho good
sense to recognize that there Is neither pleasure nor profit in most of what
you regard as essential in that line, and simplify your social life—simplify
it all you can.
Complicated living breeds worry, and worry is the main enemy of health
and happiness—the ope fiendish microbe that docs more to destroy the
health and happiness of mnnklud than any other.
Make your home a pleasant place, cheerful, but well within your means.
Drink nothing but wnter or milk—especially drink lots of water. You
never can drink too much of it.
On the other hand, remember that alcohol is poison which does untold
Jnmage within you; that wine, beer, coffee and tea are poisons, too. Shun
fhem as yon would diluted vitriol.
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Cultivate Trust in
Your Fellow Men
By Margaret Stowe.
children were discussing the strong and weak points of
St * their respective schools. One said that at her school it was
1 F against the rules to do thus and so. The other child replied
}{ I that at the school she attended there were no rules, the scholars
SjjWWSB were put on their honor.
So few parents and teachers realize the necessity of setting
an example to children by trusting them.
I have never known a school where rules regulated the priviliges nud re
strictions where those same rules were not constantly being broken. On the
other hand, It is the exception to find a school in which the children arc put
on their honor where confidence and harmony do not reign.
It is so throughout our lives. A man who has any self-respect resents
suspicion. Instinctively we desire to be trusted to do what is right, and no
one is quite himself, quite true to his best impulses, when under suspicion.
There is a large amount of distrust in circulation nmong the majority of
men and women. There are so many who are constantly suspecting the
motives of others, with apparently no reason whatsoever.
It Is far more disgraceful to distrust your friends tlinn to be deceived by
them. Our mistrust only justifies the mistrust of others.
We cannot be too careful in regard to our thoughts of others.
Our attitude and bearing toward those around us is soon observed by the
rounger minds, whose training lies in our hands, aud Is copied. We stand
Is examples to them for good or evil.
We should strive to 6how children by our example that life is more beau
tiful and more worth living when we act hontstly, justly, mercifully and
lovingly toward [ill.
We should teach them that right feeling develops right thinking; the right
thinking brings out the right word and deed.
Tho confidence we have In the virtue of others Is no slight evidence of our
own.
Try to cultivate trust in your fellow men and the bare show of faith will
tome time create worth.—New York American.
CO
According to a note in the Electrical
Review, a gas engine, when coupled
to a dynamo, produces three times as
much light in incandescent lamps, and
about eleven times as much in arc
lamps, as the same amount of gas
would produce if burned directly at
gas jets.
The largest coil of wire rope ever
made in Brooklyn was turned out by
a rope company of that city recently.
It measured 17,700 feet in length, or
over three miles, without a break, and
weighed 22,030 pounds. It is for use in
a bituminous coal mine, was made of
forty-two strands of crucible cast steel,
took sixteen days to manufacture and
was valued at .$2300.
Dr. Grun, of London, has been using
the fluid lens witli much success for
taking photographs at night without
any light except the ordinary illumina
tion used in buildings. For example,
he made excellent snapshot pictures of
stage scenes iu theatres with no extra
light, and even cinematograph views in
the same way.* The fluid lens was for
merly used to overcome the difficulty of
chromatic aberration before the com
bination of flint and crown glass was
invented, but Dr. Grun used it for its
rapidity of action. He thinks that it
will greatly widen the lield of pho
tography.
Government investigations of stream
pollution and of the qualities of natural
waters in general have been instituted
by the Division of Hydrography of the
United States Geological Survey. The
work will embrace the sanitary inspec
tion of streams, turbidity and color
measurements, and chemical and bac
terial analyses. The co-operation of
workers in various lields is desired,
particularly in the physical and analyt
ical sections. To secure uniformity in
results, the department lias issued two
bulletins setting forth standard meth
ods of making and reporting analyses,
and describing handy apparatus for
the color and turbidity determinations.
Many persons have a notion that the
pineapple grows oil a tree. It does not.
The plant reaches a height of only
four feet, to the tip of the leaves. It
comes out of the ground as a stalk, but
divides at once into sword-like leaves,
lifteen in number, from the centre of
which projects a stiff, upright stem,
and at the top of this stem grows the
fruit. The stem is short, and the
crown of the fruit, when full grown,
is a foot or more below the tips of the
leaves. Each plant produces a single
"apple," but when this is pulled a little
sucker appears on the stem among
the leaves, and this becomes the head
of the plant, and within a year pro
duces another apple. This may go on
for years.
The Catholic University of America
lias just equipped an elaborate depart
ment for the thorough experimental
study of the problem of flight. Part
of the equipment is a wooden tunnel
fifty feet in length, with a cross sec
tion of six square feet, in which a wind
of any desired speed can be generated
by means of a suction fan at one end
of the tunnel. Objects of various kinds
and shapes are placed in this wind cur
rent, and their resistance, lift, drift,
surface friction, etc., are noted. A
gauge that can be read to loss than one
ten-millionth of an atmosphere is used
to determine the pressure at all points
in the stream of air. It is hoped that
these experiments may furnish trust
worthy data for aeronautic calcula
tions.
A Plaguo of Tnrantuln Spider*,
There is a perfect plague of taran
tula spiders in the south of Spain, near
Serine, says the London Express. The
number of the sufferers is so great that
all the guitar players of the neighbor
hood hare been employed. They have
established a tariff at the rate of about
two cents a mnso treated by the har
monic cure. Tlie guitar player has to
keep up the tune "La Tarantula,"
while the person bitten by the spider
dances to it. In serious cases, when
the patient is confined to hod, the gui
tar player accompanies the family,
who sit around the bed singing the dis
enchantment "Tarantula" rhyme,which
might be translated as follows:
"Come out, come out, this instant,
Come out, thou venom bite.
And may the cruel biter
Forever take to flight."
One America Enough.
Lord Kitchener's statement that the
empire's new territory is a land full of
"every description of potential wealth"
should give pause to those who declare
that' gold Is lis sole resource. But
what did Lord Kitchener mean by the
statement that we have "the makings
of nothing less than a new America in
the southern hemisphere?" One Amer
ica is as much as the civilized world
con put up with; and there are times
when we And that one too many.—Lon
don Saturday Review.
Granite the Lowest Km-K.
Granite is the lowest rock in tne
earth's crust—lt Is the bed rock of the
world, and shows no evidence of ani
mal or vegetable life; it Is the parent
rock from which nil the rocks have
been either directly or Indirectly de
rived.
A Fool's Saying*.
The sayings of a fool with a bank ac
count are brighter than the most scin
tlllant wit of a poor genius.—New York
News.
SUFFERED SEVEN YEARS
With Catarrhal Derangements of the
Pelvic Organs.
. Hundreds of Dollars
Miss Kate Brown, Recording Seere
thry of the L. C. B. Association, of
Kansas, in a letter from 005 N. Seventh
St., Kansas City, Kan., says:
"For seven years I have not known
what it was to spend a well day.
I caught a severe cold, wldch I neg
lected. It was at the time of menstru
ation. and inflammation set in and
prostrated me. Catarrh of the kidneys
and bladder followed, my digestive or
gans gave way; in fact, the cold disar
ranged my whole system.
"1 spent hundreds of dollars with
doctors and medicine, but derived
but little benefit until. 1 l/cyan treat
ment with Feruna. I kept taking it for
nearly nine months before I was com
pletely cured, hut I kept growing bet
,ter gradually so that I felt encouraged
to continue taking Peruna until my
health was restored. I send my thanks
The Lost City.
The site of the lost Indian city,
Mascoutens, which was reported as
having 20,009 inhabitants in 1675, has
been determined by the labors of
Thomas Clithero, of Portage, Wis.,
now extended over many years. It
the largest city in all Indian his
tory, so far as United States territory
is concerned, and the descriptions of
the Jesuits in the course of the seven
teenth century, closing with Marquette i
and Joliet in 1673, are said to have
been verified.
How to Keep Young.
One of the secrets of keeping young, |
vigorous and supple-jointed, is to con
tinue to practice the activities of !
youth, and to refuse to allow the mind
to stiffen the muscles by its sugges
tion of age limitations. If men like j
Peter Cooper and William E. Glad
stone, who kept up the vitalizing ex- |
ercises of robust manhood when far
into the eighties, had succumbed at
40 to the thought of approaching age,
how much of their valuable life-work
would have remained undone?
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always handy article In hotel, sleep
ing car, field and camp. They are
the best and only medicine needed
for an outing, as they keep head,
stomach, bowels and livei; In the
right condition, and thus prevent
any other trouble likely to arise j
from exposure or sitting at late !
campfires.
At dniggista.
The Five-Cent packet is enough for an
ordinary occasion. The family bottle,
60 cents, contains a supply for A year.
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—H I NATIONAL BUPPLT CO., NIAGARA PALLS, ONTARIO,
A neglected cold is frequently the
cause of death.
It is more often, however, the cause
of some chronic disease.
There is not an organ in the body
but what is liable to become seriously
deranged by a neglected cold. Dis
eases of the kidneys, bladder and diges
tive organs are all frequently the result
of a neglected cold.
Hundreds of dollars are spent on
' doctors and medicines trying to cure
i these diseases, but until the true cause
of them is discovered there will be no
use in using medicine.
Dyspepsia medicine, diarrhoea medi
cine and constipation medicine is of no
good whatever when catarrh is the
cause. The catarrh must be treated.
The cause being removed, the derange
ments will disappear.
Peruna cures catarrh of the digestive
organs, the urinary organs or any of
the internal organs.
If you do not derive prompt and sat
isfactory results from the use of Pe
runa, write at once to Dr. Hartman,
giving a full statement of your case,
and he will be pleased to give you his
valuable advice gratis.
Address Dr. Hartman, President of
Thellnrtnian Sanitarium, Columbus. O.
and blessings to you for Peruna."—
> Miss Kate Brown.
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