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riAR l THE TRLSLNT DAY.
babrlcl de la Hointtouiauld.
To-day we are far removed from fear of lint.
of cold, or of wild ordinals. We nave cap,
coats, houses and firearms, The most poverty
stricken among us In infinitely belter protected
from all dn tiger llian m the most powerful
ruler of ancient days. Nevertheless we possibly
are heroine only the more fenrful. How often
In a tralu we hear a corpulent man shout: '( lose
that door. Iion'l you feel the draft?" The tone
of a person terrified by the sight f some great
lnger. Our own epoch is not content, However, wun rear
tug Illness alone; It fear life also. How many despairing
Individuals we find In every claw: How many tragedies
And their origin solely in the disgust felt for life Itself!
How many suicides sre due to the dread of a struggle!
tAnd how ninny unfortunates there are who, feeling re
pugnance at this brutal manner of st.lvlng the problem,
Seek In another way to forget their sad fate.. And forget
jfnlneRS In the majority of case in found In the laboring
rlasnes In Inebriety. It Is not to wine or alcohol, how
ever, that the wealthy classes have recourse In order to
forget their troubles, Generally subject to heart weak
jness, the momliers of our high society are sentenced by
Ihelr physicians to a regime of water. They are the vic
tims of their parents and of their ancestors, who have left
them bodies charred by too abundant feeding, and blood
burnt out by too long continued diet of truffle. Thus It
happens that they generally demand of the dru-zgist poisons
which will stupefy them or en.xble them to avoid pain.
Monslenr fears a touch of toothache quick, bring cocaine.
Madame feels a suggestion of headache; get some cere
brine or antlpyrlne.
Only the roar of a cannon or the declaration of a war
Is needed to cause the fear of living to give place to the
fear of 'dying. Then, as of old, the fear of death takes
possession of humanity. Brothers, relatives and friends
are being killed. Manklad, for a few weeks or a few
months trembles as did the man of ancient time. The
crisis of madness ends, civilization takes np Its work.
Then the weakening processes begin again, the races con
tinue to grow old, and man, pursued by fear of suffering,
takes recourse to theory and to science, and yet In spite
of all he does or thinks, fenr lives on undestroyed, hidden
and Inaccessible,
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in supreme reverence by al around, but a reverence whlcii
had in it passionate and unchanging affection as well a
ciisttun. In Japan national loyalty has not as yet divided
Itself from the actual worship given to the dynasty whose
origin loses Itself, In the thoughts of forty-live millions of
homogeneous people, amid the mysteries of the Invisible.
Time was, of course and only a few years ago when such
a proximity as ours to that divinely new-ended personage
would have been Impossible, Incredible, madly presun.;tu
ous. I nree times afterwards even I myself had the privi
lege of respectfully watching from near at hand the dark.
serious, unchanging. Introspective countenance of him upon
w hom Is focured the absolute d'votlon of the Japanese peo
ple, In a manner not only unparalleled elsewhere, but hardly
even comprehended. It Is this traditional sentiment of the
wonderful nation which Is the mightiest of all her forces,
and which will bring her lu honor and triumph out of all
dangers.
I shall not attempt to dwell upon what I have seen and
heard personally of his Imperial maJeMy. Other pens may
dare to make him Into paragraphs. Win never I saw that
silent potentate I was set thinking of the ancient legends,
anil of the sun goddess, and of Avaloklieswara. Now that
1 can only recollect. It Is still with something like awe, as
well as with profound respect and sympathy, that I recall
the steadfast brows and the stern, sad lips of his Imperial
Majesty Mutsuhlto whose Order of the Rising Sun I
have the honor to bear, and of whom I am the humble
servant and well -wisher believing, as I do, that In his
august hands Providence has placed the duty and the glory
of Unking forever together the Kant and the West In n
union which once appeared Impossible.
IVIMZaTIOX Is constantly de
manding new forms of energy
Ith which to work the number-
ess complex machines which sat
isfy the wants of civilized mankind.
At present nearly the whole of the
world's energy Is obtained from coal
which Is used In heat engines. Atten
tion, however, Is being turned more
and more to other ways of. obtaining
energy and one of the chief of these Is
falling water. Thousands of dollar
have been spent at Niagara In costly
plant to render available for man the
Immense source of power which hos In
the past only been employed to a slight
extent. At Niagara nature drops 15,
000,000 cubic feet of water a distance
of 170 feet every minute, the upper riv
er leading the water to the falls and
the lower river conveying It away.
The enormous Increase of electric
horse power from turbine wheels In
the United States has naturally Influ
enced a corresponding development In
Canada. It Is directly due to such de
velopment In the Ktates that Canada
will soon possess electric generators
of 10,000 horse power, or twice as large
as the biggest dynamos In the world.
The past decade will be notable for the
JAPAN WML TRIUMPH THROUGH HFR LOYALTY.
By Sir Edwin Arnold.
Although no value could possibly
attach to any opinion of mine upon
liuilcal military problems, at the
present Juncture I venture to recall
i t; the incidents ana pictures of a nicmor
A able day which I passed In the com
pany of his Imperial Majesty the Km-
peror oi .lapan, wun nis miuiary man,
mil some 8r,iXH) troops detailed for the
inniial maneuvers. Never can I forget
the glorv of that early dawn, alomr the
lu"'" iidao of the southern hills, which
awecp through all the length of coast, from KaiiHikura and
lovely Knoshlma, over the foot of splendid and fctatcly Fuji
Yania to Gotcmha, OIho and Nora Itself. 'We were ad
vancing up the steep paths,-many thousand strong horse,
foot and artillery but chiefly foot, to hold the long ridge
against some detested enemy deploying In the vast flats to
the eastward ami southward. Hlght ahead of us, In the
center of the position, not far away, was a breakfast table
roughly Improvised out of four ammunition boxes, and
over these thrown a richly embroidered tablecloth of silk
purple In color, with golden kiku the Imperial chrysanthe
mum worked by hand upon It, the only touch of anything
like luxury visible throughout the vast martial display.
Though the sun was yet hardly high enough to touch the
mow upon Fuji Yamu with saffron and 'rose, his Imperial
Majesty was there drinking tea from a small sliver cup.
The young sovereign was held, as one might easily see,
VANITY IS MODtRN WOMAN'S HANDMAID.
By Mm. Deimond Humphrey ("Rfa").
'1 here uevcr was an ae when woman's vanity
was so Impressed upon the public mind and so
absolutely paramount In her own. She scorns
to rule the press by her tiuiiiallticd defects and
her need of curing them. She is apparently
wrongly made to begin with. That Is a good
sendoff for the corset manufacturer and an ad
vertlsement for senseless Idiots who write of
sixteen Inch waists as u desirable possession. Has
she a good skin It must be creamed and massaged and
electrified In order to keep It In condition. Has she a bad
one? Then she Is more to be pitied, for every Journal
she takes up offers her a remedy. Is she too slender? I.o!
there appeals to her the Inventor of anatomical develop
ment. Is she stout? Are there not delectable tablets and
wondrous unguents for reducing Inartistic measurements
to due proportion? Has she no color, or too much Reme
dies for both defects flure before her sight In the columns
of any feminine or unfemlnlne weekly that covers the
tiountcous book stalls! Does the shape of her nose, or the
color of her hair, or the mole upon her chin offend her?
She need no longer fear to "cast out," or remove, or have
removed, any such personal unslghtllncss. The handmaids
of Vanity stand on every side. Is not this the age of the
worship of the beautiful?
It Is an appalling tlntnlil. when one looks at the mod
ern woman, how much Is real and how much art? What
will wash, what will take off, and what sort of face will
pay its devoirs to Morpheus? It Is only to be expected
that It will differ materially from that of the beautifully
gowned, colffured, tinted, massaged nnd artificial beauty
who takes (or thinks she does) twenty years off her ase by
dally and nightly service nt the temple of the beauty spe
elallst, whose cult she has built up and whose comfortable
Income tdie supplies.
There Is but one efliclent method of preserving the skin,
preventing wrinkles, and defying gray hairs. The woman
who would defy the ravages of time must never shed
tear, never worry over anything In life, and never love
or consider any human creature but herself! Thus will
she achieve perennial youth and be able to smile defiance
at beauty doctors and their nostrums. For, however ex
cellent a cure may be, prevention Is a million times better.
HARNESSING
NIAGARA FALLS.
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j lighting. The remaining 11,000 vol'.affft
Is required in the immediate vicinity
of the twer station.
j Cost of Water-Mude Pome-
I In transmitting the pfwcr twmty
six miles to Buffalo the current Is tar
ried In aerial cable circuits and de
livered to low pressure transformer
i stations for distribution. Another com
pany aims at taking Its power seventy
sights can. On the other hand, the
utilization of the water gives a beau
tifully clean, smokeless source of pow
er, Aity greater than any the world
has seen could lie built round Niagara,
and never an atom of smoke need hide
the light of the sun from Its inhabit
ants. It could be a clean, white city
without factory chimneys or fogs.
Method of Using the Water.
The power at Niagara Falls is di
vided Into three groups. The smallest
of these below the Amerlcnn full
nnd suspension bridge, furnishing pow
er for the flour-milling district, which
has been there since the memory of
man and was formerly operated by the
wster power and belt lines. Here the
visible penstocks or water tubes have n
fall of 215 feet, and together with the
turbines and dynamos are located In
the gorge at the edge of the river In
stead of In whcclplts as above the
falls. This district, together with huge
advertising signs, form un eyesore to
sightseers by disfiguration of the land
scape. The power at present employed
Is 3.YM)0 horse power, although It may
be Indefinitely Increased If the authori
ties will permit. It Is merely a quest
tlon of dropping more pens'.ocks over
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miles to Toronto. The cost of elec
trical power of $-0 per horse power
for every twenty-four hours of the
year as ugalnst $.'!(! per steam horse
power for every ten hours of 300 days
(a year less Sundays nnd holidnys) has
naturally "knocked out" steam, oil and
natural and artificial gas plants Jn the
vicinity. Indeed, there has been a nat
ural migration to Niagara Falls and
vicinity of industrial plants from all
over America which have been cursed
with fuel famines, fuel strikes, liiih
priced fuel and other adverse condi
tions.
' JADE USED AS MEDICINE.
CHEAT POWER, WAVES FLOWINU INTO NIAGARA GOROE.
ROCKING THE BABY.
1 hear her rocking the baby
Her room Is Just next to mine
And I fancy I feel the dimpled situs
That round her neck entwine.
Am she rocks and rocks the baby,
Id the room Just next to mine.
I hear her rocking the baby
Each day when the twilight conies.
And I know there's a world of blessing
and love
In the "baby bye" she hums.
I can see the restless fingers
Playing with "mamma's ring,"
And the sweet little smiling, pouting
mouth
That to her In kissing Hugs
As she rocks and sings to tlio baby.
And dreams as she rocks and sings.
1 bear her rocking the baby,
Slower and slower now,
And I know she Is leaving her good
night kiss
On its eyes and cheeks and brow.
From her rocking, rocking, rocking,
I wonder would she start,
Could she know, through the wall be
tween us,
She was rocking on my heart?
While my empty anus are aching
For a form they may not press,
And my emptier heart is breaking
In Its desolate loneliness.
1 list to the rocking, rocking,
Id the room just next to mlue,
Aud breathe a tear In silence
At a mother's broken shrine.
For the woman who rocks the baby
In the room just next to mine.
Philadelphia Telegraph
I REJECTING I 61ER
T7D OM knew little about the thcatrl
II cal Bcctlun of the great city, but,
latterly, he had been reading u
jjood deal of It, and felt that he was
uot wholly unversed In Its geography,
Inhabitants and customs.
Ever since Edith Klythe hud left
StuutonvUlc to go on the stage, Tom
bud been a subscriber to and u devoted
render of all the dramatic ami setul
l -a in i I If newspapers on which ho
.uld lay a baud.
Once lu a while, far down the street,
i't u.iuld spy some one, who by the
j;'..s of her head or tlu manner hi
which site walked, made him tliinU for
;n-::icut that she was F.(t!tlittil cj.-h
t lie was disappointed. j t
''i at hist she caaie, pu;;ht ! M
feody of the crowd, and was almost
just hliu before he could reach her
fcide. -
They had luucheon together; not at
one of the big restaurants full of peo
ple who laughed too loudly and looked
u though they were all men and
women accustomed to t-atlug aad
frlnkii)ff too much, but at a quiet place
wu the avenue, which Tom had dUcov
?jd during previous visits.
, Aitd at the luucheon they talked.
.talked of Btauntouvllle, where uotulug
to oenr.
"I've been away for four years,"
said Edith, with halt a sl((h, "but I
don't Imagine that I should find the
place changed so much after all, should
If
"Changed." replied Tom, with his
hearty laugh, "nothing ever changes In
Stauntouvllle."
"You have not, at any rate."
"I have not changed In any particu
lar. I hope."
"Not In anything, Tom?"
Edith was not looking at him as she
asked this last question, but out of the
window. The question was Innocent
enough In Its wording, but there was a
little half minor cadence In her voice
as she asked It that lent significance to
the words.
"Not In anything." be answered,
very soberly.
"I take the Stauutonvllle Clarion,
Tom, and I have always been expect
ing to read that you were married.
Haven't you found the right woman
yet?"
"You know that I found the right
woman long ago, Edith, and I am still
waiting for her. I will always be
waiting for her."
"So. Stauutonvllle and you never
change! I have been living in a world
of constant change for bo long that It
seems strange to think of people who
do not change."
There was the same dreamy, half
minor cadence In her voice, as of one
who was indulging In retrospection and
saw a pleasant. If not regrettable,
vision.
"Rut you, Edith, In your world of
constant change, hate also remained
unchanged. You are what you were
before Just Edith. And you know
you are the only woman I ever loved
or ever could love. Are you still de
termined to make a career for your
self upon the stage? I take It that you
have been fairly successful, but do you
never think It might have been better
to have chosen the other life? You
know It Is not too lata I am always
waltlug for you."
"I have been fairly successful," she
replied, "and when I met you I was
Just coming from rehearsal. I have
been engaged to play the second role
lu the company of Miss , the star.
And It begins to look as though suc
cess were not far ahead of me.
"Rut do you know that when I was
e:ii;,'el, Miss asked me to lui:-,!i-con
with her and had a long talk w'a'.i
i.'e. it rccius that she took siiii. mv
a I",, i y M nu ami was lns.rtiii:e.i,al
';: obtaining the engagement for nr-v
"She asked me If I hud fully denr
mined to make the stage my life work,
and when I answered lu the aillrinatlve
she sighed. Then she went ou to tell
me Just what the life. In all Its drudg
ery, Its uncertainty and Its destruction
of borne ties meant.
"She asked me If I had ever been
In well, I mean I told her about you.
She asked all sorts of questions about
you, and then then she but you don't
know her, so why should you be inter
ested In what abe said?"
"Wtf AtottU I be Uureeted Oo
right on and tell me what sho sold.
What did she odvlse you to do?"
"She said that success, even success
like hers and you know that she Is
one of the most popular actresses lu
the country was not worth the price
one paid for It. That any woninn hud
better marry and settle down In in a
village like Stauntonvllle than ever
achieve stardom. In short, she advised
me to marry you."
Tom leaned suddenly across the ta
ble and took Edith's hand. He utterly
forgot that they were In a public res
taurant. Fortunately they were cut off from
the general view by a bank of palms,
and their wulter, discretion personified,
promptly retired when he saw that his
presence was not wauled.
"And you are going to marry me,
Edith?"
"I have a very high opinion bf Miss
K , aud attach much weight to her
opinion," she replied, demurely. "Rut
are you sure you still want me?"
"I told you that things ueverchanged
In Stauntonvllle. You must go buck
with me to the world where things
never change. Just send Mla K a
little noto to the effect that you have
token her advice; It la only a few
blocks to "The little church around (he
corner," and we can leave for Stauu
tonvllle this afternoon." Indianapolis
Sun.
remarkable changes In methods of cur
rent generation and the concentration
of Industries around, motor power per
mitting the transmission of electric
power over distances formerly deemed
Impossible.
Those who visited the Buffalo expo-
Early Precocity of Great Men.
The young Mozart was seated In bis
cradle, composing a scherzo in R minor
for the left hand.
."What doest thou, melu lleber klud?"
Inquired the coming maestro's mother.
In very fair south Gernianese.
The child wonder waved her aside
with his chubby fllst.
"Mutter," he said In vexed though
prattling tones, "you haf Interrupted
de flow of chenlous. I wus chust hold
ing a sustaluet seventh, sostcnut cum
largo, ven you proke In upon me in it
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THoiSAMiw or nous rowtn hkbe.
sit loo In luOO and saw tho brilliant
electrical displays would be surprised
at the changes wrought In that vicinity
since that time, owing to the power
generated at Niagara Falls. Buffalo
baa seemingly extended In a night
the side of the canyon and Increasing
the size of the canal or flume which
taps the river above the falls.
The other two groups comprise the
Niagara Falls Power Company and the
Canadian Niagara Tower Company,
operating above the Horseshoe Fall on
opposite aides of the river. On the
Canadian side the power house is Iden
tical In size and appearance with No.
2 on the American aide. The Canad'm
house on the edge of the Horseshoe
Fall has eleven turbines In the wheel
pit operating as many electrical gen
erators of 10.000 horse power each, or
110,000 horse power, as against eleven
turbines in the wheel pit of 5,000 horse
power each, or f55,000 horse power In
the new house on the American side.
The Canadian tunnel. to;her with
the wheel pit, Is about 2,210 feet long
as against a 7,000 foot tunnel on the
American side.
Power Conveyed Across the River.
While the Canadian charter permits
the transmission of power throughout
the province of Ontario the pressing
market for It for some time will be on
this sldo of the rfver. whence It will
be largely conveyed by cable until the
American power houses catch up with
the demand, If ever. Power, plant, and
construction In dangerous localities is
a alow proposition. The electric gen
erators or great dynamos are located
at the surface at the top end of shafts,
150 feet long, set vertically In turbine
wheels, which revolve them. As the
water rushes out of the wheels it Is
made to turn upward and uphold the
entire weight of turbine, shaft, and
dynamo, of 180,000 pounds, v which
would otherwise test the strength of
any bearings ever devised. The waier
passes from the turbine wheels
through the tunnel at the rate of twen
ty miles per hour, emptying below the
falls. The current of 2.200 volts pass
es from the electrical generators to the
huge transformers In a special station,
where it Is raised to 33.000 volts, of
Ph jrslcinns of China KtnployOdil Com
pound to Cnre the Aillns,
Everything in China of any rarity
whatever is quite certain to be drag
ged into the pharmacopoeia of the Chi
nese physician. Jade Is no exception
to the rule. It may be swallowed us
ii powder or In little pieces the size
of hemp seed for various stomachic
complaints. Even pockmarks and
scars may be obliterated by being
dally nibbed with a piece of pure jade.
It Is also considered to be of n very
niois nature, and we read of an Im
perial favorite of the eighth century
who was cured of excessive thirst by
holding a fish-shaped Jade In her
mouth. And so. when the tomb of
the great commander, Ts'ao Ts'ao,
third century A. D., was opened, 200
years nfter his death, among the usual
objects found In such circumstances
was a large silver bowl full of water.
That the water had not dried up was
accounted for by the presence in the
bowl of a jade boy three feet In height.
Jade Is chiefly brought from the
K'un-lun or Koulkun range, between
the desert of Gobi ond Thibet; from
Khoten or Ilchl, In Yarkland, and
from Lau-t'len, on the Belurtagh
mountains, still further to the west.
This Lan-t'len has been confused by
Chinee writers with another Ltm
t'len In the province of Shen-So, near
the city of Hsian, whither the Chinese
court fled the city In August, 1000,
upon the relief of Pekln. In the tenth
century, A. L., the hitter was actually
known as the Jade Hills district,
thought it does not appear that any
Jade has even been found there-
Nineteenth Century.
your Idle Inqulrlngs." He pnr.sed and twen, ',,X '"""I, n"r,hw"r1d 'a SuK,t,u
rested his bulbous bead on his t Un
hand. '1 cauuot take oop my work
ngaln yet. I am not in de humorlu.4
for it. Vere Is my bottle?"
"It Is vanning In de ofen,' replied
his doting parent. 'I will prlng it ho
quickly."
And us she stamped heavily fr.nn
the room the child nr. 1st puckered his
I'iny lljti and skilfully whistled, fur ihe
first tlin,' in public, a wcodcu shoe
march that was In perfect rhythm with
his ivn.il p.uvut's ponderous fo. it
steps. Havings Hank Laws.
It Is anticipated that several of the
Southern States will soon pass savings
bunk laws similar to those of New
York aud the New England States.
First of American Btrlkee.
Three hundred shoemakers who
struck for blgher wages in Philadel
phia In 1870 were the first worklngmen
to adopt such tactics In this country.
A man must be mighty crooked
slon Bridge and Is continuing miles
further, to be ultimately stopped only
by Lake Ontario. Herein Is the ralson
d'etre of the beginning of a great pow
er plant on the Canadian side at Niag
ara Falls or Cliflou, nunicly, the
growth of industries, buildings and
populations along the American shore
of Niagara River. The development of
electric power ut Niagara will ulti
mately be the largest lu the world and
possibly the longest transmission.
Niagara's jiower Is already over con
tracted for by Industrial enterprises,
aud more aud more water Is being
drawn from the Niagara River lu order
to drive turbine wheels, which In their
turn drive electric generators. The ma
chlncry Is operated by Niagara water
flowing through tunnels and not by the
Immediate fall of the water at the
famous falls. No machinery Is visible
there. The flow over the falls has not
yet lessened to a degree which Is per
ceptible to the eye. Any decided les
sening of volume of water flowing over
the falls would lie a great loss, for the
sight impresses the power of natural
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N1.W CANADIAN COWKtt HOUSE.
which 22.200 volts operate the Indus
tries of &o square miles area of Buf
falo and Lockport, including as many
uillea of aurface car Unea and street
Adirondack Abodes.
There arc camps aud camps In this
world, but the group of cosy structures
wblcb are often found In the great
North woods bearing this modest title
are unlike any other camps in the
world. Outwardly they are villages of
log cabins, quaint and picturesque, fit
ting unobtrusively Into their wild sur
roundings. Within they ore, In many
instances, filled with a bizarre confu
sion of luxurious furnishings ar.d
adornment, picked up in the marts and
curio shops of every known land,
Great fireplaces fill the corners glow
ing with hickory coals, autlcrs are
ranged around the walls, cases of rllles
and fishing tackle occupy odd nooks.
There are some camps In theso degen
erate days, having private electilc
plants and elaborate systems of plumb
lpg, but these weaknesses were not to
the taste of the commodore.
Intended chiefly for brief summer
sojourns when the gay owners tire of
the resorts, and aa a center of bachelor
festivities In the November shooting
season, these camps are rarely opened
for their owners in the winter time,
but It Is possible now, through the pen
etration of th inner woods by the rail
lines, to leave New York or Buffalo at
night and reach these sylvan retreats
In comfort and safety the following
forenoon. From "Charms of a Snow
Bound Camp," In Four-Track News.
School Essay on iMicfcs.
A schoolboy in Jewel City, Kan.,
was assigned to prepare on essay on
the subject of "Ducks," and this is
what he wrote: "Tho' duck is a low,
heavy-set trirl composed mostly of
inent and feathers, lie Is a mighty
poor singer, having a hoarse voice
caused by getting too many frogs in
bis neck. He likes the water aud car
ries a toy balloon In his stomach to
kecii iiim from sinking. The duck has
i n y two legs nnd they are set so far
back on his running gears by nature
that she came purty near missing his
body. Some duvks when they get big
have curls on their tails and are called
drakes. lrakes don't have to set or
hatch. I'V.t just loaf, go swimming and
cut. If I was a duck I'd rut her be a
drake every time."
A Mean Advantage.
"I cannot cure you," suld Dr. Fox,
"unless you promise to do exactly
what I tell you. Do you solemnly
promise?"
"I do," replied the patient
"All right. I.et me have your check
for that old account that has been
standing so long." Philadelphia
Fresa.
Many Trust Companies.
There are 740 trust companies in '
United States.
Itlrda Rip Arptite.
If c man could cat as much In pro
portion to his size us a sparrow la
able to consume h? would need a
whole sheep for daner, a couple of
dozen fowls for breakfast, and six
turkeys for his evening meal. A tre
sparrow has been known ta eat 700
grass seeds in a day. Birds can do
work far harder than human beings.
A pair of house-martins when nesting
will feed their young on an average
once In twenty seconds Uit la, each
bird, male and female, makes ninety
Journeya to and fro In an hour, or
perhaps 1,000 a day. It must be re
membered that on each Jouniey the bird
hue the added work of catching an In
sect. Even so tiny a bird as the wren
bos been counted to make 11 trips to
and from Its neat within 430 mlnutea,
and the prey It carried home consist
ed of insects much larger and h carle
than were caught by swallows.
A Physician's Advice.
Yorktown. Ark.. March 7th. Dodd'a
Kidney Pills must not be confounded
with the ordinary patent medicine.
They are a new discovery, a specific
for all diseases of the Kidneys ana
have been accepted by physicians only
after careful tests in extreme cases.
Dr. Leland Williamson, of this place,
beartlly endorses Hodd s Kidney Pitt
"as a remedy for the. various forms ol
the diseases of the Kidneys, pains In
the back, soreness in the region of tha
Kidneys, foul-smelling urine ana
cloudy or thickened cotiditloua of the
urine, discharges of pus or corruption,
Gout, Rheumatism. Inflammation and
Congestion of the Kidneys and all kin
dred complaints." Continuing he says:
"I could mention many cases in
which I have prescribed Dodd's Kidney
Pills with success. l or Instance, Mr.
Robert Weeks, farmer, malaria haema-
turla or swamp fev- three times, kid
neys weakened, co itinual pain and
soreness In back, wl.:di made him very
nervous, had a little fever and some
times chilly. Urlm changeable, but
generally very hih-colored, an old
chronic cose who had taken much med
icine with little effect. After taking
Dodd's Kidney Tills about six weeks
be wns entirely cured and had gained
fifteen pounds In weight. The last
time I saw him he was the picture oi
perfect manhood." '
Kcrnell's .M stake.
The late John Kemell, the Irish
comedian liked, in his prime, to go
back to Ireland, whence he would
often bring material, gathered in ale
bouses and on the highroads, that after
wards served him well In dialogue up
on the stage.
Kernel! once said, nt a little aunner
party in Boston, that be had met on a
summer day in Galwuy an Irishman
driving a borse so thin that it stagger
ed as It walked.
"wny. aon i you pui more nesu on
that nag?" Kernel! exclaimed indig
nantly. "More, is it?" the Irishman answer
ed. "Why, by the powers, don't you
see that the poor creature can hardly
corry what little there Is on hlra now?'
PUTNAM FADELESS DYES do not
stain the hands or spot the kettle, ex
cept green and purple.
Indirect Answers.
Yankees are said to answer one ques
tion by another. Turks meet question!
by another sort of evasion, quite at
Irritating. Sir A. Henry La yard 8ay
in his "Autobiography," that during
a Journey through Asia Minor he. mot
a shepherd driving his flock.
I asked how many goats be posses
ed.
- Hla reply was, "As many aa passed
by you."
"But," said I. "I did not count them
now many are there?"
"The same number I took with m
to the mountains."
"But bow many did you take to ttw
mountains?"
"Aa many aa I had."
It was useless to inquire any further.
Passing a caravan of laden camels,
I asked one of the drivers whence ht
came.
"From that side." waa tho answer,
pointing with bis finger In tho direo
tlon.
"But from what town?"
"The town Is theie." pointing again,
"But the name of the town?"
"It was toward Smyrna."
And so the collaquy ended.
This habit is aeriveu rrom tne
nieion entertained bv Easterners of
Ktmnirers. who are cenerallv taken fot
iroim-nment officials on rome mission
connected with tax-guthcruig or othet
business distasteful to tuo population-
Seoul, the capital of Korea, Is eighteen
miles from its seaport, Chemulpo, on Us
Yellow Sca
ON A RANCH
Weai Foaad th Food That Vltted
Hyr.
A tinwmniwr woman went out to 4
Colorado ranch to rest and recuperate
and her experience with the food prob
lem Is worth recounting.
"The woman at the ranch was pre
eminently the worst housekeeper I
have ever known poor soul, and poor
me!
"I simply had to have food good and
plenty of It, for I had broken down
from overwork and was so weak I
could not sit up over one hour at a
time. I knew I could not get well un
less I secured food I could easily di
gest and that would supply the great
cct amount of nourishment.
"One day I obtained permission to go
through the pantry and see what I
could find. Among other things I came
across a package of Grape-Nuts which
I bad beard of but never tried. I read
the description on the package and be
came deeply interested, so then and
there I got a saucer and some cream
and tried the famous feod.
"It tasted delicious to me and seem
ed to freshen and strengthen me great
ly, so I stipulated that Grape-Nuts and
cream be provided each day Instead of
other food and I li!era;!y lived on
Grupe-Nuts and cream for two or three
mouths.
"If you could have seen bow fast I
got well It would have pleased and sur
prised you. I am now perfectly well
uud strong again and know exactly
how I got well and that was on Grape
Nuts that furnished me A powerful
food I could digest and maie use of.
"It seems to me no bra In) worker can
afford to overlook Gropf-Nuts after
my experience." Name given by Poe
tun Co., Battle Creek. Mich.
Get the miniature book; "Tut Boad
to Wtllvllle," in each rk
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