If I Were You.
If I were you. whoever you are.
And especially if you are young.
I should hold to the truth, and .peace
or war.
No lfe should sully my tongue;
Neither a false nor slanderous word
Should ever my speech demean;
I should scorn the slang of the vulgar
herd,
I should ban the phrase unclean.
If I were you. whatever you be,
And especially young 2nd strong.
I’d be eyes to the blind who cannot see,
And the weak I’d held along;
I should give an arm to the aged one.
No matter the low estate;
I should solace the weary and cheer the
lone.
And aid the poor at the gate.
If I were you, O sweet girl-maid.
Or youth in your halcyon morn,
I should try to lighten the poor man's
lade.
And share in the burden borne.
I should try to win the ear and the trust
Of the erring, tripped into sin;
1 should seek to soften the hardened
erust,
TUI the love of God shone 'In.
If I were you. and especially you.
With the strong young heart and hand,
I should help, with a kindly word or
two,
Those wrecked on the social strand—
The outcasts who are under eclipse.
Derelict on life's tossing sea—
And perchance you might near from the
Master's line—
“Ye have done it unto me!”
—Walter c. Howden.
Sky-High Orchestra, This.
ETery boy or girl who has lost any
pigeons to the hawks should know
this little trick the Chinese play on
the raiders of their pigeon flocks.
A missionary in China writes:
“Walking near Peking one day I heard
a long-drawn whistling in the air.
Looking up, I saw a flock of pigeons
overhead. ‘What!’ I exclaimed, ‘do
Chinese pigeons whistle?’
“There was a Chinaman passing,
and I asked him about it. He took
from his dress a set of small bamboos,
joined with fine wires—as in the ac
companying sketch—and banded them
to me. It weighed only a few penny
weights.
“That is what makes the whist
ling/ said he. ‘We tie these to the
backs of carrier pigeons, looping the
strings around the roots of the wings.
When the pigeon is flying the wind
rushes into the bamboos and makes
them whistle. This scares away the
hawks, so that the pigeon can bring
its message safely. Sometimes there
is only one bamboo whistle; but if
there are more they are assorted so
as to make a harsh sound when blown
all at one time.’ ”
The little bamboo whistles must be
made with care in order not to put
too heavy a weight on the pigeons;
bat no American boy need be afraid
to try to do what a Chinaman can do.
Besides keeping off the robber hawks
every owner of pigeons can have a
sky-high orchestra.
Tale of a Mirror.
Dear girls and boys, did you ever
think of the stories treasured in that
large mirror of which you have to be
so careful? Would you ever suspect
from its shining appearance that the
great glass has grown old by looking
and reflecting?
All kinds of pictures have been set
within its frame; many of your own;
some laughing and bright, others
pouting and sad. The peculiar thing
about a mirror is that it always gives
you back exactly what you bring to it.
There would be the boys and girls
sliding down the baluster and father
hurrying out to save the chandelier;
there you would all be around the pi
aao singing “My Country, ’Tis of
Thee,” and there—oh! there is your
birthday party! Oh, look at the chil
dren’s gay clothes and see the pretty
decorations! Can you see farther
back—there in the corner—where
mother’s great-grandmamma looked
when she was little? And her cou^i
Jack in his pink satin clothes bowing
before the pretty little lady. Their
games were stately in those days. No
romping for them.
Little Nellie, dancing up to examine
her new dresses, never guesses what
sad picture might have been there be
fore hers, and how her fresh beauty
would brighten it. How the old mir
ror must feel like coming from the
wall and taking a turn with that
round^eyed little maid. It surely must
love the little folks even better than
the grown-up people, for they do not
take it so many cares.
Blowing a Penny.
This seems hard to do, but boys
who have done it say It is easy.
Place a penny in the bottom of a
wine or mousse glass, cover it with a
dollar, and then, without touching
either coin, blow the penny out of
the glass, while the dollar remains
In it.
To do this, blow sharply on the
ride of the dollar which is next to
you. Your breath will cause it to
tilt over as though it were on an
axis.
Keep on blowing, and a current of
air will be produced which will sweep
up the penny and hurl it out of the
^ass.
Try the trick and see what success
you have with it.
How Shellfish Talk.
Many seamen will tell <vt curious
clicking sounds heard on calm nights
at sea, and the origin oi the noise
•Bents so altogether unaccountable
that it has often created some alarm
among superstitious fishermen.
A distinguished naturalist made a
; careful study of the sounds on many
.'occasions and found that it was not
ia sustained note, but made up of a
’sialtitude of tiny ones, each clear and
'distinct in itself, and rwnging from
A high treble to a bass. When the
• «nr was applied to the gunwale of the
boat the sound grew more intense,
and in soiie places, as the boat
moved on, it could not be heard at
all.
On other occasions the sounds re
sembled the tolling of bells, the boom
ing of guns and the noise of an
Aeolian harp.
For a long time he was unable to
trace the cause, but at length discov
ered that the sounds were made by the
shellfish, hundreds of them opening
their shells and closing them with
sharp snaps. The noise, partly muf
fled by the water, sounded indescrib
ably weird. He was finally led to the
conclusion that, as the snellfish made
the sounds, they probably had some
meaning, and that the clicks might
possibly be a warning of danger when
the shallow water was disturbed by
the boat.
A Spool Gun Easily Made. '
Here is a gun that can be made In
a few minutes. Get two rubber bands
and a good-sized spool from which the \
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The Gun and Arrow.
thread, has been taken. Fasten one
rubber upon the spool by binding It
tightly with the other. The arrow is
any thin stick that will slide easily
through the spool. The best arrows
are made of dowels which are three
feet lon£ and one-fourth inch thick.
These may be purchased at any hard
ware store at a cost of one cent each.
Sharpen one end of the arrow and
cut a niche in the other.
To use, place the arrow* in the spool,
put the rubber in the niche and pull
both rubber and arrow* out as far as
possible. If the spool is held in the
left hand and the rubber is strong
enough it will shoot the arrow fully
fifty feet away.
A Few More Conundrums.
What bird is a peddler like? A
hawk.
Why is a tight boot like an oak
tree? Because it produces a corn
(acorn).
How do you swallow a door? Bolt 1
it.
Why is a watchman like a mill
horse? Because he goes his rounds. j
Wrhy is a thump like a hat? lie- j
cause it is felt.
Where should a starving man be
sent? To Hungary.
W'hy is the sun like a man of fash
ion? Because it turns night into lay
If a farmer raises 365 bushels of
wheat in dry weather, what would he
raise in wet weather? An umbrella.
When is a door not a door? Wrhen
it’s an egress (a negress).
When is a note not a note? When
it’s due (dew).
When is wine an eatable? When
it is a little tart.
Why are e and i the happiest of
vowels? Because they are in happi
ness while all the rest are in purga
tory.
Where Rain Comes From.
.Where does all the rain come from?
From the clouds, you say? Yes; but
that doesn’t go very far. What are
clouds? Think a bit. Have you ever
seen anything close at hand which
looks like a cloud? Of course you
have. There is the stream that comes
out of the spot of the kettle or out of
the funnel of a locomotive. Yes, that
is cloud, and it is exactly the same
thing that you see up in the sky on a
rainy day.
It may seem a funny thing to say,
but a cloud is simply water dust.
Watch the puffs of steam coming out
of the engine, and you will notice that
quite close to the funnel you see noth
ing at all. It is only a few inches
away from the mouth that it begins to
look cloudy.
Plant Was Suffocated.
A New Hampshire man had a very
choice fern which he kept in his store,
and fearing that it w-ould be hurt by
frost during an excessive cold snap
last winter he placed it in a tight
showcase with a small lighted lamp
1n one corner of the case. When he
came to the store in the morning he
found his fern ruined, not by the frost,
but by tbe burning out of all the oxy
gen in the air in the case. The plant
had simply suffocated.
Bottle for a Rain Gauge.
Any boy can make a rain gauge and.
measure the amount of a rainfall for
himself.
The simplest form of gauge con
sists of a funnel with a definite area,
say, 12 inches, the neck of which fits
in a bottle. The rain that falls into
the funnel runs down into the bottle,
of course, and the quantity is meas
ured by means of a graduated glass.
Any boy can measure the rainfall
for himself. Having provided the fun
nel and the bottle—the metal cylin
der outside Is not essential—let him
fit them as described, and then put
The Home-Made Gauge.
them in a level, open place, away
from trees and buildings, with the
mouth of the funnel about a foot from
the ground. The bottle should be
fastened in position, to avoid being
overturned by the wind, and should
rest perfectly level.
When the measure is to be taken
the water should be poured into a
graduated glass, and the number of
cubic inches calculated, which will
give the amount to the area of the
top of the funnel.
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A Laughing Plant. \
There is a “laughing plant” that
grows in Arabia. It gets its name
from the effect upon the people who
eat its seeds. The natives in the dis
trict where the plant grows dry these
seeds and make them into a powder.
A small dose of these causes Jhe most
staid and sober persons to dance, and
shout and sing, and act almost like a
madman for an hour. After this the
victim falls into a deep sleep, and
when he awttkes after several hours
he has no recollection of hia antics.
t A KITCHEN RANGE TO PUT UP.
This diagram represents a kitchen
range, though you would not, perhaps,
suspect it, A very little cutting and a
little more folding will produce it in
perfect condition, so that it^can be put
into a doll’s kitchen. If you follow the
instructions you will find that there
is not enough trouble to be worth
mentioning about making it.
Out around outline. Then fold under
I
and paste to the under part of the
top of the range the parts AAA.
Close the front by pasting the flaps
B B to the sides. Then fold so that
the flaps C paste under the letters C
on the sides.
Paste the double sides together and
p&Bte the flaps D D to the top.
Paste E E under the rim of the
range and the work is done.
DIRE RUIN HIS THREAT.
How Constitution and Laws of Ten
nessee Were Saved.
A good story of a sharp justice of
;he peace is told by J. L. Powhatan
5f Chicago.
“It chanced,” said Mr. Powhattan,
‘that this justice of the peace lived
in a little town in a far recess of
Tennessee. He was the only Repub
‘ican in the district, yet he happened,
by some trick of fortune, to hold of
fice.
“At length, when political excite
ment had reached an unwonted pitch,
a project was formed to oust him
from his office and put in a Democrat
“The election was held in an old
distillery, and the ballot box was a
large gourd. The ’squire was early
on the scene, clad in the roughest of
clothes.
“ ‘Fellow citizens,’ he said, ‘I want
to make you a short speech.’
“The audience having agreed, he
accordingly mounted a barrel—mag
nanimously determined to ‘rise above
all party issues and appeal to state
pride and patriotism.’
“ ‘Fellow citizens,’ he said, ‘I’ve
been a-lookin’ ’round here to see
plain enough what’s a-goin’ on. I
know what you want. I’ve been jus
tice cf the peace here goin’ on twenty
years, an’ a good many times I’ve
saved many of you from goin’ to the
penitentiary, an’ now you’re tryin’ to
put me out of office.
“ ‘But I just want to tell you some
thing. I’ve got the constitution and
the laws of the state of Tennessee in
my pocket, and just as sure as you
turn me out of office I'll burn ’em up
—blame me if I don’t—and you may
all go to ruin together.’
“The effect of this speech was over
whelming. The ruin threatener was
elected by a handsome majority. To I
be in a state without a constitution j
and laws was too great a calamity to
be thought of.”
Loftiest Lakes in the World.
The most lofty lakes are found
among the Himalaya mountains In
Tibet. Their altitudes do not* how
ever, seem to have been very accur
ately gauged, for different authorities
give widely different figures regarding
them. According to some, Lake Ma
nasarowar, one of the sacred lakes of
Tibet, is between 19,000 and 20,000
feet above the level of the sea, and if
this is so it is undoubtedly the loftiest
in the world.
Two other Tibetan lakes, those cf
Chatamoo and Surakol, are said to be
17.000 and 15,400 feet in altitude, re
spectively. For a long time it was
supposed that Lake Titicaca, in South
America, was the loftiest in the world
It covers about 4,500 square miles
is 924 feet in its greatest depth and
12.000 feet above the sea. In spite ol
inexactitude with regard to the meas
urements of the elevation of the Ti
betan lakes they are no doubt consid
erably higher than this or any other
Not Heaven.
Walter Burridge, the scenic artist, j
is a capital story teller, as one ol
his recent anecdotes will prove.
“A typical New Yorker,” relates Mr. j
3urridge, “bad died and gone to his j
happy home. He wandered around,
growling as a New Yorker will and
telling those whom he met, that
heaven wasn’t a bit better than New
York any way, and that he’d just as
soon be back on Broadway.
" ’Why, say,’ he remarked, ‘this
place is all undermined with dynamite
just like New York, and the buildings
are either on fire or falling down as
at home. When you're not being
blown up you are being ground to
death in some sulphurous tunnel or
other. I don’t see what’s the use of
coming to heaven, any way.’
“ ‘Excuse me, my dear boy,' said the
Shade to whom he was talking, ‘but
you have made a slight error. This
is not heaven.’ ”
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To Daffodils.
Fair Daffodils, we weep to see
You haste away so Boon;
As yet the early rising sun
Has not attain'd nis noon.
Stay, stay
Until the hasting day
Hae run;
But to the evensong;
And. having pray'd together, wo
Will go with you along.
We have snort time to stay, as you.
We have as short a spring;
As quick a growth to meet decay.
As you or anytmng.
We die
As your hours do, and dry
Away
Dike to the summer’s rain:
Or as the pearls of morning’s dew.
Ne’er to be found again.
_—Herrick
A Case of Mistaken Identity.
Residents of a certain part of
Spruce street have often seen two
charming old ladies, twin sisters, who
look so much alike that no one ever
bothers to distinguish between them,
coming out from one of the houses.
The fact that they both dress almost
alike makes it still harder to tell them
apart.
Some one who knows the old ladies
very well relates that Ann, while mak
ing a hurried departure for one of the
big department stores last week, put
on Susan’s bonnet by mistake. In
walking through the store she came
suddenly in front of a full-length mir
ror, and stepped back in astonishment,
saying, “Why, Sue; I didn’t know you
were coming downtown this morning.”
—Philadelphia Telegraph.
Gold in Ireland and Britain.
In a paper recently read before the
Institute of Mining Engineers in Lon
don, J. M. McLaren gave some curi
ous facts about gold mining in Great
Britain and Ireland. In all gold of the
value of $2,094,915 has been found,
Of this England contributed barely
$3,000; Wales $1,400,000, and Ireland
$145,000. The largest nugget, weigh
ing 22 ounces, was discovered in Ire
land. It was made into a snuffbox
for George III.
Colorado Grows Apace.
Ten million dollars of new capital
was put into Colorado agriculture and
Irrigation in 1903 and the population of
the state was increased between 15,000
and 20,000. One railroad company’s
land sales in Colorado amounted to
nearly a million dollars for the year.
It is estimated that reservoirs now
under construction in the Centennial
state will add 1.000,000 acres to the
irigable area. ,
Admiral Togo la Defeated. <
At a recent race In England nearly
everybody bet on Admiral Togo to
, win. But he waa not even placed.
LIVE STOCK f
Thrift in Sheep.
In the raising of sheep sight must
at no time be lost of the necessity for
keeplrg them thrifty. Some human
beingu may go without their breakfast
and g;t along on a half ration, but
this rale must not be applied to the
sheep. The thrifty sheep is a healthy
sheep, and one that can and will re
sist disease, because it is thrifty.
Thrift means that there can be an in
crease in productiveness and in
growth because the internal organs
are working well. Both quantity and
quality of gain come out of thrift.
There is no better way to stave off
disease than by thrift. There is if®
better way to help the sheep keep
away intestinal parasites than by
keeping it thrifty. This should be the
first object of the intelligent flock
master. Not only is the amount of
mutton made governed by this matter
of thrift, but even the quality of the
wool is affected. The elements that
go to make thriftiness in sheep are,
first, good feed, and all of it that
the sheep will eat and digest; second,
good and pure water and enough of
it; third, good shelter, which means
a shelter not too qlose nor too open;
and lastly, attention by the shepherd.
One wrouId think these to be self evi
dent truths and that no attention
would need to be called to them. Yet
in the matter of food we know that it
is quite a common custom on many
of our farms to allow the sheep to
care for themselves in the summer,
even when the drouth has dried up
the pasture so that it is a most diffi
cult task for these animals to get
enough to eat to appease their hun
ger. We have known such sheep pas
tured on the tops of mountains, where
it was a long distance to any water
supply, and the sheep would, of
course, become very thirsty before
taking their long journey to the foot
of the mountain. In such a flock
there can be little profit either in
mutton or in wool. This condition is
more likely to occur in late summer
and early fall than at any other time.
The shepherd will then be hardly
likely to notice the lack of thrift, as
the wool is increasing slowly on the
backs and sides of the sheep and the
shrinking carcass is not seen. At
this time of year too there is a tend
ency for the wool to grow long on ac
count of the approaching cold weath
er, this being a provision of nature
to protect the sheep against the cold
of the coming winter. A flock so kept
will be a disappointment to the farm
er, for he will not be able to get
either the weight of wool or of car
cass he expected. His greatest disap
pointment will come when the car
casses are weighed, and he will fail
to understand why sheep that seemed
to be all right while on pasture should
shrink so on dressing. If the pastures
do not furnish enough feed at all
times to keep the flock thrifty, it will
pay well to watch the decadence of
the feed in the pasture and supple
ment it by feed given at the bams.
The Power of Heredity.
Man has greatly modified the forms
and habits of all the animals that
have been domesticated by him, yet
he has not been able to eliminate cer
tain traits that have come down
through thousands of generations
from the remote past. Even the house
dog, furnished a bed to his liking, will
turn round a number of times before
lying down, just as did the wild dog,
his remote ancestor, who had to do
that to break down the tall grass for
his bed. Even the cow on the range
has not forgotten the habits of her re
mote progenitors and hides her calf
in the bushes, though the careful
herdsman will take care of it, and the
cow knows it. Even the custom of
the mare in nursing her foal a little
at a time, but often is believed to
come from habits developed by thou
sands and thousands of years of ex
perience when the mare had to de
pend on herself to keep out of the
way of ravenous animals. The colt
would not be able to run fast with a
full stomach and so the mother was
watchful to give him a little at a time
and keep him in running trim. If we
have not been able in some thousands
of years to eliminate such traits, how
long must have been the period’ dui
ing which they were forming?
% The Good Feeder.
The hide of the easy feeder should
be of medium thickness and should be
soft and mellow. The hair should be
fine and thick, as this indicates good
respiratory and circulatory organs
within. The skin tells a more truthful
tale of the ability of the steer to make
the best use of food than most of us
suppose. When the digestive organs
lack strength and the circulation is
poor and sluggish, the hide becomes
thick and unyielding to the touch, and
the hair is harsh and wiry. The head
should be short, measuring from a line
drawn across the eyes to the nose,
and should be broad. This indicates
the ability to masticate food. The
large mouth is indicative nearly al
ways of an ability to take care of a
great deal of food. The nostrils will
generally be large in an easy feeder,
this indicating good-sized organs for
breathing. This is of importance, as
it is by means of the lungs that the
carbon In the body of the animal is
changed tnto carbonic-acid gas, thus
producing force in the change. Skill
ful feeders declare that steers that do
not have these characteristics seldom
give a good account of themselves in
the feed lot, and, when sent to mar
ket, are a disappointment
Torches for Destroying Bugs.
During the past few years experi
menters have been using the torch in
various forms as a means of destroy
ing the various beetles that prey on
melons and other plants. This is quite
effectively done where the insects can
be induced to congregate on trap
cropr or weeds. It is also suggested
that ths torch may be successfully
used on the chinch bags that accumu
late in the furrows made around corn
field* to arrest their march.
Bay a bone mill and learn to use it.
We do not know of anything that will
pay better for the money invested
mopticuuim:
Dry and Liquid Bordeaux Mixture.
There is doubtless room for the use
of both liquid and dry Bordeaux mix
ture. It is far easier in most of our
eastern and middle states to make and
apply the liquid form, but we must
recognize the fact that in some of our
states water is a scarce article, and
conditions are such that a dust spray
will do the work when a liquid spray
would not. Even in the more humid
states there are times when the dust
might be used with more satisfaction
man the liquid spray. There nas oeeu
a sharp conflict between the men that
favor the liquid spray and the ones
that favor the dry 4ust spray. There
has also been a conflict between the
makers of implements for the throw
ing of these sprays. This would natur
ally be the case. But we must ac
knowledge the fact that each form of
the mixture iias certain advantages at
certain times. Thus, in a very wet
time, the leaves do not hold the spray
that comes to them in liquid form, as
they are already covered with mois
ture. If the liquid spray is used a
great deal has to be wasted in trying
to get enough on to do the work. At
such a time the dust spray would
stick readily to the wet leaves, and it
would be readily seen just where the
spray had settled. This of course it
is impossible to do with the liquid
spray on a wet day. The dust spray
may also be put on early in the morn
ing, while the dew is still on the
leaves, and it sticks to the leaves as
the dew evaporates. The dust spray
has an advantage over the liquid
spray in the rather dry localities,
where there are extensive orchards
on hilly land. Many of the new orch
ards are being put out on hilly land,
over which it is very difficult to drive
a heavy wagon carrying a great tank
of water. Where water is scarce this
is not only difficult to do, but in many
cases it would be very expensive,
aB the water would have to be hauled
a long distance. Yet in those same lo
calities the dew on the trees is some
times very heavy, and this helps out
matters immensely.
But there are many things to be
Bald in favor of the liquid spray. The
first thing is that the mixture can be
perfectly made and the poison distrib
uted evenly all through. This is not
always the case with the dust spray.
It Is exceedingly difficult to get a uni
form mixture, except with liquid, and
a bad mixture means the putting of
too much poison on some leaves and
not enough on others, with the result
that the trees are not protected from
fungi in the one case and are injured
by the chemicals in the other. So for
our level orchards in the states where
moisture is plentiful, the chances are
that our orchardists will stick to the
liquid spray. The liquid spray has
this great advantage over the other
that it can be applied at times when
the leaves are entirely dry, which en
ables the sprayers to work all day.
In the cases of the dust spray, the
work has to be done during a very
short time in the morning while the
dew is still on the leaves or in wet
weather. The men that use the liquid
spray have therefore a longer time in
which to do their work.
Shade and Ornamental Tree*.
In the humid states there is no rea
son why ornamental and shade trees
should not be more extensively plant
ed than at present, though we are
glad to see that there is an improve
ment in this direction. In the semi
arid states, where trees have to be ir
rigated to get them to start we find
the farmers taking much interest in
this matter, though they are doing
that kind of work under great diffi
culties. But in all of the humid re
gions one has but to put a good tree
into the ground to get it started, and
it will afterwards take care of itself.
But in the planting of trees great care
needs to be exercised as to the place
in which they are to be set and as to
varieties set. When these trees are in,
they are in for a lifetime of man, and
a mistake will be felt as long as the
planter lives, if he remains on the
place. First, we would advise not to
set too many trees and not to set
them too close together. To be sym
metrical, trees must have lots of room.
On the farm, shade trees should not
be set closer than 50 feet. This of
course does not apply to the orna
mental trees of small growth like the
Arbor Vitae and the ornamental crabs.
By the roadside trees for shade should
not be set closer than 100 feet
Beetles on Melon Vines.
Relative to the striped cucumber
beetle on melon vines, a bulletin of
the Oklahoma station says: In addi
tion to the preventive measures of
cleaning up rubbish and a thorough
cultivation of the melon ground, the
use of Bordeaux mixture as a repel
lent, and squash as a trap crop are
among the most promising of the
remedies recommended by those who
have successfully dealt with this in
sect. Squashes are planted about
four days before the melons. One or
more rows of squashes should be
planted, according to the size of the
field. Some of the trap plants may be
dusted with Paris green when the
beetles gather on them. Others should
be left to attract the beetles through
the summer. It seems that spraying
the young melon vines with Bordeaux
mixture not only repels the cucumber
beetle, but also poisons some of the
insects which feed on the sprayed
leaves.
Vigor of the Redwood.
It Is reported that the redwood
area of California has been reduced
to about 2,000 square miles. Most
trees grow so slowly that it takes a
half century or so to get a marketable
tree. Not so the redwood. In thirty
years trees from sprouts will attain a
height of 80 feet and reach a diam
eter of 16 Inches. This means that a
little protection to the redwood for
ests will give the future generations
all the wood they need.
If a good many chicks aro being an
nually raised on the firm, try an In
cubator. It will be a good practice
to learn how to use one, and may
prove very proutabt
V ' TOLD IN CALIFORNIA.
Helping me
k i d n eya is
helping the
whole body,
for it is the
kidneys that
remove the
poisons and
waste from
the body.
Learning
this simple
lesson has
made many
sick men and
women well.
Judge A. J. Felter of 318 So. E. St-.
San Bernardino, Calif., says:—“For 18
years my kidneys were not perform
ing their functions properly. There
was some backache, and the kidney
secretions were profuse, containing
also considerable sediment. Finally
the doctors said I had diabetes. Doan s
Kidney Pills wrought a great change
in my condition and now I sleep and
feel well again."
A FREE TRIAL of this great kidney
medicine which cured Judge Felter
will be mailed to any part of the
United States. Address Foster-Milburn
Co., Buffalo, N. Y. Sold by all deal
ers; price 50 cent3 per box.
The Paris School for Dogs.
A school for dogs is the latest devel
npment of the educational movement,
it has been established in Paris with
the objects of teaching, not letters,
but politeness. The school room is
furnished with chairs, tables and runs,
to give necessary “local color” to the
surroundings. The dog pupils are
trained to welcome visitors by jump
ing up, wagging the tail and giving a
low bark. When the visitor leaves the
dog accompanies him to the door and
bows his farewell by bending his head
to the floor. He is trained likewise
to pick up a handkerchief, glove or
fan that has been dropped and return
it to the owner. He is taught further
to walk with “proud and prancing
steps” when out with his mistress.
A Request from Tokio.
H. Kobayahsi, of Tokio, Japan, has
addressed a note to the village Im
provement Society of South Orange.
N. J., which runs about like this:
“The honorable of the South Oranges
are asked in what way do they rid
themselves of him the much trouble
some mosquito? How do they ap
proach him in his house among the
reeds and marshes, so as to remove
him effectually from the dangers that
he does to the people of good minds
whose skins he much puncture? All
this I would like so much to know.”
Old Soldier's Story.
Sonoma, Mich., June 1!> —That even
in actual warfare disease is more ter
lible than bullets is the experience of
Delos Hutchins of this place. Mr.
Hutchins as a Union soldier saw three
years of service under Butler Barke
in the Louisiana swamps, and as a
result got crippled with rheumatism
so that his hands and feet got all
twisted out of shape, and how he suf
fered only a rheumatic will ever know.
For twenty-five years ho was in
misery, then one lucky day his drug
gist advised him to use Dodd’s Kid
ney Pills. Of the result Mr. Hutchins
says:
“The first two boxes did not help
me much, but I got two more, and
before I got them used up 1 was a
great dead better. I kept on taking
them and now my pains are all gone
and I feel better than I have in years.
I know Dodd’s Kidney Pills will cure
rheumatism.”
Every man is provided with sense
enough to mind his own business, but
few men have sense enough to let it
go at that.
FREE TO TWENTY-FIV^ LADIES.
The Defiance Starch Co. wilt give
25 ladies a round trip ticket to the
St. Louis Exposition, to five ladies in
each of the following states: Illinois,
Iowa, Nebraska. Kansas and Mis
souri who will send in the largest
number of trade marks cut from a
ten-cent, 16-ounce package of Defi
ance cold water laundry starch. This
means from your own home, any
where in the above named states.
These trade marks must be mailed
to and received by the Defiance
Starch Co., Omaha, Nebr., before Sep
tember 1st, 1904. October and Novem
ber will be the best months to visit
the Exposition. Remember that Defi
ance is the only starch put up 16 ox.
(a full pouad) to the package. You
get one-third more starch for the
same money than of any other kind,
and Defiance never sticks to the iron.
The tickets to the Exposition will be
sent by registered mall September
5th. Starch for sale by all dealers.
Any man who thinks he is courting
an angel may live to think again.
This Will Interest Mothers.
Mother Gray’s Sweet Powders for Chil
dren, used by Mother Gray, a nurse in
Children’s Home, New York, Cure Fever
ishness. Bad Stomach, Teething Disorders,
move and regulate the bowels and destroy
Worms. Sold by all Druggists, 25c. Sample
FREE. Address A. S. Olmsted, LeRoy.N.Y,
Hunger Is a terrible thing, but some
men consider thirst more terrible.
. HOI POU , ROOEBUB RESERVATION.
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Land Manual, containing orwlaiuaUon and c«m.
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In the matrimonial game a baseball
player isn't always a good catch.
The well earned reputation and Increas
ing popularity of the Lewis’ "Single
Binder. 1 straight 5c cigar, is due to the
maintained high quality and appreciation
of the smoker. Lewis’ Factory, Peoria. ILL
The man who is constantly harping
on his virtues has at least one vice.
Pirn’s Cure cannot be too hl*hly spokoa of aa
a oou*h our*.—J. W. OH tuns, sal Third its*
M., Minneapolis. Mian., Jan. A
A brick manufacturer needs the
earth in his business.
Important to Mether*.
Examine carefully entry bottls of CASTORIA,
a oaf* sad sure vsmody for tnfsats and children,
and ass that It
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