Annual Salt Consumption.
The annual consumption of salt In
England Is forty pounds per head.
France consumes thirty pounds; Rus
sia, eighteen pounds; Austria, siztaen
pounds; Prussia, fourteen pounds;
8pain, twelve pounds; and Switzer
land, eight pounds.
When Woman Gets the Lead.
No matter how much a man may
say against the missionary society or
sufTraglst question, when he wants
any Important matter carried through
he asks for woman’s Influence.
Approach of the Dawn.
"When you get Into a tight place
and everything goes against you until
it teems that you cannot hold on a
minute longer, never give up then, for
that Is just the place and tho time
that the tide will turn.”—Harriet
Beecher Stowe.
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Washington Is Popular Name.
There are more counties In the
United States named for Washington
than for any other man. The capital,
a state and two cities exceeding 20,000
In population also bear his name.
Don't you know that Defiance Starch
besides being absolutely superior to
any other, it put up 16 ounces in pack
ages and sells at same price as 12
ounce packages of other kinds?
Many a train of thought carries no
freight.
It Cures Colds, Coughs. Sore Throat. Croup,
Influenza, Whooping Cough, Bronchitis and
Asthma. A certain cure for Consumption in first
stages, and a sure relief in advanced stages. 17se
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taking the first dose. Sold by dealers every
where. Large bottles 25 cent* and 5o cents.
r WE DEMAND >
YOUR ATTENTION.
V
tf anyone offered you a good
dollar (or an imperfect on«
would you take it?
If anyone offered you one good
dollar for 75 cents of bad money
would you tJce it?
W’e offer you Id ounces of the
very best starch made for 10c.'
No other brand ts so good, yet
all others cost 10c. for 12 ounces.
Otirs is a business proposition.
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Beet Culture Attracts Mosquitoes.
The beet culture aids the mul
tlplication of the anopheles mosqui
toes, which are responsible for mala
ria, is the opinion held by severa
Italian experts, who found that ii
places where the anopheles had nevei
before appeared the cultivation a
beet sugar attracted them in grea
numbers.
The man who has only & two-inch
lake of wisdom always thinks he has
to dam it in with a big wall of words.
—Chicago Tribune.
Not Wholly Beneficent.
Experiments with the theory that
music may be osed as a medicine
show that appreciable changes of
pulse and blood pressure follow the in
fluence of an automatic piano. We
have noticed it ourselves. It had not,
however, occurred to us that the effect
was sedative or curative.—Philadel
phia North American.
—
When a high-salaried office finds U
necessary to seek the man you mai
expect to see thieves trying to brea);
into jail.—Chicago News.
Many Children / re Sickly.
Mother Gray's Sweet Powders forChildren.
used by Mother Gray, a nurse in Children’«
Home, New York, cure Feverishness, Head
ache, Stomach Troubles, Teething Dis
orders, Break up Colds and Destroy Worms
At all Druggists’.25c. Sample mailed FREE.
Address Allen S. Olmsted, LeRoy, N. Y.
How to Quiet a Horse.
When a witness in an English court
remarked that it was necessary to sit
on a horse s head when he was down
to keep him quiet, the judge replied:
“Nothing of the kind. People don’t
seem to understand that the only
thing necessary to keep a horse from
kicking when he is down is to get
hold cf. his ear and keep his ncse up
in the air. I have seen a lady keep a
horse quiet in that way without soiling
her gloves.”
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your hair that soft fluffy appearanct
appreciated by people of good taste
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Ask Your Barber.
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Scott a Rapid Writer.
Scott is said to have written “Wav
erley” in less than six weeks. He
wrote very rapidly, seldom revised,
and as a consequence his novels were
full of blunders, errors and anachron
isms._
$36.00 per M. Lewis’ “Single Binder,’
straight 5c cigar, costs more than othei
brands, but this price gives the dealer a
fair profit—and the smoker a better cigar
Lewis’ Factory, Peoria, 111.
Books Always in Plenty.
There is no truer word than that oi
Solomon: “There is no end of making
books.” The night of a great library
verifies It; tliero is no end—indeed,
it were pity there should be.—Bishop
Hall. _
Hundreds of dealers say the extra
quantity and superior quality of De
fiance Starch is fast taking place ol
ali other brands. Others say they can
not seil any other starch.
The latest museum freak Is a pig
with two legs. Outside a museum it
isn't necessary to have four legs to
be a hog.
Dealers say that as soon as a cus
tomer tries Defiance Starch it is im
possible to sell them any other colt?
water starch. It can be used cold oi
boiled. __
A little sympathy that gets into out
feet is worth a whole lot of sorrow
that never soaks deeper than our feel
ings.
Mm, Winslow* Sooth! nr Syrup.
For children teething, softens the fnir.s, rednre* tT>
CamBiauon.adayspaln.curcs vtinuuoUw. ixalxnus
A little sorrow may teach more
than many sermons.
“Dr. David Kennedy's Favorite Remedy
mre<l my wife of s terrible disease. With pleasure I
testify tolMaiarteiouseffiuacy.” J.Sweet, Albany,X. Y.
The empty head, needs a haughty
air.
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BEGGS’ CHERRY COUGH
«y^UP «m CMgiM aod aUt
SUPREME COURT ENDS
DECISION OVER FLOODS
rrrz=== INDICATES CHANNEL TRIOR TO JUI7F A, /dOf.
INDICATES NECK OF LAND THROWN INTO MISSOURI
CHANGE OF CHANNEL AND NOW RETURNED TO
NEBRASKA BT SUPREME COURT BE C/SION.
The decision of the United States 1
Supreme court giving to Nebraska a
neck of land thrown into Missouri by
a change of the river channel in 1867,
and declarng the middle of the old
chancel to be the boundary between
the states, has cleared up a number
of long standing disputes between
states bordering on the Missouri, Mis
sissippi and other rivers and removed
a number of havens for criminals who
have taken refuge on land in dispute
between states and evaded convictions
by pleading that the state whose au
thorities arrested them had no juris
diction.
COST OF RURAL DELIVERY. |
Millions Expended That People Shall
Have Proper Service.
Postmaster General Wynne writes
in the World's Work: “In 1897, when
the rural service was started on pro
bation, $40,000 was deemed sufficient
for its trial. During the fiscal year
that ended June 30, 1904, nearly $13,
000.000 was expended for rural free
delivery. For the fiscal year upon
which we have now entered $20,SIC,- j
COO has been appropriated for the con
tinuance and extension of the rural
mail service. There were 24.566 rural
routes in existence at the end of the
fiscal year. June 30 last. 9,446 new
routes having been put into operation
during the fiscal year. Oct. 1. 1904.
there were 27.135 routes established,
and the service was being extended at
the rate of about 800 routes a month.
Taking 450 people as the average
number served on each route (a mod
erate estimate) the rural service in
operation Oct. 1. 1904. was bringing
the mails within easy reach of the
homes of 12,213.750 residents of rural
districts.
Automatic Savings.
A new idea for encouraging thrift is
being developed in Italy. It is noth
ing more or less than an automatic
bank. In a cast-iron pillar there are
three slits. In the top one the coin
is inserted—a ten-centime piece, if
it is false it is promptly rejected, and
falls out of a lower slit. If it be good,
the receipt promptly drops from the
third opening at the bottom of the
box. So soon as the depositor has
collected five or more of these re
ceipts he can exchange them for a
I bank pass-book at the regular savings
bank, and on his savings he will be
paid by government interest at the
rate of 4 per cent. By means of this
excellent little invention the laborer is
; able to place a fraction of his daily
wages at interest without the trouble
! or time incident on making a journey
to the nearest postoffice, a great con
venience, seeing that such banks are
open only at certain hours, and those
r.ot suited to the man who works with
1 his hands.
.
Judgment Instead of “Red Tape.”
When a business organization be
comes a body of thinking men and
women, instead of a vast machine of
which each individual is but a part,
it becomes possible to govern them
more by the spirit and less by the
j letter of the rule, thus utilizing indi
j vidual judgment at those points where
a strict adherence to the rule is unde
i sirable. says Success. It becomes
: possible to eliminate a great deal of
; detailed system or “red tape,” and to
substitute active judgment. This de
velops*individual capacity in the em
ploye, while it greatly lessens operat
ing expenses for the employer and en
riches the business with more intelli
: gent work.
Welcome to Chinese Students.
It is for the advantage of this coun
try that we shonld establish the Amer
ican point of view as widely as possi
| ble throughout the Chinese empire.
The more this can be done the better
I it will be for our commerce and the
! industries upon which that commerce
| depends. Leaving out all altruistic
consideration it is for our own unques
tionable interest that we extend Amer
ican ideas and American influence in
the largest measure possible in that
land of almost limitless markets, and
to do this It would be to our great ad
vantage to encourage high-class Chi
nese students and high-class observ
ers of our institutions.—Boston Tran
■ script.
New Raccoon Dog.
In the New York Zoological park is
a white raccoon dog from northern
Japan, which is regarded as repre
senting a new species and has been i
named Nyctereutes Albus, says a sci- j
entific Journal. The ordinary raccoon
dog of Japan and China is an animal
closely allied to the true dogs, but
with a marked superficial resemblance
to a raccoon. If the New York speci- j
men really indicates the existence of j
a white species of raccoon dog. the
fact will be of considerable zoological
interest.
Gypsum Industry Grows.
There has been a great advance in
the gypsum industry of the United
States in recent years, the output for
1903 having exceeded 1,000,000 tons.
The expansion has resulted mainly
from the increased demand for gyp
sum wall plasters, which have almost j
entirely supplanted the ordinary lime j
plasters for modern structural pur- J
poses. A very large quantity is used j
also in the manufacture of plaster of
aari? and as feruU^er.—Efcglafcerjjtg j
*tjd Mining JowSST, j
NO FRIENDS IN POLITICS.
Mean Trick Frank Hatton Played cn
Congressman Cannon.
Congressman Cannon was not al
ways so powerful in Washington as
he has been of late years. He tells
with glee of a visit he once paid to
the postoffice department when blunt
Frank Hatton was postmaster general.
He took with him a constituted who
wanted to be postmaster of his village.
Cannon was bitterly opposed to him,
but did not want to turn him down
openly. When they reached the de
partment Cannon left the would-be
postmaster outside the screen door
and went in to see Hatton. He told
Hatton he intended to bring the man
in and ask for the place for him, but
begged Hatton to refuse if. “Where’s
the man?” asked Hatton. “Just out
side the door.” Cannon replied. “In
that case,” replied Hatton, raising his
voice so be could be heard a city
block. “I want you to know I have
lying enough to do here without lying
for you. Bring hint in.” Cannon
brought him in and Hatton blandly
appointed him.
Teaching Preventive Medicine.
It is a fact of which the medical
profession is well aware that the bet
ter class of newspapers are the great
educators of the common people. They
furnish them with their high school
and college courses and do more than
i any other agency to form the opinions
of the great multitude. This being
the case, it behooves all reputable
physicians to join in an effort to give
the papers such medical reading mat
I ter as will interest and instruct their
, readers. In no other way could pre
, ventive medicine be taught so thor
oughly and successfully as through
the medium of newspaper publicity.
I nthinking people, and indeed many
of independent mind, believe absolute
ly everything they read in their paper.
, Therefore preventive medicine could
[ easily be instilled into the minds of
this body.—Medical Journal.
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Qualifications for Wife.
Ex-Senator Marion Butler oi' North
Carolina got into a discussion with a
couple of friends the other evening
on that all burning social question
divorce. At the conclusion of the de
bate the senator related this: “Down
my wav I have c friend who seems to
be a confirmed bachelor. He’ some
years past middle age now and the
homeliest looking cuss you ever saw.
But he's a humorist. One day I asked
him jokingly why he did not get mar
ried. 'Because with me.’ he said, ‘mar
riage is possible only under three con
ditions.’ ‘Indeed, and what are they?’
I asked. ‘Well, my wife,’ be replied
droily, ‘must be rich, beautiful and a
fool. Unless she is rich and beauti
ful I won't marry her, and unless she
be a fool she w-on't marry me.’ ”
Roosevelt With Fulton.
It is an almost forgotten fact that
President Roosevelt's grandfather
was the first man to navigate a steam
boat on the Ohio and Mississippi riv
ers. Cart- Roosevelt w as a close per
sonal friend of Robert Fulton, invent
or of the steam craft. Soon after Ful
ton's successful voyage on the Hudson
the captain conceived the idea of
launching such a craft on what were
then Western waters. In the spring of
1811 the vessel was launched at Pitts
burg and the president's grandfather
began his voyage to the gulf. He en
tered the Mississippi during the times
of the earthquake which devastated so
much of southeastern Missouri, but
weathered the ttimult successfully
and continued his trip to New Or
leans.
Brave in Misfortune.
Joseph Maurer, a plucky resident of
Canal township. Venango county. Pa.,
while driving his team hitched to a
log cf wood was struck by the log.
breaking his leg in two places. After
vainly yelling for help until he nearly
perished with the cold he crawled to
the horses, drove them along side a
stump, pulled himself with his broken !
leg to the top of the stump and then
to the back of one of his horses and
in this way succeeded in getting
home and securing the services of a >
surgeon.
" —»
When Too Tired to Sleep.
If you are overtired—“too tired to
sleep,'* as we sometimes say—bathe I
the neck and temples with hot water.
Bathe the back of the neck particu
larly. This seems to relax the mus
cles and the veins that supply the
brain with blood. Lie down to sleep
with peace, for it will come surely.
The same treatment will wonderful
ly retresh during tne day. a heart- i
ache may often be relieved, even I
curs3, by bat applications to die back \
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Following Directions.
"The Home Magazine," chuckled the
counterfeiter, as he slipped a bunch
of fresh greenbacks into his wife’s
purse, "says that the most acceptable
presents for our dear ones are thing3
j we have made ourselves.”
—
The Way He Was Christened.
“Why 'Philosopher' John Burdett?”
I asked an English judge concerning
| one of the parties to a chancery suit
the other day. “Christened that way,
my lord,” responded P. J. Burdett’s
counsel. _
Ancient Ann Reflects.
A man thinks it awfully stupid for
a woman to lose her pocketbook, but
: he fprgets how often she has to help
| him find his collar button, and remem
ber for him just where he put his hat
—Baltimore American.
Deeds Not to Be Recalled.
No man sees all the meaning of his
deeds before he commits them; but.
once committed, it seems as though
| they had become part of the history of
the universe, and the consequences
are inexorable.—R. J. Campbell.
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Cut Aldermanic Speech Short.
J L*mg speeches by Liverpool (Eng
land) aldermen are not encouraged
The lord mayor of London has been
provided with a sandglass and no
, member of the council may speak
; more than ten minutes.
Storekeepers report that the extra
! quantity, together with the superior
quality of Defiance Starch makes it
next to impossible to sell any other
brand.
Sleepless Creatures.
There are several species of fish,
reptiles and insects which never sleep
during the whole of their existence.
Among fish it is positively known
that pike, salmon and goldfish never
sleep at all; also that there are sev
eral others in the fish family that
never sleep more than a few minutes
a month. There are dozens of species
of flies which never indulge in slum
ber, and from three to five species of
| serpents which also never sleep.
Longevity In Warm Climates.
Statistics show that more people
live to be 100 years old in warm cli
mates than in northern countries. We
know that here in Mexico there are
many centenarians, for in towns not
forty miles from the capital are not
a few men and women beyond the 10€
year line. Germany reports 778 cen
tenarians, France 213, Ergland 14G an‘t
Spain 401, and the population of Spair
Is relatively small.—Mexican Herald
TO erRE A COLD IN ONE DAT
Ttke Laxative Bromo Quinine Tablet*. All ilrusr
rUu refund the m uey If It falls to cure. E. W.
Grove's signature Is on each box. 25c.
A Sunday Custom.
In some of the small English vil
lages the custom still prevails of ring
ing the church bell for five minutes
at 8 o’clock Sunday morning if there
is to be a sermon preached at the 11
: o’clock service. If no bell rings the
prudent housewife understands that
j the service will be shorter, and she
arranges her dinner hour according
j iy. _
Cornstarch to Remove Grease.
Cornstarch will remove grease most
effectually. Rub a little fresh, dry
I cornstarch into the soiled place and it
will begin at once the process of ab
sorbing the grease. Brush the first
used off carefully from the garment,
and proceed in the same way with
, more until the disfigurement has en
I tirely disappeared.
_
Knew Where the Ball Struck.
I They were on a golf course not far
! from Glasgow. “A splendid stroke!
j Caddie, did you follow that ball? said
the player who had just driven. “Xaw,
sir.” .replied the caddie, “but I think
that gentleman wi’ the red coat can
tell you where it struck. I see him
feeling his head.”
—
A Detached Belfry.
The Tillage church of East Bergholt
Suffolk, is probably the only one Ir
England which possesses an entirely
distinct building for the belfry. The
bells are hung in a shed many yards
away from the church, and are work
ed from above instead of from be
neath. _
George Eliot's “Middlerrarch.”
George Eliot is said to have writ
| ten ‘•Middlemarch” in four months.
; Some doubt is thrown upon this state
■ ment by the fact that she commonly
worked slowly, writing with great care
: end deliberation, and making few
erasures after the work was done.
Dates from Twelfth Century.
The grotesque knocker on the sanc
.Ttary door of Durham cathedral,
arhich bears a rather distant resem
blance to a lion, is said to be of the
.welfth century.
What Shocking Taste!
T met Mabel this morning oat
wi Iking with her brown collie dog.
She was wearing a bine frock. Just
fancy wearing a bine frock with a
brown dog!"—Stra- Stories
The Sunday suit never made the
Monday saint.
Burdens may be the ballast that
<aves the ship.
The more helpful the deed the more
holy the day.
Worry is the worst wolf that comes
to our doors.
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A frozen heart does not make a
stiff back.
One of the best tests of a sound
man is that he possesses great wealth
and is not arrogant.
The people in the primary of life
are always the first to show the grad
uates how to do it
Some successful men are 95 per
cent backbone and some others are
95 per cent cheek.
Anyway, one-half of the world
knows that the other half is looking
for the best of it
Modesty is a great ornament, but
sometimes it is more ornamental
than useful.
A good reputation is like good
health; it is not fully appreciated un
til it is lost.
Canned charity may feed the
hungry, but it cannot fill the heart.
The great thing is not so much to
fill the pews as to fill the people.
Love leaps over the lines of liking.
There may be such a thing as a
man who has stolen once and then
stopped, but we don’t know him.
—Phrenological Journal.
There are still many opportunities
for young men; the trusis haven't
been able tJ grab ail of them.
Young man. if you have doubts
about anything, g've your conscience
the benefit of the doubt.
There is nothing on earth so full
of mischief as a mischievous woman.
A battlesh!p in the hand is worth
two ultimatums in the bush.
Insomnia is seldom caused by the
things a man doesn’t say.
The favorite pastime of a lynching
party is looping the loop.
Lots of people pray for the poor^»
and let it go at that.
It’s a wise Indus:rial stock that
knows its own par.
1 m m iss Rose Hennessy, well known as^
a poetess and elocutionist, of Lexington,
Ky.. tells how she was cured of uterine
inflammation and ovaritis by the use of
Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound*
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and congested ovaries. I suffered exerueiatiug pains and kept getting worse.
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“ I have advised a number of my lady friends to use it. and all express
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Carry th« banner for
yields of wheat and
othar (rains for
1904.
100,000 FARMERS
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