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North Dakota Solves the Adulteration Problem. North Dakota seems to have found the key to the question, “How shall we protect the people from frauds in manufactured products?” A new law has recently gone into effect designed to make it impossible to deceive peo ple into buying inferior and adulter ated paint under the impression that they are getting real paint, viz.: pure white lead and linseed oil. The North Dakota lawmakers did not attempt to absolutely prohibit the inferior pigments, or mixtures of pigments. They adopted the slogan, “Bet the label tell,” and then left tc the people to buy whichever they wished. Under this plan, if any one wishes to buy a mixture of rock-dust, ground quartz and other cheap elements which are found in many paints and so-called "white leads,” no ano can object; for they do it with their eyes open. But if they prefer genuine white lead and linseed oil, they can be sure of getting it, for none but the genuine article can bear a label which says “pure white lead.” In all other States mixtures are of ten sold as pure white lead which contain little — sometimes no — real white lead. It would seem that were this same principle applied to food, beverages and all other prepared articles, where deception is practiced upon the buy er, the question would be solved. It would leave us free to buy what we pleased, but would protect us from unwittingly buying what we did not want. Cruising for Derelicts. The excellent work in destroying a dangerous derelict last week, begun by the Tacoma and completed by the Columbia, gives renewed point to the suggestion hitherto made in these columns that vessels of the navies of the world might with peculiar profit be employed in tracking and destroy ing the abandoned hulks which dot the seas and which present one of the one of the most serious dangers to navigation, says the New York Trib une. Of the need that derelicts sha.» be destroyed as speedily as possible there can be no question. Many known accidents and disasters have been due to them, and there is rea son for supposing that many, perhaps most, of the mysterious disappear ances of vessels might truly be ex plained on the ground that they had come into collision with those wan dering destroyers. Carrying no lights, making no noise, giving no signal of any kind, often lying so low in the water as to be scarcely perceptible, and heavy and solid almost against which a vessel can scarcely be guard ed in the dark and collision with which is always serious and often disastrous. All Chemically Pure. The mistaken idea of a few years ago. about Alum in Baking Powders being injurious, no longer prevails, or scarcely exists. It is a well estab lished fact by chemical analysis that Cream of Tartar being less volatile than Alum, when exposed to heat, is not entirely vaporized as is the case with Alum, but leaves a residue in the bread, which is injurious. Alum, on the contrary, is entirely evaporated while performing its function during process of baking, leaving no atom of injurious residuous substance. The words “Chemically Pure” erroneously used to designate Cream of Tartar from Alum baking powder is a mis nomer. Baking Powder made of pure Alum is as chemically pure as made from pure cream of tartar. These words mean nothing more nor less than pure chemicals, and in no way can they imply that one baking pow der is Alum and another Cream of Tartar. Alum has been declared to be wholesome: an established fact. Ev ery large water system in the cities along the Missouri river use Alum in large quantities to purify the water before pumping it into their water mains for consumption. Cream of Tar tar baking powder is perhaps good enough for any one; Alum baking powder is better, and very much cheaper. Crucial Test. “Yes, the prisoner was a woman of extraordinary nerve. They tried in every known way to make her nerv ous." “That so?” “Yes. They shot off a gun unexpect edly, yelled 'Fire!' and told her a dis tant powder blast was an earthquake. Still she was unmoved. Then they liberated a mouse." “I’ll wager a bank roll against a stogie that the mouse made her nerv ous." “Not at all. She only stepped on It and laughed.” “Great Jupiter! Such a woman as that wouldn’t lose her nerve if the earth exploded.” “Oh, yes. One of the detectives stepped up and whispered in her ear that her hair had been mussed up for two hours, and then she collapsed.” The Central American Soldier. These barefooted soldiers are an tagonists not to be despised. Nearly worthless in attack, they are neverthe less tenacious in holding a position, a trait that comes from their Spanish descent probably. In the Cuban cam paign Gen. Garcia is said to ha ve said in reply to the remark of an American officer: “The Spaniards never at tack." This may have been true in the main, but the defense of the trenches at Caney showed that the Spaniards would hold a position with as much courage and tenacity as any other troops. The Central and the South Americans have not generally showed much steadiness in war, but there have been occasions when their conduct has been conspicuous for gallantry, and all the virtues which go to make up the stalwart soldier.— N. O. Times-Democrat Vanishing Rural Industries. The gradual cessation, one after another, of the countryside industries is one of the principal reasons why the peasant owner has vanished from the land . Thatching and woodcraft have been killed by rural councils, with their craze for slated roofs, and by the substitution of other materials for Umber. The cottager can no longer even burn wood, but must buy coal, since his fireplaces are not fashioned for the consumption of fagots.—Lon' don Estates Gazette. FOR ENTERTAINING CHILDREN. Some Games That Will Afford Amuse ment to the Little Folks. It is not a difficult matter to give children a happy time, because of their responsiveness. To them “a splendid time” means merely a few folly games, some bright music, per haps a little dance, a light supper and a tiny souvenir. Their childish wishes are then more gratified and they go home happy as larks. For children from five to 12 years of age, four to eight o’clock is the best time for the party, supper being at about half after six. For tiny tots, from three to six o'clock is a more suitable time, with supper served at five o'clock. When a boy or girl an write his or her own invitations they are much more appreciated by their little friends. But, for the wee tots, mother must, of course, send out the invitations. these parties the little host or hostess must welcome each guest as he or she arrives. Mother, or some older person should stand in the background and cordially second the welcome first extended by |he little host or hostess. Half an hour may be allowed for as sembling and then the games should begin. A very amusing form of entertain ment is to request each little girl to br.ng her best doll, and each little boy lis finest toy dog. Then have a “baby show” and a "dog show." Let each little girl snow ner oaDv loll and let the judges decide which is the "cutest,” which is the "fattest.” which is the "prettiest,” and which is the "best dressed." Award the prizes to each little mother. After this have the “dog show.” Let each little man show his dog in the ring, and have some grown men to de cide the various points of the dogs shown, and then award the prizes. A lawn hunt is very nice for chil dren's parties. Souvenirs of various kinds, wrapped (n paper are hidden here and there ever the lawn and the little one who finds the most of these packages re ceives a prize. Peanuts or f-uits may be substituted for the packages. Centerpiece Holders. Some one has invented a pretty treatment of the broomstick or the pasteboard mailing tube which so many women have found# the most satisfactory thing to wind center pieces and doilies around when they have just been done up. A 25 inch square of flowered dimity is edged with narrow lace or bound with wash ribbon or with one of the many pretty wash braids and attached to the tube, which has teen covered with cotton batting in which sachet powder has been freely sprinkled, and then with the material. The doilies are laid flat upon the square as soon as they have thorough ly aired after ironing and are loosely rolled around the tube, both doilies and outer covering kept from unroll ing by inch-wide ribbons attached, one in the middle of the roll and one on each side near§the end. Back Has liw Fixings. The French wolfien are fastening their skirts or the side, closing the back, fitting it perfectly to the belt. The small snap catches are used, and the assurance that one's gown is 'ntact and perfectly fitted at the back solves a problem that has long agitat ed the feminine mind. Buttons, delicately embroidered, are a popular fad. Cut silk or cloth in circles; baste the circles to be em broidered on. to a stiff tarleton; with shaded silks in the pastel colors, em broider tiny leaves, French knots, a vine of threads :n graduated lengths. The wooden molds neatly covered with a pretty design will amply repay the dainty worker. Care of Household Silver. Having read or been told that pota to water will clean silver, I have tried it for several weeks; and the method promises to reduce such work to a minimum. Each day at dinner time, the water in which potatoes have boiled is poured into a wide pan. In this is arranged all the silver as it comes from the table. There should be water sufficient to cover the silver, and it is left in the pan till the dishes are ■washed. The first two trials took off the egg stains, and after a week all general tarnishes had dis appeared. Silver powder was applied to a few obstinate spots, and the en tire collection looks as if freshly scoured.—Mary A. Clark. Early New England Books Rare. The recent discovery in England of a copy of the long lost Massachusetts laws of 1648, printed in Cambridge, and its sale to E. Dwight Church, 01 Brooklyn, for a price said to excee< Jo,000, reminds the collectors of the interesting fact that the earliest works printed in New England are among the world's rarest books and are rapidly becoming as valuable as the earliest imprints of William Cax ton, England's first printer. To Clean Frames. Don’t attempt to clean picture frames covered with goldleaf, as the finest and most beautiful of all gold frames are. You can tell them by the way the gold, as you look at it closely, seems laid on, here and there curling ever so slightly away from the frame. Any sort of cleaning, except the most casual dusting, is bound to make the gold scale off in an unsightly fashion. Washing Ornaments. If alabaster ornaments are merely grimy, washing with soap and water will clean them; if, however, they are stained, wash them first and then spread over them a mixture of whit ing and water, made into a stiff paste, wash this off after a few hours, when the stains will probably have disap peared. Select Brush Carefully. The hair brush should have long, soft bristles that will go quite through the hair and remove every particle of dust, and must, above all things, be immaculately clean. A comb is rarely necessary, if the hair is well brushed, but, when used, should be a coarse one. MORE PULQUE BEIN'. DRUNK. Mexico City Gets Away With 8C0.0C0 Litres Every Day. The consumption of pulque in Mex ico city is rapidly increasing, and die hauling of the drink is becoming one of the principal sources of rev enue on a number of lines entering the city. On nearly every railroad entering the city a special pulque train is run into the city daily and many of the regular freight trains carry large numbers of cars containing the popu lar drink. During the month of June three railroads, the Hildago, the Mexican and the Interoceanic, carried into the city 59,861 barrels and 334 skins full of the pulque gathered within a radius of sixty miles of the city. The Na tional. the Central and the smaller lines brought in an amount probably half as great Allowing that the population of Mexico city is 400,000 men, women and children, the quantity of pulque brought into the city daily is suf ficient to supply almost two liters to every individual. Do you drink your share? During the month of June 14, 985,290 liters of pulque were brought into the city, as in one barrel there are 250 liters and in one skin 60 liters. During each day of the month an av erage of 748,263 liters was brought to the city. The amount thus reckoned is ex clusive of the pulque brought to the city in wagons and oil muleback from the nearby haciendas. Atmospheiic Poisoning. The protests against the automo bile omnibuses of London have re ceived a powerful reenforcement by a declaration of Sir James Dewar on the chemical basis. He is undoubted ly among the high chemical authori ties of the world, and his condemna tion of the motor buses and freight vans seems conclusive unless inven tion provides innocuous motive power. Sir James Dewar states that the combustion of petrol or gasoline in these motors throws off vast quanti ties of noxious gases. Some of these are absolutely poisonous and all in jurious. He holds that the air of Lon don is bad enough already without the addition of carbonic acid gas, the sulphurous gases, and, worst of all, the asphyxiating carbonic oxide. Moreover, while he admits that sci ence can improve motors, he declares j that it is impossible for it to burn pe- j trol and render the resulting gases innocuous. To keep your auto looking bright use the following mixture for all paint ed parts: Sperm oil, one-half pint; common vinegar, one-half pint; oil oergamot, one dram. Mix and rub with clean cloth. For all brass work use tripoli, one and one-half pounds; any lubricating oil, eight ounces; gasoline, three quarts. This is one of the best cleaners for all polished brass. If you contemplate buying a medium priced automobile and want to be cer tain of securing a car suitable for tour ing on country roads, up hill as well as down hill, you will make no mistake in buying either a Buieck, Maxwell, Mitchell, Reo, Knox, Franklin or Queen. These range in price from $750 to $2,000. Beit’s Deed of Generosity. One of the many persons whom the late Alfred Beit had befriended repaid him with ingratitude and abuse. Later the .ngrate fell on evil times. Though down in the gutter, he still had a little shame left and would not ask Mr. Beit for help. The South Af rican diamond magnate sent for one of the uniucky one's friends and said: “Go and see So-and-So, ask if he wants any help, and give it to him. but don't let him think it is from me. I have had a difference with him and per haps it would annoy him'” Deadly New Rifle. Bullets from the new 30-caliber rifles of the United States army whirl with great rapidity. The rifling gives one revolution of the bullet about its axis in ten inches. At the muzzle the velocity of the bullet is 2,300 feet a second, which means 2,760 turns a second, assuming that the bullet does not strip in the rifling. The circum ference oi the bullet is .942 of an inch, which gives a peripheral velocity of 2,600 inches each t^cond. or 13,000 feet a minute. Fear for Cologne Cathedral. Serious damage to the magnificent central portal of Cologne cathedral is feared. Several large pieces of carv ed stone have fallen and numerous ather portions show signs of loosen ng. The cathedral, begun in 1248, J was not completed until 1880. It is generally regarded as the finest piece af Gothic architecture in the world. GOOD AND HARD. Results of Excessive Coffee Drinking. It is remarkable what suffering some persons put up with just to sat isfy an appetite for something. A Mich, woman says: “I had been using coffee since I was old enough to nave a cup of my own at the table, and from it I have suffered agony hundreds of times in the years past. “My trouble first began in the form of bilious colic, coming on every few weeks and almost ending my life. At svery attack for 8 years I suffered in this way. I used to pray for death to relieve me from my suffering. I had also attacks of sick headache, and be gan to suffer from catarrh of the stom ach, and of course awful dyspepsia. “For about a year I lived on crack ers and water. Believing that coffee was the cause of all this suffering, I finally quit it and began to use Postum Food Coffee. It agreed with my stomach, my troubles have left me and I am fast gaining my health under its use. “No wonder I condemn coffee and tea. No one could be in a much more critical condition than I was from the use of coffee. Some doctors pro nounced it cancer, others ulceration, but none gave me any relief. But since I stopped coffee and began Pos tum I am getting well so fast I can heartily recommend It for all who suffer as I did.” Name given by Postum Co., Battle Creek, Mich. Read ;the little book, “The Road to Well ■ville.” “There’s a reason.” WORN TO A SKELETON, A Wonderful Restoration Caused a Sensation in a Pennsylvania •Town. Mrs. Charles N. Preston, of Elhland, Pa., says: “Three years ago I found that my housework was becoming a bur den. I tired easily, had no ambition and was fading fast. My complexion got yel low, and I lost over 50 pounds. My thirst was terrible, and there was sugar in the kidney secre tions. My doctor kept me on a strict diet, but as his medicine was not help ing me, I began using Doan's Kidney Pills. They helped me at once, and soon all traces of sugar disappeared. I have regained my former weight and am perfectly well.” Sold by all dealers. 50 cents a box. Foster-Milbum Co., Buffalo, N. Y. A Real Celebrity. The local pride of the natives of Cape Elizabeth, Me., is so intense that it takes the attitude of pity for all who have the misfortune to dwell else where. This is known to regular sum mer visitors, and by most of them re spected. One rainy day a newcomer, who bad joined the gathering at the store, composed of fishermen and summer visitors, ventured to enumerate some of the distinguished men who had come from Maine. ‘ There’s Longfellow,” he said, “and Hannibal Hamlin, and James G. Blaine, William Pitt Fessenden, Thomas B. Reed, and—” Here an old fisherman looked up from his work of splicing grass blades, and broke in: “Smart? Those fellows smart?” he Questioned. “You just come down an' see Josh Pillsbury skin fish!”— Lewiston Journal. WILD WITH ITCHING HUMOR. Eruption Broke Out in Spots All Over Body—Cured at Expense of Only $1.25—Thanks Cuticura. “The Cuticura Remedies cured me of my skin disease, and I am very thank ful to you. My trouble was eruption of the skin, which broke out in spots all over my body, and caused a con tinual itching which neariy drove me wild at times. I got medicine of a doctor, but it did not cure me, and when I saw in a paper your 'id. I sent to you for the Cuticura book and I studied my case in it. I then went to the drug store and bought one cake of Cuticura Soap, one box of Cuticura Ointment and one vial of Cuticura Pills. From the first application I re ceived relief. I used the first set and two extra cakes of Cuticura Soc.p, and was completely cured. 1 had suffered for two years, and I again thank Cuti cura for my cure. Claude N. John son, Maple Grove Farm, R. F. D. 2, Walnut, Kan., June 15, 1905.” Magnificent Sacred Edifice. The largest and costliest building thus far undertaken in New York, the city of immense structures, is the magnificent $10,000,000 Episcopal Ca thedral of St. John the Divine, now be ing erected on Morningside Heights. This will be the greatest edifice in America, and the fourth in import ance in the world. Lincoln Dental College. Associated with the State Univer sity of Nebraska, where all classes in the sciences take their work. Ample equipment, university standards, mini mum tuition. Member of the Nation al, and all credits accepted. It will pay you to write for special announce ment. Address the Dean, Dr. Clyde Davis, Lincoln, Neb. Ivy does not make a house damp; on the contrary, its small roots ex tract every panicle of moisture from the brick or stone to which it clings. W. N. U., OMAHA. NO. 36, 1906. PUTNAM FADELESS DYE?, are fact to light and washing and color more goods thin others. 10c per package. Mice and conclusions are not synon ymous, yet women jump at both. ' Smokers have to call for Lewis' Single Binder cigar to get it. Your dealer or Lewis' Factory, Peoria, 111. How many people fumigate the money that is given to them? Mm. Winslow** Soothing Syrnp. For children teethlne. eoftens the trums, reduces In* domination, allays pain, - ures wind colic. 25c a bottle. We can generally avoid a lot of trouble by not saying what we think. Defiance Starch is the latest inven tion in that line and an improvement on all other makes; it is more eco nomical, does better worn, takes less time. Get it from any grocer. Tuberculosis in Germany. Under the workmen's sickness in surance law about $9,500,000 was spent in Germany in the treatment of tuberculous patients in the years 1901 to 1905. Troubles of an Au.nor. Robert Louis Stevenson's mother wrote in one of her letters from Sa moa; “The people here are now dis covering that Louis writes, as ‘The Bottle-Imp’ is coming out in the na tive paper, having been translated by Mr. C-. It is much appreciated, but leads to some curious results. For instance, the house in it somewhat re sembles ours, and a good many of the natives suspect that Mr. Stevenson has the ‘bottle’ himself.” THE BEST COUGH CURE No cough is too trifling or too serious to be treated by the right method, and the right method is the use of the best cough cure, which is Kemp’s Balsam This famous preparation cures coughs, colds, bronchitis, grip and consumption in its first stages. Irritation of the throat and bron chial tubes is immediately removed by the use of Kemp’s Balsam. Sold by all dealers at 25c. and 50c. Labor the Great Quality. The most beautiful actions of the human body, and the highest results of the human intelligence, are condi tions or achievements, of quite unla borious—nay, of recreative effort. It is the negative quantity—or quantity of de-fect—which has to be counted against every Feat and of de-fect which has to be counted against every Fact or Deed of men. In brief, it is that quantity of our toil which we die in. —Ruskin. Automobilists in Shanghai. There is no speed limit for autos outside the city of Shanghai, China. Within the city 30 miles an hour is allowed. European Nations in Africa. Qf Africa’s area of 11.500,000 square miles. Great Britain owns 2,700,000 and France 3,800,000, including Mada gascar. RFABFRQ of ‘his Paper de llLTlI/ ivllvj siring to buy any thing advertised in its columns should insist upon having what they ask tor, refusing ail substi tutes or imitations. 8ALESJt£3’ ITASTED. We want a lire, active and thoroughly experienced salesman in this locality with sufficient money to buy ouiricnt his fir&t month's supply of our sim plicity Low Pressure Hollow W Ire Gaso line Lights. A utility needed in every sur » and home and fully complying with insurancerm^s. To such a man we will give exclusive sa es right aDd guarantee to refund money if goods not sold in CU days. Furtherparti^n arson request. TheStandard CUiett Light Co-. 030 X. HaistedSt- Chicago, 111. WANTED—More Vlew Agents. Business pays 1200 ner month. Farmers’sons, students and cierks preferred. Standard Scenic Co.. Kansas Cuy, Mo. This Is What Catches Me! I60B.—Onc>Thlrd More Starch. FULL POUND No premiums, but one-third more starch than you get of other brands. Try it now, for hot or cold starching it has no equal and will not stick to the iron. TheWinning Stroke If more than ordinary skill in playing brings the honors of the game to the winning player, so exceptional merit in a remedy ensures the commendation of the well informed, and as a rea sonable amount of outdoor life and recreation is conducive to the health and strength, so does a perfect laxative tend to one's improvement in cases of constipation, biliousness, headaches, etc. It is all important, however, in selecting a laxative, to choose one of known quality and excellence, like the ever pleasant Syrup of Figs, manufactured by the California Fig Syrup Co., a laxative which sweetens and cleanses the system effectually, when a laxative is needed, without any unpleasant after effects, as it acts naturally and gently on the internal organs, simply assisting nature when nature needs assistance, without griping, irritating or debilitating the internal organs in any way, as it contains nothing of an objectionable or injurious nature. As the plants which are combined with the figs in the manufacture of Syrup of Figs are known to physicians to act most beneficially upon the system, the remedy has met with their general approval as a family laxative, a fact well worth considering in making purchases. It is because of the fact that S YRUP OF FIGS is a remedy of known quality and excellence, and approved by physicians that has led to its use by so many millions of well informed people, who would not use any remedy of uncertain quality or inferior reputation. Every family should have a bottle of the genuine on hand at all times, to use when a laxative remedy is required. Please to remember that the ' genuine Syrup of Figs is for sale in bottles of one size only, by all reputable druggists, and that full name of the . company—California Fig Syrup Co., is plainly printed on the front of every package. 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