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Society r 'd Education.
In order to express the significance
of the recent Social Education Con
gress, which was held in Boston, the
broadest possible definitions of “so
cial” and “education- are necessary,
'leretofore educational problems have
been left largelv to teachers and ex
perts in pedagogy. This congress was
■tot a teachers' meeting, but a confer
ence of leaders in all departments of
»ife. The variety of the subjects dis
cussed and the many interests repre
sented by the speakers showed that
real education touches life at every
point, says the Youth’s Companion;
that, as wise men have always felt,
education is the development in all
possible ways of the individual and of
the unit in society. The business man
explained what he demanded of the
schools that are sending him young
clerks and workmen. The man of pub
lic affairs showed what the schools
should do for the boy and the girl
who are to vote. From the laboring
man, through a union leader, came
the message of the experienced work
man to those in charge of the matur
ing boy who is soon to choose a trade.
Physicians and specialists in physical
culture pleaded for the care of the
body, for education which should
teach respect for the finely organized
instrument of thought and labor.
From the churches preachers of many
denominations spoke the word for
spiritual culture in all education of
the hands and the brain. Public li
brarians traced the relation of their
institution to the schools. Banker,
president of public service company,
manufacturer, tradesman, professor,
psychologist—all these in some way
asserted the great truth that educa
tion is not merely the concern of spe
cialists, it is everybody's business, for
it is related to every part of every
man’s life. Once this is realized, our
schools will be vitalized as never be
fore.
Health of School Children.
The growing interest, taken in Ger
many in the health of school children
is evidenced by the appointment ot
IS school physicians, in Munich and
in Klberfeld. Many other cities have
followed the example of Wiesbaden,
which in 1890 was the first to appoint
a school doctor. In Wurtemberg the
authorities have even extended the
system to the high schools. In Aus
trla it has just been ordered that
candidates for teachers’ positions
must be examined in the subject ol
school hygiene. Throughout Germany
efforts are being made to equip
the teachers of the lowest grades of
the public schools in matters ol
health. The installation of shower
baths in each schqpl is being carried
out as a matter of course, wherever
this is possible. Two cities have al
ready followed the example of Char
lottenburg in establishing a school in j
the woods near the city, in which
may be taught children suffering from
chronic diseases, who are not physi
cally able to take the regular course
but, on the other hand, are not hos
pital patients or unable to study at
all. During the summer months, this
“wood school,” as it is called, has
kept open all day, the children being
fed there. The American custom ol
fresh-air trips, says the New York
Post, is also being imitated in Ger
many, special attention being paid tc
delicate children. In Kolberg, the
popular bathing place on the Baltic,
there was opened this summer a
school sanatorium, to which were
sent child patients from many places.
Enthusiastic automobilists are urg
ing that a national highway be built
between New York and Chicago. The
proposed road is not intended for the
amusement of rich pleasure-seekers
but for the farmers, who are to own
traction wagons in the future and
carry their crops from the farm tc
the best market. A party has traveled
between the two cities by automobile
noting the best route to be followed,
the location of gravel pits and the
grades to be overcome. It has ob
tained facts enough to make its inquir
ies worthy of respect. Whether the
national highway is ever built as
such, says the Youth's Companion,
there will be a continuous good road
across the state of New York in a
year or two, built by the state or by
the various towns and cities; and
there are excellent stretches of good
road in the other states along the
line.
A peculiar fact in the life of
Charles J. Bonaparte, of Baltimore,
who has just been transferred from
the naval portfolio to that of the
Attorney general in the president’s
cabinet, is that he has never visited
Europe.
Down in central Illinois a woman
lied on a shopping expedition. She
was resigned to go that way, but
would have preferred to have lasted
:o match an improbable piece of cloth
pith an impossible bit of ribbon.
A New York doctor cured a case
of lockjaw by bleeding the patient.
The case, says the Washington Star,
nas attracted widespread attention,
because nowadays the doctors are not
supposed to bleed a patient until
after he is cured.
There is some advantage in being a
shah. The shah of Persia told his doc
ors that if they disagreed they should
ill be put to death. They agreed
and consequently the shah is still Uv
tng.
A SIMPLE FORMULA
PRESCRIPTION OF AN EMINENT
SPECIALIST IS GIVEN.
Necessary Ingredients Cost Little
and Can Be Secured at Any Good
Drug Store—Will Break a
Cold Quickly.
—— —
Mix half ounce of the Pure Virgin
Oil of Pine with two ounces of glycer
ine and half a pint of good whisky;
shake well and use in teaspoonful
doses. A noted authority on diseases
of the throat and lungs who estab
lished a camp for consumptives in the
pine woods of Maine, declares that
the above formula will heal the lungs
and cure any cough that is curable.
It will break up a cold in twenty-four
hours. The ingredients can be se
cured from any good prescription
druggist at small cost.
Virgin Oil of Pine (Pure) is put up
only in half ounce vials for dispen
sing; each vial is securely sealed in a
round wooden case with engraved
wrapper, showing the name—Virgin
Oil of Pine (Pure) prepared only by
Leach Chemical Co., Cincinnati, O.
—plainly printed thereon. There are
many rank imitations of Virgin Oil
of Pine (Pure), which are put out
under various names, such as Concen
trated Oil of Pine, Pine Balsam, etc.
Never accept these as a substitute for
the Pure Virgin Oil of Pine, as they
will invariably produce nausea and
never effect the desired result.
Virgin Oil of Pine (Pure) is also
said to be a perfect neutralizing agent
for uric acid.
Transformation in New Mexico.
"Three seasons of rainfall have
transformed New Mexico from an ex
panse of unproductive territory into a
country of bountiful crops, running
streams and happy, prosperous peo
ple,” is the report which E. W. Fox.
register of the government land office
at Clayton, N. M., brought to Washing
ton.—Washington Post.
Kept a Diary Seven Years.
Henry Arthur Jones, the noted Eng
lish playwright, was giving the stu
dents of Yale an address on the
drama.
“Your American vernacular is pic
turesque," he said, “and it should help
your playwrights to build strong, racy
plays. But neither varnacular nor any
thing else is of moment if persever
ance is lacking.
“No playwright can succeed who is
like a man I know.
“I said to this man, one' New Year's
day:
“ ‘Do you keep a diary, Philip?’
“‘Yes,’ he answered, ‘I've kept one
for the first two weeks in January for
the last seven years.’ ”
NOT DOOMED TO SECLUSION.
Austrian Nuns of Noble Blood Lead
Pleasant Lives.
The “first lady” in the Austro-Hun
garian court i3 now the abbess of the
Theresian Convent of the Noble La
dies in Prague, a position which is
always held by an archduchess. The
Archduchess Marla Annunciata, the
present abbess, who is a niece of the
emperor, has succeeded to the position
of first lady through the widowhood
of the Archduchess Maria Josefa, wife
of the late Archduke Otto. The noble
nuns of Prague live a very different
life from what is the usual conception
of convent life. They play a leading
part in the society of the city and are
not even compelled to live In the ab
bey, where each is provided with two
rooms and service. Handsome car
riages with liveried servants are also
provided for their use, and they have
a box in the opera. Each noble lady
is paid $500 a year, while the abbess
has a salary of $10,000. When they
attend conrt balls they must wear
black evening dress with a ribbon of
light blue.
THEGRA... _e^ClFlC RAIL
ROAD AND WESTERN CANADA.
Will Open Up Immense Area of Free
Homestead Lands.
The railway facilities of Western
Canada have been taxed to the ut
termost in recent years to transfer
the surplus grain crop to the eastern
markets and the seaboard. The large
influx of settlers and the additional
area put under crop have added large
ly to the grain product, and notwith
standing the increased railway facil
ities that have been placed at the dis
posal of the public, the question of
transportation has proved to be a se
rious one.
It will, therefore, be good news to
everyone interested in Western Can
ada to know that an authoritative
statement has been given out by C.
M. Hays, president of the Grand
Trunk Pacific Railway, that that rail
way will do its share towards moving
the crop of 1907 from Alberta, Sas
katchewan and Manitoba to tide water,
and thus assist in removing a serious
obstacle which has faced the settlers
during recent years. Mr. Hays, who
has just completed a trip from Port
age la Prairie to Edmonton in a prai
rie schooner, a distance of 735 miles,
which was covered in eighteen days,
is enthusiastic about the country.
This will be gratifying to settlers in
the Canadian West, even if Mr. Hays
declines to be bound to a time limit
with the exactitude of a stop-watch.
The Grand Trunk Pacific road will be
in a position to take part in the trans
portation of the crop of 1907, and that
will be satisfactory to the settlers in
that country when the harvest is gar
nered.
The wheat crop of 190G in Western
Canada was about 90,000,000 bushels,
and, with the increased acreage which
is confidently expected to be put un
der crop next year, it is safely calcu
lated that fully 125,000,000 bushels will
be harvested In 1907. The necessity
for Increased transportation facilities
are, therefore, apparent, and the state
ment made by Mr. Haj’s will bring en- i
couragement to the farmers of the '
Canadian West, new and old. The
opening up of additional thousands of
free homesteads 1e thus assured by ,
the agent ,of the Canadian Govern- |
ment, whose address appears else- ,
where. \ \ I
SAD YEAR FOR CUPID
WAS ONE JUST PAST
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)OMESnC JARS FREQUENT AND SEVERE
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\fatrimoQjpl Wrecks Almost Beyond Counting Have
Strewn the Shores of Life—West Far Ahead of the
East in the Number of Divorces That Have
Been Asked For and Granted.
Chicago.—Surely New Year's day
nust have been the saddest that Cu
•id ever has spent. When the little
tod balances his books for 1906 he
vill be compelled to sit down and
veep, for the list of the matrimonial
vrecks of the year shows an awful
lumber of disasters. There have
teen enough domestic jars to shake
he continent worse than the earth
luake shook San Francisco, if they all
lad occurred at one instant. The
ears that have been shed would make
i salty sea if they could be collected
►n the desert basin of Sahara.
Indeed, it has been a bad year for
lupid. Divorces have been more
lumerous than in any other twelve
nonths since marriage became an in
stitution. Princes, dukes, counts,
ftatesmen, magnates, and millionaires,
jutchera, doctors, grocers, lawyers,
ind laborers have come to grief in
•heir iove affairs.
In the good old days people married
tnd “lived happily ever after.” Now
he problem of the novel begins in
stead of ending at the altar. People
jet married and then get divorced.
Chicago still leads the world in di
7orce population, and perhaps in the
acility with which divorce is grant
'd, due cause being shown. The hear
ng of testimony and the granting of
i decree in default cases in this city
akes only a few minutes, and the
iverage length of time consumed is
tstimated at ten minutes by people
who study divorce methods. That
s why the local courts are known as
‘divorce mills.” They work with the
speed of a steam buzz saw as they go
through the knots of matrimony. Your
lawyer flies the papers, your case
■s called, and burr-r-r—you are di- j
forced.
It is the women who keep the buzz |
;aw working in the divorce mills in
Chicago. Four out of five suits are
jrougkt by the wives. The men are
neaner than the women, perhaps;
»r else the husbands are more willing
:o tough it out. without appeals to the
tourt.
Mr of Festivity in Courtroom.
While Cupid weeps at the sight of
l divorce court, that is more than the
lompiainant does. One Chicago di
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force lawyer says that there is a no
ticeable air of festivity in the court
room when cases are being heard,
rhe average woman who appeals to
the courts for release manifests no
sense of sorrow or humiliation. It
s a business proposition with her.
She sues her husband for his cruelty
matter of separation has been set
tled, but the count still Is clamoring
for money—millions of It—to pay his
debts. Perhaps in the final disposi
tion of the case he will receive an
allowance even greater than the ali
mony of Mrs. O. H. P. Belmont, who
draws $250,000 a year from her former
WHALEBONE AT $8,750 A TON.
;t Might Pay Now to Look Up Those
Old Whalebone Ribbed Umbrellas.
“I see by the papers," said Mr.
2rlllfinby, “that, the last quotation for
whalebone in England was £1,750, or,
•ay, about $8,750 a ton, making whale
lone worth now somewhere in the
lelghborbood of $4.50 a pound—a
pretty costly commodity.
“I can remember the time when
whalebone was cheap, very cheap;
when we used to burn whale oil in
amps and use whalebone for umbrella
■lbs. Those old-time whalebone rib
>ed umbrellas were not much like the
present steel ribbed close rollers.
"No. They were of the bulgy out
K>rt of gingham umbrellas that yon
tee now somet'mes reproduced after a
aahion on the uomic stage, but which
ire now nevor actually used by any
body, though fince they were used by
Jverybody, umbrellas with whalebone
dbs. And wfaalt I was going to say
was this:
“People are oqt all the time look
ing through the country for old furni
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tuwj, quaint old colonial, and that
sort of stuff. Why couldn't we hunt
up those umbrellas—there must be
millions of them lying around In
country garrets—why couldn't we lock
up those old whalebone ribbed ging
ham umbrellas, for the whalebone
there is in them? Don’t you think
there may be an idea here for mak
ing money.
IN A MODERN HAREM.
Circassian Slaves Now Wear Copies
of Paris Fashions.
Less picturesque than the descrip
tion in Pierre Loti's “Disenchanted”
was my reception in the harem of Bos
nia Hanum, the wife of a close rela
tive of the throne, says a writer in
the Boston Globe.
I was assisted out of my carriage
by a gaunt eunuch in a black frock
coat and red fez, who gave me the
shiverB as he clutched my arm with
his sable paw.
Inside the hall I was met by a
crowd of female slaves, who helped
me to remove my wraps. They varied
or desertion and tells the story to the
court in a business-like way. The
uninformed stranger, strolling into
the courtroom, easily might think the
dispute was over a grocery bill or a
ruined gown, rather than a ruined
life. The law says she may have a
divorce, and she proposes to get it.
That is all. If her husband has a
good position or a bit of property, she
asks for alimony. The struggle for
some form of maintenance sometimes
becomes strenuous, showing that the
woman regrets the loss of the man
who has been her support rather more
than the loss of the man who has
been her husband.
All this is. like a comic opera, but it
makes Cupid weep. He has been tell
ing the world for thousands of years
that marriage is a sacred institution,
and now he first discovers that it is
a joke.
The proportion of divorces to mar
riages in New York is one in four.
In Chicago it is one in nine; in San
Francisco it is one in four. The
further west you go the more fre
quent are divorces. The decree sepa
ration has hitched its wagon to the
star of empire. Kansas City, Los An
geles, and Seattle are as bad as San
Francisco, in each of these cities there
being one divorce to every four mar
riages. The statistics for Sioux Falls
are kept locked up in a reporter proof
vault.
The most notable case of the year,
perhaps, was the international tragedy
of the Castellanos. For years the
world had witnessed the extrava
gances and indiscretions of Count
Boni and wondered how much longer
the poor countess would endure them
for the sake of her children. Ameri
can sympathy, almost without excep
tion, has been with Anna Gould, for
however much Jay Gould, the rail
road magnate, may have been dis
trusted, his daughters always were
popular. Count Castellane was a ri
diculous joke to people who took life
lightly and an exaggerated villain to
those who took it seriously.
Troubles of Heiresses and Titles.
When (he countess finally left her
husband, people on both sides of the
Atlantic said it reived him right. The
husband, W. K. Vanderbilt. Count
Castellane is said to ba.ve cost $15,
000,000 when the Gould family first
bought his title and it probably will
take as much more for them to be rid
of their bad bargain.
The domestic wreck of the Marlbor
oughs was more of a surprise to the
world. There had been rumors of
disagreements, but these were not
thought to be serious. The duke of
Marlborough, like the count de Cas
tellane, was not able to understand
the character of American girls. They
might be attracted by a title, but they
would not submit to the indiscretions
—it is a mild word—of their hus
bands. It was said at the time Miss
Consuelo Vanderbilt married the duke
that she had made the best bargain
of any American girl that ever
bought a foreign lordling, but her
present nnhappiness proves that the
belief was unfounded.
Among the wrecks of the year none
has caused more comment than the
“Pittsburg eases,” which include the
Yet within a month it was an
nounced that Mrs. Yerkes had mar
ried Wilson Mizner. At first the pub
lic refused to believe it Mizner was
not 30 and the widow of Yerkes was
more than E0. He was a gay young
soldier of fortune, and people only
laughed when he smiled and admitted
that the marriage had taken place,
especially as Mrs. Yerkes tearfully
and indignantly declared that the idea
was absurd.
But the news was true. Mizner and
Mrs. Yerkes were man and wife. Be
fore people were through talking
about the case the couple quarreled
and parted and remained apart. It
was said, though not known to be
true, that Mr. Mizner had insisted
upon her giving him $1,000,000, and
that she had refused. After the sep
aration Mrs. Yerkes-Mizner explained
the marriage by saying: “Mr. Mizner
came to me at a lime when 1 was
looking at life through eyes that were
filled with tears. He was an artist.
He enchanted me. The way I was ap
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tragical unhappiness of the Thaws,
the Coreys, and the Hartjes, and cer
tainly no other cases have caused
greater distress to Cupid, the deity
of all true lovers. It would seem that
the gleam of suddenly acquired mil
lions, as seen through the smoky at
mosphere of Pittsburg, is sufficient to
blind the eyes of love.
William E. Corey was ruined by Mr.
Carnegie, so Mr. Corey's uncle is re
ported to have said. This was be
cause Mr. Carnegie put Mr. Corey in
the way of becoming rich. The head
of the great steel trust, looking for
pleasure and "thrills” in the byways
of life, found only unhappiness. As
the familiar saying goes, "he couldn't
stand prosperity.” All the world is
familiar with the story of Mr. Corey’s
spectacular rise in the world of fi
nance and of the alleged escapades
which caused his wife to leave him.
She obtained a divorce last summer
after living in the state of Nevada
long enough to acquire citizenship
under the liberal laws of that state.
In her bill she charged her husband
with desertion, but it generally was
understood that the family happiness
was wrecked by Mr. Corey’s public at
tentions to Mahelle Gilman, an act
ress.
The Hartje case of Pittsburg made
the whole country gasp. It involved
grave charges against Mrs. Hartje
anil her coachman and counter
charges on the part of the wife that
she was the victim of a conspiracy,
in which her husband—the man she
had loved and with whom she had
lived—sought to blast her reputation
by hired and perjured testimony. This
was one of the most notorious domes
tic tragedies ever aired in any court
of any land. It was worse even than
the Tagagrt case. Alone it was enough
to make the year memorable in the
matter of divorce.
In contrast with this the trouble of
Mrs. Charles T. Yerkes and Wilson
Mizner were almost farcical. Mr.
Yerkes, the traction magnate, died
in New York in December last under
circumstances that called the atten
tion of the whole world to his widow.
Although they had not been living to
gether harmoniously during the later
years of his life, Mrs. Yerkes declared
that her husband had never ceased
to love her, and that she was devoted
to his memory.
proached first startled and amazed
me, then captivated me.” But within
a few days she discovered, she says
that the young man did not love her
The case was a nine days’ joke to the
public, but it was a great shock to
Cupid, who insists that all matters
pertaining to love be taken seriously
Four Times as Many Separations.
Among the more famous Chicago '
cases of the year might be mentioned
that of Clarence Eddy, the organist J
This was a musical romance, in which j
the first discord was struck after near
ly 30 years of married life. The "ar
tistic temperament” of the great or
ganlst is mentioned in connection
with the domestic unhappiness. Cupid
has had trouble from time immemorial
with the artistic temperament The
separation of the Eddys occurred in
Paris, and Mr. Eddy first brought suit
in Chicago, but afterward dismissed
his case and secured the divorce in
South Dakota last summer.
The list of the year s domestic trag
edies might be continued almost end
lessly. It is no wonder that Cupid
weeps. Efforts are being made by di
vorce congresses and reformers to
cure the evil by a national divorce
law-. It is claimed that if the road
to separation were made more diffi
cult to travel there would be fewer ,
divorces and perhaps less unhappi
ness. ,
In recent years, while the popula
tion was increasing 30 per cent, the
number of divorces has risen 300 per -
cent. The disproportion is increase
ing rapidly. If it keeps on for another ;
generation there will be a divorce for |
every marriage. I
Meantime dejected Cupid ponders •
the case. He knows how to mak« «
people fall in love and marry, but ht ]
can find no way in which they maj <
be happy though married. He doubt!
much if legislation against divorce (
would compel them to continue tc ]
love one another. j
“I am angry with Dick,” said the 1
pretty girl, with a myriad of blushes *
"and I only give you that kiss through
revenge.”
“It reminded me of revenge," laugh
ed the lucky young man.
"In what way?”
“Well, you know, ‘revenge it
sweet.’ ”—Chicago Daily News.
in age from 15 to 40; some of them
were negresses, but the majority were
Circassians.
The latter are supposed to be the
most beautiful of all Turkish women,
on which account the slaves of the
sultan are always selected from
among them; but in this instance I
looked in vain for any trace of good
looks, and, indeed, could hardly help
smiling at the comic effect they pro
duced, dressed up to the nines in the
latest Paris fashions, executed by lo
cal dressmakers.
GOLD NUGGET A BEAUTY.
Alaskan Mine Has Probably the
Largest Ever Found.
It is not an uncommon thing to see
men who have enough greenbacks to
choke an elephant, but it’s not often
that one meets a man with a gold nug
get large enough to make even a horse
sick if he had to try to eat it without
having it run through a quartz mill.
There is a man in Los Angeles, Cal.,
however, who has the nugget, and he
is the Klondike king, Clarence Berry,
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who has come from Alaska on a visit
to his brother. The nugget might bf
likened to a man's hand with the
palm turned upward, for it is over six
inches long, almost four inches wide,
is an inch thick at the thickest part
and “weighs” |1,510.
There are few men who can dig
such chunks of gold out of their owr
mines, but Clarence Berry is one cu
these lucky miners. He is one of
the pioneers of the gold mines o
Alaska, and having been one of tb«
first men to get to the various rict
diggings, his energy and persever
ance have been rewarded with a large
amount of gold. How much no on«
knows but he, and be won't telL
Prunes N*w a Necessity.
Prior to 188S the prunes consumer <
in this country came almost entire!;
from France and the Danublan prov
inces. The consumption was small an<
the fruit was considered a delicacy
Now more than 100,000,000 pounds o
dried prunes are eaten yearly in th*
United States, and, needless to say
the product is no longer regarded as i -
luxury. |
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Furs, Hides, Pelts.
Write for price# and ship to McMillan
Fur &, Wool Co., Minneapolis, Minn.
A man's good judgment usually
shows up the day after.
TO CtlE A COLD Ift OAF DAT
Take LAXATIVE; BHOMoQuininnTan ct». V.r t
aristK refund mot»e* if it laiis to ciira. '»
bUUVE ij signature is on each bo*. 25Q
The last person to forget a kindness
Is the one who does it.
Lewis' Single Binder straight 5c. "t <•'»
pay lUc for cigars not.so good. Your d<vi."r
or Lewis’ Factory, Peoria. III.
And when a man bumps up against
hard luck he always blames soma
other fellow for shoving him.
Important to Mothers.
Examine carefully every bottle of C A STOW A.
a safe and sure remedy for infanta and chiMrrn,
and eee that it
Bears the
Signature of
In tlae For Over ao Years.
The Kind You Xlave Aiwaya Boug.i:.
Convict’s Peculiar Claim.
A life convict in the Andamans h.vl
served some long period when an <•
der recently came for his release. All
the time he had been in the band, and
had evidently so far forgotten he
was a prisoner that on his release tie
put in a claim for a pension on ac
count of his long anu faithful service
as a government servant.—Madras
Mail.
Beware of Ointments for Catarrh
that Contain Mercury,
ft* mercury will surely destroy the scum* of
and completely deruuge the wh'-ie *>yete:u wl cri
entering It through the mucous Mirl.tce*. F .
articles should never be used except on pre-»
tlous from reputable phyilclttns. an the dama^ • t :.** *
will dots ten fold to the good you can p* »;i > ...
rive from them. Hail's Catarrh cure, manuf*»< *
by F. J. Cheney & Co.. T'dedo, <>.. <vm tips no ,e
cury. and Is taken Internally, ft. tine dlr^i tly i.,
the bloml and mucous surfaces of the eyste. 1:»
buying Hall's < aiarrb Cure be sure y>i g--* t f
Tftuulne. It i> taken Internally au<l made n T -.cUv,
Ohio, by F. J Cbeuey (i Co. Te* tImocla!> Ipjo.
S«#ld by HruggfleU. Price. TT>c. per butt e.
Take Ilall’s Family "-** constipation.
Long Sight.
The longest distance ever com
passed by human vision is 183 miles,
being the distance between the Cn
comparghe park, in Colorado, and
Mount Ellen, in Utah. This fe*’ was
accomplished by the surveyors of rhr
United States coast and geodetic sur
vey. who were engaged, in conjunc
tion with representatives of other ;ia
tions, in making a new measured- nt
of the earth.
Sheer white goods, in fact, any tine
wash goods when new, owe much --f
their attractiveness to the way the.
are laundered, this being done in a
manner to enhance their textile beau
ty. Home laundering would be equ.il
ly satisfactory if proper attention w.is
given to starching, the first essential
being good Starch, which has suffieien;
strength to stiffen, without thickening
the goods. Try Defiance Starch and
you will be pleasantly surprised at the
improved appearance of your work.
’Way Up in Maine.
"Well, no,” said the crossroad*
storekeeper up in the Androscoggin®
kigginmemphremagogkattawauipus i•
gion, “i ain't got them articles in stock
at present, but. I guess yew can find
the olive iie at the post office and th.
canned tomaters at the barber shop.
So yew shot a moose, did yew? Well,
that's reel line, but I kind o' hoped il
yew was goin' to have an accident
yew'd shoot Hen Pussley, yewr guide,
i ain't vindictive, or anything of tie
kind, but he's been owin’ me five shil
lin’s for I d'know how long, and I kind
a’ think I c'u'd c'iect k easier out o'
his estate than I can out o' Hen.”—
Smart Set.
MEN STILL LIVE IN CAVES.
froglodytic Villages Are Found In
Northern Africa.
Grottoes and caverns are used more
jr less as shelters by primitive peo
ples and thus inhabited caves are ot
:ourse most frequent in Africa. A con
lideralde number of natives make
:heir home* in caves along the soutb
srn shore of the Strait of Gibraitar
and in some of those caves are found
he polished stones and arrow heads
}f the stone age. Troglodyte villages
ire frequent in the Tebessa territory
>f Algeria, one of which, at Djeurf.
550 feet above the gorge of the Wadt
dallail, is reached by steps cut in the
■ock.
The inhabitants of the Tunisian
sland of Galite are cave dwellers,
heir habitations being grottoes which
hey have dug out of the limestone, or
mcient burial caverns that they have
niarged. The subterranean villages of
rlatmata and of Medennie, hewn out
if the rock, are in southern Tunisia
A Christian monastery built under
ground in the twelfth century still ex
sts at Goba, Abyssinia. The enor
nous cavern discovered several years
igo within two hours’ walk of the port
if Tanga, in German East Africa, con
ains rooms the roofs of which a « ^
rom 120 to 250 feet above the floor. **
)nly a few of these vast chambers
lave yet been explored, for the entire
avern seems to be inhabited by mil
ions of bats. One of these killed
rith a stick measured nearly five feet
cross Us extended wings.
DFADPRC of this paper de
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thing advertised in
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what they ask for, refusing all substi
tutes or imitations. ^
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