BROKEN RE6T.
A Back That Achaa All Day Dlatarba
Slaap at Night.
Thomas N. McCullough, Sil So.
Webar St., Colorado Springs, Colo.
says: Attacig oi
backache and kid
ney trouble be
gan to come or
me, lasting ofter
for three weeks
at a time, and 1
would be unable
to turn in bed.
The urine was
much disordered containing sediment,
and my rest was broken at night. Re
lief from these troubles came soon
after I started taking Doan's Kidney
Pills, and continued treatment entire
ly freed me from kidney trouble. The
cure has been permanent.”
Sold by ail dealers. 50 cents a box.
Poster-Milbum Co., Buffalo, N. Y.
BRINGING HIM OUT.
Asker—How is it you never speak
to Duffly? I'm sure he's a diamond in
the rough.
Miss Trimm—Yes; I think so. loo—
that's why I'm cutting him.
IN AGONY WITH ECZEMA.
Whole Body a Mass of Raw, Bleeding,
Torturing Humor—Hoped Death
Would End Fearful Suffering.
In Despair; Cured by Cuticura.
“Words cannot describe the terrible
eczema 1 suffered with. It broke out
on my head and kept spreading until
it covered my whole body. I
was almost a solid mass of sores from
head to foot. 1 looked more like a
piece of raw beef than a human be
ing. The pain and agony endured
seemed more than I could bear. Blood
and pus oozed from the great sore on
my scalp, from under my finger nails,
and nearly all over my body. My
ears were so crusted and swollen I
was afraid they would break off.
Every hair in my head fell out. I
could not sit down, for my clothes
would stick to the raw and bleeding
flesh, making me cry out from the
pain. My family doctor did all he
could, but I got worse and worse. My
condition was awful. I did not think
I could live, and wanted death to
come and end my frightful sufferings.
“In this condition my mother-in-law
begged me to try the Cuticura Rem
edies. I said I would, but had no hope
of recovery. But oh. what blessed re
lief I experienced after applying Cuti
cura Ointment. It cooled the bleeding
and itching flesh and brought me the
first real sleep I had had in weeks. It
was as grateful as ice to a burning
tongue. I would bathe with warm
water and Cuticura Soap, then apply
the Ointment freely. I also took Cuti
cura Resolvent for the blood. In a
short time the sores stopped running,
the flesh began to heal, and I knew I
was to get well again. Then the hair
on my head began to grow, and in a
short time I was completely cured.
I wish I could tell everybody who has
eczema to use Cuticura. Mrs. Wm
Hunt, 135 Thomas St., Newark, X. J.p
Sept. 28, 190S.”
Potter Drug & Cheat. Corp., Sole Props., Boston.
His Sole Limitation.
“Do you know what I'd laik to be?”
asked Rastus of the commercial trav
eler who was stopping at the wayside
hotel.
“Xo,” said the commercial traveler,
“What? A millionaire?”
“No, sah.” said Rastus.
“A lawyer?”
“Oh. no, sah. Not dat.”
“A doctor?”
“No, sah.”
“What then?" asked the commercial
traveler.
“I'd laik to be a preacher, sabk”
Rastus said.
“Well, then, why don’t you?” asked
the commercial traveler.
“I can’t, sah," replied Rastus, “be
cause I ain't got no frock coat.”
Overdoing It.
A young Englishman, after he had
been in Devil's valley for a couple of
months, began to grow thin. Wyoming
cooking did not appeal to him. Be
sides his squeamish appetite there
was another thing that the natives
held against him—his outlandish cus
tom of taking a bath every morning.
One day his landlady was discussing
him with a friend.
“I tell ye what, Sal,” said the visi
tor, “he’s jest a-wastin’ away a-griev
in’ for some gal back east thar.”
“Nothin’ o' the kind," said the land
lady, contemptuously. “You mark my
words, now—that young feller he’s
jest a washin’ hisself away."—Every
body’s Magazine.
GOOD CHANGE
Coffee to Postum.
The large army of persons who have
found relief from many chronic ail
ments by changing from coffee to
Postum as a daily beverage, is grow
ing each day.
It is only a simple question of trying
it for oneself in order to know the joy
of leturning health as realized by an
Ills, young lady. She writes:
“I had been a coffee drinker nearly
all my life and it affected my stomach
—caused insomnia and I was seldom
without a headache. I had heard about
Postum and how beneficial it was, so
concluded to quit coffee and try it.
“I was delighted with the change.
I can now sleep well and seldom ever
have headache. My stomach has gotten
strong and I can eat without suffering
afterwards. I think my whole system
greatly benefited by Postum.
“My brother also suffered from stom
ach trouble while he drank coffee, but
now, since using Postum he feels so
much better he would not go back to
coffee for anything.”
Name given by Postum Co., Battle
Creek, Mich. Read “The Road to Well
ville,” in pkgs. “There's a Reason.”
Ever rend the above letter? A new
one nppenr* from time to time. They
nre genuine, true, and full of human
latere* i.
STAGE SEEMS TO BE
SET FOR EUROPEAN
WAR IN THE SPRING
LONDON, Eng.—If Europe is
to be saved from a general
international convulsion in
the coming spring, her
chief statesmen will de
serve the praise of history
and the thanks of the whole world. It is
in the spring that things happen in the
Balkan region—that present center of
the continent wherein may be struck
the vital spark of European flame. The
Balkans are extremely mountainous.!
and the country, difficult of communi
cation in most parts at any time, is
impassable in the winter, when snow
and drift and glacier block the rugged
way, writes A. Francis Walker in the
New York Press.
It is a country of unrest, of strife :
and turmoil. Year after year the
world has been told each winter
"There will be war in the Balkans in j
the spiring. The world has been
fooled so many times by this rumor
that it has become skeptical, but the
time for skepiticism is past. If ever
the rumor is going to find develop
ment in actual fact, it surely will find
it in the spring of 1909. According
to Sir Edward Grey, the British min
ister for foreign affairs, the present
Balkan troubles have caused "the
greatest diplomatic complications of j
modern history." Never were so many j
international interests involved, nor j
di 1 so many territorial complications '
ever arise at one juncture. The Serb
states seem bent upon fight; Bulgaria, j
in her ambitions toward Macedonia. !
no longer feels her interests bound up J
with Austria; Russia cannot afford to
disregard Slav feeling, however much
she may cry peac£; and whichever
way the pendulum swings, it an out
break should occur. Austria and Tur
key must find themselves involved.
Germany has promised to stand by
Austria and France and England are
busy safeguarding their status quo.
All Signs Point to War.
The announcement that Austria had
decided to pay the sum of tlO.OJO.OOO
or thereabouts to Turkey as com pen
might well tolerate from a Servian
tongue what she could not possibly
tolerate from Russia, France or Ger
many, for instance a little more con
sideration for the exingencies of the 1
Servian minister's surroundings might
have led the government of Vienna to 1
regard the Servian minister's speech !
as intended less for foreign than for
home consumption. But Austria is not
inclined to be lenient. As a matter of
fact, consideration for the weaker na
tion in general never nas been a char
acteristic of the policy of Vienna. The
whole trend of events during the past
few weeks points to this fact—that
the ties which maintain certain of the
European powers in a state of peace
are of the very slenderest nature and
that the slightest indiscretion of word
or deed may precipitate a struggle the
end of which no living man can for
see.
Is Contest of Races.
The fundamental, basic fact back of
all the negotiations between the vari
ous powers, principally Austria and
Turkey, Russia and the Balkan prov
inces proper, is the collision of two
opposing forces, whose natural trend,
respectively, is eas,t and west, north
and south. Kinglake in his masrer’y
analysis of the Crimean war has noted
the inevitable tendency of the north
ern peoples to the south and the
warm water. At the present moment
two great races are obeying that in
stinct—the Teuton and the Slav.
tTom west to east, or southeast, the
Teuton, represented by Austria, with
the driving power of Germany behind
her. is heading for Salonika. From
north to south, or southwest, the Slav
is equally bent upon linking up the
dismembered fragments of his race
and making his way down to the
Adriatic. And the geographical and
political point at which the lines of
these movements intersect lies in the
two provinces which form the present
bone of contention.
Through Bosnia and Herzegovina,
also through Servia herself, Austria
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INTERESTED PERSONAGES.
sution for the annexation of Bosnia
and Herzegovina cleared the air for a
time, but already difficulties have
arisen concerning the actual amount
to be paid in cash, the terms of pay
ment and the refusal of Turkey to
stop the boycott of Austrian trade un
til the final signatures to the financial
settlement have been written down.
That is only part of the trouble any
way. Servia and Montenegro are
more defiant than ever. The recent
speech of the Servian minister for
foreign affairs in his own parliament
was a flat defiance of Austrian de
mands.
M. Milovanovitch, the Servian for
eign minister, practically said "Hands
off!” to Austria. He bluntly declared
that the balance of power and the lib
erties of the Balkan peoples could be
safeguarded only by Austria ceasing
to be a Balkan power. Further, he
formulated a demand for the auton
omy of Bosnia and Herzgovina under
European control and for the recogni
tion of the Save and the Danube rivers
as the frontier between the dual mon
archy and the Balkans.
A great power like Austria-Hungary
could afford to remain passive under
provocation from a minor state, and
hopes to force her way southward.
Through that same territory, inhab
ited by the men of his own race and
tongue, and largely of his own re
ligion, the Slav intends to find his way
to the sea, and thereby to unite those
kindred racial elements which are ani
mated by the most intense hatred and
jealousy of Teutonic ambitions.
It would seem as if, in the presence
of these two tremendous opposing
forces, the petty details of interna
tional politics from day to day have
only that importance which belongs
to them in their relation to those
forces. Yet it is in the petty details
of political strife that the kindling
wood is found.
Disagree as to Motives.
There seems to be no doubt that the
personal influence of the Emperor
Francis Joseph had a great deal to do
with the avoidance of rupture a few
months ago. The emperor, sometimes
called the “father-in-law of Europe,”
is the oldest of European sovereigns.
He is 78 years old, and he has reigned
for 61 years. And it is fairly certain
that the emperor’s desire for peace
and his anxiety to see a quiet sunset
of a reign that had such a cyclonic
sunrise in 1848 has had much to do
MADE LIVING FROM FEATHERS
Maine Widow Evidently Endowed with
Good Business Instinct.
A clergyman's widow up in Maine
has supported herself and three chil
dren, sending two boys to college, by
converting feather beds into pillows.
Hunger and pride drove her to do
ing something, her great need arising
about the time the spring and mat
tress superseded the classic feather
bed. Maine, it appears, is, or was,
full of feather beds,-the possession of
a number of them having once gauged
a family's social standing. And every
fluffy particle in those fat ticks was
plucked by hand from the breast of
a living goose, then washed in am
monia and soapsuds and dried in the
sunshine in muslin bags fluttering in
the wind.
This woman has bought as many as
12 of these fine Dre-revolutionary beds
(
in one house, paving one dollar a
pound, having, of course, first tested
them. The beds weigh from 10 to id
pounds. She sells the pillows for five
dollars a pair, and has proved herself
a very live business woman by mak
ing from $40 to $50 a week at times.
Minstrels at a Premium.
A well-known minister of Philadel
phia accepted an invitation to lecture
in a small town in New Jersey, but
afterward discovered that he had a
prior engagement on the same date.
so he notihed the committee accord
ingly. and offered to make good any
loss the society might Incur through
his delinquency.
In reply the secretary said that no
harm was done, and inclosed a hand
bill, which read as follows: “As the
Rev. Mr. Blank is unable to give his
advertised lecture as announced, a
negro minstrel troupe has kindly vol
unteered to give a performance. Any
person who has bought a ticket for his
lecture can hr.ve it exchanged to this
on payment of ten cents extra.”
with Austria's recent concession to
Turkey.
There are critics who trace the ori
gin of the present European trouble
mainly to the aspirations of Francis
Joseph's heir, the Archduke Franz
Ferdinand, whose aim is believed to
be partly Federalist—the change of
the dual monarchy into a federal sys
tem, of which a Slav state will form
an important constituent—partly Cler
ical at home and abroad. This would
mean pushing Austrian rule forward
into the Balkans in the spirit and
with the aim of a twentieth century
Catholic crusade. Other critics con
clude that while the act of Bulgaria
in putting her foot through the treaty
of Berlin when she declared her inde
pendence in October last and Austria's
formal incorporation of Bosnia and
Herzegovina, may have been dramatic,
nobody in Europe considered Bulgaria
or Bosnia and Herzegovina parts
of the Turkish empire except
in name. Austria created order
in the two provinces and admin
istered and civilized them for 30 years
and probably no historian ever will
say that Europe contemplated their
being handed back to Turkey with
out protest. For all practical pur
tion of Cretan independence gave an
noyance to Turkey at a very critical
moment. King George is one of the
most interesting figures of Southern
Europe. Hie government has been
wise and Bober, and he and Queen
Olga are immensely popular.
King Peter of Servia has been called
"the boycotted monarch,” because,
with the exception of Emperor Francis
Joseph, all the rulers of Europe have
refused to visit him or to accept visits
from him. This because King Peter
has refused to dissociate himself from
the assassin of King Alexander and
Queen Draga. The assassins, indeed,
in spite of the protests of foreign pow
ers, are among those who still hold
high office in the kingdom, a fact that
lends some color to the rumor that
the present king was privy to the hor
rible crime of the palace. Neverthe
less, Servia has had the support of
the western powers in her claims for
compensation from Austria. The
Crown Prince George is a wild, harum
scarum youth, whose chief faculty is
that of getting into scrapes which dis
tress the Servian authorities.
Prince Nicholas of Montenegro suc
ceeded to the throne in 1860, after
the murder of Danilo I. His court is
THE PROBABLE SCENE OF ACTION.
poses, whatever they were in theory.
Bosnia and Herzegovina were prov
inces of Austria-Hungary, and Bul
garia was an independent principality.
Undoubtedly the irresistible racial am
bitions of the peoples, referred to in
a previous paragraph, are the most
potent influences that have been at
work. These instincts are finding
frank and open expression at this
juncture.
Bulgaria has been a powerful em
pire in the past, possessing som tuning
of a glorious history. Many of the
greatest victories and conquests of
Turkey were due to the devotions and
reckless courage of her Bulgarian sol
diers, worthy descendants of the men ;
who, fighting in the phalanx of Alex- ;
ander the Great, conquered the world. ;
The revolt of the Bulgarians and the •
Bulgarian massacres following them,
brought on the last Russo-Turkish
war, which was closed provisionally
by the treaty of San Stefano. That
treaty created Greater Bulgaria, to in
clude Rumelia and Macedonia, those
parts of Turkey in which Bulgarians
formed the majority of the inhabit
ants. The treaty of San Stefano was
revised by the powers at the congress
of Berlin and Bulgaria had the two
sub-territories taken away from her.
She regained Rumelia. but not Mace
donia. The Bulgarians are the strong- ]
est element among the inhabitants of j
Macedonia, and Bulgaria has been in
tent upon regaining the province. The
recent Turkish revolution, and es
pecially the intention of the Young
Turk party to immediately reform and
strengthen the neglected army, ap
peared to stimulate Bulgaria to action.
Great Powers Involved.
Bulgaria has two mighty neighbors,
and to conquer and hold Macedonia
she had to have the backing of a first
class power. For that support she
turned to Austria-Hungary, having lost
the support of Russia when she re
jected Russia's tutelage, refused to
Russianize her army and to convert
Bulgaria into a Russian protectorate.
There are those who believe that a
Turko-Bulgarian quarrel would be only
one act in a great European struggle
for the control of Constantinople. It
is fey Constantinople that Russia has
fought nearly all her greatest wars
since the time of Peter the Great and
Catherine II.. and some critics fore
see a combination of Russia and Tur
key, supported by Great Britain,
against Bulgarian aggression, which
they say, would be supported by Aus
tria and Germany. Great Britain is
concerned for her control of the Bos
phorus and the Dardanelles, and
France has her border interests as
well as her entente with Great Britain
to consider.
The sovereign houses of the Balkan
states have furnished the melodrama,
if not the tragedy, of present-day his
tory. The most powerful and most
universally respected of the Balkan
rulers today is King Charles of Ru
mania. He is nearly 70 years old. and
in poor health. In his 40 years' reign
he has developed the country into the
most prosperous and powerful of the
Balkan states. His wife is "Carmen
Sylva.” The melodrama of this royal
house was furnished by Prince Couza
the present king's predecessor, whos>
profligacies shocked his - people so
much that they compelled him to ab
dicate.’ King Charles was a German
prince and did not take the title of
king until after the Russo-Turkish war
of 1877, when he aided the Muscovite
forces.
Three Monarchs Interested.
Greece comes into the present mix
up on account of her Mac-.-donian in
terests, and also because the declara
poverty-stricken, partly owing to the
prince’s own extravagances and mania
for gambling. One of his daughters
is the present queen of Italy.
War Would Mean Change.
Of Abdul Hamid II. of Turkey little
need be said. During his reign of 32
years he has lost most of his domin
ions in Europe, and as the regenerated
Turkey, under constitutional rule, has
shorn him of most of his govern
mental power, he becomes a much less
dominant figure than before in the
ruling of the Ottoman empire.
If there should be war there surely
will be some radical changes in the
map of Europe. Truly, in the event
of general hostilities, some historic
battlefields would be trampled again.
The entire area of central Europe is
a memory of wars of the past; one
can scarcely tread a square mile of
ground without putting ones foot
upon some battlefield of a bygone
time.
The total war strength of the Euro
pean nations at present concerned in
the diplomatic negotiations over the
Balkans is represented by a total of
8,399.000 troops, which includes en
listed men and reserves. But reckon
ing the number of men actually avail
able for duty, though uno-ganized, a
European war could mean the employ
ment in the work of killing of 13,560
000 men, or a grand total of 21.959,000
men in land forces alone. The employ
ment of the navies of the same na
tions could mean the engagement of
a total of 122 modern battleships,
1,802 other vessels of war and 362,561
men.
The total wealth of these same na
tions is represented in gigantic fig
ures, no less than $215,000,000,000. Of
all the European powers, France is
best able financially to face a war.
The individual wealth of France is
greater than that of any of her rivals,
and her internal financial responsibil
ities are less. Germany is not in a
healthy financial state. Turkey has
been financially corrupt for ages, but,
somehow, she always can get the
money to fight.
Always Prepared for War.
There has been no serious European
outbreak since the Russo-Turkish war
of 1877-8, though for several years be
fore that Europe had known little
peace. The Franco-German war ol
1870, the Crimean war of 1856 and the
Austro-Prussian war of 1866 are all
near memories. In the Balkans them
selves there has been no real peace
for years past. The Bulgars, the Turks
and the Greeks have lived in a state
of turmoil.
For all The Haugue peace confer
ences and talks of treaties and arbi
trations, Europe looks out upon the
spring with quivering eye and nerves
a-tingle. The jealousies of races and
nations scatter treaties and paper
bonds to the four winds. How long
before the clash? The Turk in his
mad fanaticism, guarding '•eligion and
race in the manner in which he enjoys
the greatest fighting unit in the world,
perhaps, though always lacking lead
ership and discipline; the Bulgar no
less warlike and capable of a guerrilla
ampaign second to none, the Greek
tnd all the mixed bloods of the Ori
nt combined; the Teuton and the
Slav, the Norman and the Ang'.o
laxon. with little chance for the Latin
.o escape, if Italy sees fit to keep faith
with her allies—all likely to b in
volved in setting the Old World
ablaze! A continent of peoples clash
ing and strugg ing for that'pride of
place which diplomats choose to term
“the balance of power!” How long’
The spring may tell.
Many a man forgets wbit he ought
to know and knows what he ought to
forget.
It Is aelf-evident that nhe lawyer
who questions a witness deesn't know
it all.
It’s difficult for some people to un
derstand how other people understand
classical music.
The average woman has it mania for
the kind of clothes that are more orna
mental than useful.
About the first thing a new cook ex
pects the mistress to learn is to keep
out of the culinary department.
A woman's idea of economy is to
buy five cents’ worth of anything on
two separate occasions instead of blow
ing in a dime all at once.
WANTED.
Springs for the ocean's bed.
Plaster to mend the break of day.
A barber to shave the face of the
earth.
A dentist to work on the jaws of
death.
A pair of suspenders for breaches of
promise.
KNEW WHAT HE NEEDED.
H. R. Sute—Sonny, kin you tell me
where I kin get a—
Kid—Nothin" doin’, pop! De barber
shops is all closed on Sundays!
MIX FOR LAME BACK
To one-half pint good whiskey, add
one ounce syrup sarsaparilla, and oue
ounce Toris compound, which can be
procured from any druggist.. Take in
teaspoonful doses before each meal
and before retiring. This recipe is
never-failing. Leading specialists pre
scribe it.
Her Extreme Goodness.
The husband of a beloved deceased
wife came to see her bust.
“Look at it well,” said the sculptor,
‘ and as it is only in clay I can alter
it if necessary.”
The widower looked at it carefully
with the most tender interest. "It is
her very self,” he said. "Her large
nose—the sign of goodness!” Then,
bursting into tears, he added: “She
was so good! Make the nose a little
larger!”—Lippincott's.
State of Ohio Crrr of Toledo, i
Lucas County. f ss*
Frank j. Cheney make* oath that he Ip senior
partner of the linn of F. J. Cheney & Co., doing
business in the Ctty of Toledo. County and State
aforesaid, and that said firm will pay the sum of
ONE ECNDRED DOLLARS for each and every
case of Catarrh that cannot be cured by the use of
Hall a Catarrh Cure.
FRANK J CHENEY.
Sworn to before me and subscribed m my presence,
thLs 6th day of December. A. D.. lWo.
LA. W. GLEASON.
Notary Public.
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directly upon the blood and mucous surfaces of the
system. Send for testimonials, free.
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Sold by all Druceists. 75c.
Take Hall’s Family Pills for constipation.
Comfort Still.
A little fellow of five years fell and
cut his upper Up so badly that a doc
tor had to be summoned to sew up the
wound. In her distress the mother
could not refrain from saying: "Oh,
doctor, I fear It will leave a disfigur
ing scar.”
Tommy looked up into her tearful
face, and said: “Never mind, mam
ma, my mustache will cover it.”—
Harper’s Weekly.
I •’.undry work at home would be
much more satisfactory if the right
Starch were used. In order to get the
desired stiffness, it is usually neces
sary to use so mucn starch tnat the
beauty and fineness of the fabric is
hidden behind a paste of varying
thickness, which not only destroys the
appearance, but also affects the wear
ing quality of the goods. This troi>
ble can be entirely overcome by using
Defiance Starch, as it can be applied
much more thinly because of its great
er strength than other makes.
Perquisites.
Hy Whitilesticks (perched on a bar
rel in Dupay's store, munching a
cracker and reaching for a piece of
cheese)—I do think that if that thar
Andy Camiggy 'ud give our town a
lib'ry it ’ud become right smart
pop’lar with th’ boys. Don’t you
think so, Cy?
Cy Dupay—I cal’late would—pro
vidin’ he kept it right well supplied
with crackers and cheese.
There are four advantages in tak
ing Munyon’s Homeopathic Remedies.
First, they are positively harmless.
Second, they are pleasant to take.
Third, they relieve quickly. Fourth,
they cost nothing unless they give sat
isfaction.
Prof. Munyon has just issued a Mag
azine-Almanac, which will be sent free
to any person who addresses
The Munyon Company, Philadelphia.
Too Much Gravity a Bad Sign.
There Is a false gravity which Is a
very ill symptom; and it may be said
that as rivers which run very slowly
have always the most mud at the
bottom, so a solid stiffness in ths con
stant course of a man’s life is a sign
of a thick bed of mud at the bottom of
1 his brain.—Saville.
With a smooth iron and Defiance
Starch, you can launder your shirt
waist just as well at home as the
steam laundry can; it will have the
proper stiffness and finish, there will
be less wear and tear of the goods,
and it will be a positive pleasure to
use a Starch that does not stick to the
iron.
Who Wouldn’t?
“We need a man to play the part of
a millionaire; would you care to as
sume the role?”
“I’d rather assume the roll.”
Expresses in England.
The Great Western railway, Eng
land. is famous for its express train*.
During the season of American travel
there are three expresses which rua
daily from London to Exeter, a dis
tance of 173 2-3 miles, without a stop,
in three hours, at an average speed of
just 58 miles an hour. A fourth ex
press makes the same run at an aver
age speed of 56 1-3 miles an hour, it
is not unusual for the total load hack
of the tender and expresses to reach
400 tons.
Powerful English Dredge.
An unusually powerful dredge is be
ing built for the docks and harbor
board of Mersey. It has an over-all
length ef 4S7 feet, a beam of 69 feet
and a depth of 30 feet 7 inches, and
its hoppers will carry 10,000 tens of
sand. The two suction pipes are
42 inches in diameter and 90 feet long,
and each is connected to a pair of cen
trifugal pumps, each driven by a triple
expansion engine. The suction pipes
can dredge down to 70 feet below the
water surface.
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Largest Friction Saws.
The largest friction saws in th“
world are used in one of Chicago's
huge construction plants, says Popular
Mechanics. They cut through a ten
inch steel I-beam in 14 seconds. These
saws or disks are so made that they
generate enough heat at the point of
contact literally to melt their way
through the metal being cut. The cut
ting edge of the disks is roughened by
simply hacking with a fishtail chisel.
Sheer white goods, in fact, any fine
wash goods when new, owe much of
their attractiveness to the way they
are laundered, this being done in a
manner to enhance their textile beau
ty. Home laundering would be equal
ly satisfactory if proper attention was
given to starching, the first essential
being good Starch, which has sufficient
strength to stiffen, without thickening
the goods Try Defiance Starch and
you will be pleasantly surprised at the
improved appearance of your work.
Some people spend so much time in
counting the mileposts they miss all
the scenery.
Unknown to Science.
The eight-year-old son of a scientist
showed a sudden interest in pho
tography.
“Dad,” he said, "they photograph
comets and meteors and flying birds
and lightning flashes and all sorts of
moving things without any trouble,
don't they?”
“Yes, my sen.”
“Then how is it they can’t pho
tograph a boy without putting his
head in an iron frame?”
The Secret of Poverty.
Dr. Woods Hutchinson of New
York unlocked the secret of general
poverty in an address at the Ameri
can Museum of Natural History in
New York early this month, when he
said; “What is killing the i>eople of
this city may be stated as overwork,
underfeeding and overcrowding; and
two of these may be included under
the one word 'underpaid.' The mes
sage of the church and ot medicine
to-day to the community is not Give
to the poor,’ but ’Don’t take so much
away from them.'—The Public.
Starch, like everything else, is be
ing constantly improved, the patent
Starches put on the market 25 years
ago are very different and interior to
those of the present day. In the lat
est discovery—Defiance Starch—ail in
jurious chemicals are omitted, while
the addition of another ingredient, in
vented by us, gives to the Starch a
strength and smoothness never ap
proached by other brands.
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