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I Some of the Inter-
esting Features
Briefly Described
Any effort at exaggeration in at
tempting to describe the Worlds Pair
at St Louis would more than likely
result in failure Ones Imagination
would Indeed be abnormally develop
ed if he were to conceive more glor
ies more beauty more majestic splen
dor and a more comprehensive gather
ing of men and the works of men
than has been assembled on two
square miles comprising the Louisiana
Purchase Exnosition
More than a thousand native Filipi
nos are living in the 40 acre Philip
pine tract at the Worlds Fair Their
homes have been reproduced in St
Louis and they are counterparts of
those left behind in the Pacific archi
pelago The Filipino colony em
braces representatives from many
tribes and Americans and Europeans
will be interested in seeing the sub
jects that Uncle Sam acquired with
the Philippine islands and in learn
ing of their lives and habits
Besides the native villages the
Philippine commission which has ex
pended nearly 1000000 on the exhi
bit has erected replicas of many of
the most famous buildings on the is
lands Several bits of old Spanish
architecture aro sure to delight all
visitors
Patagonian giants are even less
Renown than Filipinos And there are
a number of these strange people
domiciled nearby while a little fur
ther on may be found another strange
race pygmies from darkest Africa
whose very existence until recent
years was doubted The Ainus the
aborigines of northern Japan are an
other strange race that may be seen
SHOTS
WORLD
F A I
Never was the United States gov
ernment so deeply interested in an ex
position as it is in this 1904 Worlds
Fair Already the governments in
vestment has reached the 11000000
mark and this does not include the
Philippine expenditures which were
paid out of the insular treasury The
result is the greatest exhibit ever
made by Uncle Sam
One of the interesting government
exhibits is the great map of the
United States worked out in growing
crops each state being represented
by crops chiefly grown in that state
This map covers six acres of ground
One who has not seen the map may
have an idea of its immense size
when he is told that Illinois on this
crop map is 75 feet long The bound
ary lines between the states are
gravel walks and the Worlds Fair
visitors stroll at will through the
states and receive simultaneously a
lesson in geography and agriculture
The largest timepiece in the world
is at the Worlds Fair and may be
seen on a slope on the north side of
Agriculture Hill The dial of this
great clock is 112 feet in diameter
The frame work is steel of course
but it is so covered with flowers that
it appears to have been built entirely
of flowers and for that reason it is
popularly known as the floral clock
Germanys participation in this
Worlds Fair surpasses anything that
that great nation has ever done at any
other international exposition The
National pavilion on a high hill over
looking the Cascades is a faithful
reproduction of the ancient nastle
Charlottenburg and the gardens
Girls Question That Paralyzed Gun
nery Lieutenant
She was a dear little girl and had
spent most of her life in a country
rectory It was not surprising there
fore that her knowledge of things
maritime and warlike was not ex
tensive
The young gunnery officer of H M
S had been showing her round
the battleship It was the very first
warship of any kind she had ever
visited and her mind was full of the
wonderful sights presented
Being an industrious and a thor
ough young man the gunnery lieu
tenant had explained very fully the
mechanism and the use of the tor
pedo in warfare
She examined the long deadly cigar-shaped
engine of war critically
and fearfully
Then she tapped it with the point
of her parasol and let her glove run
over its burnished side and finally
paralyzed the gunnery officer with
the question
How does the crew get inside
London Tit Bits
Californias Building
California is erecting a pavilion in
the agricultural building at the
worlds fair that will attract univer
sal attention Its exterior is entirely
covered with dried fruit four tons of
apricots peaches and prunes being
exhibited
Many Varieties of Mosquitoes
In Louisianas world fair exhibit
there will be shown ninety eight vari
eties of mosquitoes They are in
cases and are guaranteed not to bite
or sting
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A Visit to the Exposi
tion is Equivalent to a
Tour of the Globe
Hank Monk drove Horace Greeley
into Placerville on time is seen
daily in the Gulch Mark Twain and
Artemus Ward in the early days
made Hank Monk and the old coach
famous by their vivid descriptions Qf
the celebrated ride
The landscape of the Worlds Fair
is a feature of diversified beauty It
ombraces hill and valley plateau and
lowland In the Cascade region alone
more than 4000000 brilliantly colored
flowering and foliage plants are used
in the creation of the Rainbow Gar
dens More than 30000000 plants are
used in beautifying other sections of
the grounds All of the main avenues
are delightfully shaded with rows of
silver maples and in several sections
there are great groups of forest
trees that ever afford a delightful
shade
The largest engine in the world is
an exhibit in the Palace of Machinery
This monster with a power equal to
that of 5000 horses occupies a space
in the center of the great structure
and towers 35 feet in the air It is
as large as an ordinary three story
house Altogether the engines devel
op a power of 50000 horses At the
Chicago exposition ten years ago
which more nearly than any other
similar enterprise approaches the
present in magnitude the greatest
power developed was 12000 horse
power
The Pike is a most alluring place
It is a broad boulevard more than a
mile long with the shows of all ra
tions arranged on either side in the
most captivating array The archi
tecture of The Pike is that of all
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Looking Down on the Government Building from the Missouri Building
at the Worlds Fair These queer
people are snall of stature and their
bodies are covered with hair
They are quite a different race from
the modern Japanese Japan indeed
is in the front rank of nations at the
great Worlds Far The site selected
by Japan for her group of buildings
is one df the choicest alloted to for
eign nations and the enterprising
Japanese have made the most of their
advantages On a high hill overlook
ing Machinery Palace workmen from
the Mikados realm have built a num
ber cf quaint and beautiful pagodas
and have embellished the surround
ings with just such gardens as have
won the Japanese the enviable reputa
tion of developing and perfecting such
flowers and plants as they cultivate
An Experience
One of Allentowns young ladies re
turned recently from her first trip to
New York On reaching the metrop
olis she had accepted an invitation
to a matinee It was a brilliant pro
duction and left an impression which
was dimmed only by a visit some
time later to the opera in the even
ing She was giving a glowing ac
count of the first experience to some
friends the other day one of whom
interpolated enviously
Yes I have seen it
But continued the other did you
ever attend a matinee in the even
jng7Philadelphia Ledger
Why Co operative Colonies Fail
Co operative colonies fail because
they get out of touch with the great
world around them said a lecturer
recently who had been a member of
the famous colony of Zoar All the
property and all the earnings of the
Zoar colonists were divided equally
said he As a result there was less
energy and thrift petty jealousies
interfered with the colony work and
when its leader died it gradually went
to pieces
Canadian Route is Shorter
At a recent meeting of the royal
transportation commission in Halifax
reports and maps were submitted
showing that the Canadian route be
tween Europe and the East was 680
miles shorter than those from United
States ports
Russian Ship Canal
been completed
Surveys which have just
pleted for a ship canal across Russia
to connect the Baltic and Black seas
will be 1468
show that the distance
miles kand tte cost 5180000000
rounding it are gems of the landscape
architects art Germanys immense
pavilion of white and gold in the
mammoth Palace of Agriculture is
one of the features of that interesting
building while the Palace of Varied
Industries contains another German
exhibit of unique interest
Most interest naturally centers in
the races of the airships To win
the grand prize of 100000 the suc
cessful aeronaut must cover the 10
mile course at the speed of 18 miles
an hour Santos Dumont has several
of his wonderful machines on the
ground and is sanguine of success
Other noted aeronauts are prepared
to contest vigorously with the famous
little Brazilian
The historic stage coach in which
SHE WANTED TO KNOW
ages and countries from the prehis
toric ages to the present day J and
everything that is new strange and in
teresting is shown in this street of all
nations After night The Pike is a
blaze of glory and myriads of electric
lights accentuate the beauties of the
quaint architecture
In one newspaper article but few
of the places of interest may be
touched A large volume would be
required were each feature mention
ed in a single line The visitor who
can find time but for a weeks stay
at the Fair will see more glories than
he ever dreamed of and were he to
lengthen his stay to the seven months
of the fair he cbuld pass every mo
ment in profitable and interesting
sightseeing
Center of Lamb Raising Industry
Greeley Colo is becoming almost
as noted for its lamb as for its po
tato industry Shipments of young
lambs from Greeley to Eastern and
other markets are now being made
at the rate of from 75 to 100 carloads
a week The experiment of feeding
lambs during the winter months on
a food composed in large part of
sugar beet pulp from the many jbeet
sugar factories in that section of the
State has been proved a success in
northern Colorado Tens of thou
sands of sheep and lambs are now
being fed in that manner at Greeley
Ft Collins- Loveland and elsewhere
in the region referred to
Real Case of Broken Heart
Died from a broken heart an
old woman of 74 who married her
fourth husband aged 72 in Decem
ber last at West Ham was deserted
by him a fortnight after the wedding
She died suddenly on Sunday her last
words being My hearts broken
and a coroners jury on Wednesday
found that the causp of death was
valvular disease of the heart Phila
delpnia Ledger
Noted Scientist
Dr Maximilian Nitze who just a
quarter of a century ago invented a
luminous apparatus for looking into
the stomach and other internal or
gans is still living in Berlin where
he is an instructor at the university
Telephone Statistics
In the United States there are up
ward of 20000000 families and at
least 5000000 places of business mak
ing a total of 25000000 opportunities
to place telephones Of these about
1 one eighth arp now equipped
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Three Pasture Grasses
At a meeting of Kansas farmers a
speaker said Combinations of grasses
and perennial legumes are usually to
be preferred to any single grass both
for pasture and for hay A combina
tion of grasses is especially desirable
for pasture giving more continuous
grazing a greater production of pas
ture more variety and perhaps a better-balanced
food ration In choosing
grasses for pasture the object should
he to select such varieties that the
deficiency of one variety may be bal
anced by the good qualities of anoth
er Grasses should be chosen which
are different in their periods of growth
and their dates of maturing in order
to lengthen the grazing period and
give the greatest amount and most
continuous grazing also a combina
tion of grasses may be made which
will make a more perfect sod than any
one grass will produce and a more
permanent pasture To illustrate take
a combination of orchard grass mead
ow fescue and Bromus inermis Orchard-grass
starts very early in the
spring makes a rapid growth and ma
tures early in the summer It pro
duces little during the drier summer
months also it has the characteristic
of growing in bunches but does not
form a sod Meadow fescue on the
other hand starts late in the spring
makes a slow growth in the early part
of the season and matures several
weeks later than the orchard grass
Meadow fescue renews its growth in
the latter part of the season making
excellent pasture late into the fall
Like the orchard grass it also grows
in tufts but is not quite so bunchy in
its growth hence forms with orchard
grass a better sod- than is produced
by the orchard grass alone Bromus
inermis is quite different in its char
acteristics from either of the other
grasses It starts very early in the
spring and continues green and grow
ing throughout the season Being a
firm deep rooting grass it withstands
dry weather well hence produces
pasture during the dry periods when
orchard grass and meadow fescue
practically cease growing Bromus in
ermis also grows late into the fall It
has a habit of spreading by under
ground rootstocks and thus fills up
the spaces left between the tufts of
orchard grass and meadow fescue
forming a perfect sod In the region
where each of these grasses thrives
the combination of the three should
make a much better pasture than any
one of the grasses seeded alone
When Constructing Drains
A drainage engineer gives the fol
lowing advice to a land owner about
to construct drains
1 Employ a reliable drainage engi
neer to make surveys and plan your
system of drainage Otherwise you
are very liable to throw away part of
your money
2 Require from your drainage engi
neer a complete map or plat of your
drains showing the exact location
izes grades and depths Remember
hat your drains will be out of reach
except at much cost and trouble
liter they are covered
3 Make your drains of ample size
Drains which are too small fail when
you need them most in wet seasons
4 Put your tile down to a good
depth Otherwise they will not draw
well to any considerable distance
Make them four feet deep in the low
est ground if possible The extra cost
of good depth is small in proportion to
the total cost
5 Have your drainage engineer in
spect the work during construction
and test the grades of the drains and
see that the work is well done Many
tile become choked with mud because
not laid true
6 Be sure to protect the outlet
Build a bulkhead wall of brick or
stone to hold the end Also use a
piece of iron pipe at the end if tile is
not too large or for large drains use
a few feet of sewer pipe cemented
7 If you are obliged to construct
an open ditch make it at least five to
seven feet deep if possible to give
good outlets for tile and to avoid
choking up
8 The bottoms of open ditches
should be at least three feet wide and
die sides should be given slopes of at
least one foot horizontal to one ver
tical to avoid choking Dirt should
uoi be piled near the edges of the
bank
Corn and Beef
A noted cattle raiser says that the
pure of corn and beef should go to
gether When corn is high beef must
be high or the farmer will go out
ot the cattle raising business The
man icferred to declares that the large
r ii eipu of cattle during the past year
are due to the steady unloading of
tl il mers that do not want to feed
high priced corn to medium priced cat
tli a also accounts he says for
mi of the animals arriving in a
halt rut condition It is doubtless
true that there is not a wide enough
difference between corn finished cattle
and cattle that have received almost
no fitting at all When every bushel
of corn a man puts into his beef cat
tle is put in at a loss as is the case
this year farmers cannot be very en
thusiastic in the finishing of cattle
One of the most valuable elements
in the manure is the nitrogen which
is easily lost The manure that con
tains it must be got under the sur
face as soon as possible
biC J I K A MJkfL
Michigan as a Fruit State
We speak of Michigan as a great
fruit growing stato and we are correct
Yet we generally have in mind the
idea that she is par excellence a
grower of peaches that she grows
more peaches than any other kind of
fruit In that we are mistaken As
a peach grower Michigan does not
take the high rank that she does as a
grower of apples There are more
acres of land in Michigan devoted to
apple growing than there are acres
devoted to all other kinds of tree
fruits Peaches pears plums and
cherries make a poor showing when
compared with apples The acres de
voted to the different tree fruits
were in 1902 as follows Apples 206
G75 peaches 00813 pears 5359
plums 3892 cherries 2117 The
yield in bushels in the year named
were Apples 11331524 peaches
3253350 pears 231423 plums 113
202 cherries C0211
During the- same -if the straw
berry acreage was 5923 and the yield
368365 bushels There were 2587
acres in blackberries and they yielded
111679 bushels The acreage in rasp
berries was 4342 the same year and
the yield was 149285 bushels Grapes
were grown on 10933 acres and pro
ciuced 33973931 pounds of fruit
Duration of Vitality in Seeds
The seeds of different plants vary
greatly in this regard Some seeds
quickly lose their power to germinate
while others retain that power for a
long time Lettuce seeds are gener
ally short lived in their vitality but
some planters declare that this is
due lb imperfect methods used in
keeping them and that when properly
taken care of they will retain their
power to germinate for several years
The seed of the beet has a long period
accredited to it that being not less
than ten years Seeds that cannot be
trusted to germinate after four years
are the following Cabbage kale rad
ish tomato spinach turnip aspara
gus brocoli cauliflower beans and
peas Pumpkin cucumber and melon
seeds will also keep their germinating
power for ten years Onion and leek
seed quickly lose their power of ger
mination and cannot be trusted after
the second year Some gardeners be
lieve that both melon and cucumber
seeds are more fruitful after three
years than when only one year old
But it is also believed that the three
year old seeds make a less vigorous
growth of vines
Cultivating the Plum Orchard
S H Marshall of Wisconsin who
has a large plum orchard said re
cently to a representative of the
Farmers Review
I begin to cultivate my orchard in
the spring as sodn as I can get onto
the land and I keep up the cultiva
tion till about the 20th of August
when I sow the land to oats I leave
the oats for a winter cover crop In
the spring I run a disk through the
oats and break up the surface of the
soil I never plow unless I have to
do so
It is sometimes a little difficult to
cultivate under the branches of the
trees but for that I use an extension
harrow Then around the trees I put
to work the man with the hoe I do
not use a weeder on my land as the
land is not light enough to give good
results from the use of that imple
ment My object is to keep a dust
nuilch of from two to three inches
over all the ground
Late Setting of Strawberries
It is certainly best to set strawber
ry plants early yet they can be set
at almost any time during the grow
ing season J L Herbst tells the
writer that he has known strawberry
plants to be set even when they had
fruit on them The fruit was of
course picked off before the plants
were put into the ground It hap
pened to be a wet season and the
plants grew all right As good suc
cess would not probably have been at
tained in a dry season It shows how
ever what can be done when the
plants are properly taken care of
even when the transplanting is done
out of season We do not advise set
ting out strawberry beds in the mid
dle of the summer yet there may be
exceptional cases where good plants
would be available at that season and
at no other time
Lake Yellow Crab Apple
On this variety the Virginia Sta
tion reports as follows Probably
same as Large Yellow Siberian
Only fairly vigorous in growth but
larger and has stockier limbs than
Red Siberian which it resembles very
much in habit of growth Upright
spreading head limbs droop after
fruiting Trunk 14 inches in cir
cumference at base 13 inches at head
Generally free from disease First
bloom and fruit noted in 1892 FulL
crops of fruit in 1895 and 1897 Light
crop 1898 Heavy crop in 1899 and
fair crop in 1901 In 1899 eleven bush
els of fruit were picked from two
small trees Fruit very large for a
Siberian crab beautiful golden yellow
in color rich spicy flesh highest qual
ity for culinary use Ripens with Hy
slop Highly commended
Professor Goff used to say that
seeds of the pumpkin family should
be planted flatwise rather than edge
wise since in this position they most
readily free themselves from the seed
case
The Acacia Tree
discovered In
There has just been
thf of the acacm
fr east a spocies
tree which closes its leaves together
in coils each day at sunset and carte
Af
of pigtails
its twigs to the shape
itself thus for
settled
ter thoree has
if touched he whole
a nights sleep
or impatient
if agitated
thing will flutter as
disturbed The
patient at being
oftener the foliage is molested the
the shaking or
more violent becomes
the branches and at length the trea
odor which If inhaled
emits a nauseating
haled for a few moments causes a
violent dizzy headache It has been
named the angry tree
Story v From Patti
In Syracuse Adelina Patti told a
reporter how she had recently jbeen
teaching music to a little American
girl This little girl she said is
a delight Her questions and answers
are as entertaining as a comedy The
other day I was explaining to her the
meaning of the signs f and ff F I
said means forte Now if f means
forte what does ff mean Eighty
said the little girl
A HEART STORY
Folsom S uak In these days
when so many sudden deaths are re
ported from Heart Failure and vari
ous forms of Heart Disease it will be
good news to many to learn that there
Is a never failing remedy for every
form of Heart Trouble
Mrs H D Hyde of this place was
troubled for years with a pain in her
heart which distressed her a great
deal She had tried many remedies
but had not succeeded in finding any
thing that would help her until at last
she began a treatment of Dodds Kid
ney Pills and this very soon relieved
her and she has not had a single pain
or any distress in the region of the
heart since She says I cannot say
too much praise of Dodds Kidney
Pills They are the greatest heart
medicine I have ever used I was
troubled for over three years with a
severe pain in my heart which en
tirely disappeared after a short treat
ment of Dodds Kidney Pills 4
Energy Wasted After Business Hours
A great many people dissipate more
energy between the time when they
leave their work at night and when
they return to it in the morning than
they expend all day in their vocations
though they would be shocked and of
fended if anyone were to tell them
so They think that physical dissipa
tion is the only method of energy
sapping But men and women of ex
emplary moral habits dissipate their
vitality in a hundred wayj They in
dulge in wrong thinking they worry
they fret they fear this that and
the other imaginary thing and they
carry their business home with them
and work as hard mentally after busi
ness hours as during them Success
Anecdote of McMahon
- The late John MacMahon of the
frish bar although a Celt had a pon
derous heavy style and no sense of
humor On account of being deaf ho
agreed out of policy with any re
marks made by the judge even
though he did not understand what
was said On one occasion he was
appearing before a master of the rolls
who thought that MacMahon was ar
guing rather elementary law for such
a court as his You are speaking as
if I were a mere typo in the law Mr
MacMahon said the master of rolls
testily Quite so my lord said
counsel airily proceeding with his ar
gument oblivious to and regardless of
what the judge had said
The School
HAS A SAY
Principal
i alks About
Food
The Principal of a High School in
a flourishing Calif city says
For 23 years I worked in the school
with only short summer vacations
I formed the habit of eating rapidly
masticated poorly which coupled with
my sedentary work led to indigestion
liver trouble lame back and rheuma
tism
Upon consulting physicians some
doped me with drugs while others
prescribed dieting and sometimes I
got temporary relief other times not
For 12 years I struggled along with
this handicap to my work seldom laid
up but often a burden to myself with
lameness and rheumatic pains
Two years ago I met an old friend
a physician who noticed at once my
out-of-health condition and who pre
scribed for me an exclusive diet ol
Grape Nuts milk and fruit
I followed his instructions and in
two months I felt like a new man with
no more headaches rheumatism oi
liver trouble and from that time tc
this Grape Nuts has been my main
food for morning and evening meals
am stronger and healthier than I have
been for years without a trace of the
old troubles
Judging from my present vigorous
physical and mental state J tell my
iCUic iuciuusuiaa may yet have tc
take second place among the old men
for I feel like I will live a great manj
more years
To all this remarkable
change In
health I am Indebted to my wisx
friend and Grape Nuts and I hope the
Postum Co will
continue to manufac
ture this life and health givin food
for several centuries yet until f move
to a world where indigestion
is
un
known Name given by Postum Cn
Battle Creek Mich
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about Grape Nuts Those who havst
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