PAIN IN THE JOINTS Rheumatic Tortures Cease When Dr. Williams' Pink Pills Mako New Blood. Tho first sign of rheumatism is fre quently a paiu ami swelling in one of the joints. If not combated in the blood , which is the seat of the disease , the poison spreads , affecting other joints "and tissues. Sometimes rheumatism at tacks the heart and is quickly fatal. The ono remedy that has cured rheumatism BO that it stays cured is Dr. "Williams' Pink Pills. These pil s expel the poison from the , blood and restore the system , so that the poisonous matter is passed off as nature intended. Mrs. I. 'P. Pitcher , of No. 130 Mon- mouth street , Newark , N. J. , suffered for about three years from rheumatism before Bho'founfl this cure. She says : * ' It beganyith a''queer feeling in my fingers , ( n a little time it seemed as though tho finger joiuts had lumps on them and I could not get my gloves on. "Then it grew worse and spread to my kncoH. t could-not stand up and I could not Bleep nights. My suffering was moro than I can describe. I took a. great deal of-medicine , but uothingeven gave rne relief until I tried Dr. Williams' Pink PillK " T read an account of a care in a case that wns exactly like mine and my hus band got mo some of the pills. I took them for three weeks before I really felt better hut they finally cured me. " Mr. Pitcher , who is a veteran and a member of 13. D. Morgan Post , No. 307 of Now York , substantiates his wife's statement mid says that she now walks without difficulty , whereas a year ago ho was compelled to push her about in a wheeled ' hair. Both Mr. and Mrs. Pitcher arc enthusiastic in their praise of Dr Williams' Pink Pills. For further information , address the Dr. Williams Medicine Company , Sche uectady , IST Y. Let him go whore he will ho can only find so much beauty or worth as he car ries. Emerson. 5 Tons Grass Hay Pree. Everybody loves lots and lots of fodder for hogs , co\vs , sheep and swine. The enormous crops of our Northern Grown Pedigree Seeds on our seed farms the past year compel us to issue a spe cial catalogue called BAJXBit's BARGAIN SEED BOOK : Thin in hmn full of bargain seeds at bar- gain prices. prices.SKND SKND THIS NOTICE TO-DAT. and receive free sufficient seed to grow 5 tons of grass on your lot or farm this summer and our great Bargain Seed Book with its _ wonderful surprises and great bargains in seeds at bargain prices. Remit 4cand we add a package of Cos mos , the most fashionable , serviceable , beautiful annual flower. John A. . Salzer'Seed Co. , Lock Draw- er C. , La Crosse , Wis. Japanese Carving. Japanese art is supreme in wood and Ivory curving. Sir Edwin Arnold in Seas and Liunds declares there is noth ing known , lo him in Europe that comes near what Japanese workmen can achtfve. A specimen of ivory , carvingvas shown to him which rep resented a bag of rice with two or three dozen rats in and upon it. Ev ery rat was as individual in character , position'and action , as if a special portrait hud been taken of him ; and the web of the hag , the glistening grains of rice and the sleek fur of the rodenlK could not have been better ex pressed in .painting. At an art store in Yokohama he examined a piece of wood can-Jug representing two life- sized wrestlers struggling In the ring. Every muscle and every vein was de lineated , every tendon and ligament was anatomically perfect It drew a constant Crowd , and a policeman in formed the proprietor of the store that , if he intended to continue the wres tling on his promises , he must engage a posse of j > olicemen , to restrain the crowd. He was invited into the store , and uieliwl into smiles when he saw that tho wrestlers were carvings in wood. Spoiled It. Suminor Girl For goodness sakes , what Juis ' happened to Margie's bathiug suit ? She'looks like a fright ! Also a H. G Doesn't she ? The care ; less thing go't it all wet yesterday. . Cleveland Loader. THE LITTLE WIDOW. A Bllj h y Good Sort of IVcigrkbor to Have. "A llltlo widow , a neighbor of mine , persuaded me to try Grape-Nuts when my stomach was so weak that it would not retain food of any other kind , " writes H grateful woman , from San Bernardluo Co. . Gal. " [ had been ill and confined to my bed with fever and nervous prostra tion for three long mouths after the birth ot iny second boy. Wo were in despair until the little widow's advice brought relief. "L liked Grape-Nuts food from the beginning , und in an incredibly short time it gave me such strength that I was able lo leave my bed and enjoy my three-good meals a day. In two months my weight increased from 95 to liy pounds , my nerves had steadied down and I felt ready for anything My neighbors were amazed to see mo gain so rapidly and still more so when they heard that Grape-Nuts alone had brought the change. "My 4-year-old boy had eczema , very had , 1'ifit spring and lost his appetite entirely , which made him cross and neevlsh. 1 put him on a diet of Grape- Nuts , which he relished at once. Ho Improved from the beginning , the ecze ma disappeared < and now he is fat and rosy , Wih a delightfully soft , clear skin. The'Grape-Nuts diet did it I will willingly answec all inquiries. " Name given by Postum Co. , Battle Creek , Mich. There's u reason. Read the little book , "The Road to Wellville , " In pkgs. Opinions of Great Papers on Important Subjects. 4444 * 4444'4'4'4'4'4'4'4'4' 4 4 4n 4t44444l-444 * THE FABMER'S SON AND THE CITY. HY do farmers' sons leave the country to find employment in cities ? The drift of population toward cities has been so marked in the last decade that the United States industrial com mission has made a special study of the ques tion. The farmer's son is Just like the son of anybody else. He likes to kijpw what is going on In the great world , and he resllzes tha * if he remains on the farm always and has not the mei'iis to travel , his knowledge of the world will be narrow. The country boy has a bright mind. In the common schools he learns of the deeds .of public men , and he aspires to be a great man some day himself. He goes away to col lege and takes high rank. Other professions than , farming are open to him and he may choose oue of theml Both of the United States Senators from Indiana were farmer boys and scores of other successful public men , who were raised on farms , could be named. But what does it matter if the tendency is to move from the farm to the city ? Population will adjust itself. When the farmer boy finds that the city does not hold out superior advantages , he will remain on the farm. Doubtlessly many a. young man from the country makes a mistake when he goes to a city with the belief that he can make an easier and better living. It will not take long to discover that the country has its advantages , too. When he finds himself ordered about by an employer from ten to twelve hours a day , he will begin to appreciate the independence of farm life. Before he leaves the farm a salary of $15 a week may seem large , when he is receiving scarcely more than that for a month's work , but after he pays the innumer able bills that a city man must pay , he will find that the $15 a week salary is not half so large as he imagined it. The farmer boy may be influenced by what he reads of "hayseeds" and by the prevalent newspaper cartoons of bewhlskered ploughmen. Yet if he stops to think , he knows that the city-bred fellow is the greenest creature on earth when he goes into the country and can't tell corn from wheat or pumpkins from sour apples. If newspapers were published in the country , there would be some of the funni est city-fool cartoons that a man ever shook his sides over. The country holds out more inducements than it did a few years ago , and the inducements will be still greater. Just as soon as it is clear that the farm offers equal or bet ter opportunities than the city , the farmer boy will stop drifting toward the city. The matter will adjust itself. Just now there * is a reaction in favor of the farm. In- flianapolls Sun. WOMEN IN INDUSTRY. kLONG with his excellent recommendation that [ the Department of Commerce and Labor inves tigate thoroughly conditions of child labor throughout the United States , President Roose- jvelt in his message urges that the subject of I women's employment in gainful occupations be carefully studied by the same department. Many enlightened women of this country are eager for such an inquiry by the government. Doubtless it is in response to their arguments that the President makes his strong presentation of the importance of this matter. Formerly woman worked in the ho.me and only In the home. To create and maintain the home by the toil of her hands applied directly to fireside industries was her obsorb- Ing care. But the factories have taken those industries from the fireside and woman has followed them into the factories. The result has been that the woman who has been relieved of such work is not bound to her fireside as was the housewife of former generations , while the woman In the factory has few or no family ties. As the President TREES' EFFECT ON CLIMATE. Deforestation Causes Arid Wastes and Sometimes Floods. Whether forests exercise a percepti ble influence upon the climate is an old qtiestion , and even to-day it is not definitely settled. In many countries a drying up of the climate has oc curred , which Is shown perhaps most strikingly In almost the whole of Af rica. That deforesting has assumed constantly growing proportions in al most every part of the world is still more apparent The climate of Greece , where to-day only 16 per cent of area is covered with forests , has deterior ated. An increase of temperature and decrease of rain are noted , compared with ancient times , especially in At tica , which was thickly covered with forests about 3,000 years ago , and where hardly any rain now falls , while the heat in the open air attains a de gree which would make the Olympian games almost an impossibility. A similarcondition exists in the > enlnsula of Sinai , where thousands of rears ago the people of Israel lived in a luxuriant and fertile country and where to-day only forestless deserts abound. Palmyra , also once a flour ishing oasis In the Syrian desert , pre sents to-day only a desolate waste of stones and ruins. In Mexico , where the Spaniards cut down the forests In the mountains , drouths changing to devastating floods are now noticeable , especially in the vicinity of the City of Mexico. In up per Egypt , where only 100 years ago rain was abundant , drouth now usual ly prevails. In Algeria , where , since the middle of the last century , the for ests have been cut down on a large scale , dry weather has increased , and In Venezuela , the level of Lake Tacar- Igua , to which Alexander Von Hum- boldt drew attention , has been low ered In consequence of disforestation. If these and other facts are kept in mind the sentence , "Man traverses the earth and a desert results , " is under stood. It must not be forgotten , how ever , that this applies mainly to the Influence of civilization upon appear ances and is not always due to climatic shanges produced by deforesting. Some authorities even deny the influ ence of forests on the weather and climate. It cannot be denied , how- aver , that dense forests favor moisture and prevent the drying out of the soil to a considerable degree. At any rate , ieforestlng , which In modern times iBsoxneg constantly growing propor- \ , t says , "change and disturbance Iri'the domestic life of th nation" has resulted from these new conditions. The de crease in marriage and in the birth rate are some of the symptoms of a revolution which may have a sinister effect upon the country in general. The result In many cases to the individual worker is equally disquieting. These conditions affecting the individual , the nation and the race should be dealt with hi the light of accurate knowl edge such as a federal inquiry should secure. The 5,000,000 women who toll In gainful occupations must be protected and dangerous tendencies must be curbed. Chicago News. GOOD PREACHING. ON'T put a $5 hat on a 5-cent head. Quit tak ing $5 buggy rides on $0 a week. Eschew cheap jewelry. Get a bank account. Get a home of your own. Get some property. Get a start in the world in some way. What good is It to you that you live in cities with paved streets if you don't own anything ? Don't be satisfied with the shadows of civilization ; get some of the substance. " That is Booker T. Washington's advice to his people. He is getting down to fundamentals. The negro has not behind him , as the white man has , the Inherited thrift of -centuries. On the contrary , his people who have gone be fore him have had a longing for the good things of life , which longing has been denied them. The white man is the heir to habits of prudence in ex penditure. The negro has been taught , until the last forty years , to take no thought for the morrow. Considering the fact that the colored man has gone against the Inbred traits of his race whenever he has tried to live within his means , he has made wonderful progress. Especially Is this true of the Southern negro , who has accumulated , in eleven former slave States , more than $300,000,000 worth of prop erty. erty.And And again : Is not the advice in Washington's pungent phrase also applicable to the white man ? The negro Is not the only type of spendthrift who takes $5 buggy rides on $0 wages and neglects to provide for the rainy day. And it must also be said that the preaching against shlftlessnesa has little effect either on white or colored ears. Moral maxims go into one ear arid out at the other with most per sons. Still , the preaching must go on. A little of it finds lodgment. And here and there men are helped by it to' stand on their feet as men. It is mighty good preaching , anyway. Kansas City World. MAKING POSTAL ENDS MEET. HE postal deficit in the United States for the J B- last fiscal year was over $14,000,000 , and will be large this year. It is said by the department that the rapid extension of rural free delivery Is the cause of the deficit. But annual postal defi cits have been the rule for a long time , and reached into some millions before a single rural delivery route was established. It was then clearly per ceived and pointed out that the annual deficit was caused by the transportation of an immense amount of matter at losing rates. Some of the waste has been stopped , > ut a big leak there still exists. Many persons who have looked into the matter say the government pays extravagantly for transportation. Congress should investigate and stop abuses. Appropriate legislation will end the deficit Rural free delivery has come to stay. It is a good thing , and ought to be broadened in its work. The people do not ask that the postoffice should turn a big net profit into the treasury , as Is customary in Europe , but they want the de partment to pay its way , and lop off the dead weight and impositions it Is saddled with. A $14,000,000 deficit will compel attention in Congress. St. Louis Globe-Democrat tions for industrial and agricultural purposes , is of universal importance. Germany , with a forest area of about 20 per cent , realizes annually nearly $00,000,000 worth of timber therefrom , while the wood Importa tions are about of the same value. The consumption of wood increases from year to year and systematic forestry has not succeeded in keeping up the forest area of Germany. If it is fur thermore borne in mind that Canada , which formerly possessed more than 300,000,000 acres of forests , has to-day /only a forest area of about 225,000,000 acres , it becomes evident that the question of deforestation assumes great importance. If civilization con tinues to chance the face of tHe earth the problem of its woodsupply will present itself like that of coal and force the finding of a suitable substi tute. SENSATIONS OF A WORM. Bcliisr Cut in TTTO or Four Has Lit tle Effect on Squirmer. Some remarkable experiments have been carried on to prove whether the lower animals suffer pain or sensa tions of any kind when injured , says the Kansas City Star. The most strik ing of these experiments were made on the common earthworm. If such a low animal be divided at its middle transversely only the posterior half shows those squirming and jerking movements which , anthropomorphical- ly viewed , seem to indicate pain ; the anterior .half ( containing the brain ) crawls , as ordinarily , away. Now , If these halves be halved again the pos terior segment of each squirms , while th'e anterior halves crawl away. This same process may be continued with precisely like result until the pieces are no longer large enough to craw ) independently. The striking phenome non is explained in part by the two sets of musculars fibres in the worm , one longitudinal , causing the squirm ing and jerking , and the other circu lar , which produce the crawling. Why in the posterior segments the former seT should be stimulated and in the anterior the latter set Prof. Norman says he does not know. For its pur pose the experiment seems conclu sive. sive.The The abdomen of a hermit crab may be cut in two without any "but a very slight response" from any remaining movable organ. "LImulus" stops a fe\f seconds when 400 or 500 abdominal segmenta * ra cot awoj , thtm f weed * quietly breathing as before. Its order of events Is , regularly , cessation of breathing , flexion of abdomen , pause extension of abdomen , respiratory movements. "Geophilus" cut In two in the middle continues its crawling , the front half going forward and the rear half backward. Millipedes divid ed while walking do not hasten nor stop nor jerk. An Impossible Feat. Alnsworth R. Spofford , chief assist ant librarian of the Congressional Library , speaking of fiction , said : "Much of it Is false as false as the story of Napoleon and the one-armed soldier. "Napoleon , seeing this one-armed soldier on the streets of Paris one day , called him up and said : " 'Where did you lose your arm , my friend ? ' " 'In your last campaign , sire , ' tha soldier answered. " 'And you were never decorated ? ' said Napoleon. ' "Never , Eire. ' " 'Then here Is the cross. May you wear it with honor , ' said the Emperor , and , taking the cross from his own ! breast , ho pinned it on the soldier's * faded coat. "The one-armed soldier flushed with pride at this great honor. BEIs eye glittered , his breast heaved , his lip curled proudly. c " 'And , sire , ' he said , 'suppose I had lost both arms , what then ? ' " 'Then , ' said Napoleon , 'I should * have made you an officer of the le gion. ' "On hearing these words the soldier , quicker than thought , drew his sword and cut off his other arm. " 1 ! Tlicir IVatural Place. eii "Do you answer all literary ques ii tions here ? " (1P ' " P 'We try to. "Can you tell me , then , where Nature publishes her cereals ? " 'Certainly ' ; in the corn .magazine. " Baltimore American. a I Help Her on the "Way. The old world is a-rollin' To meet the perfect day ; , . Help her , then , to get there ' " " : i hollerin' ! By "Hooray , Atlanta Constitution. ii If there anything v missing these days , it is pretty apt to tern up itt tUfl President Roosevelt's message to Congress transmitting the annual re ports of the Isthmian Canal Commis sion will be received with gratification throughout the country. It will do much to allay recently circulated sto ries as to the way in which the great work of canal construction is being conducted. These stories , while fre quently vague in details , have been sufficiently numerous to create an im pression. Tnere have been rumors of extravagant waste iu salaries and the letting of contracts. Progress toward the actual construction of tne canal has been represented as slow and char acterized by inefficient management. That the President finds it possible to deny these various charges sweeping- ly and unreservedly is highly reasur- ring. As to the charges of incom- petency or extravagance , he says he has examined every one of them and found that in every instance they were "without foundation in any shape or form. " On the contrary , he declares , the work on the isthmus "is being ad mirably done and great progress has been made during the last nine months. " The mechanical equipment necessary for the canal-digging opera tions is being rapidly installed. The work of sanitation is progressing well and an effective organization of the administrative forces has been made. On the whole the President feels justi fied in saying that the canal will be dug in shorter time and at lower ex pense than'had been anticipated. This highly optimistic report gives cause for . increased confidence in the men in charge of the enterprise and in their methods , though it would be a mistake to accept it as a reason for relaxing vigilance. The essential thing , now . that a good start has been made , is that there be no remission of the watchfulness which has kept the work up to u high standard. A series of $ G bills was turned out at the bureau of engraving and printing a few days ago. Why these "exception ally unique" bank and treasury notes were printed is not known , though about 300 of them were run off before it was discovered that such n devia tion from the regular denomination of the "long green" would cause much consternation. At the bureau , wnen the "error" was discovered , it Avas ex plained that an uninitiated employe , presumably one of the helpers , mislaid a slack of partly printed ? 1 bills on a similarly treated stack of the ยง 3 de nomination. When the ? 5 printers got to work they , it is said , picked up the stack of partly printed $1 bills and run them through the $5 Hies. When they came out for inspection it was discov ered that they were " $ G bills , the $5 stamp being on one side and the $1 stamp on the other side. " They were expended in the fire-box of one of the big furnaces , but it required an affi davit from Director Meredith , the fore man of the dieuooin , and the superin tendent of the paper room , to explain what disposition was made of $100 worth of $1 bills. Sentiment may find special interest in the current report of the Postmaster General , for we are celebrating the two hundredth anniversary of the birth of Franklin , who was Deputy ' Postmaster General of the British coo- iiies iu America. At the time of Franklin's death , 17DO , there were sev enty-five postoflices in this country. \ To-day there are sixty-eight thousand. , ] Then the receipts were less than forty thousand dollars. Last year they were a hundred and fifty million. The numj ber of people employed by the post- office department is nearly three him- j dred thousand equal to the working population of a great city and the number of employes and of all agents and means for distributing mail i mounts faster in proportion than the s receipts. The Postmaster General t touches on many suggested improve- ; ' ments , such as the reduction of cer- tain rates of postage , the parcels post and postal savings depositories , hut he recommends that attention be paid not so much to possible additions to the service as to the improvement of the kinds of service already established. The annual report of Commissioner of Corporations James II. Garliekl em phasizes the administration's position , namely , that the great interstate cor porations have gone beyond the possi bility of proper control by State au thorities , and says that Congress should so legislate as to afford an op portunity to present to the Supreme 2ourt the question whether insurance s interstate commerce. lie tells of extensive inquiries that have been nade into the beef , oil and steel in lustries , and"promises a special re ort soon on oil. The isthmian canal commission inei it Washington and requested Chief Engineer Stevens to furnish a work Iihi t hi ng plan for the excavation stud di > hia tosal of materials for a canal on an yr. oot level abovr low title ; 'n > ; in.li ta taH ated that the eomiufss on lrIcculo < H n favor of a lock ciuai ? viit ; thro Bt BtT ocks on each yi le of the divide. I T , vas also < 3ei < l < ' : l to oxfK'i'iuivui wit aborers from tlu ; north of S THE COUPON BELOW IS GOOD FOR $1.00 fF StNT AT ONCE. 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