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Q.uccr 'Wnya of Canton. Just at nigbt , If you happen to bo fcrlthin the gates of Canton , you will witness one of the little performances that is supposed to deceive the prowling spirits of the night hent upon evil in tent , the while conciliating them should they penetrate the deception , says the Dhautauquan. Each little and hig shop possesses a miniature fireplace huilt In to the side of the entrance. Prayers , printed on rice paper , form the fuel \ jvith which to offer up Incense to the "bogy man , " who is supposed to make the nocturnal visits. Beholding the smoke , he is supposed to assume that no one lives within and therefore passes by , but should he "catch on" and stop to investigate he finds that the prayer papers on the al tar bear inscriptions 'attributing to him mch virtues and magnanimity that his wrath is appeased and he turns from his evil intent. No Wonder. "What has made the energetic Mrs. Embonpoint so angry ? " "In writing up the church fair which ahe made sucn a success , the society editress said of her that she was a woman of wonderful hustle. " Hous ton Post Ahead. Angry Creditor What's the use of of fering me a check ? It wouldn't he worth a. cent at the bank. Struggling Genius Perhaps not , sir , but some day in the future , when I am dead and gone , my autograph will make that check worth hundreds of dollars. AFTER ITS FIRST BATH WITH Physicians , Pharmacists.and Nurses endorse Cuticura Soap because of its delicate , medicinal , emollient , sana tive , and antiseptic proper ties derived from Cuticura , the great Skin Cure , united with the purest of cleansing .ingre&ents and most re freshing of flower odors. For preserving , purifying , and beautifying the skin , as well as for all the purposes of the toilet and bath , Cuti cura Soap is priceless. Abso lutely pure anft may be used from the hour of birth. Bold fhronjhstit 0 t worii CutJcar * Sotp. Sic. , Olct- neot. 3k. , Bootreat , We. (1 ° 'onn of Chocolate Corttd fin * , Me. per vltl ot ) , my be had ef all druggist * . Tottw Drur k Chem. Corp. , Sole Props. , Dorian , Mais. T-2UU < 4 TNI. "JLU JiSoot the Skin. Scalp , and Hair The Greatest Boarding College IN THE WORLD Notre Dame , Indiana We irnoraiitee tw point * : Oar atadenta tudjr and our atudenUbchare themaclve * 18 Buildings 75 Professors 800 Students Count * In Ancient and Modem UDB C > . EnfHih , Bts- tarj , and Economics CheuUti ? . Blolory. taarmaey. Civil , Zlactrleal , and Mechanic * ! EnKinWrlnp. Architecture , LTT , Shorthand , Book-ketplcj , TrpwilUns. . Spedal DepariBCBl far Boys Under Thirteen TERMS : Board. Tuition , and Lanndry , 8400. Send tea cents to tne Secretary for Catalogue. tiMths Great English Remedy ] BLAIR'S PELLS ] Safe , Sarc , Effective. 50c. Sc SI. , DRPGGISTS , or 93 Heary St. , Brooklyn , R. Y. | 6O Bus. Winter Wheal Per Acre ThU'g the yield of 8AIDER'S ItED CROSS HTBUID WINTER WHEAT. Send 2 cents In t snp for Fre ample of s me , M l o etUlojoe of WiaUr Whe ti , Rye , Bar ley Clown Timothy. Or s , BiUU , Treei , etc. for fall pUntiof SALZER SEED CO Dox C , Lacrosse , WJscossIa ' ' Wasblngton , . to Successfully Prosecutes Claims. te Ptinclpal Examiner U.S. Penaloo Bureau , ra la ci vU war. IS adtadlcatlna cloiaia. attv etoca I NEW FUEL FROM BROWN COAL , It Im Made Xcar Dresden Out of a Bohemian Product. ! According to a paper by Herr Buch- 1 ner in the Zeitschvift of the Society of German Engineers , a new fuel , Kauniazit , Is being made near Dres- 1 den from Bohemian brcr.vn coal , says the New York Post The coal is kept twenty-four hours in coke-oven retorts. The finished Kaumazit is removed from the base of the retorts every three hours and is cooled. The retort procedure first evaporates the hygro scopic water In the brown coal (25 ( and 2S per cent ) , and then causes the distillation of the heavy hydrocar bons. The retorts are worked under a par tial vacuum. The gases obtained from the retorts are cooled and scrubbed , and the purified gases are used part to heat the retorts , part to drive gas engines , and a surplus remaias for sale to the various Industries in the neighborhood. The thermal value of the Kaumazit obtained averages 0,749 kg.-cals. It contains 77.34 per cent carbon , 14.9 per cent ash and 1.47 per cent hydrogen , with 4.20 per cent hy- groscoplc water. It is graded in three sizes , and is sold for the production of slow-burning briquettes. Analysis proves Kaumazit to be a fuel poor in gas and high In fixed carbon. It has a high ignition temperature. Boiler firing with this fuel there fore demands closed ashpits and blow ers under the grate to obtain the best results. With well-designed grates a boiler efficiency of 72.2 per cent has been obtained. The air pressure is so regulated that when the fire doors are opened there is neither air Indrawing nor flame emission , a result obtained by working with a chimney draft of 7 mm , of water and a blower pressure of about the same value. In the trials carried out with this fuel the excess air has only averaged 19 per cent above that required by theory for complete combustion of the fuel. Kaumazit is , further , a smokeless fuel , and the cost in Dresden is so regulated that in most industries it can be employed so as to yield a saving of from 3 to 10 per cent , as compared with ordinary coal. BAD COHIPLEXION8 Depraved Blood Causes Pimples and Bolls-Dr. Williams' Pink Pills Make New Blood and Cure Follows. " I abused iny stomach , my blood got out of order and then my face broke out with pimples and boils , " saye T. E. Rob ertson , of 197 Addison street.JWashiug- Pa.This two . tou , was over years ago. My stomach was in bad shape. After eating I would have to rest awhile or I would suffer the most severe pains in my stomach. On arising I would often be so dizzy that I could hardly stand up. The slightest exertion would start my back aching so that I often had to sit down and rest awhile. At times I ex perienced a pain around the heart which alarmed me but which I suppose came from my stomSCh trouble. "I begau to break out on the face with pimples and later with boils which con fined me to the house a week or more at a time. One day I saw Dr. Williams' Pink Pills for Pale People advertised in a pamphlet which was left at the door and I thought I would give thejii trial. I took several boxes of the pills before all the pimples and boils left me , but I am now glad to say that my blood is good. I do not have any eruptions and I no longer have the head and stomach troubles I have described. I am very grateful for what Dr. Williams'Piuk Pills have done for me and I have recom mended them and always will advise those who are suffering from bad bleeder or stomach , trouble to try them. " If you want good health you must havfc. good blood. Bad blood is the root of most common diseases like anremia , rheuma tism , sciatica , neuralgia , St. Vitua'dance , nervousness , indigestion , debility , par tial paralysis and locomotor ataxia. Dr. Williams' Pink Pills are sold by all druggists or sent , postpaid , on receipt of price , 50c. per box , six boxes for $2.50 , by the Dr. Williams Medicine Company , Scheuectady , N.Y. Why Trees Are Sprayed. So rapid has been the advancement of spraying as a means of controlling insects and diseases , that there is a tendency to greatly overestimate ita value , says Farming. It was only" twenty-six years ago that parls green was first used for the codling moth of apples. Not until about 1885 was the Bordeaux mixture used to any extent When we remember that practically all of our modern spraying its tools , mixtures and methcrds has been devel oped or made of practical utility with in the past fifteen or twenty years , t until it has come to be an almost uni ct versal practice among the most suc t cessful fruit growers , we can readily understand why greater importance is sometimes ascribed to it than It really merits. Spraying Is a new idea ; and , like most .new ideas , it h 8 been over emphasized. There are some old and a few new ways of solving the insect and disease problems. Sometimes these other ways may be better even than spraying , sometimes they may supple ment it very advantageously. We should not forget tfcem in our enthusi asm over a new and valuable remedy , Had tbe Last Word. Mrs. Yapsley , who was sheading the winter in the South , had written a Kms * letter 'to her husband , reproaching him < 3 for his parsimony in not sending her n enough money. i To which he responded by telegram : "Will answer your letter soon. " Her rejoinder , also by telegram : "You can't answer it. " f1 Crashing : a Doubter. Customer You guarantee your candy be pure and wholesome , I suppose ? " Confectioner It's a good deal purer - and wholcsomer than this ragged old * ? greenback jou've handed me. , j . ( j - Komc-3Iudc Milk Cooler. It is not an easy task for those who have but a small quantity of milk to care for to do it with economy. The large cooling tanks or refrigerators which dairymen on a large scale can ) afford are not for the man with the single can , hence he must resort to some plan on the home-made idea. Take a box , which may be bought at any store for a low price , high enough to contain a barrel of good dimen sions. Fill In the bottom of the box several inches deep with sawdust , and on this set a barrel cut down so that * vhen a milk can is set into it it will GOOD MILK COOLER. come just below the level of the top of the barrel. Around this barrel , eight inches deep , pack sawdust. Set the can of milk in the barrel and pour in cold water and , if possible , add sev eral large pieces of ice. Arrange a , faucet which shall run through the barrel 1 and the box so that the water may be drawn off when It gets warm. The illustration shows the idea plain ly. In the small drawings at the bottom tom "M" represents the box , "L" the barrel and "A" the can of milk , and ID the drawing to the left "G" shows how the faucet is placed near the bottom tom of the box. Any one can readily make this milk cooler at small ex pense. Indianapolis News. Lime and Salt Keep ESTJN. The water-glass method is not the only one of keeping eggs in fairly good condition for quite a long period. Some years ago the Rhode Island Experiment Station tested a number of different methods , and found that salt brine and lime water stood second only to water- glass ds a preservative. The eggs were held over a year in the pickle , and all came out good. The station reported as follows : The surface of the liquid was crusted , and considerable silt had settled to the bottom of the jar. The shells of the eggs which were sunken In this silt appeared very fresh. The exteriors of the shells were clean and clear. The air cells were not increased in size. The whites and yolks were normal in appearance. The whites beat up nicely , but had a slightly saline taste. Several used as dropped eggs appeared to be nice , but had a slightly sharp taste. This old-fashioned method of preserving eggs is thus again proved effective. Economy In the Legume. Agricultural chemists tell us that while two tons of timothy hay , or a good average crop from an acre , takes away fifty pounds of nitrogen , a crop o eighty pounds' ; likewise whife the tim othy hay takes off thirty-six pounds of potash , the clover takes nearly ninety pounds. With phosphoric acid it is dif ferent ; the timothy takes twenty-one pounds and the clover only fourteen pounds. But the nitrogen which is the most expensive element is drawn from the : air , to a large extent , in the case of clover , and so need not be supplied in the : fertilizer. Here is the economy in growing the legnme , which has the power , as it were , of making its own Pfi fertilizer , or most of It. Manure Aid. to Fruit Trees. A Pennsylvanian states that he has never used commercial fertilizers in an apple orchard. If the ground is too poor to produce apples , nothing is bet ter than barnyard manure , which an swers every purpose , both for a mulch or for enriching the ground. In plantIng - Ing an apple orchard the ground should be farmed every year for about ten years , growing such crops as potatoes , truck , etc. , so that the ground will get manure as often as the crops will re quire it , and that will be sufficient for the growth of the apple trees and fruit. After that time the land may be seeded down and occasionally farmed and manured sufficiently to keep the land In ] a fertile condition. Summer Grain for Poultry. It is not to be expected that the fowls can be taken care of wholly on Ihe range during the summer no mat ter how extensive it may be so that the grain .must be fed in a greater or less amount During the summer we do t -without the mashes and the corn , feedIng - Ing wheat and buckwheajt and , beginr In June , more or less cottonseed t meal , adding it in very small quanti ties and increasing it gradually until about one-tenth of the daily ration con sists of the oil meal. Grain and The object of an experiment at the Ohio station was to determine whether silage might not be substituted for a considerable portion of the grain usually - ly fed to dairy cows. Two rations were fed carrying practically the same amount of dry matter. In one ration over 50 per cent of this dry matter was derived from silage , and less than 18 per cent was derived from grain. In the other ration over 57 per ceni of the dry matter was derived from grain , no silage being fed. The cows fed thy silage ration produced 9G.T pounds of milk and 5.08 pounds of butter fat a hundred pounds of dry matter. The cows fed the grain ration produced 81.3 pounds of milk and 3.9 pounds of butter fat a hundred pounds of dry matter. The cost of feed a hundred pounds of milk was ? O.GS7 with the silage ration and $1.03 with the grain ration. The cost of feed a hundred pounds of butter fat was 13.1 cents with the silage ration and 22.1 cents with the grain ration. The average net profit a cow a month ( over cost of labor ) was $5.SG4 with the silage ration , and § 2.403 with the ; I grain ration. 3Ione > - for Experiment "Work. The Adams bill becomes a law by the approval of the President Under its provisions the annual Federal appro priation for State agricultural experi ment stations is increased from $15,000 to $20,000 at once , and thereafter by the addition of § 2,000 annually until a , total of $15,000 is reached. At the end of five years each State station will receive $30,000 annually from the gov ernment , which must be expended in experimental work , not instruction. ' Not to exceed 5 per cent of the additional - I tional Adams appropriation can be expended - ' pended for building , repairs , purchase or rental. It means more work for the stations and this material aid will be , heartily welcomed. ! Horse-Hoof Cutter. If in reshoeing. a horse the horse- ' sheer does not trim the hoof smooth ly , and the shoe consequently does not 1 fit the foot perfectly , the horse there by feels uncomfortable , would be a question very difficult to answer. It is natural to Infer , nevertheless , that when such is the case the horse is un- , aer more or less strain. To accomplish - \ plish a more uniform and even par- j ing of the hoof a Canadian inventor ! has devised the hoof-cutter shown in j the illustration. In this cutter two i knives are pivoted to a central bar , < which terminates into a hook. This j hook is clamped in position "on the ' hoof as shown. The operator then ' grasps the center handle and one of the knife handles firmly in one hand. ! With the other hand he swings the ' remaining handle back to the point indicated - i dicated by the dotted lines. Thus ' with one stroke he Is able to pare one ' side of the hoof from heel to toe. The ' other knife is then swung back in the ' TRIMS THE HOOF. same manner , trimming the other side of the hoof. A quicker or more effi cient nianer of trimming a horse's hoof would be hard to imagine. Save Ammonia from Manure. All stable manure will 'be improved if potash in some form is added , espe cially of the potash salt Kanit has been found useful for this purpose. It is crude sulphate of potash and con tains a large proportion of salt It will arrest the escape of ammonia and prove valuable of itself when applied to the land. It is also excellent on land in fested with grubs , though not a com plete remedy for such pests. It is cheap and should be used more extensively wliere manure is being saved. The Best Calf Food. Separated milk as a food for calves , when fed direct from the machine , makes a model milk food. Careful ex periments show that practically as good calves can be raised on separated milk , direct from the machine , as can be rais e-el on whole , milk , provided the butter fat lost in'the removal of the cream is replaced by linseed meal , corn meal , or flour or molasses. Greatest Alfalfa Field. Kansas has the largest continuous aS falfa field In the world. This belongs to Colonel J. TV. Robinson , Eldorado , and Includes more than 2,500 acres , the product of which brings a small for tune to its owner each year. The 'An Irish drill-sergeant waa Instruct ing some recruits in the mysteries of marching movements , nud found great ' difficulty , says a writer In the New j York World , in getting a countryman I of his to halt when the command was i given. After explaining and Illustrating sev eral times , he approached the recruit , j sized him up silently for a couple of j minutes , then demanded his name. "Fitzgerald , ser , " was the reply. "Did you ever drive a donkey , Fitz ? " "Yes , sor. " "What did you say when you wished him to stop ? " "Whoa. " The sergeant turned away and Imme diately put his squad in motion. After i i they had advanced a dozen yards or so he bawled out at the top of his lungs , "Squad , halt ! Whoa , Fitzgerald ! " FOTJB YEARS OF AGONY. ; Whole Foot Nothing but Proud Fleah , Had to Use Crutches "Cuticura Remedies the Best omEarth. " "In the year 1S99 the side of my ' right foot was cut off from the little I ! , toe down to the heel , and the physician ' . 'who had charge of me was trying to ; sew up the side of my foot , but with , no success. At last my whole foot j 1 and way up above my calf was noth- f ing but proud flesh. I suffered untold 1 agonies for four years , and tried dif ferent physicians and all kinds of oint ments. I could walk only with crutches. In two weeks afterwards I ! ! saw a change in my limb. Then I j began using Cuticura Soap and Ointment - I : ment often during the day and kept it up for seven mouths , when my limb was healed up just the same as if I never had trouble. It is eight months now since I stopped using Cuticura Remedies , the best on God's earth. I am working at the present day , after five years of suffering. The cost of Cutieura Ointment and So p was only $ G ; but the doctors' bills were more like § 000. John M. Lloyd , 718 S. Arch j Ave. , Alliance , Ohio , June 27 , 1905. " According : to Sigma. An Irishman was walking along a read beside a golf links when he was suddenly struck between the shoulders by a golf ball. The force of the blow , says a writer in the New York World , almost knocked him down. When he recovered he observed a golfer running toward him. "Are you hurt ? " asked the player. "Why didn't you get out of the way ? " "An' why should I get out of the way ? " asked Pat. "I didn't know there were any assassins round here. 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