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Troubles of nn Amateur.
(
"I thought you had gone to raising
bees , " said the man from the city. "I
don't see any sign of them around here. "
( "I had half a dozen colonies of the
.finest bees I could get , " answered tie
uburbanite , "and a wnole library of lit
erature on bee raising ; but they swarmed
one day , and while I was looking through
my hooks to find out what was the proper
thing" to do when bees swarmed the blam
ed things flew away , and I've never seen
'em since. "
Fully 2,500 persons commit suicide ia
Russia every year.
DESPAIRED
Ancemlc Woman Cured by Dr. Wil
liams' Pink Pills Recommends the
; Pills to All Others Who Suffer.
Anaemia is just the doctor's name foi
bloodlessuess. Dr. Williams' Pink Pills
cure anaemia a's food cures hnuger.
They cured Mrs. Thomas J. McGaun , of
17 Lincoln Place , Plainfield , N. J. , who
says :
"In the spring of 1903 I did my
usual hoHso cleaning and soon after
ward I began to have the most terrible
lieadacb.es. My heart wonld beat so irregularly -
, regularly that it was painful and there
came a morning when I could not get
np. My doctor said I had ausBmia and
he was surprised that I had continued
to live in the condition I was in.
I was confined to my bed for nearly
two months , the doctor coming every
day for the first few weeks , but I did not
improve to amount to anything. Al
together I was sick for nearly two
years. I was as weak as a rag , had
headaches , irregular heart beats , loss of
appetite , cramps in the limbs and was
tumble to get a good night's sleep. My
legs and foot were BO swollen that Ii
feared they would burst.
"Before very long after I tried Dr.
Williams'Pink Pills I felt a change for
the better. I liave taken about twelve
boxes and although I was as near the
grave as could be , I now feel as if I
had a new lease of life. I have no m6re
headaches , the heart beats regularly , my
cheeks are pink and I feel ten years
younger. I feel that I have been cured
"very cheaply and I have recommended
the pills to lots of my friends. "
Dr. Williams' Pink Pills are sold by all
druggists , or will he sent by maiLon re
ceipt of price , 50 cents per box , six boxes
$2.50 , by the Dr. Williams Medicius Co. ,
Scheuectady , N. Y.
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Opinions of Great Papers on Important Subjects. T
SPELLING EEFOBM TENDENCIES.
STUDY of spelling reform by F. Sturgis Allen
shows that there Is less evidence of change
ef spelling in British usage than there is
in American. Shall -we spell "aesthetic" or
"esthetic ? " British publishers do not take to
the latter. On the other hand , "American
publishers who publish for the British as
well as the American market , " Mr. Allen tells us , "find
that adopting the e ( which is considered an American
ism ) tends to injure the sale of their books to the Brit
ish trade. " Considerable changes , he adds , are taking
place in American usage in the direction of returning to
British usage ; as , for example , "honour" for honor , "cen
tre" for center and "traveller" for traveler. After all ,
American publishers vsrho want the widest market for
books of a certain class have to consider the fastidious
buyers in Australia , Canada , South Africa and other
British colonies as well as in the United States. It thus
happens that the personal interest of many bookmakers
in this country run counter to the project of extended
"spelling reform" endowed by Mr. Carnegie. The type
writer and typesetting machines seem to be chiefly re
sponsible for the common substitution for the dipthongs ,
as the machines would become much more complicated If
they provided for them. "Should the dictionaries , " Mr.
Allen asks , "give the preference to 'e' forins when
usage does not , without indicating that usage prefers the
dipthong forms in those cases ? " Usage , after all , is and
should be the master. The time is past when dictionary
makers could undertake to dictate. Baltimore Sun.
FTJTUBE OF SAN FRANCISCO.
AN FRANCISCO started to rebuild even be
fore she had any assurance that she could
establish herself more securely against fur
ther earthquakes. That showed the quality
of her courage. It has , nevertheless , been
giving her satisfaction to hear the testimony
of earthquake experts and architects and
builders to the effect that she can make her buildings
strong enough to resist even worse shocks than they have
experienced.
Professor Nakamura , of the Imperial University of
Tokio , the architect sent by Japan to inspect conditions
at San Francisco , reported some time ago that one of
the great causes of damage had been the poor quality of
mortar and the faulty construction with the use of hollow
tiling and fire blocks Instead of concrete , He gave the
San Francisco people formulas for the kind of mortar
which , according to Japanese experience , will resist
shocks , and he told them that even brick buildings , If
properly set in mortar , can be made proof against damage.
The writer on applied science in the current Forum
adds his testimony as to the stability of the steel frame
buildings , when properly braced and when established
on sufficiently solid foundations. For the smaller buildIngs -
Ings re-enforced concrete that Is , concrete with an im
bedded metallic network Is approved for its resistance
both to shock and to fire.
Even the light and water problems of San Francisco
are said to be susceptible of entirely successful solutions ,
both from technical and from commercial standpoints. The
substitution of electricity for gas will do away with one
of the worst of the fire dangers that coming from the
gas mains the earthquake has broken. The water pipes
can probably be made secure against the worst breaks
by laying them on concrete foundations. Indirectly
San Francisco is planning to make great conflagrations
Improbable hereafter by establishing a system of broad
THINK PLANTS HAVE EYES.
Scientists Thus Explain. Why They
Seek to Avoid the Sun's Glare.
Plants are toy no means so stupid or
EO 'helpless as they commonly get cred
it for being. No matter how a beech
happens to bfe placed in the ground ,
the root -will turn down and the stem
grow up Into the air- and there -manage
somehow or other to find its way to
the nearest support
Especially remarkable is the beha
vior of vegetables toward light House
plants , as every one knows , grow in
the direction of the window , but if the
pot be turned halfway round the leaves
will nevertheless manage to screw
themselves back into their old posi
tion , and the sunflower will "rubber
round" all day long so as to stare at
the sun. In temperate countries leaves
grow at right angles to the rays of
light to get as much of it as possible ;
In the tropics they set themselves
edgewise to get as little.
Evidently , then , plants come at least
as near seeing as do some animals.
Pretty much all that has been known
ibout the matter , however , is that they
attend only to the blue rays of the
sun ; for though they will grow per
fectly -well in red or yellow light they
show not the slightest inclination to
turn toward It .
A German botanist Haberlandt who
for rsany years has been studying those
problems , has concluded that the whole
apper surface of each leaf is a sort of
compound eye. The thin , translucent
skin which in most plants covers the
jreen , succulent tissue of the leaf Is
itself , in certain cases , composed of
imumerable rounded cells. These ,
thinks Professor Haberlandt are so
nany minute lenses which concentrate
: he light upon the living substance be-
, ow and enable the plant to distinguish
Detw.een light and darkness , or be-
: ween weak light and strong , though
lot ° f course , to see objects. Such
primitive lenses he finds In the fig ,
vy , magnolia , wood-sorrel and other
jlants. Certain plants , like the pepper
md the balsam , have in addition little
jye spots which in structure approach
.he eyes of many of the simplest ani-
nals and appear , In a cense , to be real
iyes.
iyes.t any rate , plants do act as if they
tould see and Professor Haberlandt has
bund that each of these supposed sense
> rgans can be made to print a bright
> pot on a photographic plate. Rol
ler1 * .
boulevards , which the fire will not be apt to leap , even
if the water supply Is in part Interrupted. Some of these
boulevards are planned to be put through at once , others
after five years and others after ten years.
San Francisco has every reason to feel confident that H
Is as safe as any other city , and much safer than many ,
against the recurrence of disaster with destructive results
akin to those of last April. Chicago Record Herald.
CHECKS ON PROSPERITY.
HE rich bear little of the general burden of
taxation , in any country , proportionately to
the poor. The British Chancellor of the Ex
chequer hints that an attempt will be made
to throw the income tax more heavily on
the rich. The Liberal party may also adopt
the principle , practiced in several European
countries , of taxing Income from property more heavily
than income based on effort Prussia , Saxony and Wur-
temberg tax Income from property about three times as
much as income from work , and Denmark twice as much.
The principle is recognized in Italy. The only objection
to a progressive income tax is the encouragement that it
gives to perjury , and this objection it shares with the
ordinary forms of taxing personal property. Income tax
es , inheritance taxes , and laws in restraint of monopoly
are all efforts , of course , toward the one goal of so ar-
jranging the laws that society shaH grant to the individual
only as much as IB for the material and spiritual wel
fare of the race. Massachusetts has just declared ,
through her Supreme Court that no person or body In
that State shall make It a condition of sales that the
purchaser shall not handle the goods of other dealers a
significant example of what is to be expected more every
year in the direction of preventing the individual or the
corporation from having too much In common with the
supposed disposition of the much-wronged hog Collier's
Weekly.
THE COLLEGE ADDRESSES.
HEN a man is called-upon to speak to col
lege students he usually weighs his words
most carefully. However extreme a partisan
may be in other circumstances , when setting
forth his views In the presence of those who
are learning about the great problems of
life he strives to be judicial and fair-minded ,
consequently , the annual college addresses afford a dis
tinct guide to what the leaders of thought really think.
Those addresses this year were remarkable for their
cheerful optimism and for their faith In the honesty and
uprightness of the men of the present generation. There
were some exceptions , but the rule was that the young
men about to begin the struggle for survival were told
that the old-fashioned virtues have not gone out of style ,
that honesty and uprightness are still highly prized , that
greed for gain is as despicable as It has always been , and
that the road to success lies along the straight and nar
row way which has commended Itself to men by centuries
of experience.
This word is needed. It is important that a true and
wholesome standard shall be held up for admiration
at the time when young men begin to finda standard
necessary.
It is a most gratifying sign of the firmness of the
moral foundations that neither the colleges nor the men
whom they honor by invitations to speak have been
swept from their feet by the tide of sordid accusations
too many , alas ! proved that has lately been flooding the
country. Youth's Companion.
PUTTING HIS FOOT IN IT.
Mrs. Skrappy Oh ! Why didn't I marry a sensible man ?
Skrappy Because , , madam , a sensible man would never have married you.
I POLITE JAPANESE CHILDREN. *
?
Japan is the country in which the
word "boor , " or an equivalent , is not
needed. In that land habits of polite
ness 'begin ' to foe formed with the first
training of the child. Albert Tracy , In
his "Rambles Through Japan , " writes
ofwhat he observed in the most obscure
parts of the country. Among the many
things which he found to praise none
is more pleasing than the fine courtesy
of the children.
I saw some children emerging from
school , and stopped on the opposite side
of the street to look at them. They
came out with none of the rude -bolster-
ousness which characterizes pupils at
home , but walked sedately and quietly ,
with books and slates under their arms.
The first to come out were not a little
startled , evidently , at seeing a bearded
foreigner looking at them. They stop
ped a moment , and then , witii a cour
tesy which I wish I could imagine pos
sible in an English town or an Ameri
can village , made an exceedingly re
spectful bow , and passed on. Of course
I returned the salutation.
The next ones -repeated their civil
ity , and then as fast as the1 pupils came
to the front they stopped and made pro
found reverences all along the line.
It was a very pretty picture , and quite
well illustrated the polite bearing of the
Japanese , who are thus trained to civil
ity from childhood.
Before a baby can speak , almost be
fore It can totter alone , It is taught to
lift the hand to the forehead on receiv
ing a gift ; and I never saw a child fail
to make this signal of respect and grat
itude without being reproved or remind
ed of the omission by some bystander.
At another place I came suddenly
upon two pretty children who , approaching
preaching from the opposite direction ,
were completely taken by surprise- and
had no opportunity to escape. Their
faces showed that they were very much
frightened , and the younger , clung
*
closely to his brother.
Just as I was about to speak they
made the most profound of reverences ,
withal eo pret'tlly that I gave them each
a penny , demonstrating , I hope , in their
minds that even a white-faced bar- ,
foarian Is not dangerous If one is polite.
Everywhere.
The Preacher And now , brethren ,
remember that we must all appear be
fore that dread tribunal where all our
misdeeds shall be brought to light
The Hearer Great Scott ! Is this
niuck-raklng being taken up by the
chruches , too ? Cleveland Leader.
RUSSIAN HORROR.
Victim * of Slecllec Mammcre Perlsfc
Miserably of Thirst.
The full horror of the massacre at
-Sledlce will never be known. The ofE-
cial report is that 100 were killed , but
this is far belowt he total. Whole
( blocks of houses were burned and tre
mendous damage -was done by shells
from the battery of artillery that fired
recklessly Into the mob.
sAll this , however , Is merely incident
al , being as nothing when compared to
the awful details of that Russian tra
gedy. A terrible feature of the woe of
Siedlce is that many persons died of
thirst The drunken soldiers and police
cleaned out blocks , leaving only the
dead and wounded behind. Many of
these buildings were not entered for five
days and it is said twenty bodies of
men and women , who died from their
wounds and thirst have -been picked
up.
up.One
One Jewish girl was found uncon
scious on the floor under a water fau
cet Two policemen had broken both
'her ' legs and cut her in the side with
a sword. She had dragged herself
across the floor , < but was unable to rise
to the faucet There she lay in agony
for nearly five days. She revived just
Jong enough to gasp "Water ! Water ! "
and then died.
An old white-headed Jew , "one of the
wealthiest men in the city , was -found
dead in a bathtub in his house. He had
been shot twice in the 'body ' and evi
dence was found showing he had spent
two or three days helpless on the din
ing room floor. Blood cots showed
whore lie had dragged himself to the
bath room.Apparently , in a delirious
ecstasy at getting water , he had turned
on the faucets , struggled over the side
into the bath and was drowned.
A few days ago , with a prayer for
Russian freedom on their lips , Senaide
Konoplianikovo , the girl who assassin
ated Gen. Min Aug. 28 In the Peterhof
railroad station , walked with firm step
up a scaffold and was hanged. When
the 'black cap was being pulled on the
girl in a loud voice called : "Long live
the social revolution for land and lib
erty ! "
WRECKED BY DYNAMITE.
Explosion nt Jell i co , Teiin. , Does
$1OOOOOO Damage.
A terrific dynamite explosion at Jellico ,
Tenn. , caused the loss of at least nine
lives and more or less seriously injured
not less than fifty people. Property dam
age estimated at $1,000,000 was done and
the tow-n of Jellico , Ky.was practically
destroyed. At least 500 people are home
less. Without exception every business
house in the town is either totally wreck
ed or badly damaged. The union station
of the Southern railway and the Louis
ville and Nashville railroad , located about
100 yards from the scene of the explo
sion , was shattered to splinters. This cut
off all telegraphic communication and
news of the explosion TVOS handled by
telephone.
The explosion occurred upon the Ken
tucky side of Jellico , and in consequence
every business house on that side of the
town was wrecked. Not one was spared.
A large number of residences located near
the railroad on the Kentucky side were
demolished. As a result it is estimated
that one-seventh of the population of the
two Jellicos is homeless.
A car loaded with dynamite , and con
signed to the Rand Powder Company , was
brought in by the Southern railway from
the direction of Knoxville and was side
tracked in the yards used .jointly by the
Southern railway and the L. & N. It is
believed that the explosion was caused
from spontaneous combustion in the car.
The spot where the car stood is marked
by a crevasse in the earth fully twenty
feet deep and about thirty feet in diame
ter.
ter.Word
Word was received in Winnipeg , Man. ,
of a dynamite explosion , which occurred
on the right of way of the Grand Trunk
Pacific railway near Finmark , northwest
ern Ontario , in which five were killed out
right and six injured. A gang of Finland-
ers was engaged in tunneling , according
to one story , when the premature explo
sion of a large quantity of dynamite oo
Burred. *
The advance in the price of sugar will
make many of us look sour.
Europe proposes to prevent the Shah of
Persia from hiding under the bed.
Palma might catch those recalcitrant
Cubans 'by putting a pinch of pie on their
plates.
Bank Wrecker Stensland doesn't know
so much about its being "Home. , Sweet
Home. "
The Chinese Emperor is getting to 'be '
almost as great a promiser as the Czar
of Russia.
Before the court gets through a Pitts-
burg divorce suit they arrest most every
body in sight.
It is claimed that Gen. TrepofFs death
was due to natural causes. Natural to
Russia , no doubt.
What Cuba especially wants is to learn
the difference ( between a ballot box and
a waste paper basket
"Segal got all the money ; I was fool
ed , " says Hippie in his confession. So
were the rest of 'em.
How fortunate would be all nations
who go to war if they had some big friend
to make them behave !
Cuba knows a hint when one as large
as a skyscraper begins taking ominous
strides in its direction.
The insurance companies are not aP
quitters. They have paid $55,000,000 of
their San Francisco losses.
Between being arrested and committing
suicide , ou poor bank wreckers are hav
ing a very unpleasant time.
The Czar is beginning to find out that
, you can't govern an empire nor lay pave
ments merely with good intentions.
PERUNA PRAISED.
MRS. ESTHER M. MILNER.
Box 321 , DeGraff , Ohio.
Dr. S. B. Hartman , Columbus , Ohio :
Dear Sir :
I was a terrible sufferer from.
pelvic weakness and had headache
continuously. I was not able to do my
housework for myself and husband.
I wrote you and 'described my condi
tion as nearly as possible. You recom
mended Peruna. I took four bottles of
it and was completely cured. I think
Peruna a wonderful medicine and
have recommended it to my friends with
the very best of results.
Esther M. Milner.
Very few of the great multitude of
women who have been relieved of some
pelvic disease or weakness by Peruna
ever consent to give a testimonial to be
read by the public.
There are , however , a few courageous ,
self-sacrificing women who will for the
sake of their suffering sisters allow their
cares to be published.
Mrs. Milner is one of these. In
her gratitude for her restoration to
health she is willing
A GRATEFUL that the women of
LETTER TO the whole world
DR. HARTMAN should know It. A
chronic invalid
brought back to health is no small mat
ter. Words are inadequate to express-
complete gratitude.
Benjamin Hobbs of Springfield , Mass. ,
is the oldest active armorer in America.
He has been in government employ forever
over fifty years.
Wanted Women In each town to soil extracts , ,
toilet articles , massajjo cream , etc. Waterloo1
Cliem cal Works , \Vut6rIoo. Iowa.
A Wise Cnt.
A time cat story Is told by a corre
spondent of the Hartford Courant A
family moved to a new home twelve
miles from the old one. They gave
their cats to a friend about six miles-
from the new home. One of them , the
mother cat , remained at her new quar
ters only a short time , and nothing was
heard from her until this summer , when
nearly two years had passed. One
morning she was discovered in the yard
of her old mistress' "home in the city
which she had never seen , being born
and raised at the old home in the coun
try. To the greeting of her mistress
she responded with every show of affec
tion and delight Of course , the wan
derer was made welcome. She shows
a decided aversion to being put out of
doors at all , and clings with a devotedness -
ness which Is really touching to her oldL
friends. "Now , " asks the writer , "could
this be merely diance that pussy , In
her tramp life , should find her way to
that particular place , or do these dumb
creatures know more than we give them
credit for ? "
The trahi was called the limited , but
what was limited about it ? It ran at
an unlimited speed , the incivility of the
conductor and the brdkeman was unlim
ited , as was the rapacity of the porter.
"It's a mystery ! " exclaimed the littla
party of foreigners.
But in a moment they entered the
drawing room car , and their wonder van
ished.
"Of course , it's the good taste of the
Jecoratlons I" they whispered , and , remem
bering their manners , pretended not to no *
tice.Puck. .
THE WAY OUT.
Chi of Food Broncht Sncceea
and Happiness.
An ambitious but delicate girl , after
falling to go through school on account
3f nervousness and hysteria , found In
Srape-Nuts the only thing that seemed
to build her tip and furnish her tha
jeace of health.
"From Infancy , " she soys , "I have
lot been strong. Being ambitious to
earn at any cost I finally got to the
Sign School , but soon had to abandon
ny studies on account of nervous pros-
ration and hysteria.
"My food did not agree with me , I
Few thin and despondent. I could not
njoy the simplest social affair , for I
uffered constantly from nervousness
Q spite of all sorts of medicines.
This wretched condition continued
tntil I was twenty-five , when I became
aterested In the letters of those who
ad cases like mine and who were being
ured by eating Grape-Nuts.
"I had little faith but procured a box
nd after the first dish I experieneed a
ecullar satisfied feeling that I had
ever gained from any ordinary food. I
lept and rested better that night and
i a few days began to grow stronger.
"I had a new feeling of peace and
jstfumess. In a few weeks , to my
reat Joy , the headaches and nervous-
ess left me jg life became bright and. .
opefnL I resumed my studies and' '
iter taught fen months with ease o
mrse using Grape-Nuts every day. It
now four years since I began to use
rape-Nuts , I am the mistress of a '
ippy home and the old weakness has
jver returned. " Name given by Post
al Co. , Battle Greek , Mien.
' "There's a eason. " Read'the little
k-Tfle Road \Fullvllle , " In pkgs
