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r. v HAD TO GIVE UP. SufTered Agonies from Kidney Disor dcrs Until Cured by Dean's ..." . Kidney Pills. George W. Renoff, of 1953 Xorth llta St.. rnna delphia. Pa., a man of good rep utation and standing, writes: "Five years ago I was suffering so with my back and kidneys that I often had to lay off. The kidney secretions were unnatural. ni y legs and stomach were swohen, and ! had no appetite. When doctors failed to help me I began using Poan's Kidney Pills and improved until my back was strong and my appetite re turned. During the four years since I stopped using them 1 have enjoyed excellent health. The cure was per manent." (Signed) George V. Renoff. A TRIAL FREE Address Foster Milburn Co., Buffalo. N. Y. For sal3 by all dealers. Price; 50 cents. Wrsaw ? Milk Town. The town of Warsaw my be called the milk producers' Eden, although the milk consumers' Eden it cerJiinly is .not. There is probably nowhere such a "milk town" as this. Restau rants are little frequented. On the other hand, the public frequ-nt the various diaries in great numbers in order to chat with friends or read the newspapers: to the accompaniment of a black or whit" cbee or a glass of cold or warm milk. Retort Courteous. Sandy McXab was boastful of his ancestors and of the noble connec tions of his family. A tourist who was spending a week in the village whete Sandy lived met that individual driv ing a pig. "Hullo. Sandy." said the visitor. "Is this one of your noble re lations?" "Na. na. sir." was Sandy's reply. "She's no relation at all. she's shtist an acquaintance like yersel'." Simple Cosmetic. In the days of our grandmothers, the panacea for all complexion ills was the application of decoction made from soaking wild tansy in but termilk, an extremely innocent and effective cost met ic. Found at Last. Alston. Mich.. March 13th. (Spe cial.) After suffering for twenty years from Rheumatism and Kidney Troubles, and spending a fortune in doctors and medicines that brought him no relief, Mr. James Culet of this place has found a complete cure for all his aches, pains and weakness, la Dodd's Kidney Pills. Naturally Mr. Culet feels much elat ed over his cure and gives great credit to the remedy that gave him health. "Yes," Mr. Culet says, "my rheuma tism and Kidney Troubles are all gdne and I feel like a new man. Dodd's Kidney Pills did it. Before I used them I spent a small fortune on doctors and one remedy and anoth er. I cheerfully recommend Dodd's Kidney Pills to anone suffering from KIk tmiat ism or Kidney Trouble." 'Dodd's Kidney Pills always euro sick kidneys. Healthy kidnevs take nil the uric ;icid ike cause of Rheu matism out of the blood. That's why Dodd's Kidney Pills always cute Jtheumalism. We hae all heard of wolves in .sheep's clothing, but the wolf at the door generally comes disguised as a j bill collector. i Marnrimi AVIi.-iir. Payors "Strain i :m heat is the kind vilieli I.muli at di.uihti and the ele ment and positively muck Black Ku,t, that ternble scorch! It's sure of yielding 0 luuhcls of fhie-t Wheat tin? i-uit -!eti-. on per auc on mmd 111 . la., Midi.. is., O.. Pa.. Mr.., .eb. lands and 40 t CO bulieK on -.rid land.-,! 'o m-t, no m-ect.s, no failure. Catalog tells all about it. .U"st srvp 10c am Tins notice o the Jr,hn A. Saler eed Co., Li C'roe, Wis . and thev will send jou free a simple of tJns Wheat and oilier f.uin seed-, to gether with their great e.it.-ilotr. worth $100.00 toany w.de-a wake farmer. W.X.L'.l It's too suggestive if the hangman walks with :i swing. Every housekeeper should know that if they will buy Defiance Cold Water Starch for laundry use they will save not only time, because it never sticks to the iron, but because each package contains 16 oz. one lull pound while all other Cold Water Starches are put tip in -pound pack ages, and the price is the same. 10 cents. Then again because Defiance Starch is free from all injurious chem icals'. If your grocer tries to sell you a 12-oz. package it is because he has a stock on hand which he wishes to dispose of before he puts in Defiance. He knows that Defiance Starch has printed on every package in large let ters and figures "16 ozs." Demand De fiance and save much time and money and the annoyance of the iron stick ing. Defiance never sticks. A fast friendship may be slow but sure. It Cures Colds. Couphs. Sore Threat. Croup, j "Influensa. VTbnopictf Coujrti. Bronchitis and i Asthma. AcertainjcureforConsumptioninfirst ! Kaces.audasurerelief inadvanmlsiacev. U tonce. You will seethe excellent effect aftct taking the first do-e. Sold by dealers every here. Larce bott:s23 cents" and 50 cents. THE. BEST i WATERPROOF CLOTHING IN THE WORLD ,t, KM&IKIlAKtfK iC ircn.. 5W"cy SHUffi vsimmmm oKiHtaatmnt I EXM MA ffff, SmB. Ar ucoiam W&Mtt RBcSSSsit snonvmcruu. uncofI ' I . J. TOmtm COk,mamnm. vj. I TWO MEN NEW IN DIPLOMATIC SERVICE OF THE UNITED STATES Charles If Grsves. m MfnislerTo Sweden And NorwaysU TvrrKiiUFZScymL s Charles H. Graves, appointed min ister to Sweden and Norway by Presi dent Roosevelt, is a resident of Duluth, Minn. He is president of the Graves Manley insurance agency, and presi dent of the Duluth Telephone com pany. Mr. Graves succeeds W. W. Thomas of Maine, who has been min ister at Stockholm since 1SS0, with the exception of the three years from 1S94 to 1897. SALARIES PAID HEADS OF NATIONS Abdul Hamid II., Sultan of Turkey Nicholas II., Czar of all the Russias Wilhelm II.. Kaiser of the German Empire Victor Emanuel III., King of Italy Franz Josef I., Emperor of Austrir-Hungary Edward VII.. King of Great Britain Mutsuhito. Mikado of Japan Alfonso XIII.. King of Spain Leopold II., King of Belgium Christian IX.. King of Denmark Oscar II., King of Sweden and No: way Carlos I.: King of Portugal Georgios I., King of Greece Wilhelmina Maria, Queen of the Netherlands Prithvi Shamsher Jang, Maharajah of Nepal Peter I.. King of Servla Carol I.. King of Roumania Emiln Loubet, President of France Theodore Roosevelt. President of the United States. Nicholas I.. Prince of Montenegro Francesco Alvez, President of Brazil Porfirio Diaz, President of Mexico Robert Comptesse. President of Switzerland Manuel Amador, President of Panama DEATH CLAIMS A. M. PALMER. Man Prominent in Theatrical World Succumbs to Apoplexy. A. M. Palmer, the theatrical man ager, who was stricken with apoplexy .March :. died next day in a hospital. Me was t'.T years old. Albert Marsh.im Palmer was thir-tv-five years a manager of plays and players." In that time he rose trom obscurity to national prominence, had fame atid fortune also. A year ago he lost his fortune, went into bank ruptcy, and his wife opened a milli ner's store in New York. A. M. Palmer was born in North Ptonington. Conn., in 1S3S. He was graduated from the law department of the University of New York, but did not follow law. He appeared in the theatrical world about 1S70. For ten years beginning in 1S72 he was manager of the Union Square the ater, anil afterward of Madison idmC The Late A. M. Palmer. Square theater, and of Palmer's the ater. He was a founder and for four teen years president of the Actors' Fund of America, and one of the founders and vice president of the Players' club of this city. Lately he had been manager for Richard Mans field. When Bananas Were Unknown. Nowadays when bananas are so numerous it is difficult to realize that een twenty years ago they were still practically unknown to most English people. Queen Victoria tasted her first banana In the great conservatory at the royal botanical gardens. The prince consort, the president of the society, was in the council room, and the queen, according to her custom, was awaiting his return when the nanana was handed toJer. The in cident is chronicled nHbe story of the gardens. Problem to Figure Out. Here's a little problem for commut ers to work out cominc in town in the morning, or, if they don't finish ' it then, going out again at night. A ' Boston man wanted a ticket to Spring field and had only a $2 bill, it re- : quired $3 to get the ticket. He took ! the $2 bill to a pawnshop and pawned it for $1.50. On his way back to the depot he met a friend to whom he sold the pawn ticket for $1.50. That gave him 53. Now. who's out that dol lar? Eoston Globe. Motors for Postmen. At a speech on the opening of the international motor exhibition, in Lon don, Lord Stanley, the postmaster gen eral, after stating that he had just signed a contract for motors for car rying the mails, said he hoped soon to see every postman making his rounds in a motor. New Plea for Divorce. Henry Hank .Haberline, of Lincoln, Neb., has put in a new plea for di vorce. He avers that he was hypno tized by the parson. tw t J 5k Thomas J. O'Brien JVICHIGAH frnistez lb DenmarTc Thomas J. O'Brien of Grand Rapids, Mich., the new minister to Denmark, is a lawyer, and for thirty years has been general counsel for the Grand Rapids and Indiana railroad. He was the Republican candidate for Supreme Court judge in 18S3. and has been a delegate to national conventions. Mr. O'Brien succeeds L. S. Swenson o! Minnesota, who has represented the United States at Copenhagen since 1S97. .$10,000,000 . 7,500.000 . 4.000.000 . 3.0S0.000 . 2.775.000 . 2.300,000 . 2.250.000 . 1.400.000 700,000 700.000 700,000 fiSO.OOO 575.000 300.000 . 250.000 240,000 237.000 150.000 50.000 41,500 40.000 40.000 35.000 10.000 CORN MOST IMPORTANT CROP. Already Enormous, the Product Could Easily Be Doubled. In round numbers the farmers of the United States raise about 2..iM.0ti0 bushels of con; osch jear. The value of this crop usually exceeds $l.uii0.tiiiu. 000. These figures are .-o enormous that in the abstract they almost sur pass conception. The American corn crop is the most important crop that is grown. But in spite of the enor mous figures which must be used in expressing the size of this crop, the agricultural department at Washinc ton declares that it could be doubled without adding one acre to the pres ent producing area ar.d without any bothersome increase of time, money or labor to the farmer. This wonderful undertaking could be accomplished, as the department has proved, simply by using pedigreed corn for seed. The average yield last year was twenty five bushels to the acre, but a large number of farmers who followed the guidance of science raised the yield on their farms to fifty and even 1O0 bushels to the acre. Kansas City Journal. "Civil War" Cfficial Designation. The senate has officially pone on tecord as preferring the words "civil war" to designate the prolrnged strug gle between the states. Those vigor ous patriots who still insist on talk ing about "the rebellion" may well take notice. While the senate was con sidering the postoflice appropriation bill Mr. McCcmas proposed an amend ment that will allow "soldiers of the war of the rebellion" a preference in the transfer of railway mail clerks to cletical service in the departments. "Make it soldiers of the civil war. It is more courteous," Senator Bacon of Georgia suggested. "That is entirely agreeable." replied Mr. McComas. "I should have drawn it that way at first." and the amendment as amend ed was forthwith adopted. Chicago Chronicle. A Citizen of the Freedom Days. The brontcsaurus. whose skeleton was recently placed in position in the Museum of Natural History, New York, flourished In this. good, green es-rth 12.000.000 years ago so the nro- j fessors say in the wild days of free- ueui, wueu state nnn county taxes were unknown; when the gas bill was an unformed dream in the dim coal j caves and never a man was seen climbing to a six-story roof to sweep the horizon with a three foot spvglass for the form and features of a ten foot bailiff. Atlanta Cc-stitution. Widow of Gen. Arid?-so" Dead. Mrs. Eliza Eayard CKnch Anderson, widow of Gen. Robert Anderson, the hero cf Fort Sumter, died rc-c i!y in Washington. D. C. When the attack on Fort Sumter began .Mrs .V er.;on. then living in New Yo k. di&tn ;uishe.' herself by seeking out a iVlthfui ser geant, who had been wit. , husLan : in Mexico, and in per?oi jcorting him through the enemj's uun'ry to the beseiged fortress. whre he be came the personal alter 1ant of her husband. Sheep Grazers Triumph. As an outcome of a fight to keep Utah and Idaho sheepmen out of Wy oming, the Union Pacific has leased to a grazing association 2,000,000 acres in western Wyoming, which will e used for the winter grazing of 300,0u0 sheep. Automobile Output. It is estimated that tie output of automobiles for the currei.' tar will be 20,000, of a total value of $30,000. 000. Accessories made will reach $5.-000,000. ASSASSIN KEEPS HIS SECRET. flayer of Grand Cuke Ssrgius Refuses to Reveal His Identity. All the tremendous efforts of the Russian police have so far failed to astablish the identity of the assassin - the Grand Duke Sergius, who was .lown to pieces by a bomb at Moscow in Feb. 17. The young man, who was irrested immediately after the deed .vas committed, said: "I don't care what becomes of me, I completed my job." He acknowledged that he was i member of the committee of combat, known as the Terrorists, and that he had drawn by lot the privilege of serv. Portrait cf Assassin. ing Russia by "removing" the grand duke. In an affecting interview with the grand duke's widow a few days after the assassination he disavowed any personal feeling against his victim, sympathized with the widow in her affliction and persisted only in the statement that, he had done the deed in the service of Russia. His name and antecedents are all unknown. DIDN'T KNOW CHIEF JUSTICE. Venerable Jurist Not Classed as Dis tinguished Citizen. Chief Justice Fuller of the United States supreme court was on a visit to Maine some years ago and while there was entertained by "Joe" Man ley, who died recently. Mr. Manley was held in great reverence by his fellow citizens all ever Maine, and es pecially in Augusta, his home. He took Mr. Fuller for a drive about the place, but was forced by a pressing business engagement to leave his guest before the drive was finished. When Mr. Manley disappeared the driver turned to the judge, whom he did not know, and. drawing out a ci gar, said: "I suppose yju don't mind if I smoke. When we are driving Mr. Manley we never light up. because he's rather a distinguished citizen." Fuller repressed a laugh and told the driver to go ahead, which he did. Later the chief justice retailed the joke to Mr. Manley. who at the first opportunity told the driver a few things, winding up: "You miserable three-ply idiot that was the chief jus tice of the United States." CUBA'S TRIBUTE TO MART!. Statue of the Cuban Patriot Just Un veiled at Havana. S-tfivW Clock Will Run 2.G00 Years. Richard Strutt. a son of l.ord Ray Icigh. has invented a clock that will run for 2,000 years. The motive pow er is a small piece cf gold leaf, which is electrified by means of a very small ouantity of radium salt. The gold leaf bends away from the metal substance and keeps moving under this influence until it touches the side of the con taining vessel. At the moment of contact it loses its electrical charge and then springs back and is again electrified, and the process is repeat ed. It is trtought that a thoroughly reliable clock could be made with the use of radium salt for $1,000. Rich City Business Blocks. Many blocks in New York city con tain $10,000,000 worth of property. In all America there are only three other cities that have a single block holding anything like this in value. These are Chicago. Philadelphia and Newark. N. J., each of which has a city block con taining property valued at $8,000,000. Boston has a block whose destructible property is worth $7,000,000. San Francisco comes next with a block containing $6,000,000. and Pittsburg follows with its richest block worth 15,000,000. Julia Ward Howe Has Faith. Mrs. Julia Ward Howe addressed the Religious Education association re cently. In the course cf her remarks ?' 2 said: "Mr. President and Good Fr!?nds: I desire to say that I have no fears regarding the dissolution of the church; unsectarian; founded upon vital religion; the true church of God. Brethren, so long as there is a wom an of us left we shall have a churci to which to guide your infant foot teps. an altar on which to offer our I rayers with yours." Latest Parisian Fad. Curdled milk, of a peculiar kind, after a Bulgarian recipe and called "yaghurt," is now a Parisian fad and is believed to be a remedy against growing old. A London correspond ent who has tried it says he would prefer to die young. Study Universal Language. In France the government is encour aging the study of the universal lan guage. Esperanto, and has authorized the officers of the active army to join a society founded for its propagation- W r wj M.'V. .SSIA SH .THE ft J5I eounet city. 4LA3K; BtlIfi',Tlrt. Mi bV99C Stjr ttH MtBst 'til fcML SssB A a tka Sw Vk ftM BtotafllBB) m M T H T mmibm ftto bstiba. m & VAsb w m om wbw !& BKH MM MB CHI1 BM Mftl Bgaau BBBVf BT Al ikl BBtBBStS) IsAsMFf - - B y BBM WTt VJ 1 Car pi m yow tadr fSSSflftBBiufBW PF O Afcfl Ac ts&tivl u nurt ! fcar fcMcita m TUJ f S5 V- -V 2 ou Ml u &ttcl JVbWI Vi thwfc r)oWn. nj othf. at rt. 5mXjif ZLJn a g. -Fl jtrfc"ry'L"g " m m?" " tfcMk. b ettfu r r B ? U It !. ra. r tautv tbr r at AJk Jm " .fctclilj?""" fa ' 'f"HB w "J ur bt rSv j3kS Rlh aTti hftJtli 1i' but br hrt I Mj bctkr fltsjBvcdvrl v5i" A&t2( , """ V1 rmnbw! J " M V I WMb the tcaJT ?! " i !" XMir "" KwM MaUnnt fcr te3f I COLLECTION OF TINY VIOLINS Too Small to Make Music, Yet They Are Not Toys. Something curious in the way of miniature violins is to be seen, in a violin-maker's shop on North Ninth street, says the Philadelphia Record, though the collection is of no prac tical utility, the instruments being far too small to be used in producing music. They are interesting chiefly as' showing what patience and skill were brought to their making. There are six of them, each with a bow. The largest violin is not over two and a half inches long in the body, while the smallest hardly ex ceeds an irch in length. Each of them, however, is perfect, with keys which turn, a bridge, sound holes in the belly, a sound pest and a tail piece. Each of them has strings and it is possible to tune them, but the notes they give oat are so high in the scale as to be far away from what might properly be 'termed musical sounds. The bows are as complete as the vio lins, with real horsehair, a screw to tighten them and all else to be found on the practical bow. The collection is displayed in a lit tle wallcase with a glass front, about a foot square. It came from Ger many, where the violins were made, and its owner does not know why the instruments were constructed unless to show what the workman could do. He says it would be more trouble to make one of them than two violins of the ordinary size. His Diamond Vanished. Stocksby came home to dinner look ing glum. When his wife asked him the reason he said: VI had a diamond star scarfpin when I went out this morning, didn't I? Don't see it now, do you? "Well, a fellow has been calling on me for a week about a scheme in my line of business that seemed pretty good. He never sat down, but walked about as ho unfolded his plans. Ner vous sort of chap. Occasionally he stopped and picked a bit of lint off my coat, or peeled one of your pre cious hairs off my collar. He ;ented to see a bit of threjul on me laif way actors the room. You find plenty of men who have a habit of picking at your clothes like that, and I paid no attention to him, although it made me nervous. "This morning he buttonholed me on the street close to the office. Could not come in, he said, feeling around my cellar for bits of household ma terial I had brought from home. Would call again. It was not until an hour later that I discovered my diamond pin was missing. Oh, I was easy for that fellow." Dwellers by the Pole. According to the census of October IflOl. there were 11.803 inhabitants in Greenland, an increase of 1.377 since 1800. This increase includes -141 Eskimos discovered by Capt. Holm in 1S04; the actual increase was there fore 03C. or 8.0 per cent. The Euro pean population of Greenland in 1001 was 272: in 1S00 it was 300. The larg est villages are Sukkertoppen. with 3S2, and Julianshaab. with 303 inh-ibi-tants. The East Grenilanders are of pure Eskimo blood. The remainder of the population is greatly mixed. The LAUNCH TO SHOW i - j mmome t&ry tt&t JPEE& fitnr&(jrcri&CxXtt5UCHILD.riPXZ& JJYrc Mr. George W. Childs Drexel placed a contract for a high speed launch of the twin screw type. She will be equipped with two Speedway gasolene engines, each having six cylinders six and one-half inches in diameter by eight inches stroke. The speed guar anteed is twenty-six mils an hour. The boat will be 02 feet over all. Her stem has a moderate rake forward. frVWVWArVWWWWVvWWVVWMAM MANY MESSAGES AT ONCE. Alternating Current Allows Duplicates Over Same Wire. The invention of new methods for sending a number of messages simul taneously over the same wire con tinues, and one of the most recent oi these is due to Prof. Mercadier of the French High School for post and tele graph. In this method an alternating current is employed whose frequency depends upon a tuning fork having a certain definite number of vibrations. The current of such an interrupted ciicuit can be broken by an ordinary key, and signals transmitted over the line wire by an induction transmit ter. On the line at the distant station are a number of so-called monotele phones, which respond to current of one frequency, and are tuned to the forks in the circuits at the sending station. Thus each particular circuit has its own telephone, which is connected by tubes with the ears of the receiving operators and responds to the signals made at the sending station. In all, twelve transmission circuits are pro- mt TBAgL T birth and death rates vary greatly .from year to year. Consumption claims 31 per cent in the north and 2S per cent in the south. About 13 per cent of the deaths are from accidental causes, chiefly drown ing. In 1901 about S4 per cent of the population sustained themselves by seal catching, fishing and hunting. The remainder are conected with the administration missions and trades. TRAINING OF FRENCH CHILD. English Writer Points Out Differences in Home Life. Let me take Felice Boulanger (which isn't her name) as a typical French child of my experience, gained after nearly three years' residence in France. She is one of five children ranging ii: age from her brother of 1 to the youngest girl of C. Felice has a skin like the sheen of a pearl, (which is marvelous considering the amount of indigestible food she bolts five times a day); big, deer like eyes. long lashed; daintily shaped but seldom clean hands; a thin, rasping, and pet- I ulant voice even in her merriest mood, and a physique like that of a starved and homeless cat narrow chested, spider legged, and stamina less generally. Yet !he seems full of vitality nervous irritable vitality eats as much food as an English nav vy, and certainly has. as my American lady friend says, "heaps of sense." But to see the child eating is painful, though interesting in a way. An Ensrlish irlrl of 11 vpars nf aao . - . .. -,-,-. . like Felice, would be sent to bed at. say. ! o'clock. Felice and her type and her younger sisters sit down to dinner at (5:30 p. m. and stay up until 11 or later, listening to the conversa tion of their elders. Louis Eecke in the London Mail. Particular About the Color. A clerk from a well known law firm went into a down town drug store the other day and haid: "Can you let me have a piece of rib bon, s-uch as you tie around cologne bottles? You see. there's a rice old 1t1v in our office ho has just made li-r will and wo want to tie it up in style." "I thought lawyers used red tape." said the druggist. "Oh. red wouldn't do at all in this case." said the lawyer's cler.v gravely. "Haven't you heliotrope or perTiaps mauve?" In a few moments the ribbon was hrousht forth and tne young lawyer vent away satisfied. Xew York Sun. Russell Sage Leaves Old Home. At last Russell Sace has been driv en to abandon his old home in Fifth avenue. Xew York. An advertisement .has appeared offering a long lease of the place. Mr. Sage has been induced : to leave largely because business I places are taking possession of that i nart of Fifth avenue, and his decision to move marks a victory foY Mrs. Sage. For a number of years she has been trying to persuade her husband to let the place go. For a time Mr. Sae was obdurate, but finally con sented to move temporarily farther up the avenue. Up to the present time, however, the aged capitalist persisted in his intention some day to return to his former home. SPEED OF TWENTY-SIX MILES HN HOUR iVv V o- o-oJ SS351 Bi I "'!' J JPL J and the stern, which is of the tor pedo plan, has nearly the same rake. There will be a good freeboard, with little sheer, and there is some depth to the forefoot, the keel running down io its deepest point forward of amid ships and then rising easily to a flat surface at the propellors. The for ward deck line is moderately full, with turtle back finishing at the sides. There will be three cockpits, the vided. so that twenty-four messages can be sent over the line simultane ously. A double line, or metallic cir cuit, is required, but otherwise the apparatus is comparatively simple, and involves merely the adjustment of the tuning forks and suitable con densers and inductance coils. Week's Progress. Lew Field's Latest. Here is Lew Field's latest scholas tic story about his young son, Josepn: "The other morning Joseph's school teacher asked if any boy in the class could speak a sentence containing the word 'foregoing.' Joseph promptly raised his hand, int'icating that he vas ready with the sentence. "Well, go ahead. Joseph." said the teacher. " 'Last Saturday aftercoon I went to papa's theater to see "It Happened in Xordland." Uncle Charley Fields was standing at the door. Three news paper men came up and shook hands with him. Then they all walked away, and pretty soon I saw the four going into the Dunsmore Cafe. " Xew York World. , t ; iii geftjgjgr-' - --? - . ALA! NEITHER FISH NOR BIRD. Jed Brooks Finally Found Proper Defi nition of Osteopath. The following story comes from York Harbor. Me.: "Say, yer know thet litterrary chap tllOt hll flip PllrTlc Kittui m nn the hill two years ago last summer Mark Twain. I b'lieve they called im. Gee! ye'd never think ter look at 'im thet he could write books! "Wal, he uster come over ter my house an' set fer hours to a time while I spun yarns an' told 'im abaout York folks an things. Seemed ter be reel socible like liked to ter smoke an' talk, an' joke with an' old fool like me. "Wal. one day he comes ter me look in' kind o worried like, an' his hair was all ruffled up like he'd been aout in a stiff nor'easter, an' he sez: 'Cap't Brooks, can you tell me if there is an osteopath at the harbor?' 'Wcl." sez I. 'the' mebbe, but I ain't never ketched one on 'em. an' I've been fishin' here nigh onter forty years.' He looked at mo kind o queer, an' then sed he guessed he'd go up ter the drug store an" enquire. "Wal. I went home an' told the old woman abaout it. an' she sez: 'You big fcol. Jed Brooks, 'tain't no fish, 'tis a bird. So then I went inter the best room an' took doown the cyclo peilium my boy Steve had when he was ter Harvard college, an' I'll be durned if it want no fish at all, nor no bird, either, but a new-fangled kind of a doctor!" Harper's Weekly. How Fireman Takes Whisky. At a fire a few nights ago a halt frozen reporter asked a battalion chiet to take a drink to warm him up. "I will have some whisky." replied the fireman, "but I won't drink it." The reporter led the way to the back room of a saloon anil ordered whisky. The fireman never made an attempt to raise his glass to his lips "I'll hold my coat callar back and i to ,e capj,ai emploved. and. in get: you pour that down the back of m t.raI. of so carrying on litetr business neck." he said. "It soaks into my that the public, tinder an organized flannels and does me more good than! system of spoliation, were being if I was to put it in my stomach, and it's a heap sight less dangf rous." "Oh. this isn't a now wrinkle." sail the fire chief. "Some firemen pom whisky down the back of their necks and some put it in their rubber boots Itoth ways are good, but I like mine on my back. It's an old trick of tiro men when thev get verv cold. Ol course, all firemen don't" take theii I ,.,.... ,..ii ,1 USh; ' "V" "a:' ,l w,,mu " k,ou thing if they did. Xew York Sun. Remarkable "Sam" Ycuno. "One of the most remarkable met. that ever lived in Columbia." said Col J. S. Dorsey the other day, "was Sam Young, who was a lawyer here lot twelve or fifteen years before the war llo was not only a good lawyer, but one of the best actors I ever saw on the stage. He was a fine shoemaker. the best cigar-maker I ever saw and could plav a violin as well as the old! masters. He could make the most er ' .. A , , , ivmv ii.iiiji i.iiiv i-'vrin mill lliv-lj a few- hours afterward could be drunk er than any other man in Columbia He made an ideal prayer meeting, leader and could beat every one else in a poker game. He was the moM accomplished man I ever knew." Columbia (Mo.) Herald. I forward one for the helmsman, the middle one for the motor and engi r.eer and that aft for passengers. I)e tachable spray hoods will be arranged for the cockpits. The materials ol construction will be of the bot throughout. The planking will b double. The inner skin is to be of white cedar, and the outer planking of teak. The plank-sheers and deck are to be of mahogany. FRESH SALT WATER ICE. Exposure to the Sun Makes Iceberg': Surface Fresh. It is often asserted by mariners that the apex of the larger iceberg? are entirely free frdm saline mattei and that this is conclusive evidenci that the berg originally forms on drj land, proving the existence ot a great continent around the poles. It may not be generally known, how over, says the English Fish Trades Gazette, that salt water ice if exposed to heat to the .summer sun is thereby freed from salt. Dr. Hamer quotes the experience of Arctic explorers Xansen and the duke of Abruzzi who describe the mineral salts of sea water as be ing separated out like hoar frost upon the surface when the temperatures of from 30 degrees to 40 degrees cent are recorded, and who note the almos complete freedom from saline taste of the water obtained from projecting ice shafts' "which have been exposed to the rays of the sun during a sum mer, and are thus freed from th greater part ef their salt." FOR CONSIDERATION BY THE THOUGHTFUL. A Tribute to Weather Conditions In Western Canada. During the early portion of Febru ary, of this year, the middle and Western States suffered severely with the intense cold and winter's storms. Trains were delayed, cattle suffered, and there was much general hardship. While this was the case, throughout Western Canada, now attracting so much attention, the weather was per fect. One correspondent writes. "We are enjoying most beautiful weather, the gentlemen are going to church with out top coats, while the ladies require no heavier outer clothing than that afforded by lii;ht jackets. In contrast with this it is interesting to read in a St Paul paper of 13th February the following, in double head lines, and large bold-faced type: WARM WAVE NEAR ARCTIC ZONE." "CALGARY KUCH WARMER THAN ST. PAUL." "Balmy BreezM are Blowing in Nirlhwestern Canada White People are Frrerino Id Death in Tetas and Other Southern Slates." WARM IN CANADA; FREEZING IN TEXAS. St Paul L'l Omaha . it; . it; .Zero St. Joseph .. : Fort Worth ' Burlington f iloorhead . 1 tJUlllth .... Tex.. 10- ; is is Havre. Mont Williston. X. D , Miles City. Mont Medicine Hat. Can Calgary. Can Edmonton. Can . .Zero .. 21 . . 20 Leadville. Colo 32 During the month of January of this year the number of settlers who went to Canada was greater than any pre vious January. The movement north ward is increasing wonderfully. The vacant lands of Western Can ada are rapidly filling with an excel lent class of people. The Government Agents located at different points in the States, wrose duty it is to direct settlers, are busier than ever. They have arranged tor special excursions during the months of Ma-ch and April, and will be pleased to give in tending settlers any desired informa tion. The virtue of a religion does not de pend on its vagar'es. COMMISSIONER GARFIELD'S RE PORT ON BEEF INDUSTRY. The report of Commissioner Gar field on the beef industry has at hist been published. It must be some what of a surprise to tho.-e who huve been indulging in wholesale adverse criticism upon the methods of ihe Chicago packers, as it discloses tacts and figures which clearly show that the great food product rs have been innocent of the seriuus offenses with which they have been charged They have been for a long time accused by newspapers all over the country of extortionate prices demanded, and ob tained, of depression of values of eat tle at the various stockyrtrds vhero their business is conduct! d. of enor- i mous profits wholly disproportionate roiibed tor ili.tr e.i lu.Mve i.enelit. We find now, hoeer. that not a . . single one of these changes lias bt n (s.Ktiitncil lint im (r i fiititrnrv t ? r f -:,.;., ,.,, ... ',.hh,.. i. .......!. ,f. fit-ially made, has resulted in toux plete acquittal. Instead ot extortion it is shown that no industry can be found where so "arrow a margin of profit prevails ln.e :,cUial, Fvtvw.tls aP,! -,,ri?;il,aI ": tries, to which the eoi.imissioiier had i free access, showing that the high- est net profit any of the pai kers made on their sales of btef was two and three-tenths per eiit in li)2 and in one instame that the profit realised, in 1'JUl was one and eight-tenths per cent. The variations in the market prices for cattle art exhaustively treated and no evidence of any kind was dis covered, or even hii.ted at, tending to show that values of cattle are in the slightest degree improperly aflected ! r controlled by pa-l.-.rs at any of lu chief cent era of the industry, ,.V l,ie wi,!e- the rTV V"1 m ,' lirT-..i...jw. lla.k ....1. I.illl ..'! rtllF I lilZVWflll W II U llll-llll' HI 111' lll.lt. great fortunes are being amassed by . illegal and improper methods em ploved by western puckers, showing that notwithstanding the high prices for beef prevailing in tl"2 the busi ness was less remunerative than in years characterized by normal values, both for cattle and pro.hr . He says "that the year ll"2, in.-i.d or l.eiug one of exorbitant .roit?:. a has h'vii commonly supposed, his I. s profit able than usual.- In fact, diiruiu the months when the prices of beef wre the highest, some, at least, of :he leading packers were losing money on every head of cattle slaughtered. It was not possible to advance '.he prices of beef in full proportion to !. great advance in the prices of cattle at that time." After all that has been written re flecting upon the great business in terest engaged in the marketing and distribution of the product of one of the greatest of our national Indus tries, it is gratifying to all fair minded people that the prejudiced attacks upon it have failed of verification; and the great western packers may bt congratulated for having pased through such a searching and thor ough official investigation mismirched. The results of this vesication, based as it Is upon exha- 'ive data, officially obtained and -rifled by United States government e.xprrts. must be accepted without hesitation, as the investigation was made under circumstances that guaranteed com plete accuracy with a possible dispo sition Indeed, to arrive at . tirely different resul's. We know what we are ut we know not where : e slip-up .nay he. Iilonot belie !"i- r for Cert- .. p c-. has aa eijual for . r..(t co'tls. i lis I' IIoteu. Trinity irmjr. ta. i eh. ISk. '.."J Always turn off the -the blow may be dead!- Otherwise A :r.K.vri:- i rir. roi: rii.K. t!. &tn.-. It i-ij IC-iit. .- . '- .-:.lni; 1 . Y.Vir !niKK't wt ' r-fu ,. . f rA.- 1irjlKkl fil.- to curu j i . . - aj. i Think long and h tort i T jvrmv'r.tlT rnrrd. Vn flt.nrm -wik .f i i!dilrt il"mi'ir I. 'Hi.ni: r i ( cr. Sn-lfnr t'HKK t2 i tnl t-ttu-a4 tr. itt-". UU.1C U.KLLlI.Lta.. 931 A. uSUnt. I" UJri il-1 Too many so called rtr .ties turn out to be optical HTi:i ns. Ttlcsscd is he who puts a line of wisdom In a line of Ope. : There would be no debtors If prom-. ises were legal tend." - . Some men have wnr.i'tver twelve" months In the year . - ' Beauty ts not always t,J-in fleep. .It -is often painted on the outside. - V t 1p -S I f