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4. Get the habit of dragging the roads after a rain. Sheep like pasturage where the grass is short and tender. Keep the milking stools up off of the barn floor. Bad things to stumble over. Good plowing, followed up by good seeding and cultivation insure the good harvest by and by. It is a good plan to turn the sheep out to pasture as early as possible so that they may get after the weeds. It is the farmer who understands farming who makes it pay. Jt is folly to think that any one eaa make a suc cess of agriculture. I A separate pasture for the yearlings and otheroung stock is a good thing. They do better than when run in the same pasture with the cows. It is as important in hog breeding as with cattle to be particular of the sire used. Go miles to get a thorough bred boar if you have to. It will pay you. Keep close track of the flock. Count the lambs every day. Easy for them to stray and unless you discover it at once you are certain to lose a lamb occasionally. Perhaps you cannot help the qual ity of cows you have at the present time, but as you breed and raise new stock you can see to it that you breed and raise only the best. Many fruit growers advise that the new growth of raspberry and black berry canes which is to furnish the fruit next year, should be pinched off at the tips when about IS inches high. The gamboling lamb is the healthy growing lamb. When you see the lit tle fellows with humped back and drooping head you may be sure you have a sick animal to look after, and do not delay doing so. He sure that it is getting enough to eat. Perhaps the owo is failing to supply the necessary nourishment The chicken yard can be too shady. Do not plant too many trees. Shade is good for chickens in hot weather, but sunshine is a necessity. Do not have the trees so close together, or so arranged, that all of the lot will be shaded by them at any time of the day. Be sure, especially, to give the early morning sun a chance to get in. Remember, too. the trees are li able to make a very vigorous growth if the soil is at all suitable. Among other things plan a vigorous war on the weeds. " Turn the wastes of the garden Into a profit by way of the pigs. Head the persistent fence breaker toward the slaughter house. If you have not already dome so put the cultivator shovels and teeth in good cqndition. To make dairying pay you mu3t keep improving your herd and im proving your methods. A cultivated orchard offers less op portunity for harmful insects to prop agate than the one In sod. Look out for garlic In the pastures. If the cows get it it will flavor the milk and spoil j-our butter. Be sure and work your thinker as j nara as you work your muscles. Many ( a pull can be saved by a timely think. ! LAST DAYS OF ELISHA Tk Prophet IVoveth Eta laaih. STORY BY THE "HIGHWAY AND BYWAY" PREACHER I CoprrlgBi, USs, by lb Author, W. a. Kisoo.) Scripture Authority 2 Kings 9-25. 13 One poultry raiser who claims to have never lost a chick says he feeds nothing but cracked corn and bread crumbs both wet and dry. Clean out the mows thoroughly after they are emptied so as to be ready for the new crop which before many weeks will be waiting for the mower. If the little chicks show lack of thrift, or are inclined to mope about in a lifeless sort of way. look for head lice, and treat with kerosene oil and lard. Not only is linseed meal a valuable feed for all stock, especially pigs, but it has a manurial value which is said to be equal to 50 per cent, of the cost of the meal. As a rule the poultry keeper is re sponsible for the diseases which de- SERMONETTE. Last days come to all, but to none do they bring such com fort and sweetness as to the one who has walked with God. Last days are not necessar- ily fruitless days, for eten from ', a sick bed the servant of God ' may prove 'the mouthpiece of I T God speaking words of admoni- X tlon and prophecy. Physical pain and the. ebbing T of life's current cannot prevent the true child of God from rounding out his mission in life. ' During the long years of serv- ! ice as prophet in Israel Elisha had seen a steady and sure de- ! dine in the religious and moral J . tone of the people, and he knew of the ultimate national calam- i ity which was to come with the J scattering of the people through all the nations about, but not- withstanding ail this he saw the , final triumph of God and his righteousness; he realized that j though men failed, God would ' ' not; he understood the eternal ', truth that man's wickedness T might delay, but could not A thwart the Divine will, thus was he able c ng those dark days J or spiritual decline to keep velop in his flock. Good care irrod X cheerful and hopeful. And it is ! feed and cleanly housing are essential i T n's reazation on the part cf " tn honltliv nhSnl.nn-. I thl trruant itf firsrt !. ..,: ' to healthy chicken May and June are the little chicks the servant of God of the ulti- J mate triumph of the Divine will ' and purpose in the world which ', One farmer who has been troubled with crows getting his corn has made his fields immune from the birds' at tack by sprinkling a pint of kerosene over each peck of corn and shoveling it over until each kernel is tainted by the oil. lie says when the job is done right there is no trouble with the corn going through the planter. Another method used by some farm M3 is to smear the corn slightly with coal tar. Watch the horses shoulders after they begin heavy work. A little pre liminary care will obviate irritating conditions which will reduce the work ing capacity of the animals to a seri ous extent. It pays to wash the shoul ders with cold water every evening after the harness has been removed. The hath removes the fever and har dens the skin so it will stand a greater strain. Be sure the collar fits the -shoulder perfectly. A good pad will do much towards preventing sore shoulders if all the dirt and hair is washed off under the surface at least once each week. While the oyster-shell and scurvy scales are not so injurious as San Jose scale, still they are not desira ble boarders to have on apple, pear or other trees. Oyster-shell scales are brown in color, and shaped something like an elongated oyster-shell. Scurfy scales are oblong, whitish and look like a tiny flake of cotton. Both of these enemies can be easily seen with out the aid of a magnifying glass. Treatment: This month watch for the tiny lice as they hatch out and move around on the bark. When seen, spray the trees with whale-oil soap so lution made as follows: Dissolve one pound of whale-oil soap in a gallon of hot water, and dilute with six gal lons of cold water. Use a pump and nozzle that will apply 'the spray in a .fine mist, like steam. "Much, has been said and written about grading up with mongrel fe- ..cuu xa ia.ii us you can anu your profits will look big when market day comes for the early broilers. Good plan to have enough cherry trees so as to have enough to spare some for the birds. Remember ihat the cherries are not the only things the birds eat. and that while they are feasting at your expense they are protecting you from myriads of in sect enemies. Surely the laborers is worthy of his hire. Xot only is the horse entitled to comfortable quarters and good feed, but his harness should be made to fit. especially the collar. In buying a collar, select one pliable enough to conform to the shoulder; do not make the shoulder conform to the collar. If it does not choke, it is long enough. When doing heavy work in hot. muggy weather. loosen the collar often and let in the air. On land that is hilly and inclined to wash fill up the washy places with corn stalks and rubbish of similar char acter. Later this rubbish may be plowed under and made to become productive humus. When plowing weather comes do not burn corn stalks and weeds, but plow them under to become a part of the soil. They will not only furnish available plant foods but will enhance the physical quality of the soil, making it open to the disintegrating action of air and soil bacteria, and thus liberating more plant foods from previously insoluble soil particles. best growing months. Put them right ' I ! makes of kem optimists instead ; Not many years ago a woman J who had been an earnest and faithful and efficient worker in ' ! the slums of New York took her ! J own life, owing to the depres- J , , aiwu nmcn nan come to ner oe- ; cause the task of uplifting the J ) people seemed so utterLy hope- j less. How different it would ' ', have been had she seen with ! God's eye and realized that be- J , yond the span of the human life, ' J and above the plans of the hu- , man mind God rules and moves. j We all need with Browning to "see , that God is in his heavens, and that all is well with the world." J X Not well in the sense that the best has yet been realized, but ', ', wen in tne sense that God is " slowly but surely workinq out X his glorious purposes in the T world which are to find their X ultimate culmination in the com- T ing of the Christ again to the A world to rule as the world has never yet been ruled. Deathbeds are piteous. in- The orchard has its place on every farm. The average stock and grain farmer who has a farm of 100 acres or more ought to grow enough fruit of all kinds to supply the needs of his family. If he undertakes to do more than this he will find that either the fruit or the farm work will be neg lected, and when it comes to a choice between the two it will pay him better to neglect the fruit than his farm work. For the health and comfort of the family grow enough fruit to supply its needs, but if you undertake much more than this there is trouble and annoyance ahead unless there is some one in the family who can do the puttering work necessary without interfering with the general work of the farm. Improving the corn crop should be the aim of the farmer. To start with the farmer needs to select the seed corn which does best in his locality, and when the corn is ready to cut, he should select from the standing corn, when you can see it well and all of its surroundings a number of stalks which are stout and bear a good ear, one or two, near the ground. Do not select stalks with ears as high as you can reach. Keep these stalks sep arate, and when the corn is shucked, pick out from this lot about 20 of the very best ears, those of good size, well filled at butt and tip and with regular rows and with long peg shaped grain packed closely. Use these ears for your select patch, and take the rest for your general crop. The next year plant these ears in a patch to themselves or in the middle of the field of the same variety of corn. Plant each ear in a row to Itself and have all the rows the same length and on the same quality of land. When the corn begins to tassel pull out the tassel from the corn. This of alternate halves of each row is to prevent the corn from pollenizing its own ears deed, when the dying one real- ', izes that he has lived apart from ' God and has played a losing ! I game. He has not builded with ' God in this life and has no place I with God in the life to which the J soul is scon to pass. ! ! But when one's heart and his J purposes are linked with those , of the Divine, life is made full J ' with the itrnal micn u,k;.i. . . not end, but only en- ', with the eternal mission which , death dees not end, but only en- ', larges. THE STORY. males of cows, sheep, hens. etc.. with Also detassel all inferior and defective a thoroughbred male. Better sell them stalks. When the corn is ripe select for what they will bring, and buy a few thoroughbreds with the money ob tained. Many of the mongrelbred fe males are only fit for the butchers' cart." This is the advice of an old farmer, but it is rather radical. The safest rale is to start with what you have and patiently, but with per sistency and intelligence, improving your stock by breeding to blooded males. Xot many men who have had "mongrel stock" would know just how to get the best out of thoroughbred slock, aud the danger would be that stock would deteriorate rather than mD"cve. the stalks which have good ears near the ground, just as you did the year before, from the detasseled part of each row. Keep each row to itself and weigh the corn and fodder from each to determine which row yielded best, and from the selected in the field from those best yielding rows, make a second selection of the best ears after shucking for your seed plot of the next year, and from the best ears of the remainder, select seed for your general crop. Continue this process for a number of years, and the increase in yield will most abund- J antly pay -lor the trouble. THE king had seen people die be fore, but never had he beheld such a deathbed as that. He had stood by the couch of his father. Jehoahaz, as he had passed from this life to the great beyond. He had seen that help less, haunted look in the deep-set eyes over which the misty film of death was gradually creeping. He had heard the words of regret over the life lived and those of fear in the'face of impending death. There was noth ing or hope or comfort there. Only darkness and despair. But how different was the deathbed of the prophet Elisha. Word had come one day all unexpected and sud den that the aged prophet was sick, and the king had gone thither. Little contact had he had with the prophet during his life. He had treated him with indifference and disdain, con tent to live his life of wicked pleas ure, and unmindful of the rebukes and entreaties of this aged servant of God. To be sure he was familiar with all the wonderful history of Elisha's serv ices to Israel, of how time and time again, when famine and war menaced the life of the nation, the prophet had interposed in the name of his God and brought deliverance. But free from any serious troubles in his own king dom and at peace with all the nations about, King Joash had seen no occa sion to bother himself about the prophet. The only time he had ever known his father. Jehoahaz, to humble him self before Elisha had been when the Syrian hosts had threatened to de stroy the nation, and well he remem bered how in the strength of the prom ise of the prophet his father had gone out and won a hard-earned victory over the forces of the king cf Syria. But no such dangers had threatened him to drive him to the prophet, and so he had. as we have said, treated the prophet with indifference and cis dain. But when the messenger bad come saying that the prophet Elisha was dying and that he wished to see him. there swept over him a realization of what the nation would lose with the passing away of this man of God. He had had a contempt for his religion, but not for the stirring part he had played in the history of the nation from before his grandfather Jehu's time down to the present. The story of how the prophet Elisha had sent the word and the anointing oil which had encouraged Jehu to seize the king dom from the house of Ahab had been told him over and over again by his grandfather as he had stood at his knee when a boy, and now as word cams that the prophet was dying there swept over him a sense of loss to the nation which almost made him trem ble. Thus moved, he had gone. 'What a scene and experience that had been. With the memory of the death of hfs own father fresh in his" mind he had gone to the death cham ber of the prophet expecting to find again that gloom, that despair, that hopelessness which he had somehow come to think was always part of the death scene, but instead he had found cheer instead of gloom, expectancy and hopefulness instead of despair and hopelessness. Physical weakness there was. and it was plain to see that the sands of life were running out fast, but there was a moral strength there which told onlyyoo plainly that that fleeting life was conscious of being linked with the eternal and that though earth was passing the things which the life had stood for would go on after he had passed away. King Joash had run over in his mind the comforting things he would try to say. but as he had entered the room where the old prophet lay and had felt those quiet, earnest, search ing eyes fixed upon his face, he had forgotten everything except that here was a man who rose above physical weakness, and in that instant there came to his mind a faint realization that it was the character behind a man after all. and not physical strength or worldly position, which counted. . Intuitively he felt that the true man stood revealed in the presence of death, and in that first moment in the prophet's chamber there swent over him the contrast between his own father, fearful and helpless, and in ter ror of death, and this man of God who, just on the borderland of eter nity, gave no sign that he feared for himself, but rather that he was not only master of himself but of others. There was that quiet serenity and con fidence which betokened a mysterious source of power, and instead of the king commiserating with a dying sub ject and speaking words of comfort, he rather felt like a child in the pres ence of its teacher receiving instruction. To relieve the tenseness of that mo ment, he burst out with the cry: "O, my father, my father, the char iot of Israel and the horsemen thereof." And throwing himself by the side of the couch he gave way to weeping. He wept, but not for the prophet, as he had expected, but for himself. There came to his heart a sense cf personal weakness and need which he had never felt before, but which the morally weak, stripped of superficial self-confidence, always feel in the presence of goodness and moral strength. He remembered afterwards thinking that if the coming into the presence of the prophet of God could affect him so, what would it be to come into the very presence of God? But that it was not time for idle tears was evident, for in commanding voice the prophet bade him rise, and. pointing to the corner of the chamber, said, sternly: "Take the bow and arrows." Submissive as a child obeying its parent, the king reached forth and took the bow and arrows in his hands, and turned and looked at the prophet with wondering eyes. "Put thine hand upon the bow." He did so, and the prophet raising himself upon his elbow, laid his griz zled old hand upon that of the youns- er man, and then with a sudden earn est intensity he exclaimed: "Open the window eastward and shoot!" In a mechanical sort of way the king shot, little sensing the signifi cance of the act until the prophet cried, eagerly: "The arrow of the Lord's deliver ance, and the arrow of deliverance from Syria; for thou shalt smite the Syrians in Aphek till thou hast con sumed them." The prophet ' eyed him with a searching look and seemed disappoint ed that the king did not manifest an enthusiastic spirit, for almost impa tiently he exclaimed: "Take the arrows and smite upon the ground." Never did King Joash forget the words of reproach and grief which the prophet spoke when he had smitten three times and stayed, and years after when the third victory over the king of Syria had been won he real ized the significance of the prophet's words: "Thou shouldest have smit ten five or six times; then hadst thou simiien oyria uu tnou naast con sumed it; whereas now thou shalt smite Syria but thrice." aBMMMSMMMgMMaMaflftggBgBH I Round the Capital Df "Information and Goetip Picked Up Here 09 fin and There in Washington. fiH WHERE THE DANGER LAY. Sixtieth Congress i C0NCJ?SS l J ! WASHINGTON. With the passing of an emergency currency meas ure and a few remaining appropria tion bills, the first session of the Six tieth congress has passed into his tory. What Speaker Cannon calls "the mill" was well nigh choked with would-be legislation that was crammed into the hopper during the session. There have been bills of all varieties, shades and sizes. Bills for the regulation of nearly everything under the sun have been introduced. Notwithstanding the diminishing rev enues and the warnings that the treas ury was facing an almost certain def icit there was no abatement of the clamor for appropriations. If all the appropriations asked for had been granted the government debt would be multiplied tenfold. "If we had put through one-third of the bills that were offered us," said a prominent member of the house, "more than a century would be required to straight en out the conglomerate mass." All records were broken by the num ber of bills introduced during the ses sion. Senators and representatives came to Washington last fall with their grips full of bills, and between 5.000 and 6,000 were introduced the first day. Among them were several Ends First Session dozen currency bills, for in the early days of the sessions nearly every legis lator had a panacea for the country's financial ills. The more the members 'studied the question the less thev seemed to understand it and in the closing weeks few of them would ad mit to expert knowledge of the sub ject. The rush of bills kept up all winter, the total number presented in the two branches of congress being 29.215. The house members introduced 22.035 and the senators 7.1S0. A great many of these measures were private pen sion bills, only a small percentage of which finally became law3. During the first session of the Fifty-ninth con gress, which continued five week3 longer than the recent session. 9,513 bills were introduced in the house and 6,556 in the senate. All previous records were broken by the senate in the amount of executive business which was transacted. Thirty-four treaties were ratified and made public, most of them arbitration treaties. The Congressional Record will disclose that fewer speeches were made than in times gone by owing to the fact that John Sharp Williams in augurated a filibuster several months ago. Instead of speeches the record is filled with roll calls. About 45 min utes are required to call and verify the roll of the house. There were over 200 roll calls, most of them on inconse quential questions like adjournment, recess, approval of the journal, etc.. so that the net results of Mr. Wil liams' dilatory campaign was that approximately six days of 24 hours each were wasted. Listeners in Greater Peril Than Wae Ambitious Musician. There was never a more conscien tious young man than Eben Soule. and when he found how much absorbed he had become with the mere Idea of playing in the town band, he con sulted his minister. "Do yon rack on I could give up an that tia to music without falling from grace?" ha asked, anxiously. The good old Methodist had a sav ing sense of humor. He saw that his parishioner was much distressed be tween his wishes and his conscience, bnt the minister smiled on him, never theless. "It's the horn you're asked to play. I hear." he said. "Ever had much ex perience with it. Eben?" "Never tried it but once, but I like the sound of it first-rate." said the young man. "M'm!" said the minister. "Well. I think you needn't be afraid of falling from grace on account of it. but I do hope you'll manage things so your family and neighbors won't have to pass through the fiery temptation of hearing you practice too often. Eben." Youth's Companion. How Things Went. Elliott H. Peabody is one of the best-known men at the Worcester county courthouse. At one time he and a few others were interested in a business deal which they expected to put through on a certain day. He was unable to be there, so the next day telephoned to a Mr. H for par ticulars. A lady answered the 'phone. and said that Mr. H was not at home. Mr. Peabody.supposing it to be Mrs. H . said: "Well, perhaps you can tell me what I want to know. I only wanted to inquire how things went last night." The lady, in a cheerful, reassuring tone, said: "Oh. nicely! Mrs. H is doing fine, and the baby weighs six and a half pounds. I'm the nurse." Lippincott's. Bryce Interfered with Tennis Cabinet THE entire diplomatic corps is chuckling over thr wav Arnhnssn. dor Bryce, of Great Britain, unwitting ly Interfered the other afternoon with a specially called session of the ten nis cabinet, to the discomfiture of President Roosevelt and his fellow ambassador, M. Jusserand, of France. The president had summoned the racquet wielders for 4:30 p. m. on the White House courts. Jusserand and Assistant Atty.-Gen. Cooley responded promptly. Assistant Secretary of State Bacon was the only member who failed to answer the call. He had just started from his office at 4:26 for the scene when Ambassador Bryce appeared at the state department. He had come to discuss one of the pending treaties. Secretary Root at once sent for his assistant and caught him just as he was leaving the building. Excuses were telephoned the president, who, it is said, is far less apt to look with leniency on absence from the tennis cabinet than he is on failure to ap pear at the regular councils in the cabinet room. He wished to know why. It was explained that Mr. Bryce had come to take up an important matter, and that Mr. Bacon's presence at the department was necessary. Under the circumstances he had to let Bacon off. A hurry call Was sent for Secretary Garfield to make up the set. He could not be found for some time, so until he reported a three handed game was played, Jusserand and Cooley easily making the presi dent their victim. When Bryce was informed of the matter he expressed deep regret, say ing that his interference with the game was entirely unintentional and had he suspected such an unhappy outcome of his visit he would have delayed the diplomatic interests of his country for a few hours. He laugh ingly voiced the hope that there would be no serious entanglement be tween Great Britain and France on account of the episode. $100 Reward, $100. Tfca reader of this paper will b pleud ts letra thai, tbere 1 at lean one dreaded dbeaie that acleaca feu beea able to cure In ail lu ttagu. and that ! Catarrh. Haifa Catarrn Cure U the only potlt'ra cure ujtt known to tne medical fraternity. Catarrn belax a constitutional dUeaao, require a coaiUtu Monal treatment- UaU'a CaUrrn Cure la taken In ternally, actio directly upoo tno blood and mucoua surfaces of the aystetn. thereby destroytn,- ths foundation of tne dlewe. and slvlnx too patient strength by building up the constitution and assist ing nature In doing its wurk. The proprietors hare) so much faith in tu curative powers that they offer One Hundred Dollars for any case that It fail to cure. Send for list of testimonials. Address K. J. CHEXEr 4 CO., Toledo. O. Sold br all Drug-1M. ?3c. Take Hall's Family Pills for constipation. Grandma's Occupation. Bobby and Johnny were digging la the sand under my window. Johnny says: "My grandma's dead; she's gone to Heaven; my mother says so." "I know it." replies Bobby, In a matter-of-fact way. "Bobby," says Johnny, "what do you s'spose she's doing up there?" Without an in stant's hesitation came the reply: "Oh. staadln up. lookln' round, I guess." Important to Mothers. Examine carefully every bottle of CASTORIA a safe and sure remedy for infants and children, and see that it Bears tlm Signature ofgr7 In Use For Over 30 Years. The Kind You Have Always Bought, Heir to Mexican Throne Becomes a Monk rtr BBBaBaVt High License in San Francisco. San Francisco, which recently raised the license fee from $84 per year to $500, is now putting forth an effort to increase the city's share in the sa loon's returns to $1,000 per year. The argument inifavor of it is the city's urgent need of money, specially for police protection. It is a notable fact that when the saloons were closed after the earthquake the need for po lice protection sank to almost nothing, and that quiet and good order and safety reigned everywhere. The evi dences of police records everywhere point conclusively to the saloon as a fruitful source of crime and the cause of extra expenditure for police protec tion. San Francisco's previous experi ence has amply demonstrated the fact that the most effective method of safeguarding the public interest in re gard to the prevention of crime lies in the suppression of the entire traffic. New Material for Walla Much complaint has always beer! ! made by occupants of houses in Cal cutta on account of damp walls, espe cially in the rainy season of the year. To remedy this it is proposed to use a new kind of damp-proof paper, made of "raw copper," and varying in thick ness from 0.0012 of an inch to 0.006. It is said to be capable of being worked Into all sorts of patterns. It is claimed to be insect-proof and damp proof, and can go six or seven years without being cleaned. It is used in the same way as wall paper. PRINCE AUGUSTINE DE ITUR BIDE, grandson of the great lib erator of Mexico, heir to a throne. man of the world, highly educated, widely traveled, and a member of the jeunesse doree of many European capitals, has forsaken the ways of the fashionable world and joined the Third Order of St. Francis. Interwoven with his life is the ro mantic history of the Land of the Cac tus for the last hundred years, and the melancholy fate of the Austrian arch duke, Maximilian. By right of descent from the Emperor Iturbide, as well as from the fact that he was declared heir by Maximilian, Prince Iturbide would be entitled to the throne of Mexico were that country again to be come an empire. The Emperor Iturbide was born in 1783, led the revolt of the colonies. then known as New Spain, against the mother country. This war began in 1821, and lasted seven months, ending in the success of the colonies, the leader of the army, Iturbide, becoming emperor. This state of affairs was concluded in about a year by the ab dication of the emperor, who sailed for Europe, in which country he made his home for some time. Hearing that his native land was to be made the object of attack by the European powers, he returned to Mex ico only to find that the republic which had existed during his absence had made a law that his life should be for feited should he again set foot on Mexican soil. This was in 1S24. The family of the emperor came to this country, settling in Washington and Philadelphia. In Washington fashionable society Prince Iturbide was prominent for many years. Suffering recently from severe illness, he has of late spent many months in the hospital. Prince Iturbide now asserts that he has re nounced all political ambition, and that he will never make any attempt to regain his claims in Mexico. Might Mis3 Something. Edyth I told him there was no use wasting his time, as I didn't intend to marry him and that if he wrote to me I would return hi3 letters un opened. Mayme Oh you shouldn't have done that. He might have inclosed matinee tickets in some of them. In a Pinch, Use ALLEN'S FOOT-EASE. A powder. It cures painful, smart ing, nervous feet and ingrowing nails. It's the greatest comfort discovery of the age. Makes new shoes easy. A certain cure for sweating feet Sold by all Druggists. 25c. Accept no sub stitute. Trial package. FREE. Ad dress A. S. Olmsted. Le Roy, N. Y. Looking Forward. "Don't you get tired of being re ferred to as the representative of medacity?" "Sure, I do," answered Ananias. "I'd rather be something profitable, such as a malefactor of great wealth." Washington Star. Early Available Coal to Last 150 Years CLOSE investigation of the coal re sources of the United States, made at the direction of President Roose velt by the geological survey, has re sulted in a probably accurate sum marisation of the fuel resources of the country. This has been portrayed in a special map prepared by the sur vey, which is the greatest map-making bureau in the world. As shown by the new coal map, there are about 327,000 square miles of what may be termed the more eas ily mined coal fields, with an esti-lsteam boilers mated content available for future use of nearly two thousand billion tons. With the maintenance of the rate of increase of coal consumption that has held for the last 50 years the supply of early available coal will, according to the director of the geological sur vey. George Otis Smith, be exhausted before the middle of the next century. An interesting feature of the coal map is the large extent of western area portrayed as lignite probably one-fifth of the total coal-bearing area of the country. This is a low-grade coal until recently disregarded as a factor In the consideration of the na tion's fuel resources. Gasproducer tests of this coal made at St. Louis, however, have demonstrated its hieh fuel value, bringing it into favorable comparison ior inaustriai purposes with the best eastern coals under Ask Your Grocer for "Our-Pie.,, If your grocer is cne of the few who have not "OUR-PIE" Preparation in stock send his name and 10 cents to D-Zexta Food Co., Rochester, X. Y.. and they will mail you a full size, two pie package free. Three kinds, for making de licious lemon, chocolate and custard pies. The Modern Nomad. "Did you ask that man why he paid rent instead of owning his own homer asked the real estate agent. "Yes," answered the other. "He said he didn't He kept moving." Lewis' Single Binder costs more than other 5c cigars. Smokers know why. Your dealer or Lewis' Factory, Peoria, ilj. Do not put on style at the expense of your friends. The Reason Why. "Old Dr. Goodman is very .fond of young people, and about the best matchmaker I know." "He ought to be, considering that he is famous as a heart specialist" Shields for Modern Warriors. Recent experiments at Sheffield, England, suggest the possibility that in this century shields may once more form an important part of the equip ment of an arm. Steel shields, three millimeters in thickness, and about 150 square Inches in area, have been de vised, which afford complete protec tion against bullets fired from the ser vice rifle at a range of 400 yards. The small size of the shield, which weighs only seven pounds, requires that the soldier shall lie prone on the ground Habitual Ccmstipfltion trs6iw( efjmKs toitktrW tusisWe o tncow Truly hetufM laxative MP mows one Teform vegaier KaMs aaily sotU. Werve fo. lure may be graJ uatfy JispensedVA taken Holowrr needed astkeoestef remedtes,wheii veauined, areto assist nature and net te wpfJant the tieW. MNstHionS,hck mutt depend ulti matefyuntn probev itoui-i.wnuent, BrWMlMftM .logel its beneltciat effects, or IhytH genuine J CAUFORNft iCt &YTOTTD rVl avtv over-study "Sounds a good deal like SOLD BALL LEAOINC DRUGGISTS an automobile suffering from spavia, mesaeenfy,rgiitar rcc djftprJtla ' in order to be sheltered. Each shield has a loophole for the rifle, and studs at the sides, so that a series of them can be linked into a continuous screen. The idea is that by the use of such shields the necessity of digging trenches may be avoided. Harper's Weekly. Little Study Overworked Him. Dispatches say a noted football player's mind has been affected by I