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Show 1 THE INDEPENDENT, j a. Jordia, Bminets Manager. 1 I "'4 at te Po. Offlo. at Bprlnrrtlls. Cta. Jtssusd Evry Thursday Morning. nsMM or SUBSCRIPTION. i :::rr.:::: :::::::::: T22 nma Umiti ............ iajo AAKFOB ADVERTISING RATES. Artichoke for Kwlae. Bulletin 100, Department cf Agriculture: Agricul-ture: For winter and early spring tier Is no better crop than artichokes, ; those times, moreover, the adjective of which give a rich, fresh feed Juat at j youth would not have been applied to the time when grasses and clover3 are j the maiden who had passed her 25m at their poorest. There are few crops , year and only in the spirit of the gioss-whlch gioss-whlch can be more easily groivn on any j est flattery to the matron who had fairly good oil which will give a j seen her three decades. It is typical of greater amount of green feed per acre ' the age that this explanatory note and be more valuable for both grow- j should be neeessarv. Now the expres Ing and fattening animals. They ahould be planted In drills like Irish potatoes, the seed baing cut in the same manner, and about the samo amount Dmg used per acre. I wo cultivations cul-tivations w;ll usually be sufficient to keep the ground mellow and free from weeds until the plants aie mj tall as to shade the ground, after which no further working is nee led. The tubers do not form until iate in the season, and in this iat.tode ar-1 rarely matured before the 1st of December. Even then they are not relished as well as they are later, and a they kep well in the ground until Ute in the spring, it is usually btt-rr to sae them for January Janu-ary and K brtiary grazing, after the sweet potatoes, penniits, and other crops are one. Although the artichokes arti-chokes will make ;i volunteer growth from the sr-atp-ring tubers left in the round, such a crop can not be cultivated, culti-vated, and will be s-o (h iked by weeds md dwarfed by the hard ground that :he yield wi:i be small. It pays well ".o plow and replant th.' crop each sea son, even though it is planted on the j same ground. Many object to arti- j chokf-s for fear they will become a ' troublesome weed, but there is no danger dan-ger from that source. If the young plants are plowfi or even hoed oil ell in midsummer after the old tubera , are exhausted and bpf rf the new ones are formed, they will be killed. The yield is variable --from 400 to 8H bushels per acre and its feeding value is fully equal to that of other toot crops. In sonic- recent less at the Oregon station hos wh.ch were given the run of an artichoke field, and were also given a partial feed of grain, made a gain of 1 pound in weight for each 3.1 pounds of grain fed. while it usual- ly takes about pounds of rain to make 1 pound of gain. In tests made ; at the Missouri Agricultural College 1 j bushel ot artichok-- and 3 bushels of j corn were found sup rior to 4 bushels of corn, and other tests have given ! similar results. i he inexpensive gain i in weight is not ti.e only advantage in ; using artichokes, is the better health consequent on adding to the ration this fresh and succulent feel is a matter of great importance, especially in anl-mais anl-mais which are kept for breeding. The best soil for the nop i similar to that which is best lor Irish potatoes. it shou.d be rich, mellow, and well drained. On dry, hard clay the yield is always small. Cranberry lalt i vallon in Caut. At a large meeting of fruit growers of New Brunswick and Prince Edward Island, which recently took place in Charlottetown. at which some important import-ant questions in reference to the growing grow-ing of cranberries were i-onstdered, one of the leading fruit growers gave his experience with cranberries, of which the follow inn is a svnoDsis furnished by a commercial agent of the depart- ment of state: Some years ago. while clearing some land, I discovered a patch of cranberries. cranber-ries. Not knowing the value of it, 1 prepared the land for a crop of oats. When the oats were reaped, the vines were so healthy that I concluded there was something in them, and so 1 fenced the patch. After a few years, a quart was picked. The yeay following follow-ing I gather d 2 bushels the next year 7. bushels, and the following 20 bushels. bush-els. I then began exhibiting m fruit st the exhibitions, where 1 carried ofl prizes. There are several varieties, but mine is the Cherry Hell, which takes well in the English market. The land for planting cranoerries should be worked up and sanded, the land to be from 3 to t inches deep. The irrigation is important in fact, is essential es-sential to cranberry growing. The land should always be kept, damp. Before Be-fore the frost conies, the patch should be flooded and kept so until the 1st 3f May. The berries do not thrive well when exposr-d to the winter's frost. it a long spell of dry weather takes ?lace in the summer, irrigation should 1 e repeated. j I realized $300 net for what I grew on j 1 acre last year. I would like to know j f there is anything else one could put I in acre t that would bring the same eturn Sand will correct all weeds. Vs to prices. I realized 10s. to ll!c. ,f2.43 to J3.1) for mine in the English narket. while others only receive !s. -o lis. (12.19 to J-'.6S). I ship In boxes. The expense amounts to about 7 cents oer box. It costs 70 cents per box for freight around by Montreal, but Ih.s ihould T-ry nan?riaiv reduieA now. is, We have direct steam comrausica-Uon. comrausica-Uon. - I have now 15 acres under cultiva-tfon, cultiva-tfon, and all my neighbors have taken ap the industry, although they laughed t me when I started mine I can recommend rec-ommend the cultivation of cranberries is a profitable business, from the experience ex-perience 1 have had. New Zealand Spinage. At a meeting meet-ing of the Society for the Promotion of Agriculture at Columbus, Ohio, August 18-19, Prof. H. C. Irish read a paper on New Zealand spinage (some time called the ice-plant) as a garden crop. This plant is more mucilaginous than the common spinach, but is very TH? SPINSTER GIRL: Che of today compared with SHE OF OTHER DAYS. One of the Moat Remarkable Sorlal Developments of tb Ace Girls Are Now Voanjf When They Are Thirty In Her Prime at AO. A One of the most remarkable social developments of these latter days is the evolution of the mature heroine of rumaiife, says the London World. Formerly this post was allotted to the youne eirl or the vouiik woman. In sion "young" is purely relative. The period of middle age has been entirely abolished. Where almost everybody is , voun;er than somebody, else it is only j the few who are proud of their extreme j antiquity who can be regarded with , any degree of certainty as old. At o I the girl of today no longer retires ou i the shelf as a failure, to pass the rest rf her life in the humiliating position ' of the maiden aunt who devotes h?r- self to the children or revenges herself ; on the poor. She is merely preparing j to start on a new phase of life with a i more definite plan and a clearer vision. Very often she marries and be? ins afresh at 40. Sometimes she has been known to be so greatly daring as to enter on matrimony for the first time when she has passed her FUth year. For the matron the range is even more extended. At 30 she is quite a young thing gay, frivolous, skittish, to whom society and flirtation are the chief objects in life. Ten years more j bring her to her prime. It is the period I of fascination, of adventure, of im pulse. The woman of 40 is capable or anything. She is the object of the daring romance. At .".') she is probahly marrying for the second time. Three- sore wi" nn, hr approaching ttie altar for her third wedding, and if she lives long enough she may even reappear reap-pear at a later date to firing her record up to four. SORT OF BATH TO TAKE. An Important Ceremony That I loo Often KtiNhed Through. This is the time of the year when our l'okl bath begins to feel as if i wer-' living up to its name, so it may ; II0' be amiss to speak a bit upon th- I subject. First of all. a cold bath, as many suppose, is not necessarily water ! as it comes from the faucet. In point , of fact, it is any batli of a temperature below SO degrees. Strange as it may seem, some people far from strong , have been driven to plunging into icy water just because some other persons sang the praises of the cold bath s loudly and persistently. The people who in cases of illness used to fairly bhriek at the thought or mention o a bath, are even getting educated. Not that great care in't necessary. Indeed, In-deed, it is in all bathing, and the bath thermometer should be used by both sick and well. Of course, an invalid is only bathed according to the physician's physi-cian's instructions. The bath is a boon. Anyone who has tossed and turned in nervous unrest knows the soothing powers of the sponge bath. Each part must be sponged and dried thoroughly and covered. The arms and legs in turn, then the back, then the chest, then the abdomen. Thi-:. with ice on the head, will even quirt delirium. As for our ordinary, every- day bathing, we must decide which gives us the best results A hot bath ' is least injurious taken on going" to i bed. They are weakening, however. ! and should not be too often indulged ! in; perhaps one a week. A hot bit", means a temperature of loo or 110 de- grees. A warm bath means anything j from 90 to 100, tepid ranges from SO to i 00, while cold is anything below So ' Never stay in over fifteen or twenty minutes; ten is enough for most (;. . us. The morning is the best time for ! I the daily bath, and those who find the j j plunge or the shower too much for ! I them, should consider the sponge bath, j j Many who are exhausted or chilled by j I other sorts of baths would find this a j spienuia ionic. it is more work, i though. We do not consider these things enough, and are prone to forget for-get that bathing is or an importance on a par with our food. Above all, let us take the sort of bath which is most beneficial. Milwaukee Wisconsin. Peculiar to Itoiler Makers. "I noticed a peculiarity about a cer in class of men not louS ago," re marked a life Insurance agent, '"the cause of which I can't explain. My business not long ago. carried me into one of the large boiler making shops in Memphis, and amid the din of the "vei.ug , i..Cu to U.K w oue ui me men. I raised my voice to the loudest pitch possible, but he was unable to hear me. Finally he said: 'Speak low. so I can hear you.' I found he was right. But the evening of the same day I saw the man at his home and found that there, where there was no noise, he could not hear me at all ; when I spoke in moderate tone. I ; had to raise my voice to a very high ! ,jitch in order to be understood. This I wasnot-05fj 4ite case with this man. i but 1 noticed the'tjeeuliarity in all of the other boiler maSers I had any dealings with. Memphia-cimetar. . Got Anr E' to Spare? "Wi hops," recently said a leading article in an American newspaper. ! apologetically, "that our rxadxrs will i pardon thx appxarancx of this wxxk's 'Intxlligxncxr, and thx sxxmingiy mystxrious absxecx of a cxrtain lxt-txr. lxt-txr. Shooting Sam Bibbxr yxstxrday camx Into our officx and announcxd that as hx was going shooting, and had x to bor SLY REYNARD. A Fox Trap Which la Tempting; tmt la Always Suspected. One of the systems quite frequently resorted to to trap a fox la to place a large stone In the center of a pool of water. Just out of reach of a fox, sajB the Wattrbury American. On this Btone is placed bait, meat or anything a fox likes. In the water near the stone the steel-jawed trap Is placed and a piece of green moss four or five inches square is placed on the pan of t the trap. The trap is under water and j the green moss hides It. The fox j doesn't care to go into the water. He J comes along, smells the bait and bo-! bo-! gins to trot around the pool of water. I The stone with the bait on It la Just nicely out of reach and he goes round i and round the pool, trying to reach the j bait on the stone. But he can't reach it. If he is very hungry or If he Is very ; young by and by he will stop going j round and round, and size up the patch of innocent-looking green moss, easily j within reat h of his paw, which finally ' proves too much, and he reaches one ! paw over and puts it on the patch ot : moss and stretches his neck over to I the stone to grab the bait. The weight which he bears on the trap springs it and he is fast by the front leg. The t-jip is not fastened, and the fox rets re-ts eats, carrying the trap on his leg with him. The pain soon tires him and he lies down and sometimes when there Is a looe chain attached to the trap the chain catches in the bushes or stumps and the fox, realizing that he is caught, gives up and lies down and in time is, of course, gathered in. Not all foxes, how.-ver, are caught or deceived by the green patch of moss, for oftentimes a fox, in the winter, when the snow is en the gronnd. will go round and round the poo! of water until he has worn a p ith around the pool, without once attempting at-tempting to touch his foot on the moss. Old il'iz foxes usually realize that the bit cf i:io.-:s a trouble-breeder and let it ss.'vt'rt-ly alone, although the bait may be so tempting that they can't tear themselves away from the scene. Why they don't wade into the pool and sl.ip the moss is not known, but they don't. Perhaps they suspect the clear water "may also prove a trouble-breeder. ENGLISH CRUNTERS, IVmliitritT of the liritlli Nation Which 1 I ii crca si tin . An observant philosopher, who has lately b'-f-n devoting considerable attrition at-trition to the study of modern manners, man-ners, has been much struck with the habit of grunting and pseudo-coughing which is growing among both sexes and threatens to become a public nuisance nui-sance wherever two or three men or woniMi are gathered together, says the London Telegraph. When nobody lias anything to say. some one begins an affected cough, which is merely the indication in-dication of a mind with nothing in it, or makes a guttural grunt, to prove that its author is still alive. The correspondent cor-respondent continues: "If people do not exerc ise a little self-restraint and check this pernicious habit we shall scon be calb d a nation of snorters and pi-unters. On Sunday last I was at (huiei;. and immediately behind me sat a woman with her young children and during the sermon, to which I was listening intently, my thoughts were dh-.tracied by the woman behind me constantly grunting possibly the doctrine doc-trine hit her too hard. Her children foi'owed suit. When asked on the way !i"n:" why they grunted the elder of the youngsters replied: 'Mummy grunts, so do 1.' Recently I was trav-eling trav-eling in a drst-class railway carriage with five other men. The one in the l';ir coin ! back seat set up his peculiar grunt, tile man opposite him followed, then the man next to me in the center and then the man opposite him and then the man opposite me, and they all seemed to take it up again in their turn, and to think, much more to read, was out of the question and I felt inclined in-clined to jump out of the carriage, but as we were in a Southwestern, which is famous for the pace they travel, this was quite out of the question and I had to endure the persecution until the first steppage, when I left the occupants occu-pants to grunt at each other to their heart's content." NO WONDER HE LAUGHED. Keirlmani Which Rear-Admiral t.ncc Tiirne.l In Kldicole. When Rear-Admiral Stephen B. Luce, U. S. N., was a young man, an ensign or a lieutenant it matters not where it so happened one summer that his ship for some days lay at anchor off a well-known seashore resort, re-sort, says the Philadelphia Post. Of course the officers, young and old, were often ashore. One night after some function or other a party of the young officers, among whom was Mr. Luce, set out for the ship. They hat had an excellent time and were feeling feel-ing very jolly, laughing and talking perhaps rather hilariously; they drew up to the ship. and. leaving the boat, clam'oerel up the gangway, Mr. Luce in the lead. The officer of the deck hearing so much noise of mirth, met them with a severe glance as they stepped on deck. He looked them over one by one and then turning to Mr. Luce, who was the life of the party, he said: ".Mr. Luce, I am surprised; you are tight, sir!" Quick as a flash came the answer: "Why, sir, I do not know what you mean, sir. If Stephen 13. Luce how can he be tight, sir?" A ready answer - lurneth away wrath. The officer of the deck walked away laughing. The Hook Tea. The 5 o'clock tea room, like Africa, 13 always producing something new, and the latest thing, says Madame, is the "Book Tea." which "seems to have caught on with frightful intensity among quite enlightened Londoners." The idea is that every one who goes to the tea party shall represent a book, and that every one shall guess every other one's title, prizes being given for the best representation and the highest number of correct guesses. The writer cites the case of a gentleman who en- cith his coat Inside vH. a clerical "rela AND AFTER? The Woman In White had passed ithrough a most triumphant day and 'was weary. She tossed her hat to a bed, her gloves and fan to a chair, and ahe herself dropped into a t-r'.at willow rocker a mass of fluffy -vhite draperies, dra-peries, her decrlike head, with its crown of red-brown hair, lilted above the fom. The Woman in White had been younger, but she had never been so beautiful. Because she had won him and because be-cause she had no right to him. Because Be-cause he had once scorned and flouted her, and had passed her with his wife on his arm and a look of cold contempt con-tempt in his eyes and because now he had followed her for days and days, and she had made him sue for a kind word from her her, the scorned and despised. Because she had laughed in his face and had baited and lured him until he had thrown to the winds his decent life and all the yong years of uprightness and the position among men for which he had struggled, and was ready to follow her to the world's end. And because he was the one man whose scorn had cut deep into what she called her soul. She looked at the radiant thing in the mirror and laughed and turned the flasning bracelet about and around her wrist; and a something almost womanly woman-ly came into her eyes as she realized that it was not the diamonds she cared for no! she would have loved a ribbon rib-bon if he had given it her with that look on his face, and would have kissed kiss-ed it as she did this, with a passionate delight. And the Woman in Gray, standing In the door, saw her kissing the bracelet. brace-let. "May I talk with you a few minutes?" min-utes?" asked the Woman in Gray, as the Woman in White saw her reflec- tion in the mirrow. What she .saw was a slender, gray-clad woman, with a pale, pale face, and dark eyes with darker shadows under them.and brown hair that was - beginning to wh'ten with early frost. The Woman in White stared insolently inso-lently at the reflection in the mi?ror and smiled. "I don't know what my servants can be thinking of," she said, without timing. tim-ing. I really have nothing for fou, my good woman. Perhaps, if you go down, some of my people will show you tT way out." "But I must see you for a little while," said the Woman in Gray, putting put-ting aside the insult and coining slowly slow-ly nearer, and there was a deadly stillness still-ness about her as she drew r. chair forward and sat down in it. Then they looked at each other the Woman in Gray and the Woman in White. "I think perhaps you know me," said the Woman in Gray. "No doubt people peo-ple have pointed me out to you as the wife of of " "They have," said the Woman in White, haughtily, taking up a steel paper pa-per knife from the table near at hand and playing with it "To what Co 1 owe the honor of this visit?" The Woman in White looked at the paper knife and smiled wearily. "You mistake me," she said. "Some women might have thought of that but you will live. See! tomorrow I go upon a long journey, and I knew that I must see you face to face before I went." "What possible Interest can I have in your plans for traveling?" cried the Woman in White contemptuous. "Pray consult your dressmaker instead and tell her for me that she should he killed if she ever dresses you in tray again. It is not becoming." "You are bitter," said the Woman in Gray; "and we have so little time and we are so near the tragedies of both our lives. A little while ago 1 was bitter against you, too; but now I am too sad to be very bitter. I see how past remedy it is. I am not here to beg you to be merciful. Even if you wished you couldn't give me back what I have lost." "Well, you have had your chance," cried the Woman in Whit "And you have lost it! Who but yourself is to blame?" The Woman In White had thrown prudence to the winds with that speech ; and now rage and Jealousy and in.so- j lent triumph were curiously blended in the beautiful face, and flushed in a red plow from the eyes. "Yes I have lost it," said the Woman Wom-an in Gray. "And having learned this, past all doubt, I would net try to keep If I could. I am going away, and in neacp- I hiv I mwlP milt $f "YOU HAVE HAD YOUR CHANCE." anotner way! Why, I would snake myself my-self the most beautiful and most attractive at-tractive creature in the world to aiai, so that he could never even look at another woman and then, if he looked. look-ed. I would not go away and leave him -I would kill him!" She clutched the paper knife in her right hand and lifted the left hand and kissed again the flashing circlet on the wrist. The Woman in Gray looked at her, and tne sight was branded on Aer memory. When she spoke again, it was in lower tones. Her eyes were fixed on a ring a loose, loose ring.that she was turning around on her Anger, j "Perhaps we were mistaken about i naving joveu eacn other, she said at)- sently. as though she were talking to herself. "We were horh so vnnn? .mil so ignorant. We were married earlier 1 than we had intended because my mother died, and I was left alone, and was such an unprotected child and sc. we were married; and we agreed that we were to study together, because we were both so ambitious for him. And perhaps I couldn't have kept pace witt him, at my best; but I had to take in sewing to help him along, so I hadn I much time and in a littio while he was away beyond me. I have never caught up with him since but I havf always gone on studying so that I wouldn't quite disgrace him when he became a distinguished man." The Woman in Gray stopped to put a delicate and tremulous hand to hei throat. "When he was studying law," sh went on presently, "his eyes were trou bling him, and so I read aloud to hirr for many hours every day. Some times I almost wished his eyes woulc fail a little more a great deal more so that he could be more dependent 01 me for I was very young and ignoran-, then; and, you see, I thought I love him!" The Woman in White did not speak. She was sitting quite still, as though she were a marble woman. "And even away back at the first," the Woman in Gray went on, in that desolate self-communing, "when we were ignorant boy and girl together, we had quite settled it with ourselves that he was to be a distinguished man. We even made a little play of It, telling tell-ing one another that people would one day point out with pride the poor little house where we had lived, and where we had so much trouble paying the rent; and then we would laugh so merrily oh, where has the laughter all gone! And so we went on, looking forward for-ward always to the day when he would be famous, and working and planning for it and I always pictured myself so proud, so proud of his triumphs! We cold-blooded women feel very deep sometimes, and think long thoughts! And now he has won the honors we dreamed of and tomorrow I am going on a long Journey!" She slowly arose, and the marble Woman in White saw for the first tfme that she had a little package in the thin hand. "I have something to leave with you," said the Woman in Gray; "something "some-thing to give you. See, it is a little bundle of letters. He wrote them during my mother's illness. They ar the letters of an undeveloped and ignorant ig-norant boy to a poor little girl. I have cherished them a long time but I give them to you now, because they have already gone out of my life." An hour afterward the Woman in White found that she had been alone for a long time, and that the last of the poor little letters was open in her hand. A withered rose had dropped from it and lay in her lap among the folds of fluffy white. The air was filled with the fragrance of the little old-time rose, which seemed to be part of the old-time boyish love that was dead as the rose. Once, long ago, in her life also The radiant face of the Woman in White was pale and old and weary looking as she tied the letters- in the packet again and laid this penciled line upon them: "Do not go on the long journer for I go on a journey of tny own." Then she slipped the bracelet into its velv-rt ease and sealed and addressed it, and called a servant to fro on two errands "I am going away tonight, John,'"-she John,'"-she said, as his foot hesitated on the' stair. "Send Susan up to pack." '. And then she stood in the middle; of the room, her head dropped, press ing back something that tried to comdj to her eyes. v -7 r r jyjjvfVHt. " ghg gold A NEW STATESMAN. GERMANY'S RISING STAR IN THE POLITICAL WORLD. The Meteoric Career of the Inipalalv Coont Von Buelow Heralded aa tin Iron Chancellor of the Twentieth Century. Count Bernhardt Von Buelow, wh In the name of the emperor has de manded from Great Britain reparatior for the "outrage on the German flag," in which light Germany regards th recent seizure of German ships carry i ing goods to South Africa, is the risin; f star in the Vateriand. There is nc doubt that he will ere long be chan cellor of the empire, for be is the em peror's right hand man. At the time cf the Franco-Prussian war Von Buelow was a mere lad. Vet he enlisted in a regiment of hussars and served throughout the campaign, winning for himself a pair of epaulets before the conflict fndeii. He entered J tne diplomatic service. After a short apprenticeship in the home office ha was made secretary of embassy successively suc-cessively at Athens, Dresden, Paris and COUNT VON BUELOW. St. Petersburg. While at Dresden young Von IJuelow was guilty of the almost unpardonable offense of eloping with the beautiful wife of his chief. Count Denhoeff. The count hr.ted music, mu-sic, whereas the countess was passionately passion-ately fond of it. The good looking young secretary doted on Wagner, and the two congenial spirits could not live apart. Young Bernhardt was willing to sacriilce his career for love, and carried off the lovely Italian wife of his superior, who secured a divorce as soon ns he could. Then Von Buelow Bue-low promptly man ied his Wagnerian devotee, and Bismarck's influence at court soon smoothed over the ruilled diplomatic feathers. Von Buelow was promoted to the position of ambassador ambassa-dor at Rome, whence he was taken away to be elevated to the imperial ministry he now holds. That was twe ysars ago, and the count was then bul ft-rty-thrte. THE "CHEROKEE STRIP." Speakership of the House Always fioes Willi It. The main isle of the national house of representatives, as might be supposed, sup-posed, divides that chamber into halves, says the Youth's Companion One side, on the speaker's right, is occupied by the Democrats, the other side by the Republicans.' If the two parties had an equal number of members mem-bers this arrangement would be complete, com-plete, but as one party is usually larger than the other a few of its men have to sit on the minority side. One would at first suppose that each party would begin at the extreme of its side of the house and fill in toward the middle, the party that had a majority running over the main aisle as much as was necessary. But this is not the way it is done. Each party desires to hold its position of parliamentary vantage on the main aisle, and so the "overflow" "over-flow" of the majority have to go over to the extreme seats on the minority side. If the Democrats, for example, should have 225 members of a house of 860, about forty-five of their number would take seats on the extreme left of the speaker. In the present congress a few Republicans are seated at the speaker's extreme right. Whether it is on the left or the right, the row of seats is called the "Cherokee Strip," and members who are so unfortunate as to get into it speak of being "over in the strip." And yet any party likes to own this strip. The speakership of the house always goes with it. Beadly Poisons. The discoverer of prussic acid was Instantly killed by inhaling one whiff of his own handiwork. Pure prussic acid is never sold or handled. The smell of it is always fatal. It kills not In three minutes or half an hour, but the instant it enters the lungs as a gas. The mixture ordinarily sold as prussic acid is parts water to two parts of the drug. Even in this form it is very deadly. A 20 pr cent mixture mix-ture of the acid would kill nearly as quickly as if pure. Atrophine, though it has no harmful odor, is so deadly that as much of it as would adhere to the end cf a moistened forefinger would instantly cause death. Cyanide of potassium has a. pleasant smell, which is not injurious, but a small quantity swallowed kills at once. Pure ammonia, if inhaled, would cause death almost as quickly as prussic acid. When a carboy of nitric acid is broken some one has to suffer. It will burn wood, eat through iron plates and destroy de-stroy whatever it touches. Device for Shoplifters. The latest and most ingenious device de-vice of the female shoplifter is a third arm. Beware of the woman with three prms. The three-armed woman wears a cape or shawl. She anTects the de-i.ure de-i.ure habit of holding her hands two ;? them clasped in front of her. The third arm meanwhile Is stirring about deftly among the counters and drawing draw-ing any detachable articles into a voluminous vol-uminous pocket in the skirt, or another in the lining of the cape. The origina tor of the device is on her way east lenver. The police predict that LI be the signal for an ''ii (A f-' yA - t i I !3 p Xhe p0iiCe predict that : f&A T -ilbe the signal for an j I TSTfvJ -t: She has a line j V j j tr ait! Vs Beck S Rich At IVIOTT'S Jewelry Store. RrMa.nrnnv..i nn i of menstruation. " They are "LIFE SAViSKS " to- gdrls a womanhood, aiding development of organs and body.. No known remedy for women equals them. Cannot do harm liffc becomes a nleasur. &1.0 PF.lt ItOV liV MAIL. Soli it by drug-gists. DR. MOTT'S CHEMICAL CO., Cleveland, Ohio.. Foi salt by T)r. C. J. 1'eterson, Druggist. $k:Xfv' -jtvss. " 1 SUCCESSFUL SHOOTERS SHOOT 1 f'J12rr-r -V5iillcsf'! Kcpeaungf onotgfc-'ns, Ammunition anc Jx y&K ammunition are the stanclud of the world, but tM Wxkthey do not cost any mots than poorer makes. -i . AYAj trated Catal 'I V made by the NEW ORECOrJ SHORT LINE RAILWAY. Operating 1421 miles of Knil-road Knil-road throuKh the thriving States of UTAH, IDAHO, WYOMING, CREGON AND MONTANA. The Only Road to Butte, Helena-Portland, Helena-Portland, And the North Pacific Coast. DAILY TRAINS BETWEEN OGDEN AN D SALT LAKE, j The Popular Line to all Utah Mining Districts. The only Road to Mercur. The Fastest Service in Connection with the Union Pacific System to All Points East. Buy your tickets via the "SHORT LINE," Utah's Fastest and Best Railroad. General OSces, 0. S. L. BnMng, Salt Me City, UtaH. 6. W. EOCLE9, D. E. BCRLEY, Gen'l Traffic Mgr. Gen. Pass. & T'kt. Agt' W. H. BANCROFT, Vice-President Mid General Manager. G.E. ANDERSON PORTRAIT AND LANDSCAPE PHOTOG-RAPHER. 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BROWN, TOXSORIAtr AWTIST, FOR an eay shave and an artisllo haircut, call on him. Iia.ca.i3i - a.n.ca - Clailclroi-'a HAIR cuts a specialty. AGENCY for tho TROY STEAM LAUNDRY, Salt Luke. Parlor next to Postofllce, gprlngvllla M.G.Wood, monsoriai 1 Artiste All Work Done In the Highest StyU of the Art. One Door North of Dr. Drug Store. Peterson'i Ajent fr.r Provo Steam Laundry. RO VFARS' i; Trade Marks Designs Copyrights Ac Autoiio ien1Ini ft Fkrh una de(sr1pt10Ti ray mii"lc!y ascertain our opinion fiee whether aa invention Is probably PKtentuble. ronimunlra-Uonantrleiljr ronimunlra-Uonantrleiljr confidential. Handbook on Patent ent free. Oldest eeener for iwurtlig patcnta. I'tr.i,! timm thronph Mann A Co. recelT tptelol notice, v. it hout charge, in the Scientific Jfrnerican. A handaomply lllnat-rafed woekty. Ijirreat circulation cir-culation of anv ecientiQc Journal, Terai, $3 a Tear; four months, L Sold brail newsdealers, !liyNN&Co.36,B-NewYQrk UiaDch Oilice. 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