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Show T NEVER SAW SUCH URGE YIELDS. The Owe reel Gift, Oat more It ZhUBwmu. li up to Prf MPri to we like American ga. have plenty of It to spore. Well, Tlie poet continue to set thoro. Franck one ha pinked his man In A. duel a Practical politicians hare to ret pretty mad before they begin telling the truth. As a result of the prize Ugh! la San Francisco recently the other Corbett is still talking There are many things shout that Buffalo mystery that could only be explained by Mr. Pennell. Contractors are still remembering Maine, for every little ehile they want some one to lei thm raise It. the Under the old bine law In Pennsylvania it is unlawful for a man to kiss his wife on Sunday but the law stops there. Nicholas II. has decreed religious freedom In Russia. Next thing you know the czar will be running on a reform ticket. It come to pass that in to be an automobllist In good first have to be standing one Bball may yet or-ff- killed In France. A Connecticut man killed himself to avoid a surgical operation This is a cast In which the remedy and the disease seem to be quits. Since the cable has been laid to Honolulu not many things appear te be happening over there that are worth 10 cento a word. Would you live your life over again? That is the latest New York Bun conundrum. The majority of the answers are in the negative. A magazine writer says that Massachusetts does the thinking for the United States. What a thoughtless people we must be as a whole! The Oxford press turns out from 30 to 40 Bibles every minute In working hours, but It is hard to reaiire the fact In some parts of darkest London. In this world there are only the sails of heredity, there are only the winds of environment; yet ran the helmsman steer toward whatever port he will. r Surely it Is only in France that law makers .would need certificates of atsession to tendance at an make It reasonably safe for them to go home. V Excluding new editions and text books, there are 2.000 or 4.000 books published in this country every year. Fortunately moNt of them are not worth reading. The new Pennsylvania railway station In New York will Bettle all disputes as to which ia the largest station in the world. It will be twice as big as yy other. f Gustav Salary, a French playwright, committed suicide the other day because be found it impossible, owing to the meanness of the managers, to live up to his name. After all he said about America the cooking Dr. Ijorcnz is (o pay United States another visit But perhaps ho will bring his sauerkraut and blutwurst along with him. Francis as a Watson Richard publicitlclaus," Glider has given the lexicographers some encouragement to bring out a Dew edition of tbe dictionaries. In apeakiug of Gov. g The lake divers have struck at Cleveland for $10 a day. There is likely to be considerable trouble In getting green men to fill the places of the divers who dive no more. Tbe woman who has petitioned the mayor of WUkesbarre for a curfew ordinance compelling married men to be home at midnight has an exaggerated Idea of the power of tbe law. r Spain's minister of marine has presented his estimates of this year's expenses for building warships. Spains It will be navy has this advantage: composed of brand new and vessels. Young John D. Rockefeller is distributing gold pieces among the poor Perhaps he has people of Mexico. found that the starving Mexicans understand his gold pieces better than bis kind words. The arrival iu this country of the new Chinese minister. Sir Liang Tung Chen, Sir Liang Hung Chen aud Sir would seem Chen Tung Liang-Cheug- . to suggest an arbitration commission to decide as to the best way to apfll him. ) Courts declare that the pedestrian has the right of way on a street the crossing. Nevertheless, when I trolley car pedestrian sees a full-sizepreparing to dispute the point it is discreet policy on his part to waive the right. Mr. Carnegie is now begging to be allowed to give his money away. Tbe trials of some of our millionaire philanthropists are becoming pitiable iu the extreme. How willingly we should help Mr. Carnegie If he would only give us a chance! Tbe deat!. of a Chicago millionaire serves to recall the fart that be was Mrs. Leslie Carters angel, without whose assistance she might never have achieved success on the stage. As Huckleberry Finn remarks, a good deed ain't never forgot. R Y Y L Thirty-thre- e plays Iu which Napoleon figures as one of tbe characters are now known to be In existence, Napoleon longed for fame, but he would probably have given it up If be had known what was to come after it. The society of Mayflower Descendants of Massachusetts, Whrai all th dancing frat r ttll The rose's bloom is shed and ape. When she has waltaed her happy fill With Will and Jack and Ted and Fred. Tired of the whirl and jollity. Her lovely ef weighed doan with Father-la-la- which recently observed the seventh anniversary of it founding, reports a total membership of 775. This may make some people think the Mayflower's passengers were more fruitful in ideas than In descendants. sleep Old and Young Bulls. Charles L. Hill says: An excellent ylan la to buy an old bull, if stlU vigorous, and only in this way can yon know what kind of a sire yon may havei Many of the best sires of all the breeds have gone to the shambles long before their uesfulness was known. In the selection of a bull for his indlvld- aallty, the first thing I would want would be masculinity. This is not necessarily shown by his being coarse or having a big head, but by his resolute, sturdy, commanding appearance. This has nothing to do with his being cross, for this is largely education, or, rather, the lack of it. He wants to show that he has energy to spare. Then I fc&ut him to have a good muscle, showing good appetite, and then a large barrel, showing good digestive capacity. , For use in a grade herd, never mind if his great barrel has caused his back to sag a little. Nearly the same words will apply to the selection of a young bull. Let him be active, robust, intelligent looking and showing large capacity, if you wish his daughters to have good shaped udders and good sized testa see that his dam has such an adder and that the bull himself has good sized, squarely placed rudimentary teats. Let him be thin in the thighs and show no tendency to beeflness at any place. In fact, let him be all that Is different from a beef sire. Ts Produce Clean Milk. From F&rmars' Review; In connection with the s&nlt&ry production of dairy products I believe that much could be accomplished if people would run their cows loose In a shed or covered barnyard and have a stable for milking only. From a sanitary standpoint there are two great advantages In this system, one is that the milking stable can be kept much cleaner, and the other Is that If the cows are kept properly bedded they do not become oiled, at they almost invariably do hen kept confined in the stable dur- Ing tbs night, both of which are great aids to the production of clean milk. In addition to this I think this system ts fully as economical, while it takes more buildings they can be of cheap construction. Cows kept In this way are much more comfortable and for this reason will, I believe, give a larger flow of milk. The labor Is certainly no greater as there Is almost bo manure to be removed from the stable and the manure from tbs shed can be hauled directly to the field whenever convenient, which may not be for a month or two at a time during soft times In the winter and the rush of work in the early spring. Besides this the manure ia kept In the best possible condition as there is no loss of fertility from leaching. W. J. Frazer, University of Illinois. Oleomargarine in Russia. In Russia the government permit selling of oleomargarine, but placet the trade under such rigid con- that Its expansion is prevented. Oleomargarine factories are permitted only In cities where there are munlcl- pal slaughter houses. As most of the slaughter bouses In Russia belong to private companies or persons, the opportunities for establishing oleomargarine factories are not many. In each cae the government appoint a physician to watch the process of manufacture and see that only healthful product are turned out He is paid A veterinarian by the manufacturer. And a government inspector have also to be reckoned with. Tallow and milk are the principal Ingredients, and the oleo oil Is made In the factory from the tallow. Even the poorest Russians refuse to eat oleomargarine, and It is shipped to eastern Siberia, where butter Is unobtainable. This region consumes annually over 600,000 pounds of A little is also sold In oleomargarine. the Caucausian provinces of Russia. There are at present only two or three factories in Russia, and the officials of the government are not encouraging the establishing of new ones, case of horses, $4.68 In that of mules, 98 cent in that of milch cows and 75 cente In that of swine, with a decrease of 31 cents per head In the case of cattle other milch cows and of 2 cents In that of sheep, the total value of all farm animals being $3,102,515,540. a compared with $2,989,170,150 on Jan. 1, 1902, an increase of $113,346,390. Making and Unmaking Soil. On the steep hillsides thfi roots of trees, plants and shrubs form a perfect network, binding and holding the soil and preventing It, in a great measure, from being washed down by the rains and melting snows into the valleys and rivers below, says C. P. Goodrich. Even these steep hillsides are often kept very rich in thus having an abundance of humus In them and producing a heavy growth of timber and other vegetation. On the prairies, although there are no trees, there are In the state of nature innumerable snrubs and plant that send their tap roots down deep into the soil and perform the same work that trees do in timber land. The prairie grass has au almost solid mass of tough roots, so tough that it takes four or more strong horses and a very sharp p . to break it up. This sod and roots also hold the soil on the hillsides, and often these hillsides on the prairie are rich in available plant food and have as much humus, and produce as good crops when first broken up as the more level prairie. But what has man done? He has cut off the timber, killed out the shrubs and plant, and the prairies he has broken up. sidehllls and all. The process of making soil has been stopped, and instead the farmed is laismg crops of grain and taking off and selling the fertility of bis soil us fist as he can. Hi soil grows poorer, each The year, if be puts on nothing. eidehills give out first. With no fibrous roots and but little humus, they are washed and seamed and gullied in a few years so that it is impossible to plow or cultivate it. and if it could be cultivated, it would produce nothing; the available plant food and humus have gone down into the creek below, and gone forever, and left nothing but, perhaps, a mass of stones and gravel; or, it may be, a mass of clay, so cut up with watercourses, that no animal less agile than a dog could go over it. Then, at the hist, she cornea to bm. And she is all my own to keep! No one who had happened to ob- serve the figure of Mr. Bromley Brown wandering about his garden on a certain mild April morning would have imagined him to be suf- WHO SEER EVER YOUNG I and Leaders of the Smart Set Retain TheW-Sfout- h Three of the Best Known Indefinitely Beauty Among la? In the first place we will say that tbe summer season is just lovely indeed. As to the winter, well, we never experienced finer weather than we are tow enjoying. We have jus: returned rom Northern Alberta, and will say at we found the weather to be very ild, the air dry, fresh and invigorating. Considering everything we can say that tbe winters here are most pleasant, healthy and enjoyable to what they are In the States. Here it j jets cold and continues so till spring I there are no disagreeable winds. In one The society woman of of the seven great wonders of the own world. She is the wonder of her grandchildren; for she does not ifrow old. Time cannot dim. nor custom stale her infinite variety." She ia the wonder of the medicine man; for she does not die. She is the wonder of beauty specialists; for she defies Time's ravages. Ponce De Leon went about his great search for youth wrongly. He should first have interviewed a smart J South Alberta it Is some warmer two society woman. She could have pointinches of snow may fall and ed out to him the wonderful fountain hours a Chinook wind comes of Eternal Youth. He should have aporating the entire snow. gone to an afternoon tea. or a fashWaving terra firms perfectly dry; in ionable dinner party. There, in the fact, we did not believe this part until we came and saw for ourselves and we now know what we herein write to be just as we write it. There baa not been a day this winter that I could tivot work out doors. Farmers here are calculating on starting the plow the ret of March. 'A to farm wages, we would not Thais a beautiful old cup," he man couie here with the marked, pointing to a piece of silver advls vi of y daJ' of Queen' Anne date in'thentfddle'itfjp:t?tl? all who do want a home 1 the table. I find her and tie her wrap We say good nights to left and ncht; Now 1 m the chap' Ah now. Indeed. It is good night Of k era joy let wooers prate. What could a man ask more. In life. Than this brat, dearvat gift of fato To have a sweetheart for a wife? Madeline Bridges In Smart Met j DEVOTEES OF S0C1ET Climate Is Healthy The Winters Are Pleasant In Western Canada. I! Writing from Stirling. Alberta, to of the agent representing the Canadian Government free homestead nda, Mr. M. Pickrell. formerly ot hvood. Ky., say of Western Can- - 1 j Hyls Mr. Bromley Brown's 10 bave nerv ,lolKh to get np expression of fering from an acute sense of regret mingled triumph and sarcasm passed and come, for there never has been, and may never be again, such a grand for his wasted opportunities. unnoticed by the cheerful young visopportunity for a man to get a home A girl's figure leaned out and a itor. free. The clock struck one and be rose young voice called to him: As to the crops. I bave been ia the to bis feet quickly do look so you solemh, papa, Why "Thank you a thousand times tor fields before harvest, saw the grass dear? What a perfect day it is! he said, pleasant- put up and the grain harvested, and your hospitality," Warm and sunny enough for June!" I am afraid 1 must be off. ly. You never saw such large yields. I saw I was thinking," he Baid, impres- see, I am ,over sU feet for duty, not jXa aketching "of how sively, that yielded 80 bushels per acre, and I very little material comfort signifies, and how few of us pleasure." There was a sound of steps at the talked to a farmer near St. Albert who ara satisfied! I know I may not look door, field year before last that aveand a voice outside, which had a It. but since my earliest days have 110 bushels per acre and weighed rted often told you, i have had a curious, 13 pounds to the bushel. All other wild craving for adventure, for some arops would run In proportion as to excitement outside the deadly routine potatoes and vegetables, the turnout 4kas enormous. of a business life. It is hard that I have sq' h reports of a busluess life." aa the above from all sections that I Valentine laughed and leaned still have visited, aud that has been every furlher out of the window. She, for community between the Edmonton disher part, was absolutely satisfied with trict, and Raymond. In tbe Lethbridge district. the fair face worn by the world j As to stock raising, I would adaround her. vise a man to locate in this place, or Her father took off his Shy place, in South Alberta, but for glasses and laid down his newspaper. mixed farming I would say go up Ha! this Is most curious!" said farther north, say near Lacombe. be. What a splendid chance if one 1 1 sould only light upon him or Edmonton, where the plaus- U is not ible scoundrel! The shrewd young quite so dry and vhere there is some Umber to be had. I will say that novillain!" where have I ever seen a better opporValentine turned her gray eyes on his shtnlng crimson face. tunity for a man, whether he has money or not, to obtain a home. NoListen to me Val" he cried; where can be found a more productive "you remember the general told us Tffi. better water and a better govlast week that the Mumbys and the erned country than Western Canada Jellluoes had both had their pantry r affords. Inducements to the windows forced open? are unexcelled. I met two meu Did he? 1 don't think I was lisobAnd theje ara lovely spoons, near Ponoka on the C. & E. R. R., tening." served the architect burglar, with who borrowed the money to pay for Mr. Bromley Brown here proceeded appalling coolness. their homestead, and in four years to read aloud an extract from the word of command, sounded like a men two sold their farms one thoe newspaper. for $2,500, the other for $3,000. I met The for by this said: aznan near Wetaskiwtn who landed "Where is the man?" soubriquet this accomplished crimi-thThe door was flung open, and a tali, here with 25 cent six years ago. He nal 18 now known. has been seen, it is figure stepped quickly into is now worth $8,000. The advantages bHved, not long ago in this neigh-tro- l soldierly for ranching are excellent. In fact, I borhood, although probably he is now the dining room. what's all this do not believe this section can be Well, Brown, miiny miles wy from the scene of about?" beat. Markets are good; as to living, his iftle exploits. He is described as Gen. Compton, young and alert for a family can live as cheap here as and young man of gentlemanlike hia with friend a they can in the States. The average stared at military appearance, with fair hair his years, and mustache, and wearing clothes pair of very keen eyes under white yield of oats in this neighborhood last You told me it was some year was 70 bushels per acre; wheat eyebrows. of fashionable make." Mr. Bromley Brown was soon ab- very urgent business," continued the vttwraced 35. barley 40. and the beet n Vonwqiince or fffra Then bi He pictured general, sorbed in , meditation. ths successful cultivation of the beet hlmscrf, resolute, terrible, cunning, young man by the further window. I beet a didnt my soul, Estcourt, sugar factory is being large hounding down this distinguished see Bless erected at Raymond, seven miles from it was you In the corner! criminal, bringing him to justice. here. are and how Yes, you, general?" He fell asleep to the accompanIn conclusion I will say that N. W. iment of the lark's song and dreamed said the young man, advancing with T. from Manitoba to a long distance smile. cordial a that he was the chief of police in north of Edmonton produces most wonMr. Bromley Brown felt a sudden Russia. Waking up with a start be cold perspiration on his forehead. He derful crops. Iakes and rivers abound heard the clock strike 12. with fish., and game is plentiful. And A few yards away in the road he was entirely unable to utter a word. "Mr Mr?" said the young matv that this is unquestionably the counsaw the figure of a young man, tall, was so kind as to ask me to havA try for a man to come to if he desires fair, yes, and of unmistakably soldierto better his condition in life. I would a whisky and soda." was And sketchhe appearance! ly advise the prospective settler to look then you dont know each "Ah, A ran down thrill Mr. Browns ing. "Brown,, over the Lethbridge, Lacombe, spine. He might not be the chief of other? said the general. the Russian police, but was he not on this is Lord Estcourt. son of my old locating.and Edmonton districts before the eve of a discovery, an adventure, friend whom I have often talked "I will locate in the Edmonton disthe possible player in a great and about, you know. He Is working ' like trict next fall and several families a nigger at the college," and the dramatic case? from the States will locate with me. toward a distant In one moment his mind had been speaker pointed the meantime I will receive my made up. He would invite this young view of a large white building miles In mall here and will be pleased to give of the grove beyond piues. away no than the other man, obviously Estcourt, this is Mr. Bromley Brown, the interested all tbe information dearchitect burglar, with friendly greetsired." of my best neighbors. one A word hurried house. his into ing, For Information as to railway rates, Mr. Brown felt aa if some one bad to the coachman would send hira, on struck him a violent blow on the etc., apply to any agent of the Canadian yernment, whose name appears head. "Papa! papa!" A fresh young elsewlfre in this paper. voice came echoing from the garden, Disease Traced to Cattle. and in another moment a young girL Tuberculosis was not known among ran into the room. cattle in Denmark until the importaPapa, there are two policemen began. It here! They say they have come for tion of then spread so rapidly that a governsome one what does it mean?" ment commission which tested 144,000 Oh! only about the chickens that were stolen, my dear," said her head with tuberculiu found one in tree affected. father miserably. But there are no chickeus! You PWo's Cure cunnot be too highly spoken of ts know you wouldnt have any, because i cough oure J W. O'Brikn, 323 Third Ave., V the said garden." they spoil Minneapolis Minn., Jan. 6. M00 you Did I say chickens?" Mr. Bromley Government Reserve of Reindeer. Brown's dreary expression was that The government herd of reindeer of a victim being led to execution. in Alaska, which Is expected in tbe Of course. I mean the forced strawfuture to supply food and draft aniberries. Valentine, my dear " mals for the numbers 10,000, The young man was still gaziug at and ia to be natives, increased another the lovely, puzzled face of his hosts thousand now contracted byfor in Sidaughter. beria. Your father has been so kind to home-seeke- golden liquid brewed upon a tiny table. or in the red wine poured by an obsequious butler, he tasted the elixir of life would have the elixir woman look- which keeps the society ing like a budding belie at 69, the elixir that stops the scythe of time and defies the cold hand of death, the elixir that washes out wrinkles and downs the embonpoint of age. Mrs. Astor, the tyrant queen ol y 73 years American society, is old. Who that has seen her. straight, lithe, beautiful, glittering, in her opera box would believe it? Yet the records tell us that it is true. She is at the zenith of her social reign at this moment. So far is she from gray hairs and caps that her gow ns and hats are considered the proper models for all the women of her set. young or old. Her frocks are cut like those of a woman of 27, yet she does not look out of place in them. In the coal black tresses above Mrs. Astors brow there is not one thread of gray. Her power is fifty times what it was fifty years ago. Mrs. Jack" Gardner, the most prominent society woman of Boston, 'architect-burglar- e ' j j Wetas-kiwi- Schleswig-Holsteiu- n s . me. Miss Brown." said he. I am struggling over military drawing, and in daily terror of being plowed." Oh! You are studying at the model of middle class prosperity. swift feet, for two or three of the Another messenger local police. "Yes I wouder would you and would hasten to Gen. Compton, the sternest of the county magistrates, your father care to come over and see and he would arrive in time to be a it some day?" Oh; that would be delightful, papa, witness of the discomfiture of a notorious criminal and of the ingenuity dear, wouldn't it?" Yes, indeeed, indeed it would. and promptitude of his old friend Mr. Brown was still feeling half paraBrown. A The "hock of a fowl the Joint between tbe thigh and shank. 1 How Funny Sayings Are All Rslated to a Few Originals. Joke It ia well known among writers." said the antiquary, that there exist in the world only seven jokes. All the rest have been made, and still continue to be made, from these seven. But it ia not bo well known that there are only seven anecdotes, out of which, by ingenious blendings and twistings, the unnumbered thousands of the worlds aneo dotes are created. I am an amateur, or loving collectWhen I come upon or, of anecdotes. one that ia strange to me I delight to trace it back to its source. I get the samfe pleasure out of this that an etymologist gets in tracing back to ita Sanskrit root a disputed word. Some time ago I heard of an anecdote about Charles Lamb. Lamb, the story went, was on a journey, and the time was that of the publication of the ingenious stories for children that he and his sister Mary had written in collaboration. Lamb said to one of his fellow travelers; Have you read Lambs tales? 'No. but I have a black Bheepskin rug. the other replied. This aneedtte struck me as pretty good, and 1 tried to trace it back. For a long time I was unsuccessful, but last week my 6earch was rewarded; I found the story from which the Lamb oue was derived. It was the story of a traveler on a rainy day who h&d left his wrap in a stage coach. After he had gotten out he missed the wrap, and told the driver to go inside and inquire for it Tbe guard, putting his head within the door, called: Is there a black mackintosh here?' No was the reply, but there are two red MacGregors Philadelphia Record. GIRLS OPPOSED TO WEDLOCK. Organize to Assist Each Other to Resist Temptation to Marry. The unmarriei women of the ancient town of Guildford, the county seat of Surrey, England, have leaped into fame suddenly by an action which has caused Londons laughter to be ecnoed on the Paris boulevards. They have formed a society for promoting man indifference among women," secured headquarters, which they have named the Spinsters Retreat," and have pledged themselves to assist "young women and those older in years to withstand temptatious to en- Mfem-jue- . L ''ms. "JACK?, The rules of the order compel the members to have a wholesome contempt of love, to abhor marriage, and to display the societys badge at least one day a week. Nevertheless, members are not debarred from conferring their friendship upon the opposite sex, but this friendship must be absolutely free of sentiment and everything appertaining to that undesirable state of being. GAJ2D1NEB is 57 years old. The young folk who flock to her teas and hang upon her words would be petrified to hear it y She is as popular as she was twenty years ago, and she is very much more talked about." Young THE POPES NEW CHAIR, men prefer her society to that of any bud in, the smart set. Affairs at which she is to appear are not complete un- Magnificent Work of Art Presented to til she comes. Is she showing her the Pontiff. Among the gifts presented to Leo age? Not a bit of it. You cannot tire her. She is, in fact, a gay society girl XIII. on the occasion of his pontifical of 57. jubilee, one of the largest was the sedia gestatoria" upon which he is Washington has for its partlculai It was star, among interesting women, Mrs. carried on state occasions. Van Rensselaer Cruger. who has lived the gift of the chamberlains of the there for the last few years and has Vatican, and was desigued by Sneider, cut such a swath in the diplomatic the architect of the pontifical palace. set that she may be said to have This new chair Is a magnificent caught the town." Mrs. Cruger is a work of art. The general form of the widow and is more widely courted by old sedia" is preserved in the new the young diplomats than any girl who one. but the latter is larger and more has been introduced into society there elaborately ornamented. Fine gold for years. She is never without a embroidery runs in a chain of graceful coterie tagging at her heels. Yet Mrs. branches through the curtains. The Cruger must be well, certainly over arms and canopy are of crimson vel50. Her light brown hair is as thi6k vet. The chair is surmounted by the as a girl's and is worn piled high in pontifical tiara and the symbolical a mass of curls on top of her head. keys supported by a cluster of acanHer skin is like a babys. Her frocks thus leaves. The upholstering is in are dreams. She talks with the vi- white satiu. The back is adorned vacity of a schoolgirl and the wrlt of with a brilliant dove and the monogram of Leo XIII., and the long shafts . are made of logwood curiously carved. Miss Gannon, Secy Detroit Amateur Art Association, tells young women what to do to avoid pain and suffering caused by female troubles. I can conscientiously recommend Lydia E. Pinkhams Vegetable Compound to those of my sisters suffering with female weakness and the troubles which so often befall 1 suffered for months with general weakness and felt so that I had hard work to keep up. i had shooting pains and was utterly miserable. In mr distress' I was ad vised to use Lydia E. Pinkhain's and it was Vegetable Compound, a red letter day to me when I took the first dose, for at that time my restoration began. In six weeks I was a changed woman, perfectly well in every respect. I felt so elated and who happy that I want all women Miss Buffer to get well as I did. GuiLA Ganxow, 3.9 Jones St., Detroit, Corresponding Sec'y Mich. Amateur Art Association. $5000 forfeit if original of women. aboo wef latter proving genuineness cannot be produced. It is clearly pltown in this E. letter that vounff ladys Lydia Ipinkbains Vegetable Compound will surely cure the suffering of women ; and when one considers that Miss Gannons letter is only one of hundreds which we have, the great virtue of Mrs. Pinkhama medicine must be admitted by all. Bound to Have His Cigar. King Edward has been restricted by his physicians to five cigars a day. He has been an inveterate smoker almost since his boyhood. Some thirty years ago he was dining with the late Lord Derby, who regarded the use o! tobacco aa a vulgar and unpleasant habit After dinner the prince suggested a cigar, whereupon his drily expressed regret that hla house did not contain a smoking-room- , adding that he could only suggest ths stables aa a suitable place for burning tobacco. Much to his surprise ths prince adjourned to the region Indicated and enjoyed his postprandial cigar. lord-shi- Unusual. captain of an English regiment stationed at Natal, while paying off his new recruits a Transvaal half crown, which bears the image and superscription of Paul Kruger. The fellow with the coin, and soon returned throwing it on the table, declared it was a bad one. The officer took the coin without looking at it and rang It on tbe table. It sounds all right, Atkins; whats the matter with it?" be asked. Well, sir. replied Atkins, if you say its all right Its all right, but its the first time Ive seen the Queen with whisker on." A Russias Richest Man Dead. The richest man in Russia, Nikolai Terestcheokoj died the other daw ia 6th y Moacowf in Ai leaVmg 'a fortune of $190,000,000. For more than fifty years he had been one of the curiosities of Moscow. He slept only four hours In the twenty-four- , two hours at night and two hours after luncheon. At 2 o'clock every morning he had mass said in his room. At oclock he began work with his secretaries, eating nothing until noon, when he took an egg or a bowl of soup. He had only one solid meal a day, and that was at 10 oclock at night. Guards Secrets of Letter. An American has invented an envelope which records of itself any attempt to tamper with its contents. The flap is Imbued with some chemical composition which when operated upon by a dampening process or any other means of penetrating to its inby closure, records causing the words "Attempt to open" m appear. It is thought that the inquisitive will think twice before pursuing their researches in face of such an invention. i. 4- - Spooner Offered High Places. In the new edition of the Congres- sional Directory Senator Spooner makes a revision of his biography. In which he furnishes a few Items of news not heretofore known. He states that he was offered the position of secretary of the Interior by President McKinley, to 6ucceod Secretary Cornelius N. Bliss; that he was also offered the position of Attorney General, to succeed John W. Griggs, and that he declined the tender of a place on the United States and British Joint high commission. BUILT OVER. Eating for Rag Dolts. a Harlem apart- Food That Rebuilt a Mans Body and ment was observed by a friend of the Built It Right. family eating a certain cereal preparBy food aJone, with a knowledge of ation. She seemed to eat, as the Engwhat food to use, disease can be lish are said to take their pleasures, warded ofT and health maintained, sadly. also many even chronic diseases can Dont you like that, my dear?" In be cured. It is manifestly best and quired the friend. safest to depend upon food to cure Not pertickly, replied the little rather than too much drugging. maid. A case in point will illustrate. A Why do you eat it then?" persisted well known man of Reading, Pa., the inquirer. a Treas. club there, says:. of certain The daughter of the house paused I have never written a testimonial with spoon on edge of bowl. but I have been using Grape-Nu"Its got to be eaten, she answered letter,about a year and have recovered The grocery man gives gravely. and feel that I would like mamma a rag doll for every two pack- my health, to write you about it for the case is ages she buys, and it's got to be eaten extraordinary. eery morning." "For five years I was a sufferer And she continued to eat cereal. from a dreadful condition of the bowNew York Times. els; the trouble was most obscure. Here follows a detailed description Benefit Will. and the condition certainly was disby Orphans John Summers, an old hotel keeper tressing enough (details can be given of St. Paul, who suddenly died a few by mail). s of days ago, bequeathed Nothing in the way of treatment his estate, amounting to about of drugs benefited me in the least to the Protestant orphan asylum and an operation was seriously conwithout condition of any sort, the re- sidered. In May. 1901, I commenced as a food and with going to his widow. using Grape-Nutmaining no idea that it would in any way help my condition. In two or three weeks Engine That Walks Upstairs. The Automotor Journal, London, time I noticed an improvement and describes a new traction engine call- there was a steady gain from that ed the pedrail," which literally time on until now I am practically with tbe stride and well. I don't know how to explain walks surefootedness of an elephant, and the healing value of the food but for hauls loads far in excess of those the some reason, although it has taken wheeled traction engine can move. nearly a year, I have recovered my health and the change is entirely attributable to Grape-Nut- s food, for I Patagonians Are Dying Out. I eat only Dr. Julius Boeckelmann, German long ago quit medicine. Nuts for breakfast and lunchand physician scientist, who went to Grape ago to study eon, but at my night dinner I have Patagonia eight the conditions of U country, says the an assorted meal." Name furnished Patagonians will be extinct in a few ay Postum Co., Battle Creek, Mich, years. A very small girl in The statement t. man had lyzed. the young Meanwhile Good-by- , In answer to Estcourt, my boy," said looked up smilingly. I have got to have a old the remarks of the C&UGEfr gentleman by Gen. Compton. S Brown on some most with now word come had he he said that the hedge, a courtier. Every year her engagebusiness about whifch I and that considerable XVInalown distance a important Mr. ment to some new devotee is reported Soothing Myrap.For children tcetlilug. anftctu me gums. rctWes to. came down." this with a very pleasant laugh flunmatloo, allay pain, cure wlud cube. &c u UotUa. as faithfully as are her new fads. lxjrd Estcourt drew a little nearer well, yes he aas thirsty and that Society" must get into the blood. there would be plenty of time to fin- to Valentine. Methodist University is Planned. The pace that kills only timM m You will drive over very soon, ish his sketch after luncheon, and Bishop McCabe of the Methodist wrinkles. There must be some. that he thought It a most kind sug- then. Miss Brown?" Episcopal church has solicited the aid in the mad round that keeps the I am sure we shall of Thank you gestion of his questioner to invite Pierpont Morgan in the erection of nerves keen, the wits sharp, the eyes him to have some. enjoy it ever so much!" the proposed American University at bright and the muscles supple. If , good-byewe wont Then I Washington. say It is said that Mr. MorFor one instant Mr. Brown glanced this is not so. how and where does the as said he took he, think." her hand. gan views the project with favor. society women attain her perennial nervously at a silver box and candlThe King. esticks on Valeullnes writing table. youth? a Cold in One Core ran To day. Time was, when a woman married Ihen. murmuring an excuse, he Take Laxative Bromo Quinine Tablet. AU a man Foolish Thing to Do. than herself, Mrs. choking younger panting to the stables; In refund money if it fails to curs. JSq druggists a were She to astonished Suppose the clergyman mice dispatched Grundy shook her head and said, would the be a himself, a ceremony Women and for the marry What coachman helper, pity. police, age so much Te Encourage Tree Planting. the sowith an Impressive message scrib- legal? are many historic trees in the faster than men." But y There But why should He Undoubtedly. bled on a card, to Gen. Compton. her husband and U is believed by tbe De- ciety woman outlives eountry. a clergyman want to marry himself times. He attains crows-fee- t On his return he found the architectpartment of Agriculture that interest many -burglar laughing over a favorite w hen there are so many marriageable In tree planting can be stimulated by and false teeth, stiff knees and a petbook of Valentine's, the Diary of a women running around looking for distributing a limited number of these ulant temper, while she is still quotNobody" and they two talked. Mr. husbands? The ed as the lovely Mrs. Blank." and trees under proper direction. Brown for his part with a curious when grown, will be sent can dance tbe night away without feelseedlings, Not the difAttraction. Absent-mindedneOnly of books and in various of the coun- ing it. Wife (during the quarrel) Yes, and to schools there will parts And where and when and how do ferent forms of humor. and accompany each try. me married for say them you only people The parlor maid interrupted tree a concise statement setting forth they die. these women of the smart was money. meat my What becomes of them? Is soset? ready, to say that some cold the historic events connected with the Husband People are wrong, my and the two men adjourned to the ciety an elixir that gives her who and of (he the tree growing itself, They overlook the fact that yon drinks of it eternal youth on earth dining room. The guest seemed truly dear. seedling. Also had considerable real estate and permits her to vanish, like a grateful for a whisky and soda. The tactful man is a success with women because when he sees one in a cotton shirt waist he makes her believe no other woman could do it without New appearing commonplace. York Press. JOKES EASY TO TRACE. ter the married state." They scorn such a simple device to attain their object as the making of themselves unattractive in the eyes of the male sex. They stipulate in their first rule that all members must have attained the age of 17, must wear long skirts and dress their hair in a becoming manner. They also say: are Jpvlted voatHf the! appearance as attractive as possible, but be must they maidenly in their PUTNAM FADELESS DYES produce the brightest and fastest colors. Trolleys Beat Steam Roads. is made that in last year four times as many passengers w ere carried by electric cars as on the steam roads, says the Iron Age. Of course that wa3 due chiefly to the dense city traffic, but still the city street car systems were pretty complete seven years ago. The trolley passenger business, however, has doubled since that time, while the steam passenger business has actually declined. witch, into thin air when she is Bred of it all? Come back. Ponce de Leon, and interview the modern society woman on the fountain of youth. She could give you the secret if she would. Sallie Lee in New York Press. nzs $100,-00- one-thir- d y I$ s i |