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Show V Use of California Songster Make Queer Storehouse. When the barbed a Ire fence first tame into use in California, cattle owners cursed the inventor. Not o ' tbe butcher bird. The butcher bird is creature about theslze of a email crow, aad be Uvea on Inaecta and ' smaller birds. At first the farmers who instituted the barbed wire wondered how so many grasshoppers, beetles, field mice sad small birds became impaled upon tbe barbs of their fence wires. They soon learned, for tbe butcher bird ts not a secretive creature. When grass hoppers sod other bugs were ptentt- ful, be gathered great stores and stuck them on tbe barbs offthe fences. When bard times came, tbe barbed wire fence was to him like a free lunch eoanter, . Now, In winter time. It is no rare thing In parts of California to see tbe butcher bird bopping along tbe fence wires, continually plckleg bis meals is be skips from barb to barb. Domestic Harmony, at Frightful CostHcreafter Will Stick to Ragtime. Under tbe caption, Tbe Union PaRailroad, and Louisiana Territory," tbe new Worlds Fair folder Issued by tbe advertising department of tbe Union Pacific, which bas attracted aucb general attention, recite these facts: 4 Interesting "While the construction of the 'Union Pacific Railroad, its trials and triumphs, are a part of tbe history of tbe United States, tbe important part played by this railroad In the development of the Louisiana Purchase can hardly be estimated. In the building up of this vast domain It bas been one of tbe chief factors. One hundred years ago tbe population of the region was estimated at 20.000. Up to the Inception of tbs Union Pacific (In 1860) It bad Increased to 3.233,629, In 1900 it numbered over 13.000,000 of Inhabitants. In this wonderful growth, with its stupendous Increase in all tbe many-sidephases of commercial, material and Intellectual pros; erity, the Union as a glance at the map will show bas bad a conspicuous share, It has opened vast regions of3 fertile oountry to settlers, and brought great areas of an unknown and unproductive wilderness into close communion with metropolitan centers and , mar kets. Thriving cities, towns and hamlets, through its efforts, have sprung , up In every direction. . It may be of interest to know that ' tbe total number of manufacturing plants, and tbe value of tbelr outputs, combined with that of the national products as reported in the census of 1900, .give an aggregate production for the Louisiana region of 3, 500,000,00ft annually, or 223 times the original purchase price, Tbe same census reports (1900) also show tbe total population to be 13.343,253, of which I,3u3,os0 inhabitants are living in the states sod territories reaehrtt by the Union Fa- clflo. the 1900 census figures. It la. estimated that the true wealth of tbe Louisiana purchase can be stated aj about tl2.031.SG8.3D9. Of which 9.360,- 621.387 U represented- - in the states reached by this great railroad. mare Id forget the Valkyries. Ia my time I have faced Tannhaua-er- , "Lohengrin" and other Wagnerian things; and it looked as if I might acquire the habit and stand ' around like other weak sisters pretending to be enraptured every time a bull fiddle fell foul of a base drum; but, after the Valkyrie campaign I threw up my hands and abandoned Wagner. This Is a shameful confession to mske, and argues a defective musical and moral sense. 1 am willing to admit the trouble lies with me, not Wagner; J have not been trained up to him; and I have neither money, nor strength enough to try. i was not distressed when Boston refused to give up its dividends to Herr Conried; I was proud to know Boston could control Itself even In the face of Wagner; and I was secretly snd vulgarly happy when Conried and his Valkyries started for Chicago, where they are accustomed to cycioces and explosions. Outside of the music drama, I like Germans jind things German; some day Im going over to Germany to see "where the frankfurters, hofbrau and bult'flddles 'grow; and Im going to look np Herr Wagner's grave. If they have a marble monument on His fchest and bis . tomb cemented and I shall rejoice. I'd like copper-riveteto come back with the certain knowledge that he can't get up and start In again making raw material for brass 1 bands, hand organs and Valkyries. dont 'jwant his sacred remains disturbed. When the last day comes, and people are slow In responding, I know aswhere Gabriel can get a first-clas- s sistant to rouse the sleepers snd wake the fiddles and bassoons until the roof tbe dead; but until that day, I hope no vandal hand , will monkey with the quivered. As I understand tt, the Valkyries were the Carrie Nations of great mans tomb. Joseph Smith In ancient Germany, who werd trained Boston Herald. to hover liver battlefields, keeping Tha Difference In Mankind. tabs on the patriots who went to the front too much; and when these heTheres men and men e&Id Tomroes were knocked out by the hated my the Tout, when he got back to foemen, the Valkyries swooped down Broadway from Jamaica the other on them and hustled them off to a day. "Just to shdw you, take Bill sort of reservation, Daly and Bud May. Ta' wins two called Valhalla, where the departed races with Daly and Amberjack, and patriots cat around drinking beer and Im broke. I know him and need a bragging about their war records. 4 dollar. Thinking he ought to stand 1 asks him for a plunk. patriot and hero would have to b4 6r 'I to the dead aint got a dollar in change, company enjoy very says he, hut heres a dime I can let these shrinking young ladles;- - for, they floated around in the atmosphere pa have. "I needed money bad, and when I on broncoes waiting for a chance to d 4 , d Fa-clfl- o and throwing bricks at those who made a noise. Shakespeare was quite a fellow In hla day, and knew almost as much as a spouting police geyser; but he neither knew nor anticipated tbe late lamented Herr Wagner of Bayreuth, Germany, Wagner was a man who had a lot of music in himself, but he failed to keep U in. Music worked In bis s'ystem like steam; and when it broke out it made trouble. Wagner tried his music on his ebum, a luna-tl- o and king? and If he waa pleased, it was considered a proof that the rest of us would want 1L I am rather shy about saying much shout Wagner; every fellow that plays a fiddle, or a mouth organ,' or a cornet, or forty-fivethinks Its up to him to defend him; and you are pretty sure to be called names and accused of Anarchy 1 Flret German Woman Doctor. and beating your wife if you rouse Under the circumThe University of Halle mentions the Wagneritee. the interesting fact that this instttu stances, it is Just as well to be Julion was tbe first In Germany to give dicious and speak aoft and low. the medical degree to a woman. It Some people understand Wagner; waa in 1754 that the university ere some try to understand him; some atedT a daughter of Dr. Le porta oi pretend to understand; him; while a Haile a "doctor medicine." Her sci- vast, vulgar, Ignorant majority can entific stud lee bed been carried on neither stand nor understand him. I. ' under the direction of her father, but suppose 1 am numbered among the In the university halls she bad de last lot; and, while 1 am willing to fended a set of theses that secured concede that Wagner is great, I prefer her these academia honors. She ts Sousa, Creatore and rag time. Conuo doubt the pioneer of the modern fidentially, ! think he was born too university movement among tbe wom- soon and died too late. en of Germany. Tho easiest way to distinguish from the imitation la Excellent Opportunity to Arrange far real Wagrcrlte to hear them pronounce the great Your Reception at St Louis, During mans name. The real things call tho Fair, From him Vogner; the Britannia metal if yon intend going to the Louisiana Wagnerltes call him Wagner, or Just Purchase Exposition. EL Louis, Mis- Waggoner, if they are lately from souri, opened by President Roostvelt Cheyenne. will be verymurh April 30tb,T904. When a man has a wife who can to your advantage to correspond with cut frills on a pianola, or who wanta 1L No. 411 Mr. F. Dooley Worsley, -to be la the aulm. te Just naturally block; Salt Lake City, Utah." Mrv Worsley has arranged to have all has to get down la his pocket once in while end dig up a couple of fives his parties met at the St. Louis depot and escorted to their lodgings, which to put the Wagner trust on Easy will be reserved In advance. street As rhave aatd, 1 don't really Information relative to passenger enjoy Wagner; but In the end It Is ticket limits, hctel easier and gates, stop-overcheaper to take four hours and all other necessary Informa- of the Germans spasmalhan great tion asked for will be cheerfully given In free of charge. This will especially four weeks of your wifes obligatos be of benefit to these desiring to travel C- - sharp. . Tour., weeks. ot domestic with Utah parties or In parties of four harmony is cheap at $10; a divorce or five. School teachers will also will coat more than that - hear The last time I sampled .Wagnera something to their interests by wares It was under domestic duress; writing above party. ind the particular' riot' which I enSomething Unusual. was called the Valkyries. There Little Bessie ass so accustomed to dured were several characters in It who retoeing the baby crawl around tha room minded me of certain statesmen; they on bis hands and knee that she had large voices, long whiskers and thought It was hla natural mod of These people garments. peculiar traveling. One day he succeeded la didn't make much trouble, though tending up with the aid of a chair, and they bad a end Bessie, very much astonished, ran semewhat clamorous; to her mother and exclaimed: "Oh. mamma, come Quick! Baby ia standing up on hie bird legs." ifa s, post-morte- Papers for Employee. of distributing old ' A plea msga-tlne- s s and papers to employes and along the lines in Texas was recently adopted by the Southern Pacific. During the first week 1600 p pers were turned over to thirty-twsection foremen, and In this way Sit Camilles were reached. rest-dent- o Where the Ladles Propose. Between the mountains of India and Tarsia la a powerful tribe among fwbotnan extraordinary custom Womens rights have apparently received full recognition, for the ladies of the tribe can choose tbelr town husbands All a single woman Lag to do when she wishes to change Be state la to send a servant to pin a handkerchief to the hat of a mao on whom her fancy lights, and he is bilged to marry her, unless he eaa how that he is too poor to purchase .Bar at the price her father require. f pr$-wall- drag out a battered patriot they mide butts into May I makes np my mind to try him," but Major Pelham-hanoire trough to make a D. A. S. seem l.ke a prayer meeting in been beaten out and I didnt want to for Is , make it too strong, so ail I asks comparison. " The night I sat shuddering at this a QuarterT T havent got a quarter, Tom, shrieking sisterhood Fritil Scheff was but as jpbe saya he, hut heres $2, If its all the otto of the .Valkyries; eloped from Wagner shortly afterward same to" you. "New York Times. and wert opera tad brief It Was Wished Oh, clothes, I Imagine she was cloyej hf sister has a ring that Johnnys Wagner as much as I was. Th diffond of. He is allowed ference between us was she wss paid Johnny is very sometimes for aa hour or so, wear it to I to yell at me; and paid to hear her been has he when very good, or has yell. Men are dead easy. to be. One day he sudI was glad when It a as over, when promised found that he wanted to wear these shrieking Sutherland sitters denly beautiful little gold band, and that so he Informed his sister. She wasnt jnst in the mood, so she told him, as ha insisted, that she couldnt take it oil because it wss wished on." Johnny said little and thought much, and tha next afternoon, when his sister had callers he rushed in and plumped on an ottoman in the middle Mr. TenBotts a better half, weary expres- down room, Representative Richardson of of the nessee tells of an old darky living sion coming Into her fare. reminded his bister, Johnny Thats too bad, responds! th near Nashville who, has according to cap, dear." jyour sympathetically; his theory, been dying for many, many neighbor, Oh." returned the boy, innocently, hoped he would be well by thii time-lihis I cant take it off. Sis; its wished persistent years. Notwithstanding Is no worse? belief that he is near deaths door, "No, he aint no worse." went lb on." this darky, Isaac Botts by name, ia wife, dejectedly, "an at de gaat Costly Railroad Tunnel. tobe aint no better. It's alius d4 way. apparently as well and One million dollars a mile la the Fust he's worse an' don he's fcer. estimated cost of constructing a tunday as he wss forty years ago. I )ently, says Mr, Richardson, Isaac Den hes worse agin. Alius dis way! nel, four miles in length, on the line was seized with one of his spells." Ton mab soul, honey, oie Bty bef3 of the new Moffat railroad, from DenA week or so passed, but Isaac, ac- doin fils way everainge I km ver, Colo, to Salt Lake City, Utah. n statement, grew no ber." Ccntractors hesitate about bidding for cording to Then, after a long pause, as tf In the work, because of the hardness of better. One day a neighbor. In passobdeep reflection, the darkys t.k ti- the granite through which the tunnel ing the Botts domicile, Chanced to serve Mrs. Botts standing at the gate. ed, in a plaintive tone: must be bored. Sticks of dynamite "Honey, I do wish o)e Botts Vd do make little Impression on the. rock, "How is Ike this morning?" asked somethin definite!" Ne the neighbor. York and the railroad comoanv. itself, may Times. , replied tolable," only have to buUd the tunnel Only torable, -- tetot-cosat- e e able-bodie- hls-ow- Covers Hand While Voting. or more of them Intentionally or accidentally. This can be obviated by delegating two or more members to attend to the ballot box. As the hand Is encased In the box while the ballot is being easL it Is Impossible to see which pin is being moved, and the resnlt only shows when the drawer is opened at the close of the vote. The inventor is Henry J. Fox, of Denver, Col.' oat, and nervous when sleep Is disturbed by pal a and by urinary ills, its tim to acL Th kidneys are sick. Doans Kidney Pills cure sick kidneys quickly snd permanently. Here's proof. Mrs. W. S. Marbhall. R. F. D. No. 1, Dawson, Ga., says: "My husbands back and hips were so stiff and sore that he could not get up from a chair without help. I got him a bo of Doan's Kidney Pills. He felt reOne box cured lief in three days him. A FREE TRIAL of this great kidney mediqine which cured Mr. Marshall will be mailed on application to any part of tlie United States. AdCo., Buffalo, N. dress Foster-MilburY. Sold by all dealers; price 50 cents per box. Has Wireless Station. The Italian legation at Pekin has been provided with a Marconi wire less telegraph .station, which enables direct communication to e maintained with the veM L of the Italian fleet In Chinese waters. n 1 Could You Use Mny Kind cf a Sewing Machine at Any Price? If there Is any pr.ee so low, any offer so liberal that you would think of accepting on trial a new high-grad- drop cabinet or upright Minnesota, Slhger, Wheeler & Wilson, Standard, Whito or New Home Sewing Machine, cut out and return thia notice, and you will receive by return malt postpaid, free qf cost, the handsomest sewing machine catalogue ever published. It will name ypu prices on the Miane-aota- . Singer, Wheeler & Wilson, White. Standard snd New Home sewing machines that will surprise you; we will make you a new and attractive proposition, a sewing machine offer that will astonish yoitx If you can make any use of any sewing machine at any price, if any kind of an offer would interest you, dont fall to write us at once (be sure to cut out and return this special notice) and get our latest book, our latest offers, our new and most sur; x prising proposition. Address SEARS, ROEBUCK & CO., Chlcagtv INSECT LIKE A FLOWER. Resemblance la So Great That Butter flies Are Deceived. Living specimens of a queer Insect have Jately been shown in Cambridge, England. They were brought from Portable Phone. Rangoon by Capt. C. E. Williams. Th The latest Swedish Invention that ia Insect ts a species of mantis, and Its being discussed is a portable tele- body, and legs are both shaped and phone. The specimens that have been colored to resemble a beautiful flower. sent abroad have elicited unstinted It feeds on butterflies, and while' It ia -lpraise from Austrian, Russian, Greek ying in watt for them under a spray and Turkish experts who have tested of leaves It looks exactly like a blue them, and, while large demands and blossom with a black spot in the ceninquiries for the new phone have ter resembling the tube of a corolla. come from France, Germany, Italy, The black part of its body Is drawn Spain, Portugal and the United States, out into a long green stalk. The re those from Great Britain have been semblance to a flower is perfect, and even more noticeable. butterflies and other Insects light on - Within the cylinder of this telephone it in search of nectar and are Imis a small dry cell, the whole apparatus mediately seized by its fatal claws. (Including both receiver and mouthPhiladelphia Record. piece) being small enough to go in the riaos Core for Consumption ia aa tnfaHtbl pocket With each instrument Is a eoll of thin copper wire, and it is medicine for coughs snd oolds. N. W . fiAMuai reckoned that a soldier could easily Ocean Grave, N. J., Feh. 17, 1SKXX carry 13,000 feet of this wire with Manufacture of Ml I ketone." him. Mllkstone or galalith. Is manufae The uses suggested for the portable in the following, manner: By telephone are Innumerable, military tured considerations being kept specially to chemical process the casein is precis powder, the front Outposts. It ts declared ltated as a yellowish-browwhich is mixed with formalin. There could by its aid be kept In constant communication with the main force, by a hornlike product is formed. Ths and it is pointed out that it would substance, with various admixture furnish a valuable means of keeping forms a substitute for horn, turtle marble, ambet or police shell. Ivory, celluloid, In touch with headquarters ' and fire brigades. For use between and hyd rubber. Handles for knives railway coaches on a moving train, and forks, paper cutters, crayon for engineers at work underground or pipes, cigar holders, seals, marble, on great public works, for steamers, stone ornaments and billiard balls are for cyclists and In many other fields now made of galalith. Its easy workIt would be most desirable. New ing. elasticity and proof against fire, make it very desirable. York Commercial Ask Toot Dealer To r Alleac rit-S- u Electrical Science. , , A powder. It rests the feet.- - Cure Corn Ia the Physikallsche Zeltschrlft, Bunions. Swollen, Sore, Hot, Callous, Aching Dr. A. Korn describes a new receiver Sweating Feet and Ingrowing Nails Allen' makesaewor tight shoes easy. At for telautograph and the telegrabplc Foot-Eas- e of half-ton- e transmission process all Drnggista and Shoe stores, 25 cents A blocks. In the transmitting apparatus cept no substitute. Sample mailed Fxaa. S. Le Roy, N.Y. the writing of tbe points and lines of Address Allen Olmsted, blocks are formed by a the half-ton- e Superstitions of Minora. ink on a sheet of Vorfa colliery, in South Wales, Is metal foil. This is wrapped round the notorious for Its uncanny tradition surface of a cylinder which is rotated Tha seven whistlers" were heard wlthunlform angular velocity. The there before a great explosion in the electric current is transmitted by 60's, and before another in 1890, when means of a metal pen which moves a hundred miners were e nearly In 0.01 inch each revolution forward tombed. In December, 1895, it was In the receiving apparatus the cylinsaid that they had been heard yet der is rotated with an angular veloc- again, whereupon the men one cent than In tbe work and could not be induced struck per ity greater by to re transmitting apparatus, snd at the end same it until the government inspect of each revolution is made to await or had made a close examination of a synchronizing signal by which it lx the workings snd reported all safe. Ia restrained. The impression at the July, 1902. another instance of a cot station is produced on sensitized llery strike, founded upon the asms paper by a small electric lamp or 'Superstition, occurred in England. vacuum tube, which by means of a suitable relay of Tesla currents is Important to Mothers. made to glow whenever the pen at y min, carefully every bottle of CA8TOBIA, the transmitting station passes over S safe and sura Itmedy tor infanta and childraa. a portion of the pic- and see that It ture. The paper Is illustrated by Bean the g transmitspecimens of Signature of ( ted by this method. Ia Us For Over SO Yean. ' Tha Kind You Bar Alwaya Bought One Cause of Baldness. The cause of baldness is attributed France Would Buy Trust by Dr. Gilbert to tight hatbands. He French economists are asserting remarks that women and savages do not suffer from the condition, and that when a monopoly becomes Inshould be bought by the suggests the use of small cork feeders jurious it around the hatband, voiding pressure state and managed In the Interest of to certain parts or sections, leavtng the public. This question has gone o far beyond the theory that th the Intervening space free for normal blood supply and free Ingress and minister of finance has seriously thought of taking In hand the refin-ta- g egress of air from inside the hat of oIL , -- -- - Secret Ballot Box. In secret orders which requiry a ballot to be cast in order to deters line whether applicants for membership shall or shall not be admitted, no little complaint bas been heard because some' one has see'n fit to oppose th admission of a man whom he believes to be Ineligible or objectionable. When more than one member Is in opposition there Is little Use in finding YauU. tut In at least one order a single black ball will prevent an applicant from becoming a member. Should some one In favor of the applicant chance to see the black used and make mention of the members name, he is apt to be the subjec of much criticism among the other n embers. It Is necessary that tbe ballot should be as secret as possible, permitting no one to know who Is the one casting the unfavorable vote. There Is probably no better way in ahich to attain this end that by the use of the ballot box here illustrated. In the body of the box tnere are two channels for the recei tton of the balls, one for those of a a bite color and the other for those which are black. When the members come forward to caU their ballots for or against the applicant for membership in the order, it is only necessary for them to pu-- h the sliding pin in conjunction with eblur one of the channels. If a member oppbss'he candidate he will push the pin op the right and drop a black ball into the drawer beneath: if, on the other hand, he is In favor of the applicant, he pushes the pin on the left and drops a whit" hall. The only objection to this device seems to be that the person who has charge of placing the balls In the channels might mix one n it s When th hack achee and you are alwaya tired INVENTION. A ere chased off by the scene shifters; snd though I wss dead tired and stone deaf, I went out and tackled lobsters and Welsh rabbits in a restaurant and cheerfully faced nightmares. J knew when I got the night- When Shakespeare wrote "Tbe man rather easy time trying not to fall la no music in himself, nor Is love with a stout, elderly and shopmoved with concord of sweet sounds, worn princess or prophetess, who ws is fit for treasons, strategems and lovely enough to atop a clock in any spoils, be lived Id an age that knew climate, or drive the east wind out of Boston. only flutes and lutes of that Inoffensive sort; an age when people who . Tbe real things In thia music drama are not opWagner's things sang only carolled and trolled about or eras tot a opuses --were fiowera and love and shepherdesses. Shakespeare never beard a piano, nor of strong, strenuous young woma German brass band, nobody had in- en arrayed in nighties and camvented operas, comic or explosive; it paign helmets and armed with ox was not considered bad form to ad- goads, who butted in periodically with mire a ballad; and no one was expell- gesticulations and shrieks, while tb ed from society or considered Ignor- conductor out in front threw flu, ant and uncouth for liking a melody fought with his baton and worked uj that hath cific TIME TO ACT. Easterner Complains lie Purchased HUMBLE CRITIC WRITES OF WAGNERS MUSIC wire rerfcE bird's larder. d ...... - hand-writin- X A - |