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The Dead Sea.

The Dead sea is an old and dccrepit
salt lake, in q very advanced state of
evaporation. 1t lies several feet below
the level of the Mediterranean, just as
the Caspian lies several feet below the
level of the Black sea; and rs in both
cases the surface must once have been
continuous, it is clear that the water Of
either sheet must have dried up to a very
considerable extent. But while the Cas-
plan has shrunk only to eighty-tive feet
below the Black sea, the Dead sea has
shrunk to the enormous depth Of 1909
feet below the Mediterranean. Every
now and then some cnterprising De Les
seps or other proposes to dig a canal
from the Mediterranean to the Dead sea,
and so rc.cstablish the old high level.
The effect of this very revolutionary
proceeding would be to flood the en-.
tire Jordan valley, connect the Sea of
Galilce with the Dead sea. and play
the dickens generally with Scripture
geography, to the infinite delight Of
Sunday school classes. Now, when the
Dead Sea first began its independent
career as q separate sheet Of water on its
OWL account, it no doubt occupied the
whole bed of this imaginary engineers
lake-sprcading, if not from Dan to
Bccrshcba, at any rate from Dan 10
Edom, or, in other words, along the
whole Jordan Valley from the Sea Of
Galilec and even the waters of Mcrom to
the Southern desert. The modern Dead
sea is the last shrunkcn relic Of such a
considerable ancient lake. Its waters
are now so very concentrated and so
very nasty that no fish or other ~self-re-
speeding animal a consent to live in
them, and so buoyant that q man can not
drown himself, even If he tries, because
the sea is saturated with salt of various
sorts till it has become a kind Of soup or
porridgc, in which aswimmcr floats: will
he, Mill he. -COrnhW.
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A Silyer.ShOl Horse.

A Pittsburg correspondent Of the
Philadelphia News writes: ga visitor to
the Westinghouse stables, in the East
End, sees among an array of handsome
blooded horses one of peculiar beauty OF
color and carriage. Casual notice is
quickened into close inspection when it
is noticed that the horse never moves.
lie is dead. Though ~lifeless, he is, per-
hans, the only horse in America to-day
which wears a full set of solid silver
shoes. Mrs. George Westinghouse is
the leader of East End fashionable life.
Her dresses are the costliest, her reccp-
tions the most brilliant, and her turnout
the finest in the city. Her husband is
said to have settled an income Of $3.50, :
900 a year in pin-money upon her. She
is q lady of artistic taste, and q year ago
she decided upon a team of cream-col-
ored horses, with flowing, snowy names
Such horses arc as rare as they Nre
beautiful, but Mrs. Westinghouse,
nothing daunted, set about to
procure them. Four agents were en-
ploycd. and for months the country was
secured, and stables and stock farms
were ransackcd to find tie silvcr-tippcd
horses. At last the team was turned
over to their delighted mistress. They
cost but IS, 900, Lut the expense of get.
ting them was enormous. Mrs. West
inghousc, early in the use OF her new &C.
QUESTION, became concerned rs to what
she would do if one Of them should die.
The agents who secured the first pair
were sent out to find third. They
were successful, and the three beauties
were o on friendly terms. The
strangest part ef the story is, perhaps,
that what Mrs. Westinghouse feared, the
death of one of the original pair, &C.
Cured but two weeks after the third had
been acquired. So much had Mrs. West
inghousc become attached to the horse
that she ordered him sent to New York
to a well known taxidcrmist to be stuffed.
There he was treated to silver shoes, and
given as near as possible a look of rccog-
milton, so that when his mistress enters
the stable none appears more glad to sec
her than he. The horse is groomed,
blanketcd, and attended as carefully as
if alive. His bed is always made, and
his mangcr is always full of hay.
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AdYie to Newspaper Readers.

Never borrow a paper. This is import
Mt.
Never believe anything you read in
newspaper that doesn't agree with what
you think. This saves wear and tear N
your convictions.
Always speak slightingly of the news
paper you happen to read. This i'm.
presses people who don't know you with
an idea that you arc a very superior sort
of a person.
When a newspaper opposes your can
didatc always accuse the editor of hay
ing a personal spite against him. That
is the way you would act if you were
the editor, you know.
When YOU finish reading the paper
throw it down contcmptuously and re-
mark loudly and imprcssively that
there's nothing in the papers nova
days. This carries weight with those
people who overhcar you and arc unable
to read themselves.
Tell everyone that newspapers ought
to be cheaper. The cheaper you can get
them the better they will be. You know
how that works on other lines of bust
ness.
Write frequent letters to the editor
telling him how to conduct his bust ness.
This is one of the things he enjoys most
of anything. 1t shows him that, what.
ever disadvantages his work may have,
he is much more to he cnvied than Il
bilious, dyspeptic, conceitcd. ~asinine,
ignorant, bumptious, borcsomc crank.
It makes him satisfied with his lot. But
send your letter by mail. Why? The
editor may be a larger man than you are.
-Nep York Graphic.
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A PHYSICIANS Secret,

A pathetic story is told by the English
medical journals. DR.. Warburg COM
pounded for many Years a valuable rem
cdy for malariouS diseases, which was
especially useful in tropical climates.
General Gordon, when he was governor.
general of the Soudan. declared hat he
owed his life TO it, and the English med
ical profession came to regard it as one
of the most powerful febriluges. Pro-
fcssor W. G. Maclcan appealed to DR..
Warburg to reveal the secret of its COM
position, for the benefit of medical sci
encc. The request was needed and the
formula, which had previously been a
well-guardcd secret, was published in the
London Lancet. The consequences were
disastrous to the inventors fortunes.
Druggists in England and India prepared
the remedy themselves and sold it for
their own benefit. The inventors income
was taken away as Don as he parted with
his secret, and his profits went to the
wholesale and retail drug trade. The
government of India made Il grant Of
81, 1000 to him in token of its appreciation
of the value of the remedy. otherwise
the world was indifferent to his fate. lie
is now in destitute circumstances at the
age of eighty-ore, and the English med
ical journals are making appeals to the
profession to relieve his poverty.
The .Hedir0l HeroITl, in which We find
the details Of this interesting case, read
lily comedies the hardship and personal
sacrifice of the man, who gave to ''trop-
ical medicine Il powerful weapon to con-
tend with a disease that kills twice as
many victims as cholera and smallpox
put together" 1t returns, however, an
emphatic negative to the question:
"Shall a physician keep secret his for
mule" 1t maintains that whatever in
justice may fall upon the individual, it.
would Lc dcmora!iziny to the profession
and injurious to the public if physicians
attempted tomakc secrets Of their favor
lite and most helpful remedies.
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Food for the Nervous,

a distinguished physician says that he
is disposed to exclude vegetables, with
the exception of cereals and little fruit,
entirely from the dietary Of nervous per-
sons. Animal food is more nutritious to
the nervous system and to the body gen.
orally than q vegetable diet. 1t has all
the elements of the formation of the
tissues Of the body, and iseasily digested.
Man can exist on it IN any climate. OF
meats, beef is by far the best. Pork is
good for nervous people. Eggs boiled
just enough to harden the whites are
easily digcstcd. 1t is a mistake about
people eating too much. The majority
do not cat enough. Nervous dyspepsia
comes from working too hard and not
eating enough. When q man begins to
suffer from ovcrwork he should cat plenty
of good bread and butter, drink two
quarts of milk a day, and eat plenty of
good meat. When such a person resorts
to q vegetable diet he grows weaker and
loses his nerve power. Man was made
to eat, and he never will flourish on a
ycuctablc diet.
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Look mt the Bright Side.

The following extract is from an adj
dress made at the University of Paris by
NJ. Rene Goblet: Life, after all, is good
and made to be enjoyed in al its agree
ableness and beauty. You are young;
cultivate with care three qualities, wit,
vivacity, good humor. But do not take
for 4 model those who see only the gay
side of things and laugh at everything.
Isn't one worthy Of our race unless he
turns everything into mockcry2 Believe
me, it is Il mcagcr use of wit TO know
only how to bclittlc. Perpetual irony is
often q mark Of impotence. Listen still
less to those who see only the somber
side of life; the sad. the discouraged, to
use q term of the day, the pessimistic.
1t is said that at the present moment a
new school is forming among Il youth,
and that, refashioning formulas that
have already passed away, Or inspired by
a more or less sincere philosophy, Dor
rowcd from other nations which have
nothing in common with our own, they
seek to lead the world towards mclan-
choly and despair. All, my friends,
shun especially these unhappy tendon
cies and these pcrnicious teachings.
Sadness may perhaps inspire in a soil.
tary genius immortal accents. 1t IS not
a doctrine to guide 4 nation. Truly, the
coming time is not made for sterile dis
couragcmcnt nor for n philosophic or
poetic WEAKNESS. OF this you should be
fully convinced.
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A Poultry Town.

In the secluded town OF Little Comp
ton, r. l., poultry raising is made a
speciality by the farmers. Not many are
new in the business, writes a correspond
ent of the Mew England Farmer, and
some have been engaged in it many years.
All arc farmers, but the tilling Of the
soil is in the poultry interest. The
largest poultry farm contains two hun
drcd acres, of which fifty acres are de-
voted to the range of fowls and chicks.
Fifty hens comprise q colony and occu-
ply a separate house. Here they arc fed
and here they roost and lay. The num-
Der of fowls on this farm is 1900, and
is made up of Plymouth Rocks and Light
Brahmas. One man attends to all and
has ample time.
The yield of eggs is about 1,G00 dozen
a month, and they are sent to market
twice o week, to Boston, New York and
Providence, as the demand comes. One
farmer receives all the eggs produced in
the neighhorhood, and sends to market.
In the 'busy season" c, 900 dozen a week
is not unusual. The food in summer is
corn, wheat, barley and other grains; in
winter cooked food, meal and vcgeta-
bles, with beef scraps and ground bone.
The cost per fowl is about 81 per year,
and the profit on each is also about 81.
Feathers find u ready market at eight
to twelve cents per pound. During
the year 1884 the price of eggs received
by the farmers averaged twenty-five and
a half cents per dozen.
On the large farm the hen as an egg
hatcher has been discarded. Four arti-
fetal ~incubators had produced before the
1st of June 1900 chicks. Artificial
brooders are used also. Fifty to seventy
five per cent. Of fertile eggs were
Matched. The u%nfavorable weather in
the early spring reduced the average
lower than that of last year. 4 man who:
understands can give all attention ncces.
sary to an incubator in thirty minutes
daily. Goslings and ducks arc Matched
by i%ncubators, and the result is satisfac-
tory. About fifty stock geese arc kept,
from which arc raised annually five or
six hundred green geese for market. The
geese are fattencd ir pens, and the noise
made by five hundred, all speaking at
once, has no music in it a mile away.
The cottage of the superintendent,
however, is near the goosc-pens, but
like the mar who lived next door to a
steam gong, he is not disturbed by the
uproar. \ professional goosc-pluckcr
can strip twenty geese 4 day. lie is
armed with Il leather thumb and a sharp
bladcd knife. This may seem incrcdi-
bic to the farmcr who raises a few geese
for Thanksgiving, when the whole fam
lily may spend a day or two in removing
most of the feathers from one goose.
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Food and Conscience.

Never 60 to bed in any danger Of be-
ing hungry. People are kept awake by
hunger quite as much as by q bad con,
science. Remembering that sleep is the
essential force which the whole scheme
starts, decline tea or coffee within six
hours before going to bed. If the women
kind insist, you may have your milk and
water at the tca-tablc co:orcd with tea
but the less the better. Avoid all mathc-
MATES or intricate study of any sort in
the last six hours. This is the stuff
dreams are made of, and hot heads, and
the nuisanccs Of waking hours. Keep
your conscience clear. Remember that
because the work of life is infinite,
YOU cannot do the whole of it in any
limited period of time, and that, there
fore, you may just as well leave of in
one place as another. --EamarG Ererett
U,I
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CHEsTNUTS.

The chestnuts brown are falling down
Where long, rich grass is deeply green;
The light is clear, the sky seems near
Where far-off purple hills are seen;
Wild hedge flowers make shady bowers,
Shading the warm suns amber light;
A fleecy veil, transparent pale,
Melts away in the blue SO bright.
The ivy's shade is softly laid
On the cd wall where lichens grow,
Where soaring swallows nests are ma 10
In chestnut branches bending low.
Dreaming l lie beneath the sky
Listening to tho linnet's tune,
While soft, white clouds above me fly,
And bees on thistles softly Groom.
Like Robin Hood, in lcafy wood,
am sole monarch here to-day,
For Natures subjects, kind and COOL,
No harsh, rebellious sounds display.
My monarch's crown, the chestnuts brown
That lightly fail upon my head,
The dewdrops here, on roses near,
Are all the tears my subjects shed.
Mrs. Henry o. Rogers, IN the Current.
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A French Tower OF Babel.

1t is a French idea to erect III the
grounds of the Paris exposition of 1889,
an iron tower three hundred yards in
heighth-that is, twice as high as the
Great Pyramid and more than twice the
hcighth of the Strasburg cathedral. AS
one hundred and sixty yards is considered
the limit of height possible in a strnc-
ture in which stone is the principal ma
terial, it is proposed to use iron. The
base of the tower is of pyramidal shape,
and is to be seventy yards high; the SUI
pcrficial area at this height will be 5000
square yards; above this arc to be three
other stages or stories. in which will be
room for various scientific and other pur-
poses. The towers of Notre Dame will
be mere pigmics beside this colossal
structure, and will not reach to its first
floor. The protector points out
that. in addition to its monu-
mental character, the structure
will be useful for stragetical purposes in
war time on account Of its vast range of
view; also for meteorological and as
Economical observation, for at such a
height the clcarness of the air and the
absence of fogs would render observa.
ton possible which cannot be made
from the ground. The whole exhibition
and the surrounding neighborhood might
be lighted by one electric burner on this
tower. Many scientific problems may,
it is suggested, be investigated from the
tower, such as the resistance of the air
of different weights, certain laws of
elasticity, the study of the compression
of gas vapors, and of the oscillation Of the
pendulum. In shape it is to resemble an
enormous light house, gradually taper
ering from a wide base to the summit.
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A CITY of MOSaics in Clay.

The streets of Puebla arc wider and
better than those of most Mexican cities,
and the buildings are finer, having all
of them two or more stories; in pleasant
contrast to the usual narrow, stony alleys,
o~vershadowcd by Moorish casas ccntu-
ries old bearing the gloomy air of an iron
agc. Beside the inevitable central plaza
and alameda, Puebla r~ejoices in no less
than twenty. six public parks--all tlowcry
breathing places where the ~populace con
grcgate every evening of the week. The
shop fronts and most of the houses are
built of six-sided bricks, with small
blue tiles set in between. Others are a
perfect mosaic of Dutch or China tiles
upon a ground work of Pompeilan red,
arranged in all manner of designs, and
having numerous plaques and panels,
upon which saints arc carved or painted,
let into the walls. The effect is charm
ingly uuaint-somewhat startling at first
to Northern eyes, but soon becomes &C.
customed to the vivid coloring and learns
to regard Our common place abodcs much
rs a collector of ceramics look upon delft
lis compared to decorated pottery San
Fra rim0 WrOnic!e.
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A Cowboys Life.

The life of the average cowboy is not
so romantic as sometimes painted. They
work hard, have little variety of food
and lead a lonesome life. While at the
home ranch they have some of the COM
forts of life. They have a chance to sleep
under a roof, generally on a blanket on
the floor, and they can sit down to a
table while they eat their bread and
bacon and drink their black coffee. And
during the evenings they spend their
time reading, writing to some fair maid
they have met at q ball at Uvalde or Del
Rio or telling stories and singing songs.
When they 60 of COW hunting they take
a sack, put in it some flour, baking pow.
der, q piece of fat bacon, some coffee and
sugar and a little salt. This they throw
over the horses back. They take q skill
let and hang it to the saddle and hang a
coffcc-pot to the horses neck. Their six-
shooter is in q belt around their waist.
They ride off fifteen or twenty miles from
nowhere.
The sun beginning to get low they
dismount, stake out the pony and
proceed to get supper. Gathering a few
sotol stocks a fire is started. Some water
is dipped up from the puddle where the
horses have been drinking and the cattle
wading about. The coffee pot is filled
and placed on the fire to Eoil. Bread
must be made. The cowboy has to have
hot bread three times q day. They cut
off a few slices of bacon, put it in the
skillet and fry it out. The meat is picked
out, leaving tho hot grease, to which
they add q little water, put in flour,
some baking powder and a little salt.
This they stir up till it is doughty; then
they play with it a little while with their
hands. Finally it is put back in the
skillet, the cover put on and fire placed
above, below and around. In q few
moments the bread is baked or fried.
Now the festive cowboy cats his supper
coffee, meat and bread. The same for
breakfast and the same for dinner, varied
somewhat if he happens to kill a deer ran
antelope. Supper over. seeing that his pony
is all right, be spreads his blanket on the
ground, puts his saddle under his head
for a pillow, places his shooting iron
where it will be handy and goes to sleep.
This life he leads for two or three weeks,
or til! his provisions run short, and he,
getting hungry and lonesome and wish
ing to sec the boys, returns to the ranch
for a day or two.
Cowboys are a brave and good-hearted
set. Their enemy is whisky and they
know it. Generally they arc quiet and
peaceable, but leading the free life they
do, being under no restraint, it is not to
be wondered at that when they 60 to
some border town full of bad whisky
and important policemen they have a
collision with the authorities. boston
journal.
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N YIN U-37

Grateful Thousands proclaim vNEaAn
BrTTERs the most wonderful Inyigorantt that ever
sustained the sinking system.
Made from California roots and herbs, lree
from Alcoholic Stimulants. A PurgasiVe
This isitters cures Female Complaints,
Infammatory and Chronic Rliculnatism,
Gout, Bilious, Remittent and Intermittent Be-
Yers, Blood, Liver ard Kidney Diseases.
Dyspepsia or indigestion, Headacne,
Pain In the Shoulders, Coughs, Tightncss OF the
Chest, Dizziness, Sour Stomach. Furrcd Tongue,
Bilious Attacks, Palpltation Of the Heart Pneu-
are cured by the use Of the Bitters.
For Skin Diseases, Eruptons, Bols,
Erysipelas, Scrofula, Discolorations, Humorsa ana
diseases Of the Skin Of whatever name OF ma
ture, are literally dug up and carried OUT OF tne
system In O short time by the use OF the Sltters'
1t HnviSorates tho Stomach, and Sum-
ulates the torpid Liver and Bowels, which rem.
der it Of unedualed efficiency In cleansing the
blood Of all impurities, and inparting o Lie
and vigor to the whole system.
No Person can take the Bitters and remain
Pin, Tape and other Worms, ara
DESTROYED and removed from the system.
Cleanse II Vltiated Blood whenever
It is foul your feelings will tell you when. Keep
the blood pure, and the health OF the system
I'm Conclusion: Give the Bitters atrial. Il
will speak for itself. One bottle willprove O bet
ter guarantee Of its merits than o lengthy ad'
vertisement.
II. Is. Mcdonald Drug Co. Proprietors,
Ban Francisco, Cal. and bs, $50 $50 Washington st.
Cor. Charlton st., New York.
Sold BIZ all Dealers and Druggists
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W. Matieu Williams remarks that the
popular notion that mosquitoes are chiefly
resident in tropical and sub tropical
countries is quite a mistake, the home of
their mighticst legions being within and
about the Arctic circle. On coastiny
trips to the North cape even, vessels arc
invaded by maddcning swarm at every
stopping place. 1t is reported that in
Alaska they form clouds so dense that it
is impossible for sportsmcn to aim at OBJ
iects beyond. Native dogs are some
times killed by them. and even the great
grizzly bear is said to be occasionally
blinded by their attacks and finally
starved in consequence.
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IRFES

The South wind breathes a chant as it goes,
Blessing the ripened ears that bend
And murmur low as if each one knows
The warn, South wind as the touch Of n
friend.
The inland sea has no epic song
OF storm and conquest and trophies rare;
The sweet South wind as It sweeps along
Has no note in it of fear or care.
The golden strings of the inland sea
Sound rich full! chords of a grateful land;
Plenty and Peace are all that see
Where the bursting wheat ears holding
stand:
Carriers full with a yellow store.
Cupboards cncc empty no longer bare,
Labor repaid. nor craving more,
Joy and contentment everywhere.
London Society.