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Tie Destruction Of Forests.

Engineer Arras, of the Government SER
vice, states that the beginning OF the end
has come so fer as white oak in Pennsyl.
vania is concerned. The Government
lately gave a contract in this city for
some square white oak timber, OF a size
that a dozen years ago could have been
found in the hard lumber yards here
abouts in an hours time. After a per-
sistent search the contractor threw up
his contract. stating that he could not
fill it. 1t was then given to another land
at the end Of a fortnight he reported that
he had secured all but two pieces, and
that they we're not to be had. Mr.. Arras
then cot the order modified, and as
changed it was filled after all the log
RATS lying in the river had been In
spected. 80.
Owners of what hemlock timber is left
about the headwaters of the Allegheny
have finally learned sense enough to re-
frain from allowing the trees to rot after
the bark is peeled, but a few years ago
that country was covered by half rotten
hemlock and rock oak trees. Now, too,
the immense freight on bark is saved.
The tannin is extracted in the woods
where the bark is obtained. 1t is esti-
mated that there are still between 1900,
600, 900 and l., 500, 000, 900 feet of mer.
charitable timber in the Tionesta Valley.
This is equivalent to 100000 two-horse
loads, but while somewhat bewildering
in a 'fgurative" way, it will not be
many years until the last tree is slain.
There is very little forest left in this
State that is worth anything for lumber,
and meantime the railroads are consum-
ing all the hardwood large enoughto make
a tie, so that there is no prospect OF a re.
newal of our hardwood timber in a cen.
tury, and the pine and other persistents
do not readily reclothe the wastes. But
worse than the loss of timber, for which
substitutes may be found, is the fact
that since the d%enudation of the forests
our climate has become so uncertain that
even with the aid of the Signal Service
no business calculations can be based on
the weather, and birds and animals have
not yet acquired new instinct such as
will enable them to serve US as barome.
tiers. Even the boot owl misses it as
often as the Weather Bureau.-Phtsburg
.DisDatch. H.s a.
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sUBsoILTNG.

SooSS314NSs
In the June report of the Kansas State
Board of Agriculture a plan for testing
the merits of subsoiling was given, which
was subsequently recommended on this
page as worthy the attention OF farmers,
who may in this way determine without
subsoiling a whole field whether it will
be sufficiently profitable to justify the
additional expense. Briefly stated, the
plan consists in subsoiling narrow strips,
say about two rods in widths, through a
field and planting the crop across the
strips SUBSIDIZED. Then note the differ
ence in yield caused by the subsoiling.
According to a more recent report the
theory and practice of subsoillng has
beer thoroughly and practically tested at
Medicine Lodge, Kansas, during the past
summer by the United States Govern
ment on grounds leased at that place for
experiment purposes. About forty acres
were plowed and SUBSIDIZED to a depth
of eighteen inches and planted to cane.
Another piece of ground was plowed
lu6 OIOll6lf uSPehs Das AN
and also planted to cane of the same
variety. Both fields received the same
care and cultivation. The grounds which
were subsoiled yielded about eighteen
tons of cane to the acre; while on the
other ground, simply plowed, the best
yield was only about ten tons.
Mr.. Mohler, the Secretary of the State
Board, recommends that farmers who in
tend to SOW alfalfa should by all means
subsoil. If the soil is upland it is all
the more important. This plant sinks
its roots down from five to ten more feet
into the subsoil, provided the hard and
dry condition Of the subsoil allows. 1t
is this deep roofing which enables alfalfa
to endure the severest drough, hot winds
or any other calamitous thing that comes
along. When a good stand OF this plant
is secured, it. will last fora generation or
more, yielding valuable crops each year.
-Mew York WrM.
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CURIOUS FACTS.
|. snail has 10000 teeth.

A snail mas ou,uVu teeIus
Spiders usually live two or three
years.
A coal black deer was recently seen
by a party of hunters in the woods OF
Maine.
White deer, which was once extremely
rare, are now said to be plentiful in east
ern Maine.
A prominent Indianapolis Qud.) bust
ness man has two cats that are better
retrievers than most dogs.
Each year about $50 1000 is expended
in sprinkling the asphalt-paved streets OF
London, England, with sand to prevent
the horses from slipping.
A valuable find of skeletons belonging
to the fourth dynasty was recently made
in Egypt. This is the earliest known
date of Egyptian remains.
Chess was played by the Chinese ITO
years before the Christian era, and proba-
bly, long before that, for the ancient
Persians are supposed to have known it.
The Hindoos have a %cocoanut festival
svery year at the end of the monsoon.
During the festival athletic contests take
place and wandering Ministries recite their
tales aud poems.
Esop's fables were not written by
their author. They were related and
handed down until the fourteenth cen
tury, when they were collected and pub
Gshed by a monk.
A cribo snake is one of the interesting
pets ut the Central Park New York;,
menagerie. It has a taste for devouring
other snakes and it is feared by them all,
EVER the poisonous.
Acorns are priced as an article of diet
among some tribes of Indians. They are
pounded into meal, which is mixed with
water and kneaded into dough for baking
in the style of hoecake.
An enormous crab of the Malay Islands
lives upon the fruit of the coconut which
it secures by climbing the tree. 1t breaks
the nuts either by hauling them down or
by beating against the rocks.
On the old Boston and New Haven
turnpike. in the southern part Of New
London County, Conn.,, is an old mile
stone, notched and mossgrown, that was
set there by Benjamin Franklin.
A number of the mining companies
operating in the Black Hills, South Da-
kota, have adopted a system of aggrega-
ting their shipment Of ore, and sending
to the smelling works in Illinois a long
train of loaded cars of ore drawn by two
locomotives, and each car decorated and
marked with the name of the mine from
which it came.
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Age of Trees.

The German Forestry Commission
assigns to the pine 500 and 700 years as
a maximum, 425 years to the silver fir,
274 years to the larch. PAS years to the
red beech, 210 years to the aspen, 200
years to the birch, ITO years to the ash,
146 years to the alder and $50 years to
the elm. The heart of the oak begins to
rot at about the age of 300 years. The
holly oak alone escapes this law, and
there is specimen Of this aged 410 years
in exist near Afschaferburg, in Ger.
many. But in England there are several
famous old oaks of gigantic proportions,
and with ages ~variously estimated at
from 700 to 1900 years. The latter age,
however, seems incredible. -New YorA
World.
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MILDEw.

The New York Agricultural Exper-
iment Station has for the past three
years successfully combated gooseberry
mildew, by commencing to spray as soon
as the young leaves begin to untold. and
continuing at intervals of froh eighteen
to twenty days, except in Gasp of heavy
rains, when it is necessary to fpray more
often. The fungicide used potassium
sulphide Oliver of sulphur)d one half
ounce to one gallon of water By using
no. water the sulphide will dissolve more
readily. Commercial liver of sulphur
costs but from fifteen to tfenty cents
per pound, and n gallon 4 the solu-
ton is sufficient to spray tei or twelve
large bushes if applied fdth a force
pump. The ammonlacal solution and
the bordeaux were also Fl sctive.-Mw
York Observer.
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Death From Wild Beasts in India.

Interesting returns have just been
made of the deaths due last year in India
to laceration by wild beasts. 1t is
almost entirely among the native tribes
that these deaths occur; and when it IS
considered that the vast majority Of the
rural Or upland Hindoo population live
in waited huts and sleep either on the
ground or within a few inches of it, the
wonder is that more of them are not
killed in this way. As many as 2460
native Indians owes their death to wild
beasts in the course of 1890, 1893 having
been destroyed by tigers and leopards
and eighty-seven by wolves, while the
cattle that fell a prey to these animals
numbered "a, 900.
The returns for 1889 give a larger
proportion of deaths from wild beasts
2724. But then it must be remembered
that rewards held out for every beast
slain tempt thousands of natives to pro.
cure the license to bear arms ad hoe, and
that the Government gives every en-
couragement to sportsmen, military or
civilian, to hunt the tiger, the bear, the
leopard and the wolf; so that the war of
determination against these denizens OF
the Jungle may be expected to diminish
their numbers year by year.
As q matter of fact, 10000 native
Indians hold the license to carry arms
for wild beast destruction, but lit may
also be sta.ed) they did not obtain re.
wards for more than 1864 of such
animals killed. Snakes are still the
most fatal enemies the Indian native has
to encounter. The deaths they caused
in 1890 were 21,412, while of snakes
themselves as many as 510,659 were de-
stroyed.-PaN Mall Budget.
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What Is
1t FOr2

ed boys. Life is an interrogation
point. "What is it for?" we con-
.tinually cry from the cradle to the
grave. So with this little introduc-
tory sermon we turn and ask: What
is AUGUST FLOWER FOR ?" AS easily
answered as asked 1t is for Dys-
pepsia. 1t is a special remedy for
the Stomach and Liver, Nothing
more than this; but this brimful.
We believe August Flower cures
Dyspepsia. We know it will. We
have reasons for knowing it. Twenty
years ago it startedin a small country
town. To-day it has an honored
place in every city and country store,
possesses one of the largest manu-
featuring plants in the country and
sells everywhere. Why is this! The
reason is as simple. as a child's
thought. It is honest, does one
thing, and does it right along-it
cures Dyspepsia. 9
G. G. GREEN. Sole Man'fr. Woodbury.N..
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THE CHEAPEST FEEDING MATERIALS.

Linseed cake is the staple food with
many farmers. 1t is not improbable that
this article will advance beyond a rea-
sonable price, and the farmer should cast
about to see if there is not some food
which can be bought so as to pay him
better. "A good linseed cake is the best
food for general purposes, because it
contains a fair proportiSpiof the differ
ent forms of feeding matter that ami
mails require; and ore OF its great fea.
lures is the oil, a substance not strongly
represented in grain and pulse. 1t is only
because the feeding constituents are well
balanced that it is preferred to pther
foods, and if other foods are mixed'so as
to possess the same properties equally
good results are obtained. The oil is
the chief difficulty, pit that may be
easily arranged by buying the linseed In
stead of linseed cake f,r then the whole
of the Gil is obtainedl ~Linseed contains
about four times as mu.h oil as linseed
cake, so if in making s mixture we bear
this point in mind, the most difficult
portion of the problem will be solved.
Of course, the linseed oil must be
crushed or soaked. To supply the al.
bumincid matter which is found in the
cake we have to turf to the pulse crops,
beans, peas, ~lentils, kaaize and barley
Mark Lane (Eng1nSS Ezpres.
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country than all other diseases put together,
and until the last few years was supposed to
be incurable. For a great many years doctors
pronounced it q local disease, and prescribed
cure with local treatment, pronounced it N
durable. Science has proven catarrh to be a
constitutional disease, and therefore requires
constitutional treatment. Halls Catarrh Cure,
manufactured by F. J. Cheney g. Co., Toledo,
Ohio, Is the only constitutional cure on the
market. It is taken internally in doses from
l0drops to a t~easpoonful. 1t acts directly upon
the blood end mucous surfaces OF the system.
They ofe..GG10O for any case 1t fails to cure.
Send for circulars and testimonials. Address
T. J. CHENEY & Co., Toledo, O.
ER- Sold nv Dru0piafa tn. p. -
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AGRICULTURAL
TOPICS OF INTEREST RELATIVE
TO FARM AND GARDEN.


Microscopical examination OF prs
taken from the jaw of a bullock suffer-
ing from lumpy jaw at Peoria, Illinois,
recently gave the startling discovery that
the spores are smaller than the blood
corpuscles. They can thus readily cir
culate through the veins to all parts OF
the body. And it is thought this fact
makes the disease highly contagious
though we do not quite see that this
should follow. However, we believe 1t
good policy to destroy any animals
known to be affected. Nebraska Far
mer.
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at q distance from obscure streets, should
show less attention to'them.
9. Begin small, and make perfect
work; avoid the mistakes of laying out
great expense; let the lawn be a smooth
carpet, and the walks have perfect fnish,
even if small dimensions.
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S-TERILIZRD MILK,

Considerable interest is taken In
sssterilized" milk, which means milk
with the germ of bacterial life taken out
of it. This isdone by heating the milk
to 100 degrees F. 1t is claimed that this
will cause the milk to keep sweet at
least twenty four hours longer than it
otherwise would. This is one method
of preserving milk that apparently has
no harm in it. The English 60 further,
and preserve milk by chemical COM
pounds that are not at present tolerated
in this country. but the fact is admitted
that this food product must be pre-
scrved.-American Agrieulturist.
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WINTER MAsehE a1ErHoDs

AT tle beglnnl1B CT winter q tnlck
layer of straw or 6shcr material should
be spread over thd barnyard. If the yard
is too large to wal lint this it is too large
for profit. With BIT some receptacle to
retain it, most of The liquid excrement
of domestic amin is is wasted. This
means the loss Of The portion of excre-
ment that is ricl st in ammonia, and,
therefore, most stimulating to plant
growth. FRESH tine is often so caustic
that it burns vd citation to which it is
applied, but it les this injurious effect
when ferments If the %barnyard is
small, as it oug1 to be, then successive
layers of bedda 3 may be thrown down,
the stock eatiI what it wishes. If
grain is given more straw and other
coarse feed Wi be given, thus taking
the place of g 6d hay and making richer
manure. Bef Re spring this accumula-
ton of bedd1 b with liquid and solid
excrement mi I'd should be piled in heaps
to ferment. is a good plan to add a
small quantity Of phosphate we'll dis
tributed thrl tEh the heap. Stable ma
nure is gene My deficient in phosphate
especially if largely mixed with straw.
If the twof applied separately neither
does the g ID it should, though after
the stable sanure is distributed grain
crops shou have an additional dose of
phosphate S with the drill it can be
Distribute In contact with the seed so as
to do it % 1t good when the plant be-
gins to ST :. But the phosphate mixed
with mar e is most certain to do good
later in t season, as it does not revert
or becon insoluble.- Boston Cultigator.
DIRECT jNs FOR LAYING Q GROUNDS.
The untry Gentleman gives the fol-
lowing General rules fer laying out
t!door-{ IDS" and lawns in accordance
with th principles of the best landscape
garden (:
/. e attention first to securing a
smootl avn, and well laid out and we'll
dresse walks.
2. Avoid parallel walks, because x.
pensite and needless, unless entirely
separated in view from each other by
dense planting or abrupt ridges of land,
and prefer few walks to many.
81 Every curve in a walk should have
an obvious reason, or turn aside from
some plain object Or obstruction. Curves
without reason arc a deformity.
4. Short curves approaching angles
are to'be avoided, and longer and more
grace full sweeps preferred.
S. In setting out trees, observe care.
fully what their effect will be in future
years when they spread abroad their
branches.
81 Leave a part of the grounds I'M
planted with trees, to allow a sufficient
Breadth of lawn in future years, and to
avoid regular irregularity, but prefer Q
constant variety OF change.
7. Heavy grading is expensive, and q
rounded and graceful variation of surface
m4y be more pleasing than a level, and
it jcosts much less.
10. Dwellings NAV front streets square
III, when the streets are important and
the dwellings small; but large mansions,
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There are 100000 blind people in
Europe.
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The p~roprietors Of Dr. sage's
Catarrh Remedy offer $500 for IA
incurable case Of Catarrh. Il isn't
mere talk-it's business.
They mean to pay you, # they
can't cure You. But you'll fnd
that thew can.
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Children Tease For II -t'
DR., Ho1sie's Certain Group Cure is boon TO
ehiIdren who are attacked with Group or acute
congestive colds. Sold by druggists or mailed
on receipt of 30 cts. Address A. T. Hoxsie,
Buffalo, Y. Y.
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Flower

This is the query per-
petually on your little
boys lips. And he is
no worse than the big
ger. older. balder-head-
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A GRATEFUL DAUGHTER.

My Mother was sorly afflicted with Scrofula for three years: ~ - a "
during that time the glands on her neck burst open IN five places. fhrss Nine
openings were small and healed right up. but the other tWo you'd MI up =
break pen anew. about everutwo weeks always causing severe pain and often
proaraaon. She was so reduced in strength, that tonics and coca wines n MH g
be generously used to keep her alive She commenced taking !. 2
improved from the start, the dnt bottle gave her an appetite and by te n
she finished the fourth bottle her neck healed up. she y now entirely we'll
MRS. E J. RowEII, Medsord, Masa *M5
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tie year you,

Il. the time when Dr.. Pierce's Golden
Medical Discovery works the best
It purifes the blood
It's not like the sarsaparillas,
which claim to do good in March,
April, and May; yon can depend;
upon it alsoays. That's why i is
guaranteed. II it doesn't benefit or
cure, in every case for which IT'S
recommended, you have your money
back.
No other medicine of it's kind
says as much-but no other does
as much. . It cleanses, renews and
invigorates the entire system. For
all skin, scalp and %scrofrloue affec-
tions, as Eczema, letter, Salt-rheum,
White Swellings, Hip-joint Disease
and kindred ailments, it's 9 positive
cure.
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FITS stopped free by DR.. KLiNE's GREAT
NERVE REsToRER. No fits after first days use.
Marvellous cures. Treatise and So trial bottle
Tree. DIR. Kline, 93l Arch ST.. Phtla., Pa.
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How About Your Mother

Scrofula or Kings Evil is the most stubborn OF az SKIN az
fections. Whether inherited or otherWise. It Isl blood disease
and cannot be permanently cured BY anything but go.
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1fafaicted with sore eyes use DR.. Isaac Thomp-
son'sEye-water. Druggists sell at 25c.per bottle.
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Chronic
Rheumatism

And serious disorder OF the liver and stomach, have
troubled me for more than ten years, during which
TIME I have used almost every medicine recommend.
ed, without finding any relief whatever, until I tried
Hoods sarsaparrln- This has done me more good
than anything else that have ever taken, and l take
pleasure in recommending itin the highest terms. 1t
has been worth It's weight In gold 70 mt FREDERICK
MILLER, Limerick Centre, Pa
Hoods ~SarsapariIa
Sold by all druggists. 81; six for IS. Prepared only
by C. I. HOOD s. CO., Apothecaries, Lowell, Mass
100 Doses One Dollar
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A cURE for nearly all Of the common ills
Pills. For sale by all dru .eists. % cents.
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nuo BN Due all HOLDIERS:
Y disabled. 81 fee for increase. rs years ex-
p~erionce. Write for Laws. A.W. MCCORMICK
d SuNs. WAsHISaTcs D. c. & CINCINNATI. y.
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Children Tease For 1t.

Sold by Druggists, 75c.
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Religion As an Educative Force.

CARLYLE SAYS. in the beginning OF his lee
lures on Heroes, that the VITAL Iact
about every man is his religion. When
strong personality and deep spirituality
combine in one character, there Is the
natural teacher; the seer and the lmpart-
er. for there is the Wis viva in its tulness:
No psychology" can supply the vital
force which it seeks to anaIyZe. An edu-
cation that neglects the human spirit
does not deal with men, as men, but as
autOmata. The true pedagOgue Is he who
looks behind the phenomena OF mlnd ana
matter to the noumena of spiritual beng
and actuality. This is why the educa-
tors work is like no other work. 1t
is eternal" But if the combination OF
individuality and spirituality cannot be
had. spiritual insight is higher qualty
in the teacher than force OF impact. In
any case a religious atmosphere is q con-
ditiOn" that can hardly be oYerrated
among educational appliances. A para
graph which has just fallen under cur
observation in a newspaper, notes that
i'm 1910 1.-THE heart of President Apple
ton (of BOwdoin) was cheered by the
admission of single Christian student,
there being then no protested Christahs,
in the college one sign Oh many,
says the writer, that the religious, as
well as the pOullCdl Opluioho ~ -
were in the ascendant IN the hrst decades
of the century" But if the students
were not religious, the colleges We're;
in their constitution, their discipline and
their officers. No man could get learning
without religion as the medium through
which it was dispensed. and many grad
uate realized in after life that in getting
wisdom be had got religion. too
Moreover. we believe it to be easily, de-
monstrable that the colleges. when
have held fast to their religious character
in defiance of popular clamor have In the
past sent forth, and are now sending
forth. as many distinguished men, IN
proportion to the whole number OF gradu-
ates. as the most liberal" universities
of the period, and this in the face OF
UNNECESSARILY inferior apparatus ana
equipment, the penalty of their steadtast-
ness. We believe it to be also demon
strable that such graduates make tneir
mark. not as specialists and experts,
but as "all-round men," ready Tor the
business of life, as life is; its duties ana
RESPONSIBILITIES, and bringing healtnlul
and steady pressure to bear upon their
generation along the true lines oil hulnan
5progress.-New York Churchman.