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Foreign.

Colonel Tornechy, commanding the
fourth column OF the British eXpedi-
ton against the Waziri tribesmen on
the Afghan frontier, was killed in an
attack on a tower held by six outlaws.
An ecclesiastic deputed by Bishop
Nazary, OF Mini Novgorod, to inquire
into the performances OF X. LEM, Jug
gler reported that he must have the
aid of the devil.
The archives OF the Conservatoire,
in Paris, where Nine. Bernhardt
studied, show that she was born in
Paris, of German parentage.
The deienses OF the city OF London,
which have been declared inadequate
have recently been very materially i'm
proved.
Queen Helena Of Italy was delivered
of second daughter, who arrived one
month ahead OF schedule time.
Henry Hefoel, a London stockbrok
er, who was ruined by speculation
committed suicide.
The Marquise de Chambrun, las
surviving granddaughter OF Lafayette
died in Paris.
The British governol OF the Wind
ward Islands says Georgetown, on st
Vincents Islands, will have to be
abandoned, and it is doubtful if any part
of the island is out of the range Of the
Soufrierc volcano.
Rumors of the i'll health OF the Czai
and Czarina are denied, as is also the
similar stories concerning the Care
witch
1t is feared that Eugene Sandow the
strong man, was lost in the wreck Of
the steamer Elingamite a. week ago.
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THE GIRL WE ADMIRE.
She Has . Sunny Disposition ana the
~ Gift Of Smiling Away the
Tr0ubles Of Life.

The most lovable girls in the world
are those with sunny disposition. A
few people like the quiet, thoughtful
girl; others like the girl who is per-
petually vivacious and bubbling over
with spirits. But every one likes the
girl with the cheerful, sunny DISPOSE
ton. Girls of this character are never
extrayagantly boisterous or dismally
quiet; they have pleasant smile for
every one. They never seem troubled
or worried, their voice is low and
musical. and their smile-be they pref
ty or not--is always sweet.
The only trouble that the sunny
tempered girl has is the outcome of her
popularity. Every one wants to talk
20 her, and be in her company. Young
men are attracted to her without ef-
fort on her part. for her character
shows itself so plainly in her actions
that young men are SO delighted at
the cheeriness and sympathy of her
nature that they are drawn to her al
once. Scr 81
For every reason, then, the girlwith
the sunny disposition, who smiles away
the troubles of life, is favorite. And
what is more, old people are just al
charmed by her as are those Of about
her own age.-N. Y. Weekly.
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SCIENCE OF BUSTING.
How to Keep Pictures and Wood
weFk Perfectly Clean, without
Injuring Them.

With clean, dry busters wipe down
the sidewalks. faces of pictures
and the woodwork. Al often az
the cloth is full of dust take
it to the window and shake thor
oughly; when grimy, change it for .
fresh one. A feather buster is not
recommended, as it merely fiips dust
from one article to another and does
not remove it. Clean off finger marks
and soiled spots on paint and wood
work by using water containing a
little ammonia or borax. When there
is fireplace in the room wash the
hearth; il there is any iron work go
over 1t with cloth slightly damp
ened with kerosene. Carefully re-
move the dust sheets, folding them
with the dusty side in and send out
of doors to be shaken and aired be-
fore folding and putting them away
for the next week. Have the windows
washed, also the mirrors, and all gas
globes or shades. Close the win
dows, arrange the draperies; replace
furniture and ornaments, and the
room is done.
Where hall is to be swept, remove
all clothing from the hat rack, carry
out the rugs, pin up and cover al
draperies, put movable furniture into
the nearest rooms after busting each
piece. See that all doors are closed
Begin at the upper hall, sweep and
take up the dust as each landing II
reached. Use the whisk and hail
brushes on the stairs; If carpeted
whisk the dust on the pan at each
step. Follow the same methods il
busting, being especially careful to &
thoroughly over each stair rail.-N
X. Ledger Monthly.
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GREEN IS TEE COLOR.

OSTRICH feather boas of bright
green are among the new showings,
A pretty pin for chatelaine watches
is a green ribbon knob set with emer-
aids, the ends of the ribbons outlined
with diamonds. T<
No doubt green parasols save the
eyes and are tremendously swagger,
but the light they cast on the face is
quite another story.
A green satin ribbon, which forms
a deep girdle around the waist of one
gown, has rather short ends in the
back, these cut round instead of with
a slant, as they are usually to be
seen.
The fancy for green evinced in
Paris in the early part of the year
has not yet died out and il Is mixed
with brown cloth to the greatest adj
vantage. A palegreen cloth gown
made with short .bolero coat, had
deep band of brown-spotted panns
velvet. shot through with green, and
an ecru Irish crochet collar, finished
with a tie of the same. The plaiI
cloth skirt was stitched with brown
This does not, perhaps, sound par
ticularly happy mixture, but it looked
quite well, owing to the fact that !
was properly carried out.
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Lands along the south Atlantic and

Lands along the south Atlantic and
gulf coasts, which in many cases are
now considered worthless, will prove
a gold mine to their owners when cul-
tivated in rice. The crop yields all
the way from eight to thirty barrels
per acre, and sells for So to S. per
barrel, depending ON the care the
planter has shown in producing
high quality of grain. The profits
on single crop will usually cover all
the outlay necessary for an irrigating
plant; and aside from the expense of
irrigation rice costs but little more
per acre than wheat.
A peculiar condition of soil is re-
quired for growing rice successfully
and profitably. The land must be
level, with surface soil, preferably
of clay or mixed loan and clay. and
fairly fertile. 1t must be underlaid
with subsoil of clay that is imper-
vious to water, because the land must
be kept flooded during the growing
season, and clay subsoil is neces-
sary to hold the water. There must
be an abundant supply of soft watey,
and canals or bitches to carry it on
the land with pumping machinery to
raise it, unless it can be brought from
higher level by gravity. An outlay
of S. to $25 per acre is generally nee
essary for levees, canals and pumping
machinery, but there is propably no
agricultural investment in America
that will pay more certain or profita.
bic returns.-Dixie Farmer.
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FIRE PLACE FERNERIES.
Hearth Gardens That Preserve De-
lightful Tempe nature and Are
an Aid to Beauty.

OF number of excellent plans fol-
screening or decorating a fireplace
none is more sensible or ornamental
than that of turning il into sort Of
fernery. Ferns, ivy, swamp lilies. peri
wrinkles and two or three varieties of
oriental iris love to root in cool, dark,
mist places, and properly drained and
planted. a fireplace garden can be made
just as attractive as one i'll window
One woman, whose cottage drawing
room is provided with very old-fash-
Toned square brick fireplace, in which
the antique crane still swings, and
above which the narrow mantel shelf
is set very high, resorted to very SIM
pie measures for beautifying it during
the summer. She bought three copper
pots, such as the florists hang in their
windows full of flowers. These she had
filed with earth. and planted with
green things that love the shade, and
stringing them along the crane, she
effectively screened the smoke-black-
ened cavern where the flames had
leaped all winter.
Many of her friends have since had
polished steel cranes fixed in their
modern fireplaces, and on these they
have hung brass kettles and bowls, and
one went so far as to have her bric-a-
brac dealer hunt up for her true old
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TRAFFIC AND TRACTION.

Hamburg's shipping trade with
Australia doubled in 1901.
England has so locomotives for
each 100 miles of railway, Germany
So, and France but AZ.
The volume of the worlds com
merce is 2Hs or three times as great
as it was 80 years ago.
Ice entered 81 British ports last
year, but London took nearly half OF
the entire import of 46o,946 tons.
Locomotives exported by England
during 1902 were $1,265,000 more
than in the sayne period of 1901.
Seattle's exports to Japan are now
about $4,000, 900 per annum, which is
II times what they were six years
ago.
Not so very long ago Gen. William
Malone and his private car caused
more or less commotion wherever
they appeared in Virginia. After the
stormy little man died the car wal
allowed to stand around for long
time in Richmond railroad yards
Now it stands in suburb of tina,
city, being used as a loafing place
by railroad employees. X
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According to western ideas the mar
ried woman in Japan is not to be
envied. A Japanese girls marriage
dowry consists of nothing beyond her
dresses. little writing desk. box of
cosmetics and other toilet necessar-
les, couple of little dining tables
and few lacquer plates. Japanese
women do not inherit fortunes, and
in families where there is no son one
is adopted as an heir. Women of
the poorer classes are most to be
pitied. husband is as free as a
bachelor, and can do exactly what he
chooses. A man marries when he
likes, and when he tires of his wife
he may put her away and take an
other with as little fuss as we make
about changing our tradespeople.
These exchanges, or divorces, are most
frequent among the poor, but are
comparatively rare among the upper
classes.
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A MOST PROFITABLE CROP.
Rice one Of the Most Probable
Crops where the Conditions are
Favorable For It's Culture.

Rice is one of the most profitable
crops that the American planter can
produce. We raise in the United
states only one-hah of the rice that
we consume, and our consumption
would be increased ten-fold If our
people could be assured that they
were eating clean American pro-
duct, grown by American labor on
American soil. Rice is more nutri-
tious than wheat -four, and when
properly cooked Is an appetizing and
inexpensive food. Thedemand for this
crop is, therefore, practically unlimit-
ed, while the supply win always be linn
tied, because there are only few mil
lions Of acres of land in the United
States that are suitable for rice grow
ing.
Experts say that we produce the
best rice in the world, and recent
investigation by the Department of
Agriculture has brought to light the
remarkable fact that the actual cost
of labor per acre for producing it is
less in the United States than in
China or Japan, notwithstanding our
wages are ten times as high. In
Louisiana and southeastern Texas,
where the Irvine binding rice harves-
ter and other improved implements
and machines are used, it appears
that the cost of labor per acre il
| only 1925 to $40. Wages are high
(from $50 to $216 per year,; but
with Improved implements and ma.
chimes : man farms at an average 81
acres. In Japan, on the other hand
where wages arc only SO to SIS pei
year, man averages half an acre;
| making the cost of labor $50 to 81
per acre, or ten times as much as thu
/ cost in the United States. In China
q man cultiyates one-half to two ant
| one-half acres, and his wages are 8
to $40 per year. This great differences
in cost in favor of America is due en-
tirely 70 the use of labor-savirg ma
chimes. We prepare the soil viii
American plows and harrowss. tn
seed is drilled in with wheat drills
and the crop is harvested with
twine-b binding rice harvestsss
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fashioned three-legged iron crane pot
Another resourceful housekeeper
who has had large experience with
house plants found last winter that
English ivy would grow gratefully if
allowed vase of fresh water every
day in which to keep its green toes
moist. With the coming of spring she
dared not plant her ivy out of doors,
knowing it could not Withstand the
whitening heat of our climate. Ac-
cordingly she bought two green boxes,
made of small green tiles, filed them
with rich earth and larger portion
of sand, and, taking two well-grown ivy
sprays from the water, she planted
them on either side of her plain hearth.
Two more sprays she put in boxes and
put them on either end of the black
marble mantel shelf. fff
The ivy has already grown up and
down, and promises to throw rich
green veil over the whole fireplace,
frame the mirror above ii and do away
with bric-a-brac at that point. As hers
is city house, where. on her hus band
account, she spends the major portion
of every summer. she finds the curtain
of green most delightful and refresh
ing ornament. r.
The florists, who are always quick
to accept good ideas, have come to a
realization of the fact that something
is needed for fireplace decoration in
summer. Accordingly the fireplace
screen has been introduced. In the
leaves of the screen the ribbons and
tendrils of iron form series of brack-
cts. into which large and small green
tile pots fit. In the pots all manner Of
| trailing green things are rooted, and
| their garlands and long tendrils, weav-
ing as they grow through the wrought
iron fret work. form delicate and ef-
fectuaI screen for the whole hearth.
BY another equally pleasing arrange
ment the florist win measure fire.
place and build special floral hearth
box. He makes this box of beaten
brass, or copper, or tiles, or painted
wood and roots in ii iris, and lilies, and
green outstanding things, that will
shut OFF the view of the crate or the
gap left by the removal of the fire dogs
and logs with wall of color and YER
dure that is delightful ornament to
any room.-Louisville Courier-Journal
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The Roots Of Corn.

Any person who will make q care.
full examination of the corn plant will
find that first system of very fine
thread-like roots are formed as near
the surface of the ground as they
can find heat and moist soil. These
spread out horizontally, and are al
most certain to be destroyed or
pruned by the cultivator shovels. As
the plant develops and has more need
for food, second set of horizontal
roots are formed, larger than the
others. These are the main feed roots
of the plant, and in loose soil they
grow from five to seven feet long
II the condition of soil will permit.
these roots will Develop at such a
depth below the surface as to be safe
from the cultivator shovels, but as
they branch out into numerous fine,
fibrous roots, they actually fill the
fine cultivated soil to draw food from
every particle, and only shallow cul-
tivation will prevent injury to them.
Besides the two sets of horizontal
roots described, there are usually
two or more sets, beginning at or
near the base of the stalk as brace
roots and go straight down into the
sub-soil. They have been traced as
deep as four feet. The vertical roots
have few fibrous roots attached, but
serve an important end in being able
to bring moisture from the deep soil
late in the season, when droughts
are liktly to prevail.
| AS will be seen, the roots OF the
corn plant develop as the top grows;
also an understanding of the root de-
velopment suggests the method Of
fertilization which should be through
all the surface, and not in the hill
nor in the row only. The cultivation
should be done SO as not to interfere
with the roots that want to occupy
the ground prepared for them, yet
at the same time prevent evaporation
Of the moisture by maintaining a>sur
face mulch of fine earth, by frequent
shallow cultivation. Up-to-Dat'
Farming.
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The Women Also Recon-
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Kirk, Ark, 14th.--Mr. William s.
brennan, Postmaster at this Office,
counts himself very fortunate man.
Mr.. brennan in addition to being
postmaster is Justice Of the Peace,
member Of the Christian Church and
highly respected and useful citizen.
He has suffered for some time with
what some people would call ricketts,"
or "rigors" of the kidneys kidney
disease in very painful form. He
could not sleep, he had duh pain over
his left kidney. was continually rest
less, could not lie still, and had to get
up through the night several times
and was also troubled in this way dur
ing the day.
He used few boxes of Dodd's Kid
ney Pills, remedy recently intro
duced in this state and advertised as .
cure for Kidney Disease, Rheumatism
Malaria, ETC., and in . short time wal
completely restored to vigorous, good
health. He is very grateful to Dodd'i
kidney Pills.
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The next annual session of the
Farmers national congress will be
held at Macon, Ca, on the 18th, Sth
and 9th of October next, and the
good people of that state are making
great preparations for the occasion.
This important body of able men are
capable of doing much that will re-
dound to the benefit of American ag-
riculture. In our opinion, however, a
mistake has been made in the consti-
tuition of the body. The members are
appointed by the governors Of the
different states, and these governors.
being politicians, and many of them
having very dull axes to grind will
place their appointments with view
to revolving the stone, and for the
good of agriculture as secondary
consideration. Under such circum-
stances it can not be expected that
the body will represent farmers and
farming as fully and as exclusively as
the Texas farmers congress, which
is composed of delegates selected by
the various agricultural organiza.
tons, for their fitness for the posi-.
ton. The agricultural, horticultural
and live stock associations select
their best, ablest and most success
full members, and send them to Col
lege station. and of such is the Texas
farmers congress composed. Under
no conditions can governor who Is
nos a farmer, or if a farmer, is more
q politician, choose as wisely dele
gates to an agricultural congress, as
can the farmers who have organized
for the purpose of advancing their
interests.-Texas Farm and Rancher
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The most important thing in sue
cessful dairying, is dairyman who
understands the business, and who
has an inclination to put his knowl.
edge into practice.
Beans fully matured, but not yet
hardened, if planted in that condition
will terminate more rapidly thar
cured beans. This is a special ad
vantage in summer and fall planting
when quick termination is desirable
on account of probable dry weather.
Many a wornout field can be re
stored to good state of fertility
without the application of fertilizers
Crops can be grown and methods o.
cultivation applied that will do thu
work. But the labor can be lessenef
and time saved by intelligent fer
tilizing.
Now for the fall garden. There i
a probability of more dry weathel
during the summer and fall, but he i
| . wise man who takes the chances
for IL failure. attends July pIantin,
the ground win be in better fx TO
August or September, and the labo
and cost of seed will be fully com
pensated for.
-Angora goats Of both sexes vii
often breed when not more than 81,
months old. This is only . few week
/ latter weaving time, however. snd the,
should not be allowed to breed befor
reaching maturity at sixteen or eigh
| teen months. Kids from younger AM
| NAH win not prove strong.
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About $4,000 is Brlton's daily adj
vertising bill.
England has had tax on beer fos
600 years past.
England has 1882 chimney sweeps
and SCOT merchants.
The tastes of a millionaire are often
imprisoned in pauper's purse.
There are now $500 British-owned
vessels manned by Chinese crews.
The average number Of persons
employed in q British coal mine il
200.
Denmark has 1O0, 1000 hives of bees
and exports 100000 pounds of
honey.
: Mount Ruwenzorie, in equatorial
Africa, has 20 square miles Of
glaciers.
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The following communication has Just
been received by C. ;. Crane, General Pas
senger Agent Of the Wabash Line, from
Mrs. Edyth Toxier Wetherred- Editress OF
the Morning Oregonian," Portland. Ore,
and well-known journalist, now in the
East after attending the National Editorial
meeting ut Hot Springs:
travelled extensively over the United States,
but never enjoyed . ride more than my trip
from St. Louis to Buffalo via the WABASH.
The ride is very pleasant from tho tact
that the road passes through . Grandly
beautiful country, green fields and shady
forests, which always gives one . comfort
able feeling The Road is so free from dust,
the train was cool and the cars free from
dust, and when night came on refreshing
sleep could be enjoyed a. well a. in the
mountains Of Oregon. certainly enjoyed
the trip which Independently been delayed,
fearful Of travelling during such warm
weather. EDHrH TozIER WETHERRED."
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IN THE KAISER.s COUNTRY.

Berlin's richest inhabitant has el16,.
500 a year; the tax he pays on this is
E4,660.
Berlin statisticians have found that
only 597 Christian names are en-
ployed for the 41,0Oo children born
there each year.
In Berlin student who wrote for the
newspapers has been fined heavily for
publishing the substance Of . pro-
fessor's lectures in his articles with
out permission.