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Diving For Amber.

Amber is supposed to be gum which
exuded from trees that in some former
geological age covered certain parts
of the earth's surface, but of which
now not a vestige remains. In corrob-
GRAFTON of this theory, we have the evil
dence of insects found imbedded in the
amber, showing every evidence of hav-
ing struggled hard to free themselves
from the sticky substance upon which
they had alighted or been driven. The
shores of the Baltic Sea are the worlds
principal our of amber. Here a
large number of people earn a precar-
ious livelihood by gathering the prec-
ious substance along the shore. They
work only in rough weather, for it is
only then that the boulders are tossed
and tumbled on the bottom and great
quantities of submarine vegetation dis
lodged, hidden among the roots and
branches of which are Jumps of the
precious gum. At some points along
the coast divers search the bottom of
the sea for Jumps of amber hidden in
seaweed OF jammed between rocks.
The largest piece ever found weighed
eighteen pounds, valued at $4,000. 1t
is now in the Royal Museum in Berlin.
Technical World.
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A Crocodile Rreserva.

A traveller writes of a port in north
western India: 'The great sight of
Karachi is the sacred crocodile pre-
serve at Magyar Pr, some sever miles
off. There are hot springs here which
feed a shallow tank containing nearly
a hundred crocodiles. The story, usual
ly thought to be fictitious, Of the Eng
lishman who for a bet crossed the tank
by jumping successfully from the
backs of these crocodiles is based on
fact. The hero of this ~foolhardy feat
was a certain Lieutenant Beresford, a
friend of Sir R. f. Burton. When Bur-
ton and his companion were visiting
the c~rocodiles' tank they noticed that
these reptiles and certain islets of
reeds happened to make an almost con
tinuous bridge across the tank. This
prompted the daring subaltern to haz-
ard the feat of crossing by hopping
from n crocodile to another. To the
amazement of the spectators, he sue
ceeded in this apparently mad attempt.
Sir Richard Burton had already sue
cessfully performed an equally daring
feat. He managed to muzzle a croco-
ollie by means of a lasso and then
jumped on the reptiles back and en-
Joyed a somewhat zigzag ride"
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BREAD DYSPEPSIA.
The Dig sting Element Left Out.

Bread dyspepsia is common 1t af-
fects the bowels because white bread
is nearly all starch, anc starch is di-
gested in the int2stines, not in the.
stomach proper.
Up under the shell of the wheat
berry Nature has provided a curious
deposit which is turned into diastase
when it is subjected to the saliva and
to the pancreatic juices in the human
intestines.
This diastase is absolutely necessary
to digest starch and turn it into grape
sugar, which is the next form; but that
part of the wheat berry makes dark
-four, and the modern miller cannot
readily sell dark -four, r. natures val
liable digester is thrown out and the
human system must handle the starch
as best it can, without the help that
Nature intended.
Small wonder that appendicitis, peri
tonitis, constipation, and all sorts of
trouble exist when we 20 so contrary
to Natures law. The food experts that
perfected Grape-Nuts Food, knowing
these facts, made use in their expert
ments of the entire wheat and barley.
including all the parts, and subjected
them to moisture and long continued
warmth, which allows time and the
proper conditions for developing the
diastase, outside of the human body.
In this way the starchy part is trans
formed into grape-sugar in a perfectly
natural manner, without the use of
chemicals or any outside ingredients.
The little sparkling crystals of grape
sugar can be seen On the pieces of
Grape-Nuts. This food therefore is
naturally pre-digested and its use in
place of bread will quickly correct the
troubles that have been brought about
by the too free use of starch in the
food, and that is very common in the
human ace to-day.
The effect of eating Grape-Nuts ten
days or two weeks and the discontin-
nance of ordinary white bread, is very
marked. The user Will gain rapidly in
strength and physical and mental
health.
There's Q reason"
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One of the results of the volcanic
disturbances which have been going
on in Southern Italy is the threatened
disappearance of the Island of Ustica,
situated about sixty-seven kilometers
from Palermo, Sicily. Ustica is not
only of volcanic formation, but is be-
lieved to be the summit of a submarine
volcano, the crater of which is far
down in the depths of the Mediterra-
mean.
The island is nine square kilometers
in area and supports a rural and pisca-
torial population of about 1000, ninety
per cent. of whom are resident prison.
ers. That is, they are italian erin mails
who are sequestered on the island.
where they may do as they please, u&
der certain restrictions, so long as they
do not change their residence.
AL the first signs Of the sinking of
the misunderstanding to the last mail
advices the water had already mounted
t~hirty-five feet on the shores-the Ital-
ian Government sent the steamer Ma
poll to remove the inhabitants.
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RAILROAD RATE BILL
PASSED BY SENATE
Only Foraker, Morgan and Pettus
Recorded Against the Measure.
VOTE ON FINALPASSAGE II T03
Words sin Its Judgment" Hither-
to Considered Essential, Struck
From Bill - Pipe Lines Made
Common Carriers.

Washington, D. CATER nine weeks
of debate the Railroad Rate bill was
passed by the Senate a few minutes
before 8 o'clock p. m. by a vote Of II to
3, the Senators who voted against it
being Foraker, Morgan and Pettus. All
three have been aggressively hostile to
the bill from the first. Senator Fora
ker believes the Government has no
right to attempt to regulate railroad
rates. Messrs. Morgan and Pettus be-
lieve the Hepburn bill is an inrasion
of the rights of the States. The three
believe the measure will prove a dis
appointment to the public.
Colleagues made known the attitude
of eleven absent Senators, announce
ment being made that Aldrich, Dubois,
Burrows, Patterson, Plat, Sutherland,
Warren, Kittredge, Money, Gamble
and Hepburn if present would vote
AYE"
No statement of position was made
in regard to Senators Depew, Gordon
and Proctor, who were absent, but
paired Oh political questions. Senator
Burton was absent and impaired, as he
has been since conviction of a crime in
the Federal courts.
1t is just eighty-one days since Mr..
Tillman reported the bill out of the
Interstate Commerce Committee to the
Senate. In those eighty-one days there
has been such a debate as has no pre-.
cedent in recent years.
Party lines have been wiped out in
the enactment of this legislation,
though they have in some measure in
1uenced action upon different features
of the measure. With only three Sena-
tors and eve Representatives casting
their votes against it, neither party
can lay claim to exclusive credit, and
neither is doing so.
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HAD GIVEN UP ALL HOPE.
CONFINED TO HER BED
WITH DYSPEPSIA.
i Owe My Life to Pe-ru-na,"
Says Mrs. Hufaker.

Mrs. Mittie Huffaker, Il. K. No. 8,
Columbia, Tenn, writes:
~ tCGs afflicted Nth dyspepsia for
several gears and at last Uas con-
fined to my bed, unable to sit up.
We tried several different doctors with
out relief.
~ had given up all hope of any re-
tter and aUGS almost dead pUhen my
husband bought me a bottle of Pc
rtnG.
Sat first | could not notice any benefit,
but after taking several bottles l was
cured sound and we'll.
at is to PerunG 1 oUe my life to-
day.
Il cheerfully recommend it to all suf-
ferers
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DOG WITH HUMAN FACE.
Strange Monstrosity Seen by Many
Persons in Colorado Hills.

Strange Monstrosity Seen by Many
Persons in Colorado Hills.
A strange animal roaming the hills
in the vicinity of Wildhorse, a sta
ton on the Colorado Midland railway,
two miles west of this city, says a
Buena Vista, Colo, special to the Den.
yer Times, has been seen a number
of times by various people and has
been described differently by each one.
The most startling of all. however,
was the experience of a prominent
ranchwoman last evening. She was
driving slowly along the road across
the Arkansas river, from where the
animal has it's lair, when her horse
suddenly SHE'D, almost throwing her
from the rig. She was horrifed to
see, a few feet ahead of her and in
the middle of the road, the monstros-
ity.
1t was about the size and build of
a ~full-grown greyhound and of a drab
color, its glistening sides being GOV.
cred with black spots as large as sill
yer dollars. 1t had a long smooth
tail and the woman declares it had
an almost human face, and a bristling
red mustache ornamented the proper
place upon it's physiognomy. The eyes
were close together and deep set and
its ears stood erect and were very
pointed. After a moment it uttered
a piteous cry and skunk away through
the brush, turning at the top of the
hill for a last look. 1t stood erect on
its hind feet, punctured the rarefied
atmosphere with sounds that rever
berated among the crags and COM
PEELED a pace on the part of the usual
ly staid horse that was a revelation
to the driver. A number of hunting
parties have tried in vain to kill this
animal ard efforts are now being
made to capture it alive.
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A Disappointing Story.

1t was poor, timid Miss Prudy Heath
of Roxbury who, when the first rail-
road trains came through, went about
among her friends asking plaintively
of each, would you ride in them raw
in stages?" Sooner or later they all
did so; but she never ventured. Miss
Ann Frickett of Wrenby objected to
the coming of the railroad on other
grounds,
"Draft-animals are a gift Of the Lord
to man since Adams time" she de-
clared, 'and it's a clear flying in the
face of Providence to throw over
beasts for b'ilers."
Transit at the present time is ac-
complished by means so increasingly
various and rapid, and new inventions
and improvements follow each other
so swiftly, that one scarcely pauses to
accustom oneself to each new machine,
but, rather, one assumes an attitude of
a general acceptance toward additional
methods of progress Of any kind-un-
d%erground, overhead, submarine or
aerial. Two young persons who read
aloud in a remote farmhouse where
they were staying, a recent airship
story by Mr.. Kipling, were greatly
amused at the disappointment of an
old lady of nearly eighty when she
found that the tale was fiction.
Il call that a mean trick!' she said,
Indignantly. STORING up disappoint-
ment .or folks instead of satisfying
'em! There was l, all the time vol
were reading, thinking to myself how
I'd got a ride in an automobile unex-
pected, by way Of thank you for Civ
ing some gingerbread an milk to the
young fellow that dhruv it while he
was tinkering out there in the lane, an
hoping next time 'twould be a flying
ship come along instead.
"'Mebbe twill light right down in
the PASTURE thinks I. No reason it
shouldn't, and jest as much reason it
should as IN automobile in the lane
and my! how l should like to fly!
"And now you say twas all made up
out O. whole cloth, that story, and there
amt like to be any airships running
regular for years! Much good I'll get
of 'em then!
"That writer may be clever enough,
but he's an unconsciOnable cheating
critter. | sayW
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case of Survival of the Fittest,

IN Ireland from time immemc.iai,
candidates for political honors have
had to cope not only with Irish brains
but with the noble Irish oak in the
shape of a shillalah.
When George w. visited Ireland an
election for Galway was pending.
The king inquired of a Galway gen.
tleman, who came up to Dublic to at
tend his levee, which candidate would
probably be returned.
1.-The survivor, sir" replied the gen
Observation-Disclosures Magazine.
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The Point of the Proverb.

An old proverb advises the shoe.
maker to stick to his last, 1t means
that a man always succeeds best al
the business he knows. To the farmer
it means, stick to your pillow; to the
blacksmith, stick to your forge; to the
painter, stick to your brush. When we
make experiments out of our line they
are likely to prove expensive failures.
1t Is amusing, however, to remark
how every n of us secretly thinks he
could do some other fellows work bet.
ter than the other fellow himself. The
painter imagines he can make paint
better than the paint manufacturer,
the farmer thinks he can do a job of
painting better, or at least cheaper
than the painter, and so on.
A farm hand in one of Octave
Thanet's stories tells the Walking Del.
egate of the Painters Union, "Any.
body car slather paint;'' and the old
line painter tells the paint salesman,
"None of your ready made mixtures
for me; l reckon l ought to know how
to mix paint"
The farm hand is wrong and the
painter Is wrong; shoemaker, stick
to your last" The fancy farmer
IA lQLlI, VI COtlS st, Dul II is all GA-
pensiye amusement. II it strikes him
as pleasant to grow Strawberries at
fifty cents apiece, or to produce eggs
that cost him five dollars a dozen. it
is a form of amusement, to be sure, if
he can afford it, but it's not farming.
If a farmer likes to slosh around with
a paint brush and can afford the time
and expense of having a practical
painter do the job right pretty soon
afterward, it's a harmless form of
amusement. If the painters customers
can afford to stand for paint that
comes off in half the time it should,
they have a perfect right to indulge
his harmless vanity about his skill in
paint making. But in none Of these
cases does the shoemaker stick to his
last.
There is just one class of men in
the world that knows how to make
paint properly and have the facilities
for doing it right; and that is the paint
manufacturers-the makers of the
standard brands of ready-prepared
paints. The painter mixes paints; the
paint manufacturer grinds them to-
gether. In a good ready-prepared paint
every particle of one kind of pigment
is forced to join hands with a particle
of another kind and every bit of solid
matter is forced, as it were, to open its
mouth and drink in its share of linseed
oil. That is the only way good paint
can be made, and If the painter knew
how to do it he has nothing at hand to
do it with. A paint pot and a paddle
are a poor substitute for power-mixers,
buhr-mills and rolier-mills.
The man who owns a building and
neglects to paint it as often as it needs
paint is only a degree more short
sighted than the one who tries to do
his W painting or allows the painter
to mix his paint for him. p. G.
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ache and my general health was affect
ed when | began using them. My feet
were swollen, my eyes puffed. and
dizzy spells were frequent. Kidney
action was irregular and the secretions
highly colored. To-day, however, l am
a well woman, and l am confident that
Doan's Kidney Pills have made me so,
and are keeping me we'll"
Sold by all dealers. 30 cents a box.
Foster-Milburn Co, Buffalo, N. Y.
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Chauffeur-"Let's take a spin out in
the country"
Friend-"But the city streets are bet
ter for automobiling, and besides, there
are more people here"
Chauffeur-"Yes, 1 know, but these
city people are getting to be such *.
pert dodgers that you can't catch
more than two or three a day."-New
York Journal.
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and she is often the bread-winner of
the family. Whether she is sick or
well, whether it rains or shines, she
must get to her place of employment,
perform the duties exacted of her
smile and be agreeable.
Among this class the symptoms Of
female diseases are early manifest by
weak and aching backs, pain in the
lower limbs and lower part of the
stomach. In consequence of frequent
wetting of the feet, periods become
painful and irregular, and frequently
there are faint and dizzy spells, with
loss of appetite, until life is a burden.
All these symptoms point to a de-
rangement Of the female organism
which can be easily and promptly
cured by Lydia Z. Pinkham's Vegeta-
bic Compound.
Miss Abby F. Barrows, Jacksonville,
Athens Co., Ohio, tells what this great
medicine did for her. She writes:
Dear Mrs. Pinkham -
81 feel it my duty to tell you the good
Lydia Z. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound
and Blood Purifier have done for me. Before
I took them I was very nervous, had dull
headaches, pains in back, and periods were
irregular, 1 had been to several doctors, and
they did me no good.
'Your medicine has made me well and
strong. I can do most any kind Of work
without complaint, and my periods are all
right.
II am in better health than I ever was,
and l know it Is all due to your remedies. I
recommend your advice and medicine to all
who suffer-"
1t is to such girls that Mrs. Pink
ham holds out a helping hand and ex-
tends a cordial invitation to correspond
with her. She is da~ughter-in-law of
Lydia E. Pinkham and for twenty-five
years has been advising sick women
free of charge. Her long record Of
success in treating woman's ills makes
her letters of advice of untold value to
every ailing working girl. Address,
Mrs. Pinkham, Lynn, Mass.
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Encouraging Him.

MI. Faintheart-"Miss Brightly, l.
aw-that is-Mabel, I er-desire to aw
really"
Miss Brightly-"Keep right on, Mr..
Faintheart; I'll consider your proposal.
and have my answer ready by the time
you have got it out of your system
Philadelphia Press.
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THERE'S more Catarrh in this section of the
countrythana all other diseases put together.
and until the last few years was supposed to
beincurable. Fora great many years doctors
p~ronouncedit a local disease and prescribed
local remedies, and by constantly failing to
cure with local treatment, pronounced it in
durable. Science has proven Catarrh to be a
constitutional disease and therefore requires
constitutional treatment. Halls Catarrh
Cure, manufactured by F. J.. Cheney & Co.,
Toledo, Ohio, is the only constitutional cure
onthe market. 1t is taken internally in doses
from 10 drops to a teaspoonful. 1t acts direct
Iy On the blood and mucous surfaces of the
system. They offer n hundred dollars for
any case it fails to cure. Send for circulars
and testimonials. Address F. J. CHENEY l.
Co., Toledo, o.
Sold by Druggists, 75c.
Take Halls Family Pills for consultation.
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ULCERS IN EYES.
Discharge From Eyes and Nose

Awful Discharge From Eyes and Nose
Grateful Mother Strongly Re-
cOmmnds Cutieura.
81 used the Cuticura Remedies eight
years ago for my little boy WHO mad ulcers
IN the eyes, which resulted from v~accina-
ton. His face and nose were in a bad
state also. At one time we thought ne
would lose his sight forever, and at that
time he was in the hospital for seven or
eight months and under specialists. The
discharges from the eyes and nose were
bad and would have left scars, 1 feel sure,
had it not been for the free use Of the
Cuticura Remedies. But through it all
we used the Cuticura Soap, Ointment and
Resolvent, and lots of it, and l feel CRATE
full for the Leneft he received from them.
The Cuticura Resolvent seemed to send
the trouble out, the Ointment healed it
outwardly, and the Soap cleansed and
healed both. He is entirely cured now,
but since then | nave bought the Cuticura
Resolvent to cleanse and purify the blood,
and the Soap | cannot speak too highly Of
as a cleansing and medicinal beautiier.
Mrs. Agnes Wright, Chestnut St., Irwin,
"a, Oct. 10, 1905"
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Pleasures of Imagination.

Doesn't it annoy you to have so few
auditors when you make a speech in
Congress?"
NO" answered the statesman. 81
can then form my own estimate of the
applause which would have occurred
had the assemblage been larger
Washington Star.
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Record of Congressional Talk.

The official stenographers of the
House have reported so far this ses-
sion about 2,775,0OO words, with the
session perhaps a little more than half
over. There is a busy, talking time to
come, however, and the full bill will
probably be about 100000 words for
the session.
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81 tell you," said the tall man with
the carrotty whiskers, "the Chinese are
getting wiser every day"
81 should say they are" replied the
short man in the green ~suspenders.
why, my laundryman has actually
taken up typography"
you don't mean it?'
Eyes, his speciality now is burning
designs on shirts" = Columbus Dis
patch.
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what is reform?" asked the impress.
sive speaker.
"Well," answered Senator Sorghum,
81 don't know exactly what it is. But
it's something we've all get to holleI
for, whether we want it or net."-
Washington Star.
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Voting More Important.

"Have you ever made any effort to
bring your colleagues to your way Of
thinking?"
mo-" answered Senator Sorghum. II
don't care anything about their way Of
thinking. What I want is to bring
them to my way Of voting."-Washing-
ton Star.
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Revised Formula.

"For a number of years requests have
come to me from a multitude of grateful
friends, urging that Peruna be given a
slight laxative quality. l have been ex-
perimenting with a laxative addition for
quite a length of time, and low feel graft
that 1 have Incorporated such a quality in
the medicine which, in my opinion, can
only enhance its w%elLknown beneficial
character. S. B. HARTMAN. NJ. D."
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Knockers,

By an evil trick of fortune a lone
man had become %entangled in an after
noon gathering of women. For some
time he listened with edification to the
comments upon absent friends, until
finally the name of a rather special
friend of his own was introduced.
Il think her conduct at that dinner
was scandalous. She is simply brazen!"
was the kindly cut.
Hammered BRASS one might say"
he suggested, meekly.-Amerfcan Spec
tator.
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Points.

you're a queer looking thing to
want to fight with me-" said the young
bulldog contemptuously. You're not
in my class"
perhaps not" replied the porcupine
quietly, "but I think 1 can give you a
few points. "-Philadelphia Ledger.
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No Setting For Jewels.

Pointing t. her sons, Cornelia had
just exclaimed: '"There are my jew.
els"
"Then," replied the heartless janitor,
you'll have to keep them in the safe.
AS children, they amt allowed in this
apartment house."-Harper's Bazaar.
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DON'T MISS THIS.
A Cure For Stomach TroubIe-A New
Method, by Absorption-No Drugs.

A Cure For stomach T~roubIe-A New
Method, by Absorption-No Drugs.
Do You Belch?
1t means a diseased Stomach. Are you
afflicted with Short Breath, Gas, Sour
Fluctuations Heart Pains, Indigestion, Dys-
pepsla' turning rams and Lead MeIght IN
Abdomen, Dizziness, CoEc:
Bad Breath or Any Other Stomach Tor
ture?
Let us send you a box of Mulps Anti
Belch Waters free to convince you that it
cures.
Nothing else like 1t known. It's sure
and very pleasant. Cures by absorption.
Harmless. No drugs. Stomach Trouble
can't be cured etherwise-so says Medical
Science. Drugs won't do-they eat up the
Stomach and make you worse.
We know MulPs Anti-BeIch Waters cure
and w want you to know it, hence this
offer. This offer may not appear again.
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Two Die in Canoe Duel.

W. A. Thompson and Isadore Bou-
chard are dead in Helen Lake, neal
Ottawa, Canada, after a duel in a
canoe. Quarreling over a girl, they
overturned the boat, and, climbing on
the top of it, continued a hand-to-hand
struggle until both sank exhausted and
were drowned.
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Marriage.

What 1 want" said the young man,
sis to get married and have a peaceful,
quiet home"
WELL" said Farmer Corntossel,
sometimes it works that way. and
then again sometimes it's like joinin' a
debatin' s-ociety."-Washington Star.