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Forests Falling Fast.

Finally the lumbermen can see the
beginning OF the end. They have been
leveling the forests and converting
them into money. Now they have ar
rived at the point where they can con-
ceive that soon there will be no more
great primeval forests to cut down.
The lumbermen have been doing lit
tie figuring. They have estimated that
there is Lac, zoo. OO0. 900 feet Of lumber
standing in the United States. The
quantity which is cut every year
amounts to $4,000, 000, 900 feet 1t is
. deduction easily made that 1t will
require only 50 years to consume the
present supply. The lumbermen are
beginning to clamor for government
assistance to save their business They
request that the expectation Of logs
shall be prohibited and that all tree
plantations shall be exempt from tax
alton. II is clear that some such
measures must soon be taken, says the
Cleveland Leader. But 1t Is doubtful
however, that those recommended by
the lumbermen will in themselves
prove to be effectual. Additional and
stronger protective laws will probably
be found necessary.
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What may be called the accessories
Of the equipment Of the Weliman
polar expedition are by no means
east in point of interest in the novel
undertaking to reach the north pole
In an airship. The way in which the
explorer has utilized the latest sci
sntifc discoveries and inventions in
bis coming battle with the elements
Of the north form one of the most
interesting chapters in the story OF
preparation. With the exception OF
the airship itself the wireless tele-
graph and the motor sledge, or, as
Mr.. Wellman calls it, "the mechanical
dog" stand out as of peculiar interest.
Should Mr.. Wellman and his COM
panions be successful in reaching the
pole the wireless telegraph instrument
Is expected to inform the world OF
the act of placing the American nag
on that important point Of the worlds
surface within a few minutes after 1t
has occurred. Should anything hap
pen to the airship the mechanical
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THE ACCESSORIES OF THE
WEILMAN POLAR EXPEDITION
Some of the Wonders of Science That Are to Be Used
in the Attempt to Reach the Pole.

the possible communication distances
to more than 1000 miles without re-
lay. A complete wireless outfit forms
q part of the expeditions apparatus,
and one of the five men who Will
make the trip in the airship is an
expert wireless telegraph operator and
mechanician.
At Hammerfest, Norway, point IN
touch with the Atlantic cable, the hrs'
wireless station has been established.
Station No. will be at the base OF
the expedition on Danes island, and
wireless station No. 3 will be in the
airship. The aerial" which on land
and on sea-going ships is mast, In
this case will be wire suspended
from the airship. and which can be
coiled up out Of the way when not
In use. The experts in wireless teles
raphy have gone over the situation
In the light of conditions as they arr
likely to find them in the arctic re-
gion, and have given it as their opin'
ion that there 10 nothing in these con
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llkE EDGE OF THE WORLD
I'M laslra. In he Alaskan Islands, .
Dssolats spot-Where White
1Ien Nay Hot Land.

UnalaskA resembles other northern
stations, having warehouses. docks
the inevitable Greek church and Z
score Of wooden cabins. Whalsrs leavs
here for the Arctic regions.
Dutch Harbor IL station for ouI
revenue fleet There - much coming
and going Of ships Of al nations:
there are quite . formidable heet. and
only two ships out Of twelve carry
colors Of the same country.
Just before entering the harbor one
notices q detached rock high against
the side of the cliff. It bears . strik-
| ing resemblance to q Russian vries(
In full robes. Touched by the sunset
light, he seemed to stand blessing tht
harbor.
Sailing north out into Behring sea
one looks back at the desolate, silent
treeless islands, which seem to wal
the edge of the world. Hundreds o.
miles west they run toward vladi'
vostok.
Two hundred and forty miles noyff
Of Unalaska are the Pribilof ISLANDS;
not large, but the greatest seal islands
In the world. There are many ~
seals around the shores Of Behrihl
sea and the Aleutian islands, but thu
great mass Of them are bred on thu
Pribilof group. No white man 10 per
mitted to land ON these breeding
grounds without a permit signed b.
the secretary Of the treasury Of thu
United States.-Outdoor Life.
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~ 1t an It'll be all fright, but whin ye
ha-ave none yell have f'r to keep
goin'. I'll ha-ave none iv ye-er doin's
on me beat
He marched him to the end of his
beat and waited fof the next patrolman
to show up.
1T is tn anarchist that g been an
noy'n' me-" he explained, IAN I'll not
ha-ave him on me beat"
But l don't want him." protested
the other policeman.
"Iv coorse not" said Policeman
Flynn. Pass him along. A movin'
anarchist II niver bother amy wan"
Then he winked at his brother OIL
Ger, and the latter. after pause sum-
cient to enable him to grasp the situa-
ton, laughed ami took the anarchist
in tow. With lew words of explana-
ton the man was later passed on to a
third officer, and-well, he crept back
to his home about two o'clock the fol-
lowing morning. Once afterwards the
experience was repeated, and then the
story reached the station.
Barney" laughed the captain, when
he heard Of 1t, you've solved a great
problem. II ! had my way, I'd send
you to Washington to see If you could
handle it on a larger scale"
1T w'u'd be easy DONE" answered
Policeman Flynn, only fr wan
thing"
whats that?" asked the captain.
"Afther bit tn gazabos w'u'd Farm
enough fr to get naturalized an vote.
an thin tn politicians w'u'd MT lave
me lay hand on thin, asserted Po-
liceman Flynn. thereby adding ma
terially to his reputation for wisdoD
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and investigating mind, IN earnest
seeker after knowledge, and above
all. possessed Of . wonderfully sympa-
thetic nature.
In 1S43 she married Isaac Pinkham,
. builder and real estate operator, and
their early married life was marked by
prosperity and happiness. They had
four children, three sons and q
daughter.
In those good old fashioned days II
was common for mothers to make
and herbs, natures own remedies
calling in q physician only in specially
urgent cases. By tradition and ex.
perience many of them gained . won
derful knowledge of the curative prop.
critics of the various roots and herbs.
Mrs. Pinkham took q great interest
In the study of roots and herbs, their
characteristics and power over disease.
She maintained that just as nature SC
bountifully provides in the harvest.
fields and orchards vegetable foods Of
all kinds; 90, if we but take the pains
to find them, in the roots and herbs
of the field there are remedies ex'
pressly designed to cure the various
Ills and weaknesses of the body, and
it was her pleasure to search these out,
and prepare simple and effective medi'
cines for her own family and friends
Chief of these was . rare combina,
ton of the choicest medicinal roots
and herbs found best adapted for the
cure of the ills and weaknesses pecu
har to the female sex, and Lydia e. Pink
hams friends and neighbors learned
that her compound relieved and cured
and it became quite popular among
them.
All this 90 far was done freely, with
ont money and without price, ~ .
labor of love.
But in 1878 the financial crisis strucl
Lynn. It's length and severity were to<
much for the large real estate interests
of the Pinkham family, a. this class
of business suffered most from
fearful depression, SO when the Centen
NAL year dawned it found their prop
erty swept away. Some other sourcs
Of income had to be found.
At this point Lydia e. Pinkhami
Vegetable Compound was made known
to the world.
The three sons and the daughter
,HSfh their mother, combined forces 4
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The Waters Napkin.

The waiter without his napkin? I'm
possible, declares Boniface. One
might as well imagine the table with
out a tablecloth. The waiter has car
ried napkin ever since he donned
black and white, and therefore it is
unseemly, barbaric to think of his ap-
pairing at table without the fiuttering
and obsequious linen. We have seen
him and his napkin. First he draws
out the chair and flicks away an in
trusive crumb. Next he polishes q
plate and then furtively wipes HE
brow. A spoon is'-a little greasy
waiter daubs 1t with his napkin. A
glass Is ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS with
the napkin. A bottle Is dusty-the
napkin. There may be other napkins
but the waiter is not an aesthetic. Were
he an aesthetic he would not be wait
er. He does not remember to change
his napkin. He uses it indiscriminate
ly. The only cure is to take it away
from him, and keep things clean as a
matter Of course. The speck of dust
which the waiter removes with such
grave and elegant circumspection has
no business to be where he finds It
1t would be a pity indeed, to denude
him Of his insignia of ONCE. says the
Chicago Post, but the efforts Of Prof
Kron. the Berlin physician. who would
drive this "deplorably unhygienic piece
Of linen from all civilized countries.
are prompted by the most sensible mo.
tives, and should be seconded by every
restaurant proprietor who does moi
consider his duties fulfilled when hi
0oats a geranium leaf In finger bowl
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He SURPRISES ANARCHY.

Copyright, by the Century Coz
Copyright, 1906. by Joseph B. Bowles.)
On a beat to which Policeman Bar
ney Flynn was once assigned there
was most troublesome character. He
was dangerous or harmless, according
to the point of view. If he had been
deprived of his tongue he certainly
would have been harmless, for In the
matter of physical prowess he was
about as meek and unassuming man
as one could well find. II he had had
a brain at all commensurate with his
linguistic powers he also would have
been harmless, or perhaps even a
power for good.
Policeman Flynn saw crowd gath
cred about him enc day, and listened
to the harangue tor a few minutes.
Then he gently eltowed his way to the
mans side, and suggested, "Ye betther
be movin' along"
This is free country" retorted
the man.
"R-right We are. answered Police
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restore the family fortune. They
argued that the medicine which was
so good for their woman friends and
neighbors was equally good for the
women of the whole world.
The Pinkhams had no money, and
little credit. Their first laboratory
was the kitchen, where roots and
herbs were stepped ON the stove,
gradually filing . gross of bottles.
Then came the question of selling
it away freely. They hired : job
printer to run of some pamphlets
setting forth the merits Of the medi-
cine, now called Lydia e. Pinkham's
Vegetable Compound, and these were
distributed by the Pinkham sons in
Boston. New York, and Brooklyn.
The wonderful curative properties Of
the medicine were, to Q great extent,
self-advertising, for whoever used Il
recommended It to others, and the de-
mand gradually increased.
In 1877, by combined efforts the fam-
lily had saved enough money to conn
mence newspaper advertising and from
that time the growth and success Of
the enterprise were assured, until to-
day Lydia e. Pinkham and her Vege-
table Compound have become house.
hold words everywhere, and many
tons Of roots and herbs arc used annu-
ally in its manufacture.
Lydia e. Pinkham herself did not
live to see the great success of this
work. She passed to her reward years
ago, but not till she had provided
means for continuing her work ~
effectively a. she could have done it
herself.
During her long and eventful. expe-
rience she was ever methodical in her
work and she was always careful topre-
serve a record of eve ~ case that came to
her attention. The case Of every sick
woman who applied to her for advice
and there were thousands-received
careful study, and the details, includ-
| ing symptoms, treatment and results
were recorded for future reference, and
to-day these records, together with
hundreds of thousands made since, ara
available to sick women the world
over, and represent vast collabora-
ton of information regarding the
treatment of woman's ills, which for
authenticity and accuracy can hardly
be equaled in any library in the
world.
With Lydia E. Pinkham worked her
| daughter in law. the present Mrs.
Pinkham. She was carefully instructed
| in all her hard-won knowledge, and
for years she assisted her In her vast
correspondence.
To her hands naturally fell the
direction of the work when its origina-
tor passed away. For nearly twenty.
1--WE years she has continued It, and
nothing in the work shows when the
first Lydia e. Pinlxham dropped her
pen, and the present Mrs. Pinkham,
now the mother of q large family, took
| it up. With women assistants, some g
capable as herself, the present Nrs.
Pinlxham continues this great work. and
probably from the Office of no other
person have so many women been id.
vised how to regain health. Sick wo-
men, this advice Is ssYours for Health
freely given if you only write to ask
for it.
Such IS the history of Lydia E. Pink
hams Vegetable Compound made
from simple roots and herbs; the ono
great medicine for worhen's ailments.
and the fsting monument to the noble
! woman whose name Il bears.
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The Chronicle.


1.-THE Burial Of Sir John Moore"
A writer In the Critic has discovered
why the author of that old-time ia
vorite of the school readers, "The
Burial of Sir John Moore" never sue
ceeded in writing any other poem
which was considered worth printing.
1t appears that "7he Burial of Sir
John Moore" is nothing but a transla-
ton from the French Of a poem by
Lally-Tollendal, an officer of the
French army, who wrote the poem
after the death of q fellow soldier.
Here are two stanzas from the French
poem:
Nj le son de tambour. . nj la
marche funebre.
Nj le feu des soldats ne marqua
son depart
Mails du brave, a la hate. q travers les
tenebres
Mornes nous portanies 10 ca
davre au rempart!
De minuit c'etait rheure, ct solitaire ct
sombre-
La lune a peine offrait un debile rayon;
La lanterne luisait peniblement dams
Quand de la baionnette on creusa lie
gazon.
The opening stanzas Of THE Burial
of Sir John Moore" are as follows:
Not q drum was heard. not funeral note,
AS his corpse to the rampant we hur-
ried
Not a soldier discharged his farewell
shot
Ger the grave where our hero We
buried.
We buried him darkly at dead of night.
The sods with our bayonets turning;
BY the struggling .moonbeams' misty light
And the lantern dimly burning.
This similarity runs through the
entire poem, and leaves no room fol
doubt that Rev. Charles Wolfe sim
ply appropriated to his own use the
work of the French poet, put a new
title on it, and thus instead of dying
unknown beyond the boundaries of hi:
little parish made his name familiar
to all English-speaking people. It was
a master stroke on the part Of Rev
Charles. The Critics investigator ap
pears to have been unable to discover
where y-Tollendal stole the poem
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dogs" offer. the possibility of motor
ing over the ice and snow to safety.
The "Mechdnicdl Dog.


While it is unnecessary to point out
that, without the utmost confidence In
the efficiency and staying" powers OF
the airship, the promoters of this
epoch-making expedition would not
undertake 1t, yet this confidence has
not been of the blind sort that has
caused them to hurl caution to the
winds. Two supplemental provisions
have been made for insuring the sue
cess of the expedition and the lives
of the explorers. The most important
Of these Is the motor sledge which
is to be carried in the car of the air
ship and which, 1t is confidently be-
'lieved, will prove of the utmost value
in the event Of accident to the airship
at any stage of the voyage. There are
two of these sledges, propelled by gas
oline motors. They have six-horse-
power each. The motor is mounted on
runners, like those of the ordinary
sled. and the power is transmitted by
chain to a large front wheel which
has breadth enough to serve the pur-
pose of a snowshoe and the periphery
of which is studded with projecting
spikes to furnish the gripping power
These mechanical dogs" weigh 225
pounds each and can be carried by
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Martin, who IL very hard Of heafinG
arose in the caucus and nominated
one Mr.. Brown fer tho once Of jusfies
Of tAe peace.
Mr.. Brown promptly arose and de-
clined the nomination with thanksI
and while he had the hoor ne NOM
mated Mr.. Martin for the once.
Martin, not understanding what
Brown said, but evidently thinking it
some modest rsmonstrance, arose and
said:
Gentlemen Of the CONVENTION: We
now have before the house = man who
is not anly worthy, but Is in every
way competent, and move that nom
nations be closed, and he be elected
by reclamation, and 1t be made unan-
imous."-Judge's Magazine of Fun
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xrxtu

are We a cltizeu Nv II!
"No.'
I'VE ma-ake me think Nv . felly J
hear-rd w." said Policeman Flynn.
ever ready to point moral with
story. This fellv had shtrange idees
Nv r-runnin' his house, an t was all
fright while he was r-runnin' his own
house an not botherin' amy wan ilse.
But wan da-ay he moved over to y
boordin' house.
Come in says tn other borders.
so long as We pa-ay ye-er boord an
live up to tn r-rules We re glad f'r to
ha-ave ye.'
but l dorf't intind fr to pa-ay me
boord.' says tn mean, an don't like
tn r-rules.'
There do be twinty Nv rs here that
likes thim, says they.
"''T is no matther,' says tn ma-an
I know more than all tn rist Nv ye.
an yen ha-ave rr to change Thin
"'Ye'd betther be goin' on about
ye-er business, says they.
"T will not, says tn ma-an. Here
am an here I'll shtay, an If ye don't
change tn r-rules to suit me idees I'll
tear th-house down. he says. 'Ye're
all FOOLS he says, AN I'm tn only
wise ma-an, an I'm goin' to tur-rr
loose an show ye thing or two
They TUX him away in an andy
lance" asserted Policeman Flynn, by
way Of conclusion ID We see tn
p'int?'
NO" replied the anarchist
IF we don't like tn r-rules Nv tn
house We re Twin in along with lot
Nv people that was there befoor ye
move back into wan iv ye-er own"
But have none," said the anar.
chist, at last grasping the point.
But, OF course, all this wisdom was
wasted upon the anarchist. He con.
tinued to make rabid speeches when
ever opportunity offered, and Police
man Flynn continued to puzzle his
head as to the best method of proce'
dure in the matter.
1T is a shtrange thing" he com
mented one day, that so nanny diff
f'rint kinds iv la-sds do be havin' tn
sa-ame mother-counthry, an" he add
ed, solemnly shaking his head. "y'
niver hear annythin' Nv tn father. I
luks ba-ad, it do. fr fact. Judgin
be tn broods some Nv thin OIL mother
countries TURNS out, t Is like they
was married an divorced tin o.
iliven times. an tn secret Nv it all lie'
In tn PATERNITY"
On another occasion he suggested Il
the anarchist, 9TH la-ad that's alwayl
heavin' bricks is tn wan that's sur
pr-rised whin he gets wan along-sid'
Nv tn head. If yell go home an thinl
" that it ma-ay save We some throu
ble."
At last, however, the policeman out
lined a plan Of campaign. He decide'
that a lettering anarchist was men
ace, while an anarchist on the NOV
was harmless. L is only where the!
shtop that they ma-ake throuble," h
said. while they re movin' the.
ha-ave no chanst.' 1t was after he ha,
been obliged to order his particular an
archist to move on" three times Il
one evening that this great idea cam
to him. He took the man by the arm
and walked him along.
ITO the station?" asked the man
bitterly.
"Niver," answered Policeman Flynn
'Ill not do ye that honor. ''Iv
thried livery wa-ay to give We bit +
sinse," he went on. 'an' see ye ha-av
no pla-ace fr 1t in ye-er head. WIFI
we ha-ave business here ye can tell m
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1t takes an eyelash 20 weeks to
reach a length Of half an inch, and
then its life is from 100 to $50 days.
BY means of camera the wink of
an eyelid has been measured, and 1t
was found that 20 winks can be made
in four seconds. We should like to
ask whether 1t was soda fountain
wink that was measured?
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in wireless telegraphy that nothing
short of catastrophe which wrecks
the ship and renders all apparatus
useless will prevent the publishing
daily of dispatches from the explor-
ers sailing poleward in the monster
airship. AS the magnetic pole of the
earth has been found 1000 miles from
the mathematical pole, on the coast
of North America, it is reasonably
certain that at the mathematical pole
there will be encountered no magnetic
disturbances which will destroy the
usefulness of the wireless apparatus.
MoDing Pictures Provided.
The importance Of the expedition
is reflected significantly in the fact
that a London firm has sent cinemato
graph operators to Spitzbergen for the
purpose of catching on moving films
all the trial work done before the
serious fight is undertaken. Already
these operators have been in Norway
photographing the trials of the me.
chanical dogs" and these films have
been shown in London with great sue.
cess. Spitzbergen is as far as the
moving picture men will be able to
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At least % species Of birds feed
upon the cotton boil weeviL Among
them are the quail. phoebe, meadow
lark and nighthawk. II these we'll
known birds were more numerous In
the cotton states the destructive work
Of the dreaded Insect foes Of cotton
would be less costly to the country.
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SHE WAS
SKETCH OF THE LIFE OF LYDIA E. PINKfiAM
And True Story Of How the Vegetable Compound
Had Its Birth and How the "Panic Of 'z3' Caused
it to be Offered for Public Sale in Drug Stores.

This remarkable woman, whose
maiden name was Estes, was born in
Lynn, Mass, February 9th, 1919, COM
ing from good old Quaker family.
For some years she taught school, and
became known as q woman of an alert
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New Electric Lamp.

DR.. Hans KuzeI Vienna, claims to
have discovered q new method Of
making the fllament for incandescent
electric lamps. which will burn for
$500 hours and give a strong light
to the end. The filament is said to
be made from common and cheap
metals and metaloids colioids in a
plastic mass which can be handled
like clay, and which when dry be-
comes hard as stone. Out Of this
mass very thin wire threads are
formed.
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ditions to prevent the maintenance OF
virtually constant communication be-
tween the airship and the Dane island
station. In its present use at sea
there are often atmospheric disturb
ances which temporarily destroy the
usefulness Of the wireless apparatus.
but these periods have been brief. II
is believed thoroughly by the experts