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WORDS OF WISDO

A kick in time may also save nine.
No man wants to go to heaven by
ne aeroplane route.
Man wants but little here below,
except the things he knows he can't
get.
Some of us complain that we don't
get all that's coming to us, and are
lucky at that.
Some women are such bargain
fends that they would demand cut
rates for a surgical operation. .
The people who sheer at us would
probably be very much surprised to
know what we think Of them.
When a girl thinks she has a
swanlike neck she Is apt to make a
goose of herself over it.
1t sometimes seems to the rest OF
US that success comes to a man In
spite Of himself.
The race is not always to the
swift; but that is no reason why q
man should emulate the tortoise.
It doesn't make much difference
what we think so long as we don't
think out loud.
Many a fellow with no desire for
great wealth would like to be rich
enough to tell his boss just what ne
thinks of him.
I saw a woman buying some ci-
CARS for her husband the other day.
She got them to match his stockings
and neckties.
Some men do so much talking
about being square that we naturally
expect to see the corners sticking out
IF them.
The mai who says nothing and
saws wood may some day trade that
occupation for the more agreeable
one of cutting off coupons.-From
"a Gentle Cynic," in the New York
Times.
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Influence of the Mind.

The power of the mind over the
body, as demonstrated in all forms of
faith healing, was recognized in the
seventeenth century by Richelieu's,
physician, Citois. Summoned to at
tend his masters constant fits Of de.
preston. Citois would call solemnly
for a sheet of paper on which to write
a prescription; and almost invari-
ably after his. departure the prescrip-
ton would prove to consist of the
words: zone dram of B%oisrobert,"
Boisrobert being a poet of small tai
ent, but possessed of high spirits and
wit. In those days, when the COM
mon remedy vas bleeding, when it Is
known that Voltaire, the poet, was
bled to death, and the Princess Cont,
suffering from apoplexy, was beaten
till she died in the hope Of rousing
her from her lethargy, it is no won
der that a humane and a human ply
sician like Citois should have been
successful. "
The famous frequenter Of the
French salons, Fontenelle is, how
ever, the best example Of the power
of the spirit in retaining life. At the
age Of ninety-fve he fell when pick
ing up a lady's handkerchief and
made the historic remark-"Ah, que
je nal pas encore mes quatre-vingts
ans" A certain callousness marked
his determination not to die, as on
the occasion when, a friend dying
beside him at the table, he requested
his man to remove him and contin-
ued his conversation. He managed,
nevertheless, to survive to within a!
month Of his hundred years, and
then complained that he would have
lasted much longer had not the out
break of war put a stop to pleasant
conversation."-London Chronicle.
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EQUINE HERO OF PEKIN DEAD.
Putnam, Of the Aston Battery, Had
Retired With Honors.

Retired With Honors.
Word comes from the Philippines
of the death of old Putnam, a horse
presented to the United States Gov
eminent by Colonel John Jacob Astor
with the other equipment OF the
Astor Battery at the time Of the
Spanish-American War. Putnam was
about eighteen years old and died at
Fort William Mckinley. At that
time the horse was on the retired
list, having been the second animal
since old Comanche of the Seventh
Cavalry to be regularly relieved OF
active duty.
The history Of Putnam up to the.
time he landed in the Philippines
with the Aston Battery is uncertain.
but his career since then Is easily
traced. Just before the Boxer trou-
bles in China Putnam was trans
ferred to F Battery of the Fifth Field
Artillery and sent along with the
American contingent. On the ar
rival of the allied armies at Pekin
Putnam and another veteran horse
named Corregidor were pulling the
first of the American light field guns.
The battery had just started up
the hill. Corregidor's traces broke
and it was necessary to cut him away
from the gun. The absence Of his
mate didn't bother Putnam and he
got the gun up the hill alone and ar
rived there in time for thu cannon
he pulled to open the firing.
Putnam found his way back to the
islands in due time and did his work
as a wheeler up to two years ago.,
when he got too weak to stand hard
service. A few months ago Colonel
E. T. Brown, of the Fifth Cavalary,
requested that Putnam be put on the
retired list and be turned out on all
state occasions and permitted to
march behind his old battery. The
recommendation was approved.
From that time Putnam had a
groom, extra bedding and a padded
box stall. The old veterans health
failed rapidly and he died before any
occasion arose for him to march in
state behind his battery.-New York
Sun.
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Easily Remedied.

An old lawyer, who is a noted wit,
has for a partner another old fellow
who is very conservative and strait
laced. Recently the wit remarked to
his partner that it was advisable to
employ a female ste~nographer in the
office, maintaining that stenogra-
piers of that variety were much more
satisfactory than males.
But the partner didn't like the
idea.
my dear fellow" he objected,
"I don't think it would be proper.
It wouldn't do, wouldn't do at all.
You see, here I should be in the Of
fee, hour after hour every day, quite
alone with the young lady, and
WELL" observed the wit, with a
twinkling eye, couldn't you holler?."
New York Times.
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Right Way to Figure,

Good roads will reduce the cost Of
transportation by private conveyance
.one-half. so it is a measure which Is
entitled to strong support, remarks
the Atlanta Journal. Yet there are
many who use the roads every day
who do not stop to figure this way.
They will install a labor saving ma
chine on the farm because it will save
them a little extra labor. and perhaps
a little money, but they will not see
that good roads are both the greatest
labor saving and money saving thing
extant. The Fort Worth Record re-
Gently figured that If good roads were
universal the saving to the country
would be S250,000,0O annually, and
every farmer in the country would
get his portion of this saving. This
agitation for good roads in Texas
should go on until every country road
in the State is brought up to the high
est standard. Jefferson County has
made a great start with its new she'll
roads on all the principal highways
of the city, but there are cross roads
and the less travelled country roads
that yet may be improved, and the
work should continue. In the mean
time much Of the Jefferson County
soil is amenable to the efforts of the
split log drag and the farmers of the
country should interest themselves in
this implement to a greater extent
than they have yet shown an inclina-
ton to do.-Beaumont Enterprise.
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Process jealousy Guarded.

Essen is essentially notable for
Its crucible nickel STEEL" said Ernst
Lange, o. Werden, A. R., Germany,
who is making a tour of the steel
mills of this country. There is So
called crucible nickel steel made else
where in the world, but so far as
known the Krupp material is unex-
celled. This accounts for the large
expectation of Krupp crucible nickel
steel to the United States. In the
case of engine parts, where heavy
strains are exerted, manufacturers
feel the necessity of acquiring the best
steel ~obtainable. regardless of origin.
The process of making crucible nickel
steel at the Krupp works is jealousy
guarded, although, e. if all the de-
tails were known, the steel could not
be made in America or elsewhere,
since only the Krupp works possess
both the requisite organization and
experience. This crucible nickel steel
Is almost exclusively used by Krupp
for gun work, and accounts in a large
measure for the high reputation of
krupp ordnance. "-Washington Post.
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Damage by Rats.

Great Britain would like to rid it.
self of rats. Recently a deputation
from the incorporated Society for
the Destruction Of Vermin, headed by
Sir James Crichton Browne and the
Duke Of Bedford, waited upon Lord
Darlington at the Offices Of the Brit
ish Board of Agriculture and urged
him to appoint a commission to in
quire into the destruction of crops
by rats. A Scottish newspaper sums
up this destruction as follows:
1.-THE deputation pointed out the
enormous damage done by rats,
which amounts, on a most moderate
computation. to $75,o00,00o per an
mum in Great Britain. This is ar
rived at by allowing one rat per Gull
tivated acre Of land.
Assuming that each rat does
damage to the extent of one farthing
a day, this works out on the 40,OOO,-
600 acres of land at the figure men
toned. Sir James Crichton Browne
incidentally stated that 100000
people died of plague in India, and
said it had been proved that the. rat
was the chief cause Of the spread OF
Infection.
"It was also stated that the ex-
penditure on rat poisons in the
United Kingdom amounts to $780,
600 per. annum, which is considered
many times more than would be re-
CURED properly to exterminate the
vermin if the campaign were system
aticalIy conducted "-Chicago News.
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Africa's Forest,

IN the heart Of equatorial Africa a
rast and dense forest has been found
+iat would cover solidily the entire
State of California. 1t furnishes a
wonderful field for research to natur-
alists. So dense is the foliage and so
numerous the creeping vines that they
almost choke the tall monarchs Of
trees. The animal life Is varied. The
highest grades of animals exist side
by side with the pygmies, or lowest
grades Of men. Sweetest songbirds
are the companions of elephants and
girafes, while the tangled wilds are
filled with all sorts of venomous SER
penis and reptiles. 1t is said that the
largest pythons ever seen by hunters
have been noticed in this territory
Detroit News-Tribune.
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Quite Polite.

They were slight acquaintance,
and there was no love lost between
them.
WELL" said the first 'grande
DAME "bye-bye. I must really be
getting on. I have to make a call on
my mother"
The second put up her lorgnette
and drawled:
"Really-ah-you don't mean to
say you have a mother living?"
The first "grande dame" laughed
"A high, thin laugh, with something
biting, like acid, in it.
"Oh, yes" she retorted on the one
who had tried to take her down, my
mother is alive, and she doesn't look
a day older than you do, I assure
you."-From Tit-Bits.
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A Woman's Drowning Glory.

Good hair will often atone for a
want Of grace or classical outline. In
ones minds eye one can see the
cloud of soft gold hair which frames
a thin, white face or features that
are too misshapen for orthodox beau
ty, or the masses of rich black hair
that makes one forget a dull skin, a
stern mouth, or a big-boned, lanky
figure. Red hair is now much adj
mired and it's ruddy tints bring par
don for many flaws, such as no eye
brows, a sharp chin, a fiat nose
even freckles. And a woman's looks
can be saved from ruin by a lovely
compleyion.-Strand.
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Auother's Mission.
By w. T. CHuLDS.

A little messenger boy, dripping
with perspiration and covered with
dust, stepped up to the paying tell
er's windows at one of the largest
banks in the city, and said: "Please,
sir, give me nickels for this?"
The teller simply raised his eyes
and pushed back the SO bill. The
messenger boy thought he had not
been heard and repeated his request.
"No!" snapped the paying teller.
The messenger boy was so fright
ened that he almost forgot his mis-
sion. He meekly picked up the $40
bill from the counter and returned to
his employers Office.
"Well, where are the nickels?" his
employer asked.
HE wouldn't give them to mel
answered the boy.
In less time than it takes to tell,
the employer heard the whole story.
He was a very heavy depositor in the
bank and also n of its directors,
and he lost no time in making an in
vestigation of the affair.
Il didn't think he needed the nick
els" the paying teller sought to ex-
cuse his action.
"Of course he did not" answered
the employer, "but did it not occur to
you that he was on another's mis-
sion?"
The paying teller could say moth
ing. He acknowledged that he was
inexcusably wrong. If the employer
had not been such a magnanimous
man he would have exerted his infu-
ence as a heavy depositor and direc-
tor of the bank to punish the pay
ing teller, but he was willing to for
give when the paying teller assured
him that 1t would never occur again.
"Ah, young man." said the en-
ployer, "you should remember that
the message Is often greater than the
Home Herald.
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have reporters like him now. Their
power is too soon recognized. They
rise too fast. And hence the news
columns suffer-"
Mr.. Fitch took down n Of his
scrapbooks.
Here Is a sample Of the way re-
porters used to write. It's very good
and amusing" he said. ats a de-
Nscription Of Hall Game. Listen"
And he read:
When he removed his SLOUGH hat
he showed long hair brushed back a
la pompadour. It has the shade of
maple sugar, and it is getting thin
on the top. He had an enormous
collar, with a rundown flap three
inches deep. He could wear a collar
at least five sizes too small without
choking. His white necktie was tied
so c~arelessly that the knot part Of 1t
hung two or three inches south OF
the collar button Washington
Star.
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also saw off the corners to make 1t
rounding on one end. Fasten hinges
to the square end and screw them
against the wall at a height so hat
this cover will rest level on the water
pail. Nail a block of wood above
the cover and put a small wood but
ton on it 80 that when the cover is
raised up against the wall it will be
held by the button. This will keep
dust, dirt, flies, millers and other
insects from falling into the water.
No cat or other animal car drink
from the pail when the cover Is down.
When fresh water is wanted, merely
lift the cover and fasten back against
the wall with the button.-Lewts Eli
thorp, in The Epitomist.
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Up-to-Date Clothesline,

A sensible clothes dryer, which will
be welcomed by the particular house
wife, is the recent invention of a resi-
dent of Port Angeles, Wash. It does
away with the unsightly long lines OF
clothes usually associated with WASH
day. Instead, the clotheslines are
economically arranged on one sup
port. The latter consists of a post,
to which are pivoted five or six bars.
These support the clothes line, which
is arranged in graduated lengths be-
tween the bars. When thus spread
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Worse Than the Honk, Honk

The "honk, honk" of the homicidal
auto is an insult preliminary to in
fury. 1t serves to attract the atten-
ton of the victim to the method by
which he is about to be eliminated
from the human scheme, or it makes
him jump for the advertisement Of
he joyous rider. However, COM
barred with the new noise machine
attached to some modern autos, a
contrivance productive of clamor
combining diabolical screech with
lemoniac whistle, the blatant and Of
lensive "honk, honk" is almost
soothing.-Philadelphia Public Led
ger. u
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STARTING A FROG FARM.
Get Government Pamphlet and Put
Up a Fence to Keep Snakes Out.

A gentleman of this city has re-
Gently received pamphlets from the
Department of Agriculture on the
raising of the large food bullfrog. It
Is the purpose of the gentleman
shortly to start the culture of the
frog On quite an expensive plan. 1t
is also the intention of the gentle
man to get a large collection of the
best b%ullfrogs he can find and put
them in a large marsh that is located
near his place in Santa Rosa County,
fencing the mash in such a manner
that snakes cannot get into it. 1t is
thought by the gentleman that ha
can thus raise a large number Of
healthy bullfrogs for the market and
make a good profit out Of the busi-
ness.
Il have been living in Escambia
and Santa Rosa Counties for the last
ten years." he said, "and have noticed
tie plenitude of bullfrogs that are in
the fresh water bodies in both coun.
ties. The frogs grow to monstrous
size and seem to thrive in this sec.
ton of the country. I think that a
large and better grade of frog can be
raised with proper care and I think
that the raising of the frog will make
a comfortable living for the man who
engages in the business.
II wrote to the Department Of Ag-
riculture some months ago inquiring
as to the method of raising the frog,
and have received a pamphlet giving
me full directions. My intention Is
to fence in the marsh that is on my
place and keep it as clean as possi-
BILE, so that the frogs will be healthy
at all times. I shali have the en-
closure large enough to accommodate
a large number of the croakers.
II believe that there is an ample
market for them in Pensacola, as all
of the restaurants and hotels buy
them whenever they can. The reason
for the great scarcity of frogs at the
present time is not that they are
scarce, but that they are somewhat
difficult to catch. 4
81 am a firm believer in the work
and shall set out with ar eye to sue
coed. 1t seems to me that all a man
has to have is a mud puddle in hia
back yard and put some frogs in 1t.
put a fence around It and feed the
frogs. The climate is natural to
them and they will thrive in spite OF
all efforts to exterminate them. With
a little attention a large, high grade
of frog can be raised. From the
Pensacola (Fla.) News.
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Labor Day.

Twelve hours, with two hours rest,
rs the legal labocing day at Odessa,
Russia. Workers under seventeen
must go to school for three hours
daily. Christians are not required to
work on Sundays or feast days, o
Hebrews and Mohammedans on their
religious holidays. Those who have
to work on Sundays have the next
day for rest.-St. Louis Republic.
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Russia Leather Repels Moth.

The peculiar and agreeable odor of
Russia leather is derived from the
birch bark used in tanning it. This
odor repels moths and other insects
and makes it invaluable for book
binding, as a few books bound in
Russia leather in a library will pro-
tect the remainder from insect at
acks.-Philadelphia Inquirer.
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He Passed.

,Judge-'eYou are a freeholder?"
Talesman-"Yes, sir; 1 am"
Married or single?"
married three years last June"
Have you formed or expressed
any opinion?"
"Not for three years, your Honor"
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Easy.

"In what condition was the patri.
arch Job at the end Of his life?'
asked a Sunday-school teacher Of a
quiet looking boy at the foot OF the
class. Dead" calmly replied the
quiet looking boy.-Iilustrated Bits.
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NAT uRE M,S@ENCE

In making a silver dollar the die
Is given a pressure of 100 tons to the
square inch, while one of 155 tons is
given to the double eagle.
An alloy of seventy per cent. Of
cerium and thirty per cent. of iron
has the remarkable property of CIV
ing off a shower of sparks when
struck by steel.
The British agricultural colleges
have been testing the growing Of po-
tatoes from sprouts with great sue
cess. The yield and quality have
both been increased, and the disease
resisting powers strengthened.
A new dirigible torpedo, patented
by a Swedish inventor and operated
by electricity, is said to have a range
of 5000 yards. It's course can be al
tered, while submerged, from the
point of departure at the will Of the
operator.
A Chinese takin has been mounted
in the Museum of Natural History.
The animal was captured in the
mountainous regions Of China, and
was presented to the museum by
| Mason Mitchell, former American
consul to China. The takin has the
characteristics of an antelope and a
goat.
We are accustomed to think Of Sc
we're and continuous cold as being al
enemy to life of every sort, but data
furnished by the Pasteur Institute in
Paris by DR.. Charcot, the Antarctic
explorer, prove conclusively that the
intense cold of the south polar re.
gions still allows various forms OF
microscopic life to flourish.
It is said that a new supply Of rad.
dunn has been discovered In Portu,
gal by Thomas H. V. Bower, a mem.
Der of the American Institute Of Me.
chanical Engineers. A certain
stream, the name of which Is not dis.
closed, was reputed to have thera.
peutic powers. Mr.. Bower followed
the stream to its source, and discov,
cred that 1t ran over a bed of urani:
UNI phosphate.
CASTOR BONNER afirms that the
ability Of bees to fly straight to their
hives from a distance as great as two
miles Is not due, as some have be-
lieved, to either sight or smell, but
to a special sense Of direction pos
sessed by bees: Monsieur BONNER
bases his belief. in the existence OF
this strange sense, which would be
extremely useful to man also, on a
series of experiments with homing
bees. He does not know in what or
! gan the sense Is located, but he says
that, at any rate, it is not in the an
tennae.
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there is thus probably $50 feet
Of clothes line, affording considerable
space for the clothes. After the
clothes have become dried the line
and supports a be folded up and
placed out of sight by operating a
small lever on the main post. The
upper part of the framework being
thus detachable, it cal be quickly re-
moved or replaced when needed.
There are thus no disfiguring clothes
posts to nal the ~lawn.-Washington
Star
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Hall Gaines Portrait.

Clyde Fitch, the noted playwright,
was praising the reporter of the past.
HE has merged now" said Mr..
Fitch, Unto the playwright, the nov
elist or the leader writer. We don't
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Kansas Sweets.

When a young and pretty girl ap-
pears in a white dress and a blue
sash on a summer evening, a man
feels like taking a spoon and eating
her.-Atehison Globe.
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The Church of England reports
$4,000 baptisms for last year, and 9
membership Of 2,142,039. Sunday
school teachers number 21O,439,
with 2,488,230 pupils.
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Felled at Amersham. near Harrow.
England. o walnut tree measured
twenty-four feet round, weighed tel
toms and the trunk realized $245.
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A Lost Day.

The most completely lost Of all
days is that upon which you have not
laughed.-ChaWfort.
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A California judge gave a man
eight years in the ~penitentiary for
stealing eight cents.
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Cover For Water Pail.

The drinking water pail Is usually
the most likely catch for all dust,
dirt and flies In the house unless pro-
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In making a silver dollar the die
Is given a pressure of 100 tons to the
square inch, while one of 155 tons is
given to the double eagle.