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Wonders of the World.

In ancient times the Seven Won
ders OF the World were generally
recKoned as follows: CD The Pyra-
mids Of Egypt, GU the Hanging Gar
dens OF Babylon, CD the Mausoleunl
1T Ha~licarnassus, ca the Temple of
Diana at Ephesus, (5) the Colossus
Of Rhodes. CO the Pharos of Alexan-
dria, CD the Statue Of the Olympian
JoTe in Ellis.
The Seven Wonders OF the New
World is al appellation sometimes
conferred upon the following group
o: natural objects in the United
States: % Niagara Falls. CD yell
lowstGGe Park. (3) Garden of the
Gods. ca Mammoth Cave. 60 Yo-
semitic Valley, CO Giant Trees. and
CD Natural Bridge.-Kansas City
Times.
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Feeding Lambs.

One of the most inviting and profit
able of the animal industries O is
the feeding of lambs for the city mar
kets. A few feeders are undertaking
this line of feeding with great sue
cess. No other young animal. makes
so large and profitable a growth as
the lamb, no other young animal be-
gins to feed proitably so early as the
lamb does. Lambs are very little
trouble to feed; all they need is a
rail or board pen open at the bottom
sufficiently for them to crawl under:
set this pen in the pasture. They
should be fed meal in a V-shaped
trough. The ewes cannot enter but
will try to and thus encourage the
lambs to go in; they will soon learn
to eat, and the appetite will increase
rapidly with their growth. AS newly
weaned lambs as a general thing
bring the highest price in the market.
this method of disposing of the lambs
is to be encouraged.-A Reader, in
the Indiana Farmer.
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Farm Notes.

A we'll fowl needs no medicine.
Don't doctor and dope unnecessarily.
The breeder is a bigger factor than
the breed in modern poultry culture.
The very best stock will not be long
in degenerating if not properly fed
and cared for.
Sweet apples that are not salable
are greatly relished and an excellent
feed for the fowls.
Scald out the drinking vessels
every few weeks; it kills germs and
prevents diseases from starting.
The poultry house is more con-
venient, more easily cleaned and more
easily kept cleaned if everything in it
is readily movable.
Regularity in feeding and other
general management is important
with poultry, and especially don't for
get to be regular in cleaning up.
The best medicine for any animal
or fowl is preventive; hence their
1OOu ollo SSlSl al 0lOulH
be such as to promote health.
1t is disputed as to whether to feed
soft food in the morning or evening.
but the general tendency now seems
to favor morning feeding Of mashes.
One Of the best feeds for poultry
is green bone. 1t stimulates health
and reproduction, and car be Sc
cured cheaply at any meat market.
Don't neglect it!
If your chicken house roof leaks,
fix it or get out of the poultry bust
ness. Chickens are as we'll off out
doors as in a house that permits
drafts and dampness.
A few tobacco leaves crushed in
the bottom of each nest will be a
great help in exterminating vermin
both in the nest and on the bodies Of
the hens which visit the nest.
1t is rank nonsense to allow the
Groupings to lie in the house week in
and week out, engendering disease
and breeding lice; and then the poul-
tryman wonders why his hens don't
lay.
Look out for a supply of grit dur
ing the winter months. 1t is scarce
then because the ground is frozen,
but it is of more vital Importance
than in the summer. Hens must have
teeth.
The mai VINO keeps on year after
year breeding the best in his chosen
variety, regardless of the public fancy
for new breeds. will get good prices
for his birds oftener than he will miss
them. - From Timely Poultry
Hints" in the Epitomist.
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How to Tell 4 Fresh Egg.

, 1t is easily possible to tell the dill
ference between a fresh egg and a
cold storage egg without breaking
the shell, and dealers in the District
of Columbia who sell stored eggs for
strictly fresh" ones may be prose-
cuted and convicted, according to
statements to-day of Dr.. Harvey W.
Wiley, the Governments chief chem
list. at the high cost of living" hear
ing being conducted by a House sub
committee. .
DR.. Wiley had a large number of
fresh eggs and some of the cold stor-
age variety. Dropping them into a
large vessel of water containing ten
per cent. salt solution, the fresh eggs
Immediately sank TO the bottom and
the refrigerated ones foated on the
surface. When asked how he knew
the eggs were fresh, Dr.. Wiley re-
piled that n OF his inspectors saw
the hens lay them yesterday.
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Elephants are one of the perils of
railroad life in Indo-China. The
Bangkok Times says that when the
morning train from Bangkok was
near Ban Klap an elephant walked
out of the jungle on to the track. The
engineer sounded his whistle, but
the. elephant, trumpeting loudly, low
cred its head and charged the oncom-
ing train. So great was the impact
that the elephant was killed on the
spot and the engine derailed and bad
ly damaged. The elephants tusks
were snapped off, but when a search
was made for them they could not be
found. Some one had walked OF
with them. .
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eeooeoeee
MdD'SLimited Powers :
ooees

BY means of mechanical devices,
the product of his own brain, mai
can sweep along a prepared track at
nearly a hundred miles an hour, or
through the air at seyenty-fve. Also
he can build towers more than two
hundred times his own height. But
strip him of his machines and ma
chine made instruments and he CON-
pares rather poorly, in the matter of
physical achievements and capabili-
ties, with certain of the lower an
imals.
Consider, for instance, mans
sprinting or running powers. His
best speed for a mile is some four
minutes twelve and three-quarter
seconds, which gives q total Of about
fourteen miles an hour. The gray
wolf lopes along at an easy twenty,
and thinks nothing of doing sixty
miles in a night. The hunted fox has
been timed to run two miles at a
speed of twenty-six miles an hour.
A ace horse at full speed travels
at t%hirty-two miles an hour, while a
greyhound, which is, SO far as is
known, the swiftest of all f~our-legged
creatures, runs thirty-four miles an
hour.
Man also falls behind in jumping.
Roughly speaking, six feet in height
and twenty-three in width are the
limits of mans achievements in this
line. A red deer has been known to
clear a wall ten feet high, the cham
OILS can do at least a foot better,
while the springbok of South Africa
will shoot ten feet up in the air just
for the fun of the thing.
Some of the beasts of prey are even
more wonderful in their athletic
achievements. The black jaguar.
for example, can reach a branch
fourteen feet from the ground.
The greatest jumper in the world is
the kangaroo. The sort known as
the old man" has been seen to clear
deadwood fences ten to twelve feet
high, while it can leap with ease a
width of fifty to sixty feet. The rec.
ord width cleared by a horse is about
thirty-seven feet, while the ostrich in
running clears twenty-five feet at a
stride.-Harper's Weekly.
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The Seat of Fear.

A French surgeon has located the
sensation Of fear in a nerve which
stretches upward from the medulla
oblongata at the back Of the neck in
to the cerebellum, that part of the
brain at the base of the head. The
larger and more developed this nerve,
the more timorous and melancholy is
the possessor, for it acts &C a tele-
phone wire over which the alarms
are sent. With this wire cut the
craven becomes a hero, for no alarms
can reach him. The doctor was led
to this conclusion, says Science Sift-
ings, by the case of a man who lost
the sensation of fear after an injury
about the head, and afterward he
confirmed his theory by experiments
on animals.-New York Tribune.
New One on George Washington.
During a Friday afternoon lecture
on history in a Baltimore educational
institution the instructor had given q
lengthy disquisition or the character
of George Washington, incidentally
touching upon his work as an organ
izer of the Revolution.
"Now," asked the instructor, 'ff
George Washington we're alive to-day,
what practical part do you think he
would play in present day politics,
judging from the past?"
A prolonged silence on the part OF
the pupils followed this. Finally,
however, one lad saw a way out.
Sir" he queried, wouldn't he be
too old?"-Lippincott's.
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Pedisreed Stock Trade.

If you expect to sell hogs at fancy
prices you must produce fancy hogs.
Too many breeders are content with
a fancy pedigree, expecting the blood
lines of the animal to carry it into
popularity.
While it is very essential that an
animal have a desirable pedigree, it is
all the more essential that the animal
itself possess individual merit.
AS soon as breeders of pedigreed
hogs come to a full understanding
that the animal produced must pos
sess greater merit in connection with
the pedigree then the people will
readily pay a good price for it, regard
less of whether or not public demand
is strong for SUCH animals.-Farm-
ers' Home Journal.
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4bEz Fl any

and so far they have proved ahead OF
anything ever tried.
What is necessary for success!
Three things are most essentials:
Right kind of hens.
Right kind Of shelter.
Right kind of food.
These three given by the right kind
of man or woman insure success. es-
pecially when in charge of the wo-
man.
Right kind of hens are first: Early
Matched pullets; good healthy one
year Odds, after moulting.
Eest kind of shelter does not mean
costly houses. Rooms should be
warm, light, dry and roomy, and we'll
protected from all draughts of cold
winds.
Best kinds of feeds are a variation
of the grain, green feeds when posi-
BILE; when not, the want supplied with
damped clover or alfalfa hay; ami
NAL Good or in place of it milk; fresh
water at all times.
Whole corr should be fed at
nights; if roasted, so much the bet-
ter.
AS to breeds. For farmers the
Mediterranean breeds are we'll
adapted, where wide range is given.
They will not bear close confinement.
The Reds are the best all around
breed we have tried, docile and quiet
in habit, good %foragers, and require
little feed when not penned. In Sc
curing fowls one should buy only of
reliable breeders, as only the best
should be used for building up a
flock. Secure breeds of early matur-
ity, good size, shape and good egg
producing qualities.-J. II. H., in the
Indiana farmer.
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Utilizing Straw.

Owing to it's abundance straw IS
added to barnyard manure, but it can
be made more serviceable if made fine
with the feed cutter before being
used. While straw may soon rot after
being mixed with manure, yet IN a
fine condition it is a much better alb
korbent and can be forked into h
manure with advantage. When load
ing and spreading manure there is a
saving of labor when handling that
which is fine, and the manure will be
more valuable because the loss OF am
monia will be arrested by the use or
suitable absorbent NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.
mist.
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New Race Peril.

A new race peril is brought to no
tice by Professor Karl Pearson from
his Investigations in England on the
inheritance of tuberculosis. He finds
that the first one or two children born
are more likely than others to be
tubercuious and to inherit defects OF
the parents, and the modern tendency
to limit families to n or two chill
dren, therefore, not only makes no
allowance for the inevitable waste OF
child life, but also must increase the
proportion of weak and diseased indi-
yiduals in the community.
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4 Cat Twenty Years Old.

joan Ferguson. Of Clark's Mills,
without much doubt has the Oldest
cat in York County. if not in Maine.
He is of good old fashioned New Eng
land breed, none of the fancy variety,
and was raised as Il kitten in the fam
lily. If he lives four months longer
he will be twenty years old. The
cats appetite is not Sc robust as it
once was, and he isn't bothering much
about rats and mice, but MS health
is fairly good. and no child in York
County gets better care than the
Ferguson family gives this venerable
feline. Lewiston journal.
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Women in Public.

The Chamber of Deputies OF Greece
passed a law by which, for the first
time in modern Greece. women are
admitted in the public service. In &C
cordance with this law the director OF
posts and t%elegraphs is authorized to
employ fifty women, to be used main
ly in the telephone service. They are
to be between twenty-one and thirty
FIVE years old, and are to receive sew
enty drachmas (about $13.5O) a
month, for six hours work a day.
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Alfalfa Will Grow Everywhere.

While experts have been declaring
that alfalfa would only grow in GER
tain soils and in certain climates it
has proven adaptability to nearly all
climates and almost all soils. 1t pro-
duces with a rainfall as scant as four
teen inches, and in the Gulf States
fiourishes with sixty-fve inches. 1t
gives crops at an elevation of 5000
feet above sea level, and in southern
California it grows below sea level to
a height of six feet or over. with nine
cuttings a year, aggregating ten to
twelve tons. An authenticated pho
tograph in possession of the writer
shows a wonderful alfalfa plant
raised in the (irrigated) desert Of
southern California, sixty feet below
sea level, that measured considerably
more than ten feet in height. Salts
factory crops are raised. but on lin
tied areas as yet, in Vermont and
Florida. New York has grown it for
over one hundred years in her clay
and gravel; Nebraska grows it in her
western sand hills without blowing,
as does Nevada On her sage-brush
desert. The depleted cotton soils OF
Alabama and rich corn lands of Illi-
nois and Missouri each respond gen.
erously with profitable yields to the
enterprising farmer, while its accum-
ulated nitrogen and the ~sub-soi!ing il
effects are making the rich land more
valuable and giving back TO the crop
worn the priceless elements Of which
it has been in successive generations
6espoiled by q constituencies hus-
bandry.-From Coburn's The Book
of Alfalfa
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To stop Complaints.

The Mayor of a, country commune
In France had the following notice
printed and posted on the walls OF the
village article Ito put an end to
complaints addressed to us, we forbid
Mile. Marie Bowler, servant at Nine.
Watts, to use the church harmonium
without our personal authorization.
AS she does not understand the in
strument, she may spoil it. Article
live invite Mile. Bowler to obey
our decision under pain of mourning
the fine or other penalty authorized
by law"
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New Navy Gun.

The new fourteen inch breechload-
ing rifle recently tested by the Gov
eminent weighs over $4,000 pounds
and it's length is about ifty-three feet.
It will take a charge of 365 pounds
Of smokeless powder and fire a 1400
pound %projectile. The rife will have
AN extreme theoretical range of TWEEN
ty-fve miles. The projectile will pen
citrate 1877 inches of the latest Krupp
steel armor at 5000 yards.-Blue-
Jacket.
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Confucius.

Confucius regarded his own life as
a failure. He spoke against ambition,
yet he coveted high office, nothing
less than that of political adviser to
some great ruler. A man of the high
est lineage in China, he was yet poor,
and early supported himself by teach
ing. His pupils showed him an ex-
traordinary devotion. The pick of
the young men in his native State Of
LII sat at his feet, and it was they
VINO transmitted his tremendous in
fluence. But C%onfucius saw not his
immortal success but his temporal
failure. Only a few brief years did
circumstances permit him TO exercise
his practical genius for government.
He became fist 4 magistrate, then
chief criminal judge in Lu. and. TO
quote Professor Legse. crime
ceased" C%onfucius. however. became
dissatisfied with the ruler whom he
served. a weak man VINO neglected his
duty and gave himself up more and
more to dissipation. So he resigned
his post and banished himself.-Lon-
don Spectator.
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Since the Car gave out that his
subjects might have liberty Of con-
science about 100000 are said to
have gone over to the Roman Catho-
lie Church, $1,000 have become Luth-
Grams, $4,000 were converted to Mo-
hammedanism, $500 to Buddhism.
400 to Judaism and $50 Siberians
have declared themselves pagans.
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Must Sort House Dust

In certain towns in Germany house
holders are compelled by law to sort
out their house dust. They have to
provide three receptacles n for
ashes and sweepings, one for cooking
refuse and one for rags and paper,
The rubbish is utilized by the town
authorities.
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Could Not Raise 1.-oney.

In a Belfast breach of promise case
the man, a farmer, won. He agreed
20 marry a spinster If she could raise
$500. She was able to get together
only $500, so the farmer called it of.
DESPITE the fact that he had ordered
the clergyman to be on hand to marry
them. The Judge said that the prom
Use to marry was conditional, and the
condition had not been fulfilled.
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Opposed Metrical System.

Lecturing before the Institution OF
Electrical Engineers, at London, Sir
William Preece said that the pro-
posal to make the metricai system
compulsory seemed scarcely within
the range of practical politics at pres
ent, for the Anglo-Saxon race OF
manufacturing engineers were nearly
all opposed to 1t.
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China's Ministry of the Interior has
decided upon the period from the
seventh to the sixteenth year as the
age of minority and study, and has de-
creed that from sixteen to forty shall
be the age of manhood for Chinese
people.
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His Pruad Charity.

~.moSene-'I know papa Is cross
and surly sometimes and says things
that are unjust, but ecu should judge
him. Philip. by his best"
Pnilip-"Oh, | do, dear. You're
his best."-Chicago Tribune.
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Has His Preferences.

"You have a vile beater IL Jail
here"
Yes"
Here arc some roses for him"
Sorry, madam, but he doesn't &C
cept auy flowers less expensive than
orchids. '-WashiDgton Herald.
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j. was so cold in New York part OF
the winter OF 1773 that residents OF
the vicinity were compelled to u
down the tall trees that stood at
what is now the head OF Wall Street
II make kindliDg wood.
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Mrs. AUGUSTE VEsPERMANN, lie For.,
est, Wisconsin.
Another Operation Avoided.
New Orleans, La.-.'For years. suf-
fered from severe female troubles.
FinallyI was confined to my bed and
the doctor said an operation wasneces-
,sary. Igave Lydia E. Pinkham'sYegs
etable Compound a trial first, and
was saved from an operaton."-Mrs.
LILY PEYRoUx, I'LL Kerlerec st, New!
Orleans, La.
! Thirty years Of unparalleled success
confirms the power Of Lydia -. Pink.
hams Vegetable Compound to cure
female diseases. The great volume OF.
unsolicited, testimony constantly pour;
ing in proves conclusiyely that Lydia
E.. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound is
a remarkable remedy for those dis;
tressing feminine ills from which;s 9
many women suffer.
Ifyou want special advice about
YOUR case write to Mrs. Pinkhams
at Lynn, Mass. Her advice Il
free, and always helpful.
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Munyon's Paw Paw Pills coax the liver into
activity by gentle methods. They do not scour. grippe
or weaken. They are q tonic to the stomach, liver
and nerves; invigorate instead OF weaken. The en-
rich the blood and enable the stomach to get all the
no~urishment from food that is put into It.. These
nils contain no calomel; they are soothing, healing
and stimulating. For sale by all druggists tn lOc and
25c sizes. II you need medical advice, write Mum
yon's Doctors. They will advise to the best OF their
ability absolutely free OF Charge NUN YON'S,
53d and } Jefferson Sts., philadelphia, "a.
MUNYON'S Cold Remedy cures a cold In one day.
Price 25c. MUNYON'S Rheumatism Remedy relieves
IN q few hours and cures In a few days Price sc.
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Mrs. Winslow's Soothing Syrup for Children
teething, softensthe gums, reduces infiamma-
ton, allays pain, cures wind collie. 25c. a bottle.
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A bottle of milk, containing a two
inch minnow. was recently delivered
by a Pittsfield (Mass,) milkman to
one of his customers.
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A new house has just been COM
pleted at Sheford, England, and 1t Is
said to be the first one built there In
fifty years.
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DYSPEPSIA
Pike'o Toothache Drops
Cure fl One Minute

"Having taken your wonderful 'casca.
rets' for three months and being entirely
cured of stomach catarrh and dyspepsia,
I think a word of praise is due to
'Cascarets' for their wonderful compost
ton. ! have taken numerous other So
called remedies but without avail, and I
find that Cascarets relieve more in a day
than all the others I have taken wouldin
q year" James McGune,
1oS Mercer ST., Jersey City, NJ.
Pleasant, Palatable. Potent, Taste Good.
Do Good. Never Sickcn. Weaken or grippe.
10c. 25c. Soc. Never sold In bulk. The gen.
uine tablet stamped CCC. Guaranteed to
cure or your money back. 919
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J.. H. Hale, of Georgia, the Peach
King" has $4,000 trees in his South
ern orchards alone.
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The yards of many London schools
are kept open after hours as play
grounds. N. "
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PerilS to Railway.

Itch cured in 80 minutes by Woolford's
Sanitary Lotion. Never fails. At druggists.
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There are thirty-nine miles of books on
the shelves Of the British Museum.
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In a month a caterpillar eats food weigh
ing 5000 times it's weight.
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Only One "Bromo Quinine,"
That is Laxative Bromo .Quinine., Look
for the signature of E. W. Grove. Used the
World over to Cure a Cold in One Day. 25c.