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Wood Work.

A good varnish: One-half pint OF
boiled linseed oil, one-half pint of tur.
pentine, mixed and well shaken be.
fore using will fill the pores of the
wood and give it a good gloss. Put
on with a cotton cloth, then polish
with a dry CLOTH. To remove stains
from hands I keep lemon juice in a
bottle. A little alcohol in it to keep
it from spelling. When I clean vege.
tables or peel apples I clean the stains
off my hands with it.-Mrs. D. w.
lloyd. in the Boston Post.
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Swiss Honey.

Switzerland is 4 land of flowers,
and its thrifty inhabitants have made
the blossoms very largely contribu-
tory to the food supply. According to
statistics gathered by the Swiss So
ciety Of Agriculturists, there are
two hundred and fifty thousand hives
or colonies of bees in the country,
each of which produces forty pounds
of honey during the season, a total
of ten million pounds 4 year. The
average price of Swiss honey for the
year 1909 was twenty-five cents a
pound, giving the years product a
total value of $780, 900" AS the
flowers grow without cultivation, and
the bees work without wage other
than c%aretaking, producing their OWL
food supply, the honey crop is in great
part clear profit. The swiss honey is
of very delicate favor and fine quail
ity.-Philadelphia Record.
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The number Of cremations in
Great Britain last year was S55, an
increase Of sixty from 1908. The
grand total of the tweleve crema-
forums since the opening of the
Working crematorium in 1885 to the
end of last year was 1921. In 1908.
there were 656S cremations in
France. Germany in 1909 cremated
4779, making a grand total to that
date of $4,000 for Germany.
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Hog Feeding.

We are told that the Wisconsin
station tests show that Yorkshire
. hogs require the least amount of food
for 100 pounds of gain of either Po-
land Chinas or Berkshires. Razor
backs" made smallest gains and ate
the least food. An indication that a
cross is capable of improving weak
ness in pure-bred Berkshires and Po-
land Chinas was the fact that those
breeds crossed with "Razorbacks"
resulted in hogs that made gains
much more economically than the
Observation-Disclosures Farmer.
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S7AK2R nA1rERS TNE,
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Raise Pile on Velvet.

Put on a table two pieces of wood,
place between them bottom side up
three very hot f%atirons, and over
them lay a wet cloth; hold the velvet
over the cloth with the wrong side
down; when thoroughly steamed,
brush the pile with a light wi5p and
the velvet will look as good as new.
Mrs. Dema Cory, in the Boston
Post. -.
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A balanced grand piano has been
invented in England. One side is a
duplicate of the other and the lid is
hinged in the centre so as to dis
tribute the sound waves evenly.
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This Fact that in addressing Mrs. Pinkham you are con-
6ding your private ills to a woman "a woman whose ex-
perience with womens diseases covers twenty-five years.
The present Mrs. Pinkham, daughter-inlaw of Lydia p.
Pinkha1n, was for years under her direction, and has ever
since her decease continued to advise women.
Many women suffer in silence and drift along from bad
to worse, knowing well that they ought to have immediate
assistance, but a natural modesty causes them to shrink
from exposing themselves to-the questions and probable
toning and examination is unnecessary. Without cost
you can consult a woman whose knowledge from actual
exnerience iS preat. ~" -.sg@ ESEe&%II@s
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AIW p'-A@H
The Toronto Monetary Times has
been Investigating American invest
ments in Canada and finds them to be
at least $23O,O0O,000.
One of the most remarkable sights
in America is the attendance OF moth
ers with children in their arms in the
Philadelphia night schools.
The clubwomen of Nebraska are
said to be responsible for the new
State law which requires each school
district to set aside each year ten
cents for each child in it of school
age. The money is to be devoted to
the school district library.
There we're Ats persons killed and
14O4 injured on Canadian railways in
1909.
NEPTUNE takes over $50 years to
make one complete revolution round
the sun -
A great electric power generating
station in Germany will make use OF
peat fuel entirely.
The use or waste of lumber in this
country is ten times as great, per
capita, as that Of France.
During the last fiscal year BLY,
900, 5135 fishes and fish eggs were dis
tributed by the Bureau of Fisheries.
A grape basket more than sixteen
feet long was made for exhibition
in a recent parade at Westfeld, N. Y.
Using electricity, Nome, Alaska,
the most northerly town in. America,
IS one Of the best lighted in the
world.
Artificial nitrates are made extern
sively in Norway and sold in compe-
tition with the natural product OF
Chile. The annual production OF nj
trate of soda In Chile is 1,8OO,o9o
tons.
In f%fty-four cases out of every
hundred the left leg is stronger than
the right!
Professor Leschetizky, the eminent
pianist, still teaches at his home IN
Vienna, though he is nearly eighty.
Negotiations are proceeding be-
tween Italy and France with regard
to a proposed tunnel through Mont
Blanc.
Mrs. Dinah E. Sprague, who cele-
brated her Tooth birthday recently
is the Oldest member of the Woman's
Relief Corps. 49,,
From the days of Joseph down the
only well-populated country which
had enough grain to satisfy its own
consumers was Egypt, rich beyond
the record of any other soil this side
of Paradise. ~
The City Council OF Eaton, Me-
voted by a large majority to ask the
LEGISLATURE to amend the city charter
so as to give the municipal suffrage
to women owning $500 worth of prop
erty. .
The most effective means OF life
saving in the event of a storm is the
lifeboat, the first one of which was
launched on the Thames on January
4. 1885, by Lionel Lukin, a coacn-
maker of an inland town near Lon
don. .
Americans living in Beirut can re-
member when there vas not a win
dow pane in the city. Twenty years
ago there we're no carriages, women
making their social calls on the backs
of donkeys. The city now has 6oo
licensed victorias, besides the private
vehicles, with automobiles and cleo
trio street cars.
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MRS. PINKHAMs STANDING INVITATIONS:

Women uferingfrom any form of female weakness arein
vited to promptly communicate with Mrs. Pinkham at Lynn
Mass. All letters are received, opened, read and answered by
women. A woman can freely talk of her private illness
to a woman; thus has been established this confidence
between Mrs. Pinkham and the women of America which
has never been broken. Never has she publishedsa testi-
monial or used a letter without the written consent Of the.
writer, and never has the company allowed these conf
dreds of thousands Of them in their files will a~ttest.fs
Out Of the vast volume of experience which Mrs. Pink
ham has to draw from, it is more than possible that she
has gained the very knowledge needed III your case.
She asks nothing in return except your good WI, and her
poor, should be glad to take advantage Of shis5 generous
offer of assistance. Address Mrs. Pinkhanls cazeso Lydia
E. Pinkham Medicine Co, Lynn. Mass Sax -
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Detroit people have organized a
Jean Vatican club to furnish assist
ance to paroled prisoners. l.,
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Uncle Sans fishing feet numbers
1854 boats. N.Y.-17
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There are forty-cight distinct dis
S of the eye. No ether organ Of
the human body has so many.
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Americans living in Beirut can re-
member when there was not a win
dow pane in the city. Twenty years
ago there were no carriages, women
making their social calls on the backs
of donkeys. The city now has 0oo
licensed victorias, besides the private
vehicles, with automobiles and cleo
trio street cars.
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Negotiations are proceeding be-
tween Italy and France with regard
to a proposed tunnel through Mont
Blanc.
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Professor Leschetizky, the eminent
pianist, still teaches at his home IN
Vienna, though he is nearly eighty.
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Mrs. Dinah E. Sprague, who cele-
brated her Tooth birthday recently,
is the Oldest member of the Woman's
Relief Corps. 49,,
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The most effective means of life
saving in the event of a storm is the
lifeboat, the first one of which was
launched on the Thames on January
4. 1885, by Lionel Lukin, a coacn-
maker of an inland town near Lon-
don. .
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In f~fty-four cases out OF every
hundred the left leg is stronger than
the right!
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From the days of Joseph down the
only well-populated country which
had enough grain to satisfy It's oWn
consumers was Egypt, rich beyond
the record Of any other soil this side
of Paradise. =
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Artificial nitrates are made extern
sively in Norway and sold in compe-
tition with the natural product OF
Chile. The annual production of nj
trate of soda In Chile is 100000
tons.
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The City Council Of Eaton, Me-,
voted by a large majority to ask the
LEGISLATURE to amend the city charter
so as to give the municipal suffrage
to women owning $500 worth of prop
erty. e.
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The Toronto Monetary Times has
been Investigating American invest
ments in Canada and finds them to be
at least $23O,O0O,0 900.
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the Canal Zone. where case of the
disease has not originated in the past
four years. Notwithstanding the fact
that many thousands of nonimmunes
have entered the territory during
that period.
The cause of yellow fever is thor
oughly well understood, and the most
effective methods of prevention have
been ascertained. A certain kind OF
mosquito contracts the virus Of yellow
fever by feeding on 4 human being
afflicted with the disease. The insect
may then transfer the infection TO
any non-mmune person by merely bit
ing him. Only one species OF mos
quito-the stegomyia-is capable of
these functions. and by this process
molly is yellow fever communicated.
Two factors are essential to its prop
agation-a yellow fever victim and a
yellow fever mosquito. Neither alone
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OF. all except Josephine. and she mar
ricd Napoleon and no made Ia a Sen
ate.r Concise arr accurate. A little
more a. length fhe facts are these.
While the paiace vas being hurried
10 complcf on and all done that arr
ana wealth could f1 10 make it bean.
tiful. two parfios we're being formed
AZ Court. Louis MI was little more
than a child. bar .e was Of a gloomy.
rnorose tempcrau 0nf ard very jealou g
81 his mothers qoter and angry Win
her haurhfiness and pride. No; only
The Young Kirc. hff all the Court and
reouic hated ih~ Queea's favoriie. tho
Italian advenfnr, Concini. whom she
had raised from ono position and hon
~ ~ another until he was prime min
isfc- ana bad ar1 rcd a vast amount
Of money. Iis uiie was Leonora
CaHcai. the faforic lady in waiting
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from the yellow fever ben to the Phil
ippincs. hawaii and New Zealand
The siego myls. which hibernates upon
occasion would readily survive such
VOYAGES and those Oftwicc the length.
Thus mosquitoes infected with the
virus of yellow fever may without any
difficulty be introduced 90 these Pa
cihc islands. IN any of which they
e.ould survive and probably thrive.
The spread OF the seourge To the con
tinental mainland would fellow rapid
IN and certainly. Here myriads OF
steromyia exist. innocuous al present
but ready to become deadly as soon as
brought within reach of the contag
icm for which they have an afiinity.
The mind shrinks from the contem
nlation of the fearful results thar
must follow the Introduction of vel
low fever among the many millions OF
peculiarly susceptible people In China
and India Let us consider the case
of the latter country, In which the
conditions do not differ greatly from
those in the former. The habits and
necessary environment of the inhabi.
tants of Inoia are especially favorable
ia the mosquito. The population oil
cities is intensely contested and even
the poasanfry live in contracted vii
lagos, Private wells are compare
lively few and storage of water In or
about dwellings Is. generally neces'
sary. The main supply of large areas
Of the country IS derived from stag
nant tanks. The greater part of In
din experiences no temperature SUI
iicientlv lew to suspend the activities
of mosquitoes A large proportion oil
the population is habitually naked,
save for a loin cloth. and employ no
protective measures against the IN
sect.
The task of sanitation in the region
heretofore subject to yellow FEVER
has been easy. and simple compared
with what II would be in Asia. Sue
cess has attended the efforts to such
an extent as to indicate that without
great difficulty the disease might be
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can be effective.
A single insect is capable of infect
ing an unlimited number of beings
and cf exercising its malignant ac-
tivity over a course of eight weeks.
end probably longer under favorable
circumstances. The chief means of
prevention are the segregation of vic
tins, and the removal or destruction
OF the insects breeding places.
One of the most pronounced results
of the increased facilities Of travel
and the fever movement Of populations
in modern times has been the spread
and transplanting of diseases former
" confined to restricted areas. Sew
eral virulent tropical tropical dieases
are still geographically limited. and
yellow fever is one of these. Hither-
to it has occurred only in the CONT
nents of America. with their apper.
tanning islands. and the West Coast
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called in consequence, broke out in
practically very ship that anchored
IL the West Indies. or off the coast of
South America, but no one ever
thought of connecting that peculiar
circumstance with the open water
casks that were invariably kept upon
the decks of vessels in port. The
hospitals were generally hOt-beds of
the disease. as We can understand
now. knowing that their verandas u.s.
ually contained numerous pOtted plant
which stood in large dishes of water.
These and other strange manifesto
tons Of the scourge. which were pro
foundly perpleXing to the physicians
&C former generations. are susceptible
to the clearest explanation today.
1t is only within the present decade
that the world has had positive know
ledge of the source of yellow fever.
All the efforts of our surgeons to ef-
feet a decrease of the disease in Cuba
we're unavailing until they worked
npOn the theory. which had long be-
luic / cen advanced by DIR Carlos Fin
.3y, of Havana. that a certain species
of mosquito is the agency for the COZ
veyance from man 20 man of the in
fecting virus. THIS was proved be-
yOnd question with the aid OF num-
Der of young Americans, who heroic
ally submitted themselves to be eX-
perimented with.
This discovery red1ced the task
of eradication TO a comparatively easy
matter. In q few years Havana.
which had been. during a century and
a half. one of the principal centres of
yellow fever was entirely freed from
it A similar result was secured in
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husbands ends. She replied: BY
the ascendency OF strong soul over
a weak mind" She was bebeaded AMI
then burned. and their vast property
was given by the King TO his favorite
DE Luynes.
The Queen. involved in al! this
sros.ble. became exceedingly unpop-
ular and was forced to 20 into exile
for several years. Finally she be-
came reconciied to her son and re-
turned 10 Paris in 1920 TO find her
palace nearly completed. She amused
herself by seeing how sumptuous she
could make even the smallest detaiis
of its furnishings. For instance. the
names OF glass in her windows were
set not in lead. but in silver, and the
great audironS were made of solid sil-
yer. She sent for the PALMER kubens
and he painted for the lo,g gallery.
which led out Of her private rooms
a series Of - pictures. depicting ale
goricaHy all the events Of her lie
These are now hung in a special salon
Of the Louvre
Unhappy Queen. misfortune pursued
her. She had never the art OF being
popular and Keeping friends Those
rhom she raised from humble life 70
n. highest favor invariably turned
sgasns. her. Cardinal Rishelieu.
vhom she had made cardinal and
aelDed upward from the starting point
4 his career. gained complete ascend
.ncy over the King and persuaded
sim finally that II vas better his
Mother should leave Paris she vent
irto exile again. this time never 10
.efurn. She gave the paiacein which
she had scarcely lived a. all 20 her
third son. CASTOR. Datc 81 Orleans.
This was in 1881. and !; was then
known a. the Paiais D'Oricans. IL
passed 20 his celebrated daughter. the
great "Madcmoisciie.~ From her 70
the Regent Phuiypc DOrieans and
isfcr ~ his driFhfcr. the young Ouch
css Ia Barry. Who lived such = scan
dalous life that even In thar corrupt
axe no one could be found Who vas
wiling 10 rreach her funeral sermon
uhcn she died a. thc age 81 only p.
During her rcz.dcnrv. the garden of
the Luxembourg. which had been q
very fashionable promenade. vas clos
81 70 tie public 20 vas Afterwards
owned and occupied By the COmte de
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foundations. many Roman arms. uten-
sils and ornaments were found, among
them a very beautiful bronze Mercury
One said at the time: Even the
gods view the palace with kindly eyes.
since they have sent their messenger
purse in and. to pay the masons-
II was here the Roman camp was
located. whose soldiers guarded the
old Roman palace Of the 1hormes.
the ruins Of which are now included
in the Music de Cluny. II was in
what was afterward the garden Of the
Luxembourg that .he soldiers raised
their General Julian upon their shields
and proclaimed him against his will
their emperor.
This beautiful garden. the only re-,
naming Renaissance garden in Paris
was begun by the Quecn. designed
and planted two years before the pal
ace was commenced that IL might be
ready in time. As write 7 look down
into il from my balcony. The myriad
horse chestnut trees are white with
blossoms. the CONTAINS are playing
ard fhrongs Of people are listening
10 the concert. which Is given three
times weekly In the summer. u IS In
the very heart Of the Latin Quarter.
that venerable and joyous Latin
Garter. venerable for SIS axe. its asso-
Citations. Tor the role ~ has PLAYED IN
the history Of France and OF the
xorid. JOYOUS in the eternal youth Of
is over changing s;adcnt population.
n g. called the garden Of the univcr-
si,y. 50 frequent is u BY he students
who DO agreai deal Of their studying
there and much - their lovc-makinE.
Little. happy. laughing children also
rornp and play there. They sail their
toafs rDoa the pond. watch The on
chanting Punch and Judy show with
never failing interest. ride IT. The goat
carri1ee IN ecsistic joy. roll heir
hoops and toss their balls and look
curiousiv a. the thronciag students
whose empty places they soon viii OIL
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I asked a tiny child. a peasant boy
in Florence. once if he knew where
Dante lived. and my heart leaped At
;he pride with which be drew himself
un and answered. III show you
where our Dante lived" The child
rrn everywhere in Europe take per
souai interest in history. u is aston
ishing how much Of u they remember.
a little French girl whom ] asked
about the Luxembourg said 70 me.
~Oh. yes. 7 know about The palace.
The Italian Queen mot the bad onci
GOOD King who did 80 much for France
the ono the people love. She dida't
live there long. she quarrcied with
rer son. vino was another king. and
she had 10 20 away OF. and she died
Ever 30 many other people lived here
and then 30 was wilson. and all The
prisoners bad their beads chopped
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OF Africa. This Limitation has been
favored by the conditions OF CONNER
cial traffic. There has been practic'
ally no direct communication between
the parts OF the world in which yellow
fever is established and those in
which it might take foothoid. If intro.
duced. Vessels have carried victims
of the disease from the Atlantic
shores of South America and the Gold
Coast to European countries without
evil consequences. because the neces-
sary agent for the transmission OF
the infection does not exist. and prob
ably would not survive in those coun.
tries. Up 10 the present time com
n unication between South America
and Asiatic regions has been only by
circuitous and extended voyages. The
opening of the Panama Canal VIII,
however. bring about different condi-
tions. Steamships will so directly
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IN HE most dreaded of all tro1i-
cal diseases has eXactcd a
terrible toll from The white
~ man whenever he has ven
tured to make settlement
in the New World below the equator
la line. Columbus had hardly found
ed the city of Isabella. in Hispaniola,
before yellow fever almost wiped out
its garrison. Thereafter, the same
dread scourge made its appearance at
the birth of every new settlement. II
caused the abandonment of many 4
colony and frustrated many an eXpe-
clifton. During Admiral Vernon's OPP
Grafton against Cartagena. in 1E4l
more than three-fourths of a force of
10000 men succumbed to il. II made
the Panama Canal impossible for the
French. and il is practically certain
that the American. enterprise could
never have been carried TO success
IA: conclusion but for the discovery.
in the very nick of time. of effective
means of combating yellow fever.
In the past the theories regarding
the origin of the disease embraced
every conceivable source from divine
visitation to influence of the Gulf
Stream. But every explanation ad-
anced fell to he ground when sub
jected to strict investigation. and. I'M
iii recent years, the cause of the dis
ease and the manner of its convey
ance remained a battling mystery.
The non-contagiOus character of the
disease was thoroughly established
and the masmatic theory of origin
ad the greatest number of advocates
among scientists. II was observed
that yellow jack" as it came TO be