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EACH BALE TAXED Cotton Association Plans to Raise Campaign Fund. CONVENTION A SUCCESS , m lotereet of Grow Important A/ork er» if the South Mapped Out at Sessions in Convent Asncvills. ■enth/n of the T • fir*? annual n r on v en Mon < lost d at e v 111 « . N Friday tendered dm night, [*» th«- executive y K**nliworth Inn anqui't • posed to raise $100*000 isorlatioti an«l $100, he stale and county ,<»i i»y the A cent tax on each r»f cotton, nn*l such i«g will be , I» f<»r c »■•»' • 4« 1. (-Ff f aft« noon «nd night >•< Ions iflned chiefly to the "f varUtus rcacdutlons, chi«*f itch was one looking to a rah •mbiTshlp dues fqroru 25 cents levied. Th*f Ft « ■ I I*'» : 'K (•» $1 year ; ('olofii*l .1 Me Ms r'. In'» r< '..iiiiK-jided that greater • « \ ■ j, to article 1, K«rtU j Hi«« <«institution, lion to the Cotton conventk) com\rmoi\ not of manufaci urei resolution ' Publicity 1, Of IllUl rails Uftl'U* f»M*t U»ai th«* Moutliern n In «in organization uly of growers, but and farmers, wbU.li adopted Mr Me'Martin further ate* that the chief , on Is the Industrial dovol- i hj«" I of 11.<T <»t n.eii an I stiprema/ y •tat«»«,' r the c Mini lo tills end lb* 1 govern 'on j <1.1,1 It.- »rnti. il («, build tiot- ; ti-r Mont h* rn hnrlxtr» Aii important fe»*ur«» of th#* • .owing st ms in a was the sdopth lion ni a* I* by K. I». Smith of South Carolina to tft** effort that ail morn <»f mo le i a of the MftsorlatIon Ihs urge<l to market their cotton, even at the min Immn price. as to distribute tho sah slowly za possible, of the sta the entire year Instead of marketliiK the crop in nine y days as hsM been the cust th« high' -t prie««»» |s»*slbl« above tho i minimum cnuld i Pl mV i. In ihls i- 1 After .11« iiiseuKMion at the night oil «i h to the ext meeting plsvo i latlon'M ««xecutlvo commlt of the H. tot, 1vooa*«*H of Ashe 14 « i RprlngM. Ark , was eh« ui. Til's h m 'fleet ««d by n • i :i ; romtse j rnsde b« t« *am the vlllr au.i II«»: ^bii'ii Sprin* «. by the term* tho winter mooting « of voniM at th«* I nt t «'r pine«.», while Asho. ville go's i ho itniDicr mooting, milter of Vic«» pr« sbl nt P« t«r»' rnsignitlon wrs ngati toiirhi'd lipon, aud although the discuhslon was concluded In dorstfNhl tJmt Mr IVtors will "volun tarily r«»Hlgn" in a fow days, and Ills anccoMMor will bo named by Pr«»sl I 1 i* «Ion, ll Is tin d«»nt Jordan, In whine handn th«*qu«s lion was kft f<*t sdjustm«»nt. It was r«*|M)rtad that tho HHMoHatton will probably deliver an Address to the AmuricHti p«*op «». it deal prluci- i p-Uly with ox.H'l.ig «ondltlonH In th« i textile world Tin* passing of |(*hoIu tUms (»I thatikw t « » th«* pc«>ph» (»f Ash*' ville, th«» local and national pr« as and U»e lo ni au thor It **s »f Kenilworth closed the i oa\ ctitlon. QUIET RESTORED IN TOKIO. Regret Expressed by Better Clast at Burning of Christian Churches. A Tokio hp«u-la| t*n>H \t n« on Fri day the city whs quiet. Uomphto r»* pori* from metropolitan mid outly ing district* indent«» that th« re whs no disorder throughout Thursday night or ( arly Friday in« ruing The government has suspt'ndoj a total of fiv * it«'Whimpers, und It a cx fx'ctsd that the publica; ionr. of ( will t»o pr«».«'nted ikiverntnent otflcii;* und th»' hot ter class of Japan« so oil iff nu nro pressing ko »n regret o\»t thi attacks on Christian « hur« lo I'hcy explain that th«» aff itr was th«' result «>f local conditions, ami serious anti foreign or loading. her» \ * ■s not Indicate mitt Christian FIERY DEATH FOR RAPIET. MM) af Over Thr»» Thouwnd Taxan» Burn» N«gro at th» Stak». Stove l'avis, » negro, who conics* S. P. Norrl», ed to out raging Mrs sgej 20. was Iwtrntsl a* W»iah*tchld. Texas. Thursday night. ■insisting of 3.500 person*. • .'d him to a piece of gas pipe, tha, hud been set tn the ground, piled fagots around him and set Ihe mass on fire. TVtc husband of the woman Is *,:d to have set the match to the tinder and started the blaze A mob. Dissolution of Sweden and Norway Difficult of Accomplishment. The conference of the delegates ol SCANDINAVIANS DISAGREE. Norway and Sweden, appointed to discus* the dissolution of the union of Norwxiy snd Sweden adjourned on Thursday until September 13. to < n eurtble the delegate» to return to thelr respective capitals au.i confer with their government The result ol their llollberatfou I* very uncertain. t BOOM» TIME» IN TME SOUTH. f Manufacturers' Record Gives Glowing Account of Prosper ty. ai r*!*: r* .n «* to prw^**rlt/ } In fh** (lit* Hinufuiurei With *;> It.-. ord * ty. in part ' In all cu history there boforn a Um« wh*»n ^7'" " "^ " TUiing * ** is Ipiaran?»**.ing a «xpansUm of buaf* Tolar th* farmer* of all a^c* Ilona ar<* ally fre<* froi ciaaa, having lx Ina,». »;.♦ «• .1 ? •» r itj!> n«*w crop y< a r trance of the Irr gee ag end gra v s crops n a mil iif; a J prie«*, with «fi oq'iai a »»lira .»:«• tha: value «rill rank *'«»r aoM, giving h A'ap.o , n«'i sr.-l no- on y n d«*ht. hut a a a pr a ulateU iff* m gr»gate yra *.r the c »ou» «»rn firmer» for •Co«-. sion« or , HESTER ISSUES CROP REPORT. t Cotton Output for 1«04 0} Shown to Be 13. r jfl5,E8S Bales Hcc I dary HMUrs a à mal re;**, *•«« in full a» N w Or;<■ ms He puts tb« cotton crop for Kid4 "ft at in,f)r.r*,H$5 bale*, an Increase ■ of 3„;S4.SU I IB says that. Frida «•r that of 1 »03-04 r>mpnref| with last ; y«-ir. Iri round figure*. IVxsm. includ ' lux Indian Territory, has 7« d In« rei balea. The group known as othei gulf htoU'n. conN stlng «»f 1 »u 1 h: ana. Arkansas, MltisIsHlppI, Tenn»*r », M'.ss«i«jrl, Oklahoma, Utah and i Ksnsa*. has Increased 1,104.000, and the group of Atlantic states, Alaba ma, Heorgla Florida, .Vorth Carolina Month Carolina. Kentucky and Vlr ultila. bus gained 1,741 ,FK*. He puts the average commercial j value of this crop at $46.31 per bale, against $t>l.f»K lus* year, and the ; t»l vatiin of tin- rrop »I It. I» •gainst $i;i7.r,bl.f»4H Inst year and I460,77'».2R2 tin* year bo fore. 8HONTÖ DnAW3 CRITICISM. •*d Awe dmg of Contract for Supplies Places Him Under Fire. St < V.ar. • >f < *• • 11:. I« i. pr. »''»plttncy .«»Mltlon" In favor of the ami ,.r.d 1» •• j s'icci * f j bidder, wh*» ,im a ciml « nmrti!;ui'.on announ(vd that i awarded concession for feed vere made Friday ('ftalrtnan Shouts of the log • ud housing t!i« greater part of Ik Marke!» h«> cioil « •doyen J of uuaha. H IVitfe It t'o., end Hudgins & Lu ron*. hot:» New York Arms, who • thor bidders for the con • --sien, «ent telegrams and let ver* the only ITS tO Bn Pr* aident R< NI«V«U at Oys* protesting hgfFnst tho award of th« contta't to Mnrkol. MO&QUITOE« CAU*E CISCOMFORT Great Swarms In New Orleans, But I They Ar« the Harmless Breed. Ther« weis nothing of h| x^-1 a 1 m tor«*st in the fi»vi»r situation a* Now 1 Orleans Wednesday, beyond the small number of cast»«« reported and tho few deaths A b«»avy rain snd a wind e»ui»rt to have Hik'd tho city with moMijuilo« a, lut they un» not the s'cg l'i, though rtw«'rn«blliig them m ('AUS f i i many of the markings. They i ti nmch d i scorn for . The official r«-;<>rt Wi'dnosday was «K follows New I'llM'H, .11; tu*a|l to !aio, 2,142. d«»athn Wednesday 4; to I 1 dut h* 2B8; casi s under treatment CASTRO EXPELS FRENCHMAN. M. Brun, Manager of Cable Company Ordered from Vtnszlta. The following gov«»rnm« , ntal decree was Insued Ht Caracas. Vcm'ruela, ot Thursday "Whi cas, *M. Brun, manager of th* French Catil«» compauy. has protest«»* before ih« xgalnH* th«» dec and mul c> ast «'tfieca of th«* company •nd. nnt ional govern men i clo«îlng ti»«* WIkti'k ». «hl, «cllo,i »fcow. thaï Br,„ i. Ignorant of tho laws tbo ro.'ubllo, ; M "Thi> prescient devrt sld 'I nrttn N> expeUt'd fr->nt the 1 tor rltorjr of the repttbllc." tha: t h* INSURANCE PROBE BEGINS. Lrqi»latlve lnv*«tlg»tlon of Equitable Socltty I» Inaugurated. The afTalrs of the* F>|t,liable Assur ance* »oui et y and the Mutual Life In », trance compsnv held the attention nt New York Thur» lav of the lee's j Is'lve I f., im.-- gallon committee a, eleve'o-e 1 ln r* I , Nothing tic . rrd to the lip alt «.Itle jtve.y o'her than the statement drawn fret, d Ihe offli*r* that tne society 1 I j « »t kn««* 'he pr«'vent D. J»MMnr, former rtunjKroiler In i*a bo s o* FRENCH ROUTE FAVORED. i Canal Engin»«rs Accept Old Line» a» i Baals of Discussion. Tho board of consulting engineers I , f , he Pa>11I „ a ctna | , u Washing , on ^ rUlRV .,« ho m «>mUt»r* hav*» ft» e «*n 1 Mud , th) , varlou8 lua , w an>1 data . ! The moot Important conclttslon react- i j ed by the Iw.trd was that the location I ■ of the canal, as marked on the ofll I j cla! maps of the commission, known as the Trench location, shall le ac cepted as a basis fer the detailed d s cu«sion of Its structure. ; j ol t f l m 3 ft Delicate. Uf»!«* Willi» ■ to It »'• r** Sf: I * Ml . : II« .«I " • K' T * .pi then *n » . «I K At j**.J i ! I A nil N-i I'd if VlVihJo » . b"H*i I d UMo dir ilii,: t • * f . g • ■ Ui, ■ I I*-.-« ! snd l»U • k I 1 /kill pi# « »!»«• Ely ; !* Thre 1 1 dor* > » b-> iid le » *l» r I In»» »•vu d • il lb* Utils \\. \s > "/ * t ifti* tviri* f »•■rill f.»r 'I w*tl .••d '.I«l h.,. right' r-d lilt *ft w ilrln't dlnri**r. ■ i i I h-.ujrh h* did st u hi. k»r. ,HJ »•«Id h* hsv* . •• lilf.i. l.lltlv \> till- Un't i k » • (I I ! n k f u*l ia'» II« Father of Mcdri Landacaj f'onrfable painted the scene i he saw It. luit he Ifh ; whs not satistH in r«*ly copying n uur« It hi ! ho real a comj anion place, he tried pictures-that th and sphere might i>en«'trat«* »eene, und that trn hat, in ti lo make It live first bis tV( , «loud* might rhand the spot, that it* irf of very an 1 th - a and the might move and have their lx It, and «acomlly, h* v i»ut his ov sonal nffcctlon Into his repre-ei Then. Uk>. In the matter of cc ry plants by the r« bide. In por tion » he dared to paint nature gr«»cn, as It. and the skies blue, with t »Milne either yellow or glariiigfvhlte I» Is, then, because of this rl<>i<f 'ahh fulness to the hues the effects of move saw *un ►f nature, m l to fable is called the father of 'nt, of at infi>ph'*re «1 «»f light, and because lie ln$e'pret •*d nature nrcordlng to his ov( snood, that C molern landscape.' qualities that particularly < ''»lists of the nineteenth St Nicholas I* the« btp the rrufltri the century.— Trotting or Gallon ng. H« re |h a proitlem for peopl* with As we all know, a horse walking or trotting «dvanc only one leg of each pair st a time, but Wh»n vu I topi nx lifts both f<-t >■ f-.-t 1 together and then Isith hind fe#' the question is j I Shr«cp eyes' who I __:. Now other animals 1 I 1 ! ! I how manage this mrttor. The Bird course, flap both wings together but I whb'h birds run and which h«p? We I human beings "trot" when w and "gallop" when we If we are using the plain breav Th*« dos. however », do the amphibious als, otters and the re. like of alk, IB( iS, roke. j "tro's ' f ov I Im h. I p,nlm»U- ihr i w| j hkc 1 Ni :Imt four-footri mon r a , Ot/» would I move tho r | I» Hi.lH,' Ii,l. r woul'il »•Ith th. tins, which ! I heir hands and feel Who can tell e i l whether ' rule ' ! I 1 nn ! ;es- i I a pair together, the centl|ie.le«. which i arc mmh like the n, do etai-ltv the op. I poslte; and the swlmmln« worms also ! - : ! turcs? Fhen there are the flsh rather expert that, ns th tails fn flap alternately side whether th«y do or not all flsh at all tlti.es follow By the way, h< "handH'*" The great anatomist. E. Ri ter. lias lately pointed out that while the "thoiiMand legs." such as mon gaily worm, advances two feet do.'s a frog use Its our com •f I alternate the stroke of earn pair of paddle«. 1 doubt If many people tell on which system the caterpillar manage*« Its dozen or s er the adult Insect < an leg», or w heth 'alks. trots, paces. How docs tho or gallops spider use eight * its six Although this Is n lsrge field for ob- | her«* any one I serval !«>n. a Hehl too. may discover new facts as corded, and thus add to th-» store of I et un re knowledge St Nicholas. i i I I The Elenhant and His Job. M „ Kvcrtrrl Cote« (Sarah J«:«nfttn 1>ulu . an) l|P «,. rlbeH worWilg ,., p])h . anl , n thp ,, a ,i Ma) | M»<aUnc, the scene of hl^ Job heliiR HangooD. "The elephants round writes, "were dragging <he big» to the mill to he saw n They were harnessed she U»,' for this with a hroui brestonnd and heavy chain. A native Upped the chains round the log, and th- elephant atarted off with the >' ar, I to * ,<> Piled " A m,lh, ' ut ,,| » , on t "' n > »very ■ an( ' lf tt "' animal picked up too »mall a plank the mah.ut would hint, with his Iron spike, that two and deposited them on the trolley Othe*rs v»re pick ing up the »awn planks »ith their trunks and carrying them &*ross the might go to that load Then grunting, •he elephant would pick up lie second, with infinite delicacy of halince, turn, march over and deposit thin beside the pile, always returning fir another load so long as there were my planks read' When there wer« none he would take his ease In th> sun and Or perhaps there wre heavy j logs to l>e pushed from on- place to another; and If pushing votild do. i '-'alt I wl,h hl " (n,nk '"™ » «'»•' >-'S 1 no ol «T hant F*'*«* hmself th«» ! - ouble of picking it up any nore than i * wl » "P « on j casters. I I More fascinating It was tian l can tell to see the Jungle patrfcch kneel ; 4 wit to a heavy log. twist his trank j around tt on the top of th pile and hen calculate Its position and push and pull until it was aqtt re In 1rs plare. Th* oldest, bemuse tbe most reasonable thing, was to see the el* pbunt. pushing against the end of a »ery heavy lo*. stretch out one hindleg to glre hin. elf balance and purchase. That »-emed to bring him. somehow, very near to us, he was not only doing our «ork. but be waa doing U In our way * Trennt!? wl*h on*? a^tord. all tb« »*>pb#.itA dropped »ork and moved In tb« dlreidici f th« ah cd» " That means It s 11 n 'clock," said It's their th" for«*h*n "Dinner h'wr •It time At 3 the/ betin sga; and work til: dusk, and they »rart about i in the morning" A Dog of hfsroic Deeds. Ther wan » Scotch colli« named "Boy the story of whore life |h one of wonderful devotion and heroic de**.!* >i•- waa th'- property of Frank Bari rr of Huntington, W. Va., and hs * iv» d the live« of many ( blldren. Boy ' i* now d*ad. for he was struck and klüt'l v.hi!«» pushing little Louise Brown from la front of a Chesapeake and Ohio pa.-sen gar train. Th- history of "Boy" Is the story of a dog almost huma:» In his ways. Eight !r< aro he was taken Into tbe home of Frank Barber, a little, curly* ha!r-*d, frolicsome puppy. He gr«»w to !»e a r: ils* nee al «;;it the house and was glv'-n to a farmer living many miles back In Chio The fl r t night In his new home he was chained to a small kennel in the yard, but when morning can.«* th-* dog chain and kennel were missing Boy" swam across the Ohio river, kennel arid all. a.nd turned up at his ol 1 h )!*.«• with the kennel tied f.iHt to him. but supreme in his confi dence of being taken l>aok again. How he repaid the family for their care is Interesting story. Thr c nights after he had returned th»* family w.*re aroused Just before n by "Buy" barking and leaping against the kitchen door. The house W3s found In flium-a und two of tlie rhll Iren TP in danger of death. He role a 'tion only saved the liable* and the house. After that there was for ever a home for "Boy" in the Barber family. The Bar!x»rs live close to the tracks of the Chesapeake and Ohio Railroad r.nd near a crossing on Eighth Avenue, which many children traverse dally >n their way to and from the public schools For more than six years ftias watched that crossing in th** morning, at noon, and at night, and on four different o i anions he ha»s pull 'd \sc" tots from the tracks Just in time to hive them from Ixdng run ' It i •»'•"rlptlon: "To Hoy. ovf r by a train. employ It was for this that *f the company gave him a hand*nme silver-mounted collar, hear with »f the C. and O. and t lie gratitude l,,vln * that collar w parents." "Boy" wore hen he died. Th»* incident that closed the beautl : career of Boy" is pathetic in the extreme One morning Inst fall as No 1!) was jutl'ing out of the depot for Cincinnati little I»uUe Brown, daugh ter of U F. Brown, of Eighth avenue. Ith her father at an ' vho ,1 "> untisur. ly »arly hour, was out playing in the snow by herself, and running up on lb*» track Intent on rolling a big , 8nnw - She failed to apprehend * ,er t * an S er îin, J would have be«'n in Htantly kllU '' 1 11:1,1 r ' ul " U;,y '" fro,n a t ;,5lnt " f vantaKC on the Barber front * w l«dJ r "cross the lotervenlng apace, s,nlc *' I' 1 '" child with his hes<l. aendlng her Inml llrs head over heels off the track Into the snow—but safe. The ' ,r °* f, flklnit the child so forcibly threw- B >v" backwards directly In front of the enslne. and the cmel wheels crushed oui his life. " Bo - v " ,> " rie ' 1 wl,h ev,,r >' honor " ,at " ,u!1 KiV - n hlra - Bn ' 1 thB <•*" ' ,rpn r,,r 1,lotks Rro,,ni1 - a " of *' hom had played dr.v after day with "Boy." w«rc at the funeral, the four little girls whose lives he had saved acting as pallbearers.—R&u's Home. l»or« h seen her in time and rushing Coloring Butterflcs by Hand. Pr Otto S»if«?rt of New York is remarkable results to heat and | producing som«' I by exposing butterflies cold. In this way he has artificially I produced arctic and tropical forma of those insects; and, yet more surpris i i in«, he has evolved in the same I fashion ancient forms. have lived tens of thousands of years I ago, and butterfles of the future, so to say. which may exist thousands of years hence. Though it sounds like a fairy tale, it is all quite true. Of course, says a writer in the Sat urday Evening Post, it is In the chrysalis stage that the Insects are subjected to treatment. They are put into the ice box or into the hot hich may boa for freim 30 to a 100 hours, and then, being taken out. are permitted «(''I'' 1 '*' 1 ' h, ' ir fin »' transformation. w cere tip n. of course, they appear as full-fledged butterflies By comparing them with ordinary butterflies of tho same species It I» easy to see what the effect of the cold or the heat has been, invariably, ns Dr. Seifert has found, their colors are ittaele much more sub dued by the cold and much more vivid and briliant bv the heat. Ity exposing local New York buWer flies to the treatment of Dr Seifert has produced varieties such as would be appropriate to Manitoba or Mentoo. as Indicated by their subdued or by their brilliant coloring—varieties, that Is to say. which have no actual latence in nature. ex Boston's Toad Crop. The toad crop In the suburb» la reported to be larucly in excesw of anything noticed in former years, atfd h" 1* *aU to be a voracious devourer n f th* brown tail moth. Shake ! sivare knew what he was talking I about when he wrote that the toad ; had * "precious Jewel in his head."— ' Boston Transcript. SCIENCE NOTES. Tb« revival of nightcaps la suggest ed as a cur« for insomnia. I The British Médirai Journal asserta that men's aec-s are longer tbaa they used to be Dunn lie, invented by Colonel B «v«r* ly W. Dunn, of tb« Sandy Hook An* tion. is said to be tbe meal powerful explosive known. Sir Frederick Treves la authority for tb«- statuer, nt that the us« of al cohol has steadily decreased in t ie medical profession during tue last 25 years. The Prince of Monaco Is rendering to aerial navigation a service more valuable than the invention of flying machint s He is making a really sys tematic study of the air currents in the upper atmosphere. Australia Is considering the Intro duction of the metric system and a bill providing* r or iti use will be in troduced at the next session of the commonwealth parliament. The idea j is to make the system permissive for a certain time, reserving the right to j make it compulsory at a given period. A Viennese naturalist declares that netrly ail reptiles that die from nat ural causes close their lives between nightfall and midnight, cniy a few be tween midnight, ami morning and few er still in daylight. Host reptiles seem aware of their approaching death, particular places and seeking out there awaiting ta<* end, while those whose lives are spent underground coni'- to the surface before death. THE VIOLET COLOR OF OLD GLASS. A Curicus Chsnge That Occur» Aftar the Pasiags of Time. In many u!d bulldlnga one sees win- | dow panes wblrh have turned pale j amethyst color Manganese la added ! to the siaaa to neutralize the green color which la caused by th ; presence of ferrous Iron, and. In the course of time, this manganese changes from Its colorless state, and, turning vio'et, I gives its hue to the old glass. It has j been observed that radium will cause this change in glass when Its rays are allowed to act for only a short time. ! The suggestion has been made that ; the turning of glass under ordinär/ circumstances Is due to the action of | the minute quantities of radioactive 1 minerals which are present in many localities Sir William Crookes has been mak ing a study of these phenomena and - concludes thit the change In glass is * not due to radium. The sun's rays possess all the pjwers of radium rays only In a vastly smaller degree. He believes that the long-continued ac tion of the sunlight In the caur.3 of ' the change noticed In the color of glass. It was shown some year, ago that some ,,f the son's ravs are pro ! vented from reaching the earth by the blanket of the earth's atmosphere, and those rays which are taken away are the one« most active in effecting such changes as the one in glass. A i striking confirmation of this is af- I forded by tho fact that the moat rapid j coloring has been observed at high elevations in tropical region«. Her« the layer of the atmosphere is thinner and the sun's rays more powerful. Some especially deeply colored sped- j mois of glass have been found In South America in the region of the Andes.—Collier's Weekly. ! ! What Corn Accomplishes. Corn-fed pork furnishes our tables 1 with millions of hams and sausages, I besides bacon and lard. Corn pro- , duces the host of poultry and eggs, of which shine we. as a nation, con sume more (when measured by dol lars) than wo <lo of wheat. Of corn starch we us>* about $7.000,000 per year, to say nothing of tho enormous consumption of glue, combs and oth er products made from the horns, hoofs and hair of those corn-fed animals. To all these we must add a j product of corn-oil (maximum $16.000 dally) largely used In paints; and the by products of corn-oil, starch, glucose, whiskey and alcohol, dried and sold in cakes, for animal ford, amounting to irillhins cf dollars per year. Nor is that all that corn accom plishes. Besides giving food and c.othing in the form of animal and vegetable products, as indicated, it gives life and strength to millions of horses, mules and oven that till our fields and haul our multitude of farm products to the thousands of country markets, from Maine to California, and from the Dakotas to Florida and Texas.—Harper s Weekly. ' Origin of Dog Days. According to the generally accepted doctrine, the dog days begin on July 3 and end on August 11, but there have been disputes as to every pos sible point about them. It wag unl versally agreed that they were con nec ted with the Deg Star, but which j :>n«? Tftie real Do* Star, Sirius—or . i' rocT on. the Utile Dog? Then there , * vre * disagreem- nta a» to the parti I rttUr astronomical performance of the star that fixed the dog days: as to. their number, which varied in dl3< r ent estimates between 30 and 34: ar.J whether they were to be reckoned be - ; fere, after or around tbe star's per la formancea. The 44» settled on pro | cede the rising or Sirius with the sur. ' belief grew up that In these - ays | dogs went mad. but terresllal dug? ; have really nothing to do with It. Tlle original belief was that the stcr : «nd sun together brought intense heat and all sorts of plague*.— Landen Chronicle. LIEUT. F. S. DAVIDSON. R ■ 4' ^ t { F. S. Davidson, Kx Lieut. L. S { Army, Washington, D. C., care U. 8. J Pension Office, writes: # J **T® mliMl (Serf Is mm rum- i ) *d y for cmmrrh comp*rmêit> to j f /Vruss. II tiot only Mfrtksm nt î 'As mot of tho mo4od.y t kut i tonom mnd otronothono IMo my- j fern in a truly wondrrful irsy ! IHnt hi I« boon Om hiotmoy In Î my csw. ! cheerfully sag unhesi utmgly recommeud it to those aflltried as I nave been.''— F . S. Dsvddson PE-RU-NA STRENGTHENS THE ENTIRE SYSTERI. * it J, * . .. _ . , ._. , .. , the . °' loc *' "" hU 1 ,"'* Sm "^ \° c *" on Crn,t * Dd ""»»»" f f If you do not derive prompt and sati«t&c t«»ry results from the use ot Benin*, write at once to Dr. Hartman, giving a fall state ment of y«ur ease, and be w«il ft* pleased to give yuu his valuable advice gratis Address Dr. S. B. Hartman, Bresident of Tne Hartman Sanitarium, Columbus. Ohio. COLEMAN'S Duplicate Repair Parts Cora Mills, Vor "Maid of th* South Coleman's, Simmon's, Rejsolrl'i and other Cöttoa Praasoa H. DUDLEY COLEMAN, NKW OKI.KANM, l,A. 714 IVrdldo St No Use for C«m«t«ry Lot. Speaker Cannon, at a dinner he at tended In Washington some Uni« ago, talked about mean rich men. "The meanest rich man In Illinois," he said, "lives In Vermillion County He !• a bachelor and we'U call him Crust. work off a cemetery lot on him. "The salesman set out wKh % hope less air, and In a half hour he was back again. "'No go,* he sold. "'Couldn't got him, eh?* «aid th9 Superintendent. " 'No.' said th« salesman. 'He ad mitted that I reasoned well and that the lots were fine ones, but he said that if he bought one he might not get th« value of his money In tho end.' " Why,* said the Superintendent, 'there's no fear of that. The man will dl« som« day, won't he?' "'Yes,' said the salesman, 'but he •ays he might be lost at sea.' "—Phil* adelpbia Public Ledger. INS AND OTTS. "What's that nota«?" asked the visi ter in tftie apartment house. "Probably some one in the d**r tUt'a rooms on the floor below bet ting a tooth out," raid the host. "But it seems to come from th« floor above." "Ah? then it's probably the Popley's baby getting a tooth In."— Philadel« phia Press. STRONCER THAN MEAT. A *Vw«l»» f , Itpl.l.« nt Grapiegntl. A gentleman who has acquired a Ju dicial turn of mind from ezperlence on the bench out In the Suntlowor State, write* a carefully considered opinion ■ s to (he value of (irapc-Xuts as food. He says: "Tor the pn*t tlTe year» Grape-Nut» baa been a prominent feature In our bill of fare. "The crisp food with the delicious, nutty flavor has become an indispensa ble necessity in my family'» everyday life. "It has proved to be moat healthful and beneficial, and has enabled us to practically abolish pastry and plea from our table, for the children prefer Grape-Nnta and do not crave rich and unwholesome food. "Grape-Nuts beeps ua all in perfect physical condition—its a iireveutive of disease It Is beyond value. I have been particularly Impressed by the beneficial effects of Grape-Nuts when um-d by ladies who are troubled with fnco blemishes, skin eruptions, etc. It clears up the complexion wonderfully. "As to Its nutritive qualities, my ex Frience is that one small di*h of Grape Nuts is superior to a pound of meat for breakfast, which Is an Important consideration for any one. It satisfies the appetite ami strengthens the pow er of resisting fatigue, while its use In* volvir none of the disagreeable couse queures that sometimes follow a meat breakfast." Name given by Toitum Co.. Battle Creek. Mich. There'* a reason.