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Xicfcey Diseases Made Incurable By the Alcohol in Liquid
Kidney
HDNEY-WORT TABLETS
Mr. Jacob Kcons, at Sixty-Seven Years, Cured of Stone and
Catarrh of the Bladder.
The medical world has found a wife
and positive specific for the cure of kid
ney and Madder diseases. Fur many years
fntile attempts have been made with
liquid concoctions, all containing alcohol,
but it has been found that the alcohol in
creases the kidney Inflammation faster
than the remedy can allay it. Mild cases
of kidney trouble are often made incura
ble by these same liquid remedies.
This freedom from alcohol or any drug
that can cause harmful after-effects is but
one of the many reasons why Kidney-Wort
Tablets alone, of all prepared remedies,
have received the entire approval of the
most careful practitioners.
If you have any doubt about what
Kidney-Wort Tablets can do, read the
following letter: .
Sibley Co., New Auburn, Minn.,
February 23, 1903.
Since using KiJncy-Wort Tablets the health of
my kidneys has greatly improved. My com
plaint has been stone In the bladder and was of
long standing. For the last four years I have
had at times irritation and infammation of the
THE WHEAT HARVEST.
An Estimate' of This Year's
Crop In the West.
05 OP THE LAEGE3T EVE2 GROWN
Two Hundred Million Rnshels of
Winter Wheat to lie tiarnered The
Wealth of Kansas Profits of the
Grower SelUnfr Method Retnir
llevolutlonized.
Despite the floods, the rains, the fly
and the rust, tin? middle west Is gath
ering one of tho greatest wheat crops
In it history, says the special corre
spondent of the New York Tost at To
peka. Beginning on the lower border
of Oklahoma In the middle days of
June and moving northward nt the rate
of twenty miles) a day, three weeks be
hind Its usual schedule, the ripening
tinge of yellow has made Its way north
ward. So rapidly hat the harvest come
on that there was not sufiicicnt prepa
ration for It, even with till the knowl
edge of Its vastnoss. There was over
the west, Bomebow, a sentiment that
the wheat would not be up to the usual
standard.
The harvest In Oklahoma has grown
mightily. Fifteen years ago there was
not n white settler in the territory.
Ten years ago not 5,000,000 bushels of
wheat wen? rnl.sed la the whole area.
This year more than 30,000,000 bushels
were raised and large amounts of it
produced on farms that did not cost
the owners a cent. Little wonder that
farms of 100 acres sell for ijC.,000 to
$8,000 each. The average yield Is often
thirty to thirty-five bushels an acre,
mid the profits! make the fanners well
to do. sjonie of the large rnnehs
farm the Indian lauds on tho adjoining
reservation and have become wealthy.
In Kansas Is another wheat wonder. ,
The western third of the state has for
ton years been reviled as the "seat of
the busted boom." The land sold dur
ing the days of the middle nineties for
$1 an acre. Now such has been the
lidded value given by the production
of wheat and the raising of cattle that
the name lands are worth $3 to $10 an
acre. The first wheat ever sown In
Ellis county was a field of ten acres,
put in the ground in 1S70. When It
w;ns ripe the question was, how could
it be harvested? There was not a "reap
er within sixty miles. One day there
came to the owner the head of a colo
ny of Russians which had just arrived.
"I will reap your wheat," he said.
"How can yon do it?"
"With our women." The owner of
the held took up his offer, and the next
day fifty Russian women came into the
field. Each had a short sickle, and they
cut. and bound the wheat before the
second sunset. . In Ellis county this
year 173,000 acres were in wheat. The
yield was clone to 2,000,000 bushels
200 bushels for every man. woman and
fluid in the county. Thirty counties
raise more than a million bushels each,
and the total of the state is not far
from loo.OtiO.OOO bushels.
The Nebraska harvest ends the win
ter wheat euttimr. Then begins the
spring wheat of the north. The north
ern part of Nebraska Is almost entirely
devoted to this sort of grain. The cli
mate of the Iiakotas Is too severe for
the wheat to live through tho winter,
hence the spring sowing. There the
spring was backward, and the straw
grew very short. There was fear for a
time that the crop would be exceeding
ly light, but later rains have made it
an average one in most sections. Ne
braska w ill produce something like 70,
OOO.Ooo bushels, but it is not yet ready
to turn In its figures. The Nebraska
wheat grower labors under greater dis
advantages than his Kansas and Okla
homa brothers. In the more southern
sections there is the milder winter to
help, while the soil seems to be fitted
over a considerable portion known as
the "wheat belt" for giving a harvest
of exceptional size and regularity. This
is what Kansas has done for fourteen
years:
Tsar. Bushl. Tear. Bushels.
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Remedies.
bladder, with catarrh and frequent "calls" to
urinate. Since taking the Kidney-Wort Tablets
"calls" in the day-time art all riht. I am H
years old and in good health. I have done a
great deal of doctoring in the last ten years, but
received only temporary relief until the use of
Kidney-Wort Tablets, two bottles of which com
pletely cured me of kidney disease. I have tried
six or eight physicians, but continued to suffer
until Kidney-Wort Tablets took away all inflam
mation, heart palpitation and rheumatism. I
urge every man and woman with weak or dis
eased kidneys to stop all other remedies and trust
entirely to Kidney-Wort Tablets.
Respactfully yours,
JACOB K00NS.
If you suspect from backaches, slug
gish urine and burning sensations, the be
ginnings of kidney trouble, your urine
will tell the story. Let a small quantity
stand twenty-lour hours, and look for
milky or cloudy or reddish deposits.
Their presence means kidney disease.
Kidney-Wort Tablets have cured thou
sands of just such cases. Trust them.
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There Is a good profit in wheat grow
ing. Recently the Kansas board of a
rlculture made exhaustive Inquiries of
the fanners of the west as to the ex
pense of putting in a crop and harvest
ing It These are the figures: Plowing,
$1; harrowing, 2S cents; seed and seed
ing, 05 cents; harvesting, $1.48; thrash
ing, 1.01; wear of tools, 27 cents;
rental or land interest, $2.05; total
$7.05. Thirteen bushels per acre nt CO
cents will pay this -averages of thirty
bushels are common. With O.OOO.OoO
acres of wheat produced on this basis,
selling for about CO cents, even In tha
more remote sections, it is little won
der that the state has $00,000,000 in its
banks.
The selling of the western wheat is
being revolutionized by the combina
tions of farmers who work in co-operation
to thrash and market their grain,
In order to evade the thrashers'
charges they form companies nnd buy
complete outfits engines, separators,
grain weighers, wind stackers and self
feeders and so do all their work at ac
tual cost. Then, to avoid the profits of
the elevators, they are forming co-oner-
alive companies for the handling and
marketing of grain. ' They invest only
$100 each, and the profits are divided
among all the members. They pay
within 4 cents of the city prices and
get the lowest rates on the railroads
possil.de. One company working with
a railway corporation tried to "freeze
out" one of th farmers' companies.
The farmers had wheat ready to ship,
but no cars were furnished to them.
They sent word to another railroad,
and one morning when cars were ready
a dozen teams went to work hauling
wheat from the elevator to the can.
The shipments were made, and after
that they had all the cars needed. The
extent to which this plan of co-operation
is growing over the west is re
markable, and It is thus that a large
portion of the wheat will soon be han
dled. It is probably the most signifi
cant feature in the wheat growing of
the plains region.
Many of the western states are mak
ing their own twine, a considerable
Item in the harvest. All the bundles
are bound with it, and a vast sum is
spent for this one portion of the har
vest machinery. The convicts of the
state prisons are put at the work of
making thomaterlal.
The harvest has gone on through.
the long hot days. At night, lanterns
have been hung on the harness of the
horses, and the reaping has continued.
It Is the rich season of the year for
the prairie dweller. Little wonder that
he enters on it so enthusiastically.
THREW AWAY HIS NOTES.
Scholar Destroyed Manuscript on
Goethe to Issue Simple. Edition.
Eight years of labor spent in collec
tion of manuscripts and thousands of
pages of notes written during his re
searches were thrown away when Pro
fessor Jiynes Tnft Hatfield of Evans
ton, 111., recently consigned to the
wastebasket his voluminous manu
script work on Goethe's "Egmont."
After the accumulation of this vast
amount of erudition with a view to
publishing a new edition of the works
of Goethe the Evanston professor
threw ankle the results of his labors
and, using only the simplest notes, pre
pared a book which will be issued lute
in September.
"This is the most remarkable in
stance I know of," said a Chicago pro
fessor, "of a scholar's being willing to
forego the tangible results of his study
In order to present a clear and simple
edition for students. This work of
rrofessor Hatfield's will rival the Wei
mar edition."
Shooting Stars.
We should think of shooting stars ns
solid shot about the size of a cherry or
cherry stone, each of them flying with
100 times tho speed of a bullet as far
as the orbit of Uranus, and returning to
the earth's distance from tho sun three
times in a century, unless it strikes
onr atmosphere and is burned np in a
Cash.
VALUE OF MANCHURIA.
The Land of the Future, Says
John Barrett.
KCST PEOGBESSIYE PART OF CHIN A
Increase of Population and Material
Progress to Be More Xotewortbr
There Than Elsewhere In the IZm
ptre Ilnpldly Developing Market
For American Goods Assured Why
Basils Is m, Formidable Competitor.
The Manufacturers' Record publish
ed recently an interview in regard to
the significance of the opening of the
new Manehurian ports with John Bar
rett, commissioner general to Asia of
the Louisiana Purchase exposition. Mr.
Burrett, who has recently been "ap
pointed United States minister to Ar
gentina, was formerly United States
minister to Slam and while in Asia
made a careful study of tho political
and commercial conditions of China.
He was in Manchuria in 1804, again in
1S0S and last year made another visit
there as the representative of the St.
Louis exposition. In Ids statement,
which he made at St Louis, Mr. Bar
rett said:
"The importance of the enlarged
commercial opening of Manchuria can
not be overestimated, especially in its
bearing upon the market for the man
ufactured cotton goods of the sonth.
Manchuria Is sure to provide a rapidly
developing market for all kinds of
American manufactured products. It
la my belief that northern China and
Manchuria will always offer the best
general market for American exports.
It is the land of the future. It Is the
one portion of China where material
progress and the increase of population
will be more noteworthy than in any
other portion of the empire.
"The present population of Manchu
ria, conservatively estimated, is ap
proximately 0,000,000. It is not thick
ly settled, like most of the provinces of
China proper. Wherever the traveler
goes through Manchuria he is impress
ed with the opportunities for the growth
of cities nnd towns, the improvement
of the land and a general Increase of
population. The remarkable progress
that this section has experienced dur
ing the last five years gives some idea
of what will come in the future. There
are cities of 25,000 population now
where in 1892 there were small vil
lages. There is no contradicting the
fact that the construction of the Chi
nese Eastern railway has had much the
same effect upon Manchuria as the
building of the Northern Pacific had
on the Dnkotas, Montana, Oregon and
Washington.
"It is Interesting to note that the in
habitants of Manchuria and northern
China seem not only to have taken a
special liking to American cotton goods,
but to have manifested a greater will
ingness to employ modern methods of
life than the people of other portions
of China. The rapid increase of the
sales of cotton drills made largely by
southern mills is proof of the popu
larity of these exports and a further
evidence that the market for them in
the future will be much greater than it
is now. When I first visited Xew
chwang, some ten years ago. if I re
member correctly the Import of Amer
ican goods amounted approximately to
only 13 per cent of the total, as shown
by the records of the imperial custom;!.
When I went there five years later
American imports had grown to near
ly CO per cent of the total. The last
report by United States Consul Miller
at Newchwang says that the present
value of cotton goods coming through
that port is $12,180,000.
"He brings out one salient point
which must not be forgotten, nnd that
la that the Russian cotton manufactur
ers of central and southern Russia
have their eyes on this wonderful mar
ket and are going to make every effort
to capture it, assisted by low rates on
the Transsiberian railway and on the
subsidized Russian commercial steam
ers plying regularly between the Black
sea and gulf of Pet-hill. It is doubtful
if the Transsiberian railway, with its
long overland haul, can ever give per
manent rates that will compete with
all water transportation 'from New
York, New 'Orleans or San Francisco,
but there i3 danger in the subsidized
steamship competition. It will be a
long time before the mills of Russia
can make goods that will equal the
American product in both quality and
price, but a low freight rate is always
a powerful leverage. In the meantime.
however, before the. cotton goods of
Bussia can be a great factor in the
market, the American article should go
on increasing its field of demand and
Its popularity, until it obtains a hold
which cannot be taken awuy even by
less cost of transrHirtation."
Regarding Mukden and Tatungkao
Mr. Barrett says that their accessibili
ty under the head of open ports will
mean much more in a few years than
now.
The Cedar Tree.
No tree gives so great an expanse
of shade as the cedar, nud it never dies
except from lightning stroke or the
woodman's ax.
la used In large quantities by the
Augusta City Hospital, Augusta,
Maine, as a strength-giving tonic
and anti-malaria. It gives you
strength to throw off the depress
ing effects of Summer. Your
druggist sells Qulnona.
PLANT EVOLUTION.
Cnltlrntlon Has Done AVondera For
I ruit and Vegetables.
There are few more wrongly named
things la the world than the Jerusa
lem artichoke. In the first place it nev
er came from Jerusalem nt all. And.ln
the second it is not really an artichoke,
'but a sunflower with its tubers devel
oped by cultivation.
Cultivation has done wonders for
fruit nnd vegetables.
For instance, through Its means
peaches, apricots and nectarines have
been developed from the almond, to
which family all three fruits belong.
There is little apparent connection be
tween the wild crab of the hedgerows
and a Newtown pippin, but both are
members of the same genus, lifdoed.
It is from this same wild crahapple
that the whole of the 700 odd existing
varieties of apples have been raised.
Technically speaking, too, the pear
is an apple, and so are the medlar and
the mountain ash, which latter is not
an ash at all.
Is a turnip a cabbage? Yes, one va
riety nt least of it is. This is the queer
vegetable known as kohirabl, which,
although classed by scientists among
the Brassica, or cabbage, family, has
huge roots Just like a turnip.
The cucumber is really a fruit and
not a vegetable. The same remark ap
plies to the tomato, which is really a
fruit also.
The gooseberry is a currant. It is not
the least like it in either appearance or
flavor, yet both belong to the same
family of Ribes.
The onion is a charming little ilower,
its various species bearing white, yel
low, blue and rose colored blossoms,
many produced in beautiful drooping
clusters. Originally the onion was a
flowering plant, but the cultivation of
certain of its varieties has produced the
now world famous vegetable.
When Is a chestnut not a chestnut?
When it is a horse chestnut. This is
another of the curiosities of the classi
fication of horticultural nomenclature.
The horse chestnut is iEsculus, and the
other kind Castanea. Stray Stories.
ANIMAL SWIMMERS.
The Squirrel Is Very Swift and the
Itabblt Is Oddly Awkward.
Almost all animals know how to
swim without having to learn it. As
soori as they fall into the water or are
driven into it they instinctively make
the proper motions and not only man
age to keep afloat, but propel them
selves without trouble.
Exceptions are the monkey, the cam
el, giraffe and llama, which cannot
swim without assistance. Camels and
llamas have to be helped across water,
and giraffes and moukeys drown if
they enter it. Now and then both of
tho latter species manage to cross wa
terways when they are driven to ex
tremities, Just as human beings occa
sionally can keep themselves above wa
ter through sheer fright.
A funny though able swimmer is the
rabbit. He submerges his body with
the exception of head and tail. Tho
latter sticks away up into the air, nnd
his hind legs make "soap suds" as he
churns the water madly to get away.
But with all his awkwardness lie is a
swift swimmer and is only beaten by
the squirrel among the land animals.
The squirrel swims with his heavy
tail sunk away down in the water and
his head held high. He cleaves the
waves like a duck, and a man in a row
boat has all he can do to keep abreast
of the swimming squirrel.
One thing that none of the land living
animals does Is to dive. No matter how
hard pressed n swimming deer, rabbit,
squirrel or other purely terrestrial ani
mal may bo it will remain above wa
ter. But the muskrat, beaver, lee bear
nnd otter dive immediately.
The Lawyer's Itnle.
"Ever since beginning the practice of
law," said a Detroit lawyer, who beg
ged that his name be suppressed, "I
have made it a rule not to take cases
in which I could not promise my client
a percentage of gain over my fees. One
day not long ago a business man came
to me with a request to sue a debtor.
I found it would cost far more than
could be recovered and told him so. He
was indignant and left vowing to get
a lawyer to press the case regardless of
expenses.
"A few weeks later he came to me
again. 'Well,' said ho, T took your ad
vice and saved $250 by it. Now, I want
you to take charge of all legal matters
affecting the Blank corporation. Your
retainer will be $2,000 per year.' I took
It, It is needless to say." Detroit News.
Toad and Not a Toad.
One of the queerest reptiles In the
world is the horned toad of Arizona.
In the first place, though it looks like a
toad nnd is so called, it isn't n toad at
all, but a lizard. It lives nowhere save
In the desert nnd feeds on hard shelled
beetles and other insects.
One of tho oddest things nbout the
creature is its way of fighting. Two
horned toads will meet and fight like
bulls by butting, not apparently with
any notion of killing each other, but
each trying to turn its adversary over.
The tohd that is finally upset goes
away humiliated and hides himself.
flreedlng: Tronhle.
Bertie I don't want to go to bed yet,
sis. I want to see you and Mr. Shep
herd piny cards.
Lucie You wicked boy to think we
should do such a thing! We never do it.
Bertie But I heard 'mamma toll you
to mind how you played your cards
when Mr. Shepherd came!
Not Chanted,
"Pardon me," said tho smiling cus
tomer, "but Is this mineral water
charged?"
"Not any," replied the fair girl at the
counter. "You pay the cashier." Bal
timore News.
cassius curs DUELS
Noted Kentuckian's Recollec
tions of His Encounters.
EOWIE XJTITE A FAVOEITE WEAPON
Desperate Fljrht With Sam Drown,
the Man Selected to Kill Him Out
come of Ills Battle With Turner.
Ills Reasons For Caninfr ! De
clarer. As a duelist, always victorious, the
late General Cassius Marcellus Clay,
minister to Russia under Presidents
Lincoln and Johnson, noted abolitionist
and author, was said to have been
implicated In more encounters and to
have killed more men than any other
fighter living.
When he was asked not long ago to
tell about his iirst fight he said it was
with a rival for the hand of Miss War
field. Whop the wedding day of the
young woman and the general was
approaching the rival, Dr. Peclarey,
wrote to her family a letter abusing
the successful suitor. The general
sought him jut, with a second, and
gave him a eowhiding. Then he sent
a challenge, hut Deelarey, after failing
to respond, committed suicide.
He next recalled the case of Tom
Marshall. The Clays and the Marshalls
had been at feud for a long time. Tom.
according to General Clay, would not
fight when challenged to do so while
they were both lighting against the
Mexlcnms. Instead of agreeing to a
duel, Tom jumped Into the river aud
tried to drown himself. ' "
. It was during his campaign for con
jrrcss against Wickliffe that General
Clay had his bloodiest encounter, in
which his only weapon w-as a bowie
knife. He once told the story to a
newspaper man in these words:
"During tho campaign AYicklifl'e in
troduced my wife's name into one of
his speeches. I challenged him and
we fired at ten paces. Both of us
missed, and I raised my pistol up into
the air and demanded a second fire.
The seconds would not permit this and
we left the grounds without a recon
ciliation or an apology on either side.
"Well, Wickliffe here had the worst of
the fight, and during the canvass for
congress I was making a. very good
opposition to hlrn, much to the disgust
of the proslavery party. He had a
handbill which he read during ids
speech. We had our speeches together,
and when he brought out this bill 1
always arose and asked if I might
Interrupt him. He would politely con
sent, and I would then say the handbill
he had read was untrue and had been
proved so.
"The proslavery men got tired of
this, and they decided to kill me. They
sent for Sam Brown, who was one of
the most noted bullies In Kentucky. It
la said that he hud had forty fights and
had never lost a battle. Brown came,
and he and Wickliffe, a fellow named
Jacob Ashton and Ben Wood, a police
bully, held a consultation at which they
loaded a pistol which Brown was to
use on me the next day. I knew noth
ing of this, and I bad not my duelin
pistol with me. 1 interrupted Wick
liffe, as usual, and as I did so Brown
struck me with his umbrella and told
me that my statement was a lie.
"I saw at once that it meant fight.
and, when I recognized Brown I knew
It meant a fight to the death. 1 had a
lolig, sharp howie knife In the breast
of my coat and I jerked this out, but
before I could strike, Brown's friends
grubbed my arms from behind and
hauled me back about fifteen feet from
Brown. Brown now pulled his re
volver and told them to get out of the
way and let him kill me. The crowd
got back and I stood alone. Brown
had his pistol pointed at me and I
started toward him. I could see him
looking along the barrel of the re
volver. He took aim and 'waited until
he thought 1 was near enough to give
him a sure shot and then fired. I felt
the ball strike me In the breast and I
thought it had gone through me, and 1
determined to kill him if I could before
I died. I came down on his head with
a tremendous blow of the bowie knife,
but did not split open the skull.
struck 1:1m again and again and
stunned him so that he was not able
to lire. With one cut of the knife I
sliced his nose right in two, so that it
separated in the middle, and came out
as flat as a pancake. With another
blow I cut off his ear so that it hun;
by a shred, and with a third I nut out
his eye. The conspirators now, seized
me and I was struck with hickory
rucks ami t-nnirs.
"I broke loose from my captors and
again made for Brown, and they, to
keep Hint out of my way, picked him
up and threw him over a stone fence
about seven feet high, nnd (his ended
the fight. Though 1 was the assaulted
party, they afterward tried me for
mayhem, and at bis trial Brown con
fessed the conspiracy nnd Henry Clay
defended me. Of course I was not con
victed." Although General Clay never trav
eled without a brace of pistols in his
satchel, his favorite weapon was a
bowie knife, which he always carried
concealed under , his coat. During a
fight-at a political meeting once he
was stabbed In the lung. He drew his
bowie knife and rushed upon a man
named Turner," who had been responsi
ble for the outbreak. The crowd got
out of his way and he found a dear
path to the man who had incited the
riot. With a shout of anger, he plunged
the knife into the man's abdomen, and
then, exclaiming "I die for mv conn-
try," he fell fainting to the floor. He
was carried home, and for many days
ming oeiween me and death. Prion
the day that he was able for the first
time to leave his bed the man whom
he had stabbed died.
CURE FOR HAY FEVER.
Rickert & Wells Say Hyomei Will
Give Belief Sold Under Guar
natee. The season for hay fever is almost at
hand and many people feel that they will
be obliged to leave town In order to avoid
the suetzing, watery eyes and other an
noying symptoms of this did agref able
summer disease.
Kickert & Wells wish to announce that
when llvomei Is used, either as a prevent
ive or cure, there will be no hay fever.
We advise the use ot Hyomei daily for
two or three weeks before the usual time
for the annual appearance of hay fever.
In this way, the attack will be prevented.
If, however, the preventive treatment was
not started soon enough and the disease
conies on, use Hyomei six or seven times
daily, and also rub Hyomei Balm thor
oughly into the nostrils both morning aud
night. This treatment will relieve at
once and give a speedy and permanent
cure.
v s.
iivrmiei""ai!tual!v brines into your own
home, a climate tilled with ozone and heal
ing balsams, the same air that one
breathes at the White Mountains or other
health resorts.
There is no stomach dosing when Hyo
mei Is used. It is Nature's own method
for curing all diseases of the respiratory
organs, and is breathed through a neat
pocket Inhaler that accompanies every
outfit, so that the medicated air reaches
the minutest air cells, killing all germs
and soothing and healing the Irritated
mucous membrane.
It is the one treatment for hay fever
where Ilickert .v. Wells guarantee to re
fund the money if it does not give satin
faction. All who are Kubtect to hay fever
should begin its use at once 80 as to pre
vent the disease.
REPRODUCING BIRD SONGS-
Hovel Plan For Seeurlna; Grapho
lihoiie Iteeords of Their Kotes,
Eased on experiments conducted by
rrofessor Sylvester D. Judd a project
Is mooted among scientific men to se
cure graphophoue records of the songs
of birds, the roai-s and cries of mam
mals and all available animal note"
for the purpose primarily of assisting
nature study In American schools, says
the Saturday Evening Post Dr. Judd
inaugurated the work by securing the
songs of several species of birds. Meet
ing with some ditnvulty in obtaining
the recording cylinder necessary for
his purpose, he succeeded In manufac
turing one himself aud then patiently
taught a captive brown thrasher to
sing Into the horn, -t first the sound
of the revolving apparatus di.iconeert
ed the thrasher. Removing the record
ing style, the scientist let the cylind -r
revolve indefinitely until the bird be
came accustomed to the whir. After
a little the thrasher, known also as the
brown thrush, re-mined its sinking, mid
then the graphophone w,? adjusted to
secure a record. From a near Vy hiding
place the ornithologist controlled- -hr--
revolutions of the cylinder by menus
of a wire, shutting off the current the
moment tho thrasher's song tieenine
weak or faltering. In this way was se
cured a perfect record of the bird's
exquisite melody. Its volume and tim
bre were pronounced faultless by the
American Ornithologists' union, before
whose session the graphophoue record
was produced.
With equal success Dr. Judd has
been experimenting with other birds,
and his achievements are attracting
attention in the scientific world. The
educational possibilities of the uud r
toking are generally conceded. Nature
study In schools- just now u reeeivhv;
more attention than ever tie fore in
history, particularly along lines 0f .
rect economic inierest. Now that many
species of valuable birds are threat
ened with extermination it is regarded
as especially Important that the grow
ing generation i made conversant
with American bird life. Students
taught from childhood the sounds of
birds faithfully reproduced by graph o
phoncs in the schoolroom would be
able instantly to recognize' various spe
cies singing In the woods nnd fields.
BIKe.t Pieture In the World.
Georges Bert rami has just finished
the largest picture in the world, writes
the Paris correspondent of the Chicago
Record-Herald. The subject is the fu
neral of Carnot. It was ordered in
ISiC) by the state for the historic gal
lery of Versailles. It measures l.'O
square yards. The artist built nn im
mense shed especially for the work.
The canvas contains 100 portraits in
cluding those of Casimlr Perier, Felix
Fan re, numerous ministers nnd Lord
Dufferiii.
wwmm
Tastin' these 'ere
roots and herbs takes
me back Jos' about
fifty years. Williams'
Root Beer is a
powerful fine
summer drink,
and no mistake
seems like ye
can fairly seo
the "sassfras,"
' sassprilia," hops and all them roots they
make it of. 'Long back when I was a boy
we used to fetch a lot of sech stuff from the
woods every Bnrins knew they was
healthy, ye know hut my 1 what a heap
ot work! and 'twant a bit better than
Williams' either. Beats all how they do it
I mus' say. Yes sir, its helping the temper
ance cause ev'ry day, too ; folks have to
drink somethin' this pesky hot weather
and llhams' Root Beer can't hurt abuby.
WILLIAMS A CARLKTOV CO.. IUrtfr1, Cona.,
Maker, yf WitiUma ikvurmg Litxactk.
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