THINGS YOU MAY NOT KNOW. C7 The total number of locomotives in use in this country at the end of 1907 a. was 55,388. Each of the British Dreadnoughts lias a hospital with a capacity for six ty patients. The Heart’s Desire. In the coursé of his, aeronautical •*God give you your heart’s desire, experiments M. Blériot has met with Snails and Slugs. Whatever it be,” she said; fifty accidents. A woman gardener wrote to State Then down the gallery’s shining length Zoologist H. A. Surface at Harrisburg, Chicago is considering plans for an Like a thing of light she sped. Pa., asking for instructions how to expensive subway system of . railways overcome the snails in her garden. to cost $80,000,000'. Her face was a stranger’s facet* Prof. Surface replied; , “Snails and Her name I shall never know; Greece has practically no; coal dépos slugs, although very great and sèri- But softly here benediction fell ai Whatever electric > power it has As the night winds breathing low. ous garden pests, especially where the comes from waterfalls. gardens are damp and the vegetation The average daily clearings of the Who knoweth the heart’s desire? rank, can be prevented by the use pf < New York clearing house last' year Its innermost secret dreams? an impassable barrier of powdery sub No More Walking. Ito holiest shrine where the altar lights amounted to $241,413',023; What the inventor says will be a stance around the beds of plants to Forever and ever gleam I v The coining value of thé gold and great boon to small farmers, as the be protected. Soot is excellent for silver of the mints of the world in Who guesseth the. heart’s desire? invention, it is claimed, will do the this, although dry ashes will serve 1907 totaled $4,983,002,850. ? Ah, neither you nor I! work of six horses, is in use in Cali the purpose, and air-slakfed .lime will It hideth away in darkling space In the United States the percentage fornia, but it can be adapted to any be found very good. Also, .-you can kill From the gaze of the passerby. of railroads which are not engaged in locality. It is a gasoline tractor and them by dusting them with some carriage of the mails is very small. is a help In plowing, harrowing and freshly slaked lime mixed with paris Who giveth the heart’s desire Sixty-two electric railway lines oper harvesting. Jit will keep running as green, using about thirty parts of the To the child that cries for the moon? I lime to one part of the paris green, ate in and about the city of Paris. The long as it is fed gasoline. Or the samite robe and the Holy Grail annual average of apssengers carried Built with a two cylinder motor, which is dusted abundantly over their To the soul that was born too soon? is 190,000,000.... the tractor has plenty of power. It bodies. Also dusting their food plants Who giveth the heart’s desire With the completion of the Benguel- has (two speeds, forward and reverse, with flour and paris green will de To the lover whose love lies dead? la railway,- from the Zambesi to the and is easily operated from an exten- stroy them. Another method is to poi Or the priest who faces the silence son some leaves of plants of which Congo border, Rhodesia will have a With the living word unsaid ? they are particularly fond, and put Service of 3,500 miles of railroads. this where the snails will find and eat Who giveth the heart’s desire A farmer near Exeter had a flock of them and be destroyed. Another meth To the poet with harp unstrung, . turkeys which a ¿train ran through, od is to place boards loosely on the When he droppeth the trembling lyre killing ten. of them. He could not col ground, aS traps, and in the morning With his noblest song unsung? lect damages because turkeys are not examine them and pick out and gath —Julia C. R. Dorr. animals, and the law does not require er the snails and brush them into a the railroads to fence against birds, Woman. vessel containing salt, which will kill aeroplanes or balloons.—Kansas City With the growth of human brother » them. If the ground is dry and crack Star. hood, and its necessary correlative, ed pour salt water into the cracks, popular government, woman, as a part The highest garden in the world is and thus destroy them. The barriers of glorified humanity and elevated that situated at a height of 6,000 feet mentioned above should be kept dry, with its uplift, found herself side by‘ on the Petit St. Bernard, in the Alps. or renewed every time after a rain. THE HOUSELESS CULTIVATOR. side with man; his helper not Only, It was started on a small scale nearly Keep the vegetation around the gar as formerly, in things temporal, but fifteen years ago, and under the pat den mowed low, or keep the ground sioh seat, from much the same posi his companion in all things. To-day ronage of Quéen Margherita it has | cultivated, so that these pesto will tion a driver would occupy with his all forces in human existence and hu grown to a garden of considerable im not find suitable places where they can man relations have been exalted and portance. There are mountain plants team. multiply.” It is particularly an orchard tractor, refined. As far removed as is the beast from all- over the world. having low, wide wheels, narrow of burden from the electrician’s wire, A Joplin woinan who planned a visit tread, short wheel base and short turn Newest Posthole Anger. so far is the woman of the earlier to the East asked the city attorney to The walking hat of the day will be large or small, as one wishes. There keep her 14-year-old son in jail until ing ;raidius. A special feature is that I An invention that will be found use years from her sister of the twentieth never was more liberty in clothes than now. The sketch not only shows an her return. The police judge said, ’T .the tractor may be driven from the ful by fence-makers and farmers gen century’s dawn. As the humanitarian idea has plow admirable hat, but it gives the proper detail of neckwear and the new revers don’t believe this is a bad boy. To seat of the ordinary wheel plow or erally, is the post-hole auger designed by a Michigan man. This ed its day through human history,’ on coats. The hat is of soft felt faced with panne velvet, and with a crown send him to jajl would harden him. I harrow, enabling one man to drive and operate the levers of this plow and implement digs a narrow, of the same. The immense wings tilt widely to the side, it is worn down woman has developed with that idea, believe this, boy’s future is of more fence or other post hole and and noiw her finer instincts, her keen on the forehead, showing a little of the n(erw coiffure, which is parted at the importance than his mother’s vacar cultivator with perfect ease and con venience. It is a one man machine, digs it quickly. In appear side and brushed back. The stock is of white mull, wrinkled and well boned er intuitions, and her patient heart tion.”:—Kansas City Star. light in weight, with all control levers ance the auger resembles a are' the full complement of the robust and finished with two gathered flounces in front, scalloped and buttonholed. The union working women of Bos clean hole, just the right masculinity which has conquered na The revers are edged with black Ottoman silk, and at each buttonhole is an ton have organized a choral society for conveniently arranged. To obtain the greatest efficiency the immense jet button. diameter for a huge auger ture. The two united glorify -human the purpose of singing labor songs in front wheels are made the traction ordinary carpen- ity. It is no longer a question of man meetings. Many excellent voices have It is pressed or woman, but of quality of service, really healthy individuals are those polishers and of house flannel. The been discovered and so much interest wheels; also the steering wheels. In down into the earth, the jaws and-of power to meet the world’s need. who eat sparingly. Really, our great cut-off feet serve for the rubbing on is being taken in the work that the the rear are smaller plain . wheels, ■*-Mrs. .J. Ellen Foster. est enemies are those who urge us to of beeswax and turpentine and other chorus may embark upon a more ex- clos? together, with flanges to hold taking in the amount of dirt a post eat. Eating is necessary up to a cer- polishes. Women who do not care to • tensive program than the sounding of against side slipping, used simply as would replace, and then withdrawn. trailers, to which the plow, cultivator, bringing up the dirt just as a dredger American Sportswomen. tain point, but almost everyone eats use up their old stockings in this way the praise of labor in song. e harrow or farm wagon is hitched the would. Indeed, the implement works We have heard sometimes that too much.—Agricultural Epitomlst. may like to utilize them for charity. To the public in the elementary same as thougn coupled to the small much like a dredging machine. The American men are so keen to win The legs of two full-size stockings schools of Kiel, Germany, the local wheels used on the rear of the ordi advantage of auger is in the small, the games they play that some of opened out and then joined up togeth nary tongue when plowing with a clean hole it makes. Without it' a post them are rather unsporting, not only er will make a warm little under-bod tramway company is distributing team. , printed pamphlets bearing a series of hole must be dug with a spade and the in the spirit but in the letter. If ice or vest for a child. The stocking The power plant is built in a stiff this is so, then their womankind must hem makes the lower part of vest, hints for children crossing the roads. steel frame, mounted rigidly to the smallest spade not only makes a hole be, and, Indeed, say they are, a su which is finished off round the neck I Among them are: “Keep to the right main axle, and is composed of a two too. big, but one that necessarily slants perior creation, as no one makes a and sleeves with a crochet edging. iq: walking on the pavement and do cylinder opposed engine of standard from the rim to the bottom and must more delightful opponent than an Stocking legs, three or four of them, not »stand at street corners. In cross- make, rated at twenty-four horse- be filled again. It is easy to under stand that a post will stand much American lady. I remember when one will also make a poor child an accept ’ ing the road do so at right angle and powjer. Close-fitting styles’ will continue. j not diagonally and at a spot where the more firmly in a hole that does not of them was being condoled with on able petticoat; the petticoat should be Some long coats of the most elabor ’ rqad is narrowest. ” have to be filled in. suffering defeat from one of the lead Thumps In Pigs. sewn into a straight band or on to 9 ing Welsh players she said, with .ft, ate nature are seen. There are, it is estimated, 17,600,000 Thumps in pigs is caused by a sur calico bodice. Faded reds are in again for coat cheerful smile: *T guess she played persons in the United States who, in plus of fat and a lack of exercise. The Selecting Seed Corn. Ways to Comb the Hair. better golf than I did—so I can’t suits on younger women, . stead of calling in a physician when thumping is due to violent beating of In gathering the corn crop, it is well Striped suts are in favor, but the grurit.” Could anything have shown they are sick, ‘ resort to some one of the heart, causing shaking movement to look out for next year’s seed. Next a more sporting spirit than that?— effects are rather Indefinite. the many forms of drugless healing. of the sides and flanks of the animal. to good soil and good cultivation, is Lady’s Pictorial. • •* The toque still., reigns supreme for Of these systems, at least two-thirds Often it is so violent that the whole good seed. Do not place too much con walking in Paris, and is seen in wide are “mind cures.” Ten years, from body trembles and shakes with the fidence in abnormal individual1 ears, New Embroidered Collar. variation. now, judging from thé rate of increase movements. In aggravated cases the lect good ears from rows which pro during the last ten years, there will pig is weak and uncertain in his duce a large yield. And when seed- While gilt buckles still retain their be 55,000,000 persons relying on non- walk, and lies down most of the time. ing time comes next year, do not rely ■favor, some fancy footwear have medical methods.—Van Norden’s Mag- Before death the nose, ears and other too much on the character of the seed. buckles matching the color parts of the body become red and pur With well-prepared soil and thorough gown. azine. The new draperies for autumn are The father of Dr. Frederick A. Cook ple with congested blood, due to weak culture, a large crop of corn can be striking in effect. Birds and leaves was named Koch, and the name was circulation. grown from almost any kind of seed, Advanced cases of the thumps are which will germinate, but good seed changed by error when he enlisted in and flowers riot over tüem in gorgeous difficult to cure. When first symptoms the army. He was born in Germany abundance. will increase the yield, and will fully and practiced medicine, in New York. are noticed reduce the bedding if there repay the trouble and cost of obtain The new lingerie still shows the ef- The younger Cook, who now lives in is much in their sleeping quarters; ing it. feet -of ruthless suppression. It has Brooklyn, was born in New York in reduce the feed and compel the pig lost nohe of its prettiness, but is no 1865, and was graduated from thé med-. to exercise in the open air. Fresh air longer aggressive. Homemade Feed Cutter. *cal department of the University of will purify the blood and exercise will Mousseline and gauze ruching Here is a feed cutter which anyone promote circulation. When pigs be the City of New York in 1890, but was used to finish gowns at the ends of can make from a little cheap lumber. not actively engaged in the practice come fat and lazy they will lie in bed The knife, a, is a common broad ax, the sleeves, around the bottom of the la great part of the time, often com- of medicine. — Indianapolis Medical which most farm skirt and elsewhere. Ipletely covered with bedding, so that Journal. ers have. Ptlt a The various wine and maroon shades they breathe impure air and dust. handle in, as Three electric elevators are to be This poisons the bldod and reduces are to be very good gtyle; violet, plum shown, and build a features of each of the new United the vitality in general, which, with and purple shades will be modish, but ■ Xi’1. frame of 2x2-in'ch States ships of the Dreadnought type, compression of the heart with surplus not to such an extent as heretofore. 1 * hard wood and inch but not because American sailors are fat, causes the malady. ■^1 boards. The end of too luxury loving to walk up and down Learn to Sit Down. In the spring or summer when pas the handle is fas stairs. They will have a lift.of a lit- ture is good It is well to change pas A quaint old woman used to say, tfe over twenty feet, and they will be ture of hogs afflicted with the thumps FOR CUTTING FORAQ tened to the stand- ’There ain’t no sen^e In them that usèd mainly by the watch officers, so that they will be induced to take ardat b with a piece of strap iron. has chairs being tired. Why don’t whose duty takes them from fire room more exercise and eat green food. Re Another piece of strap iron, c, acts they sit in them? ” This is not a half one ’ s takes time to do are cut out Most of the new blouses It still as a guard and keeps the ax close to bad question for many a weary house hair, New styles look simple, but in to fire room. The elevators are ren duce heavy feeding and keep the the edge of the box.—Farm and Home. at the neck in Dutch fashion about an inch below the lower edge of the keeper to ask herself. She would find this case looks deceive. The contour dered necessary by the fact that there bowels of the animal loose by doses high stock. This stock is set on a life much easier, Would- fight off the of the choiffure^ is so astonishingly are no doors between fire rooms on of castor oil. A little turpentine in The Poultry Yard. shallow yoke of the same material, wrinkles longer and would geneihlly 'different that one can waste a lot of the new ships. The first elevator to the slop or drinking water is said to be used in the United States navy was be good. Eighteen hens that were fed milk sometimes stock and yoke being of be brighter and happier if she could time in the effort to be fashionable. last winter laid more eggs than 100 lace. With ordinary Shirtwaists stock, learn to sift down whenever a chance A light wire frame is placed about installed on the hospital ship Solace Check-Rein on Horses. . and yoke are of silk, as in jthe illus presents itself. It Is worth while to the head and over this is smoothly during the Spanish war. When a horse stumbles he is far fed on cut bone and meat. tration. Below this silk stock and obtain comfortable chairs for almost wrapped a long uncurled switch. In During the fatal illness of King less likely to go down when his head A flock might just as well roost in yoke a dainty little embroidered col every household task. Except sweep front is a puffy fringe about the face, Charles II of England there were four is left free. In England, where they trees as in a house full of cracks and lar sets around the top of the Dutch ing, scrubbing . and bedmaking there and at the back is a soft large knot teen doctors in attendance, and they are far ahead of us in everything per holes, which chills the birds in spots neck opening. These little collars are are few tasks about a house which of hair. With the new fashion ribbon dosed him in the course of five; and taining to horses, the check-rein has and poduces bad colds. of white linen, or of delicately col cannot be done just as well sitting as bows and bands may be worn and few one-half days with the following drugs been -abolished, the last surrender be- Some people are willing to pay an ored linen the embroidery being done standing. er combs—which, is a good thing for and powders: “Orange infusion of ing that- Of the artillery and cominis- extra price for eggs on one color. in the same 9hade. A more dainty or the health of the hair. the metals, white vitriol dissolved in sariat trains cf the British army/ the Many people get a cent or more a doz Renovating a Worn Carpet. becoming finish for a dark shirtwaist compound peony water, pbwdér of sa change having been made by Sir en for sorting their hen fruit açcord- When flowers or designs in carpets Precepts for Housekeeper. could scarcely be imagined. cred bitter, syrup of buckthorn, com George Bourgoyne, the late comman ing to size and color. become faded or worn, get dyes the If you have daughters, teach them color required and dilute by directions to knit and spin, and to keep the fam mon decoction for clysters, rock salt, der-in-chief, and he testifies to the ben Take no chances by having too The Fasting Cure, emetic wine, two-blend pills, *byrony eficial results attending it. given. Take small paint brushes, dip ily accounts. many chickens together in one flock, The fashionable remedy for most ail- into the different dyes and paint the compound, powder of white hellebore If you see they are getting to be If you lend a man or woman a small roots, powder of cowslip flowers, best tnento is semi-starvation. It has taken flowers or other faded parts. Be care ZA Valuable Cow. crowded in their winter quarters, medical science a long time to get ful not to use too much dye at a time sum, be sure to ask for it before he or manna, cream of tartar, barley and Grace Fayne II.’s Homestead a Hol- make thrift and health a certainty by she forgets it. back to the first principles. When ani or it will run into the next color. liquorice, sweet almond kernels, sal stein-Fresian cow, valued at $8,0.00, dividing them up, or selling some of If you have a family and are not ammoniac, antidotal milk water, mal mals feel badly they refuse to eat. With patience and pains the work is died recently at the Harvey A. Moyer them. very affluent, remember that a pin a As soon as the system is cleared of easily done and the result is surpris- low root, melon seeds, chicken broth, Farm, just north of Syracuse, n : y ., day is a groat a year. You . may have an idea that poultry Its accumulation of extraneous mat ingly good. bark of elm, a julep of black cherry pneumonia. The animal was heav Old shoes make good slippers, and water, flowers of lime, lilies of the val from can hunt their own grit. You are ter nature cures the disturbance. ily insured and held the world ’ s but Use for Discarded Woolen Hose. need not be denied the blacking brush ley, spirit of lavender, prepared pearls wrong. Grit is as essential as feed, When a human feels out of sorts the Old woolen stockings should not be because they are old indoor servants. and1 white sugar candy, senna leaves, ter record of 35.55 pounds of butter in Get a grit box, fill it with crushed first thing is to take something. Colds week and the thirty-day record of Do not put too much money in your ale, syrup of cloves, Goa stone, Rhine one In the head are almost always caused wasted, If the legs are opened out 134.18 pounds. She broke a former rock and oyster-shell, and hang it on by overeating, and colds lead to a they, either single or joined together, children’s pockets in going to school, wine, oriental Bezoar stone and a num record of 35.22 pounds for a week. One the wall where, dirt will not be great many other troubles. The only are excellent in the place of furniture lit Is sowing the seeds of prodigality. ber of other medicines. of her calves sold recently for $2JWQ scratched into it.—Farm Journal. 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