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The formula used In making this preparation Is on file In the Bureau of Chemistry in Washing ton, which is proof that it is PURE and HARMLESS. it A 4T1-CORPU" reduces FAT from 3 to 5 pounds a week. It reduce Double chin, Fat hips and flabby checks. No wrinkles result from Ih'S reduction, for it makes the skin :loe fitting and smooth. A VTI-CORPU" strengthens WEAK HEART, cures PALPITATION, SHORT BREATH and acts like magic in MUSCULAR RHEU MATISM and COUT. "Oflffk CI 00 Per bottle. Money back if it don't do all we Sr vv cJaim, if your druggist does not keep it, show him this advertisement and make him get it for you, or you can aend for it DIRECT to us. We pay postage and send in plain wrapper. PDPP 30 DAYS TREATMENT IN EVERY BOTTLE. l1C w'" ,ent yu llkniPle of this wonderful fat reducing ' remedy on receipt of 10 cents to pay for postage and pack ing. The tarr r 1c itself may be sufficient to reduce the desired weight. Mention this iper. 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TImto tlU'd 111 tlio year 'M In 8t Felix, a miiull village In the depart went of II1111I0 Gaiouiio, In Franco, a wealthy octotfoiuirlan hortlcullurlHt, who Kjiont the laHt forty-flve years of hi life and a mini variously twtlmatod at from 12,000 to 15,000 in attempt ing to produce by artificial cultivation a bluo roue. Ho failed, and for the bent of rciiHon the liiHk I oiio ImpoHHlbla of bccohi pilnbuient. A Ie Cundollo, a great au thority 011 thin Huhject, has pointed out yellow and bluo are tho fundamental type of color In flower, and Wwm col or are oiiIiikohImIIc, mutually exclud ing each other. Yellow by culture may be changed Into red or white, but nev er Into blue. On the other hand, blue will phhh Into red, but never Into yel low. We huvo a yellow roue; benee there In no blue, The pursuit of the absolute zero pouu Is to chemlntH what the dl?ovcrj of the north pole U to geographer. Ever since Fahrenheit in 1721 broached the problem Hclcntlrit Innumerable have striven to reuch the goal in vain, al though each, In turn, linn succeeded In outdistancing the other. Thus Fahrenheit boaHted thut no one could ever attain artificially to a greater degree of cold than ho produced with salt nud ice-seven degrees below tro although, of course, ho did not suppose thut cold ended there. Yet, within a few yeurg of bis death, over 100 degrees below had been obtained, and Professor Jauiea Dewar, whose re searches In tho field of low tempera tures have brought out so many new and stnrtllni? fuels, succeeded by cool log down tho rare gas helium by the aid of !liiienVd hydrogen In registering the uliuost Inconceivable temperature of 422 degrees below ro F. But this is not absolute zero, and tho problem remains unsolved. Here and there. In odd corners of the earth, gray, bent men still pore over crucibles seeklug the philosopher's atone-that mysterious and wonderful substance which will, tbey believe, when found change the baser metals Into gold, it never will be found, of course, for such a substance, In the no turn nf Uitnca run Iiovb tin mncrpfn existence. Nevertheless for hundreds J of years the best brains and keenest Intellects lu Christendom sought It enrly and late. Nor were their labors wholly wasted, for It was while searching for this mythical treasure that Bottcher stum bled on the secret of the manufacture of porcelain: Uoger Bacon on that of the composition of gunpowder; Geber on the properties of acids; Van Hel mont on tho nature of gas, and Dr. Glauber on the "salts" which bear his name. After a similar fashion, too, the three century long hunt for the elixir of life bequeathed to us a whole host of valuablo remedial drugs and was tho means Indirectly of saving or, at all events, prolonging literally mil lions of lives. So also, as the result of the vain search after perpetual motion, there was evolved the greatest of all the gen eralizations of modern physical sci ence, tho principle of tho conservation of energy, and even now more or less Important discoveries aro being con tantly stumbled on by seekers after the sauio perennial will-o'-the-wisp. For let It be by no means Imagined that tho perpetual motion cranks are all dead and gone. On the contrary, they are probably fully as numerous and nB sanguine today as they were In the time of Leibnitz or Newton. Of course the thing Is impossible and has been proved so over and over again, but that does not deter them. Only the other day a man turned up at the office of a well known patent agent with a model of a perpetual mo tion machluo which depended for its proper working upon tho interception of gravitatlonul attraction. The principle of the invention, the-1 Inventor was good enough to explain, wus simplicity itself. The only thing that remulned to be done, he ingenu ously remarked, was to find the proper material for an interceptor. Is It pos Bible to conceive of human folly going further than this? Among mathematicians the two most famous unsolvable problems are the trisectlon of the angle and the dupli cation of the cube. Men have tolled at one or the other, sometimes at both, of these for fifteen, twenty, thirty years, only to retire at last battled and beaten. Their calculations and meth ods of work, have in many instances been published to the world, but tho subject Is too abstruse to attempt to do more than merely touch upon it in a popular article of this kind. It is somewhat startling, however, to find that even figures, just plain, ordinary arithmetical figures such as are easily understandable by any mod ern board school boy, have given rise to problems quite as Incapable of solu tion as any of those springing out of the higher mathematics. , No one, for instance, has yet succeed ed In extracting the square root of 2, although Dr. W. II. Colvlll, a civil Bur geon of Hagund, succeeded fn work ing it out to 110 fewer than 110 places of decimal, and, moreover, hi titanic sum hns been proved to be absolutely correct, bo far as It goes. Here 1 the result, In case some reader should be seized with an Irresistible desire to carry It a tage or two farther; 1.41421 nAWmMmim'MTimimw.mfrxMeM M2BM23. Undoubtedly, however, of all the now admittedly unsolvablo figure problems which have from time to time occupied the attention of mnthematlcluiiH tb most famous Is that generally known as squaring the circle. The tlmo and energy thrown away upon It In days gone by are fiinply amazing. A Dutch professor, Jacob Morcells by name, worked at It for forty-three years and enmo t bint to the conclusion that the circumference contained tho diameter exactly times. Ho w as wrong. Another nota ble computer, one Ludolph van Ceulen, continued his calculations as long an he lived and at his death bad the result Inscribed 011 his tombstone at St Pe ter' church, Leydcu. Yet n third enthusiast worked out the calculation to more than 700 places of decimal and even then did not get so near a Peter Melius, who guessed at his answer. This latter lucky gentle man asserted that the diameter Is to the circumference as 113 is to 355. This Is so nearly right that the error would be less than a foot in a circle with n 2,000 mile radius. For a long time this approximation was as near as any one got, but In 1803 a lady mathematician went one better. Here 1 her formula: "From three di ameters deduct eight thousandths and seven rnlllionths of a diameter, and to the result add 5 per cent" We have then not quite enough, but the shortage Is only at the rate of about an Inch and a sixteenth of an inch in 14,000 miles. Finally, an Englishman named Shanks succeeded In reducing by more than one-half even this well nigh in finitesimal error, and there for the present the matter rests. It may be of interest to note, how ever, that some little while back a man made a great hubbub In London be cause he had not obtained the reward which he alleged had been offered for the discovery of the correct solution, although he claimed to have arrived at it. He suld ho did It by actual meas urement, and It was found on Investi gation that he had constructed a box wood disk of twelve Inches In diameter which he rolled along a straight rail. The man was a Joiner by trade and evi dently knew well what be was about when he measured, for hts answer, 3.140C25, is wrong by less than one In 3,000. Pea rsou's Weekly. INDIA'S WHITE ANTS. Only On'a Kind of Wood, 8andal, Can Withstand Their Attack. Insects of various kinds are a peren nial plague to Indian dwellers, tea growers and others. The tea bushes In the Assam garden have no less than four destructive ene mies, from which no means of escape has vet been devised by man. These are the bark eating borer, the sand wich caterpillar, the mosquito ana tne white ant, all of which attack tne tusn and do immense damage. Bv far the worst of these plagues is the white ant. the mosquito merely at tacking the leaves and causing a blight The ants, however, begin at the roots and eat upward, reducing the wood to nowder and leavlnc only the bark to support the top, which soon topples over by reason of Its own weignt. There is no Indian wood which would resist the ant3 Insidious attack except sandal. It delights !n reducing pine and white wood to a powder. It can not work in tho Heht but must get at the wood from some dark recess and work within a shell. In some mvsterlous way the white ant gets Indoors and has a particular nenchant for penetrating into a veneer ed or lacnuered picture frame, and In a short time nothing will remain but the veneer or lacquer, nothing else being left but a small portion of the powder, the rest being consumed or removed. The method of attack Is by emitting a kind of acid, which destroys the wood. And this ant has been known to bore holes through the sheet Iron bottoms of trunks. Several long, sup porting joists in a consular building In Calcutta were eaten out so completely that they had to bo replaced with steel ones. While these destructive white anta do not eeem to possess much literary taste, they sometimes attack books and destroy them by boring holes through leaves and cover from side to side. An English resident In an Indian city had a fine set of upholstered furniture, which he protected by some covering as well as he could before leaving his home for an absence of some months on busiuess, and when he returned he sat down in a chair, which collapsed under him like a framework of card board. Westminster Gazette, A man who is in perfect health, so he can do an honest day's work when necessary, has much for which he should be thankful. Mr. L. C. Rodg ers, of Branchton, Pa., writes that he was not only unable to work, but he couldn't stoop over to tie his own shoes. Six bottles of Foley's Kidney Cure made a new man of him. He says,, "Success to Foley's Kidney Cure.". . ; . ' Subscribe for the Morning Astorian. 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