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SCRAPS OF SCIENCE. ; The distinct compounds from coal tar have increased from 454 in 1894 to 695, not less than 300 of the present products being dyes. W. H. Read, paleontolegist of the University of Wyomj_ng, reports the discovery in Carbon county of a fossil remains of a brontosaur, which is the largest ever unearthed. The 300 aerolites of the nineteenth century furnished nine instances of the fall of two stones en thesame day intwo successive years. This suggests streams of stonesin space. .

“One of the most significant signs cf the tendency of modern thought,” says the New York -Christian Work and Evangelist (Presbyterian), “is supplied by the increasing attention which men of science are devoting to religious subjects.” .

F. H. Glew, of London, hascalculated the time of a lightning flash to be onenineteenth of a second. He obtained this result by means of a photograph made with a 'vibrating lens, which ihdicated the multiple image taken and the rate of vibration of the lens.

" The sound-deadening arrangements tried on the Berlin elevated railway inclucde felt under and at the sides of the rails, wood-filled car wheels, steel and wood ties resting on sand and cork-lined floor planks. Low rails on deep wooden stringers proved the mast effective. M. E. Meyer has shown that-vegetables put under chloroform lose mriuch of their power of emitting N-rays, and M. Jean Becquerel has been led tg try whether this effect of anaesthetics-is not more general. . He finds that not only organic bodies; but-even inorganic, fer exampie sulphide of calcium, cease to emit Nrays when under the action of the fumec of chloroform, ether, protoxide of nitrogen, ete. In fact, the suppression of Nrays by anaesthetics in vegetables and minerals is much alike. o

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WRONG TRACK

Had to Switch.

Even the most*careful person is apt -to get on the wrong track regarding food sometimes and has to switch over. When the right food is selected the host of ails that ¢ome from improper food and drink disappear, even where the trouble has been of lifelong standing : “From a child I was never strong and had a capricious appetite® and I was allowed to eat whatever I fancied —-rich cake, highly seasoned food, hot biscuit, etc.—so it was not surprising that my digestion was soon out‘of order 'and at the age of twenty-three I was on the verge of nervous. prostration. I had no appetite and as I had been losing strength (because I didn’t get. nourishment in my daily food to repair the wear and tear on body and brain) I had no reserve force to fall back on, lost flesh rapidly and ne medicine helped me. “Then it was a wise physician ordered Grape-Nuts and eream and saw to it that I gave this food (new to me) a proper trial and it showed he knew what he was about because I got better by bounds from the very first. That was in the summier and by winter I was in better health than ever before in my life, had gained in flesh and weight and felt like a new person aitogether in mind as well as body, all due to nourishing and completely digestible food, Grape-Nuts. : ““This happened three years ago and never since then have I had .any but perfect health for I stick to my Grape-

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HERE'S A VALUABLE HINT

Glass Posts, Made of Old Quart Bot tles, Are Just the Thing for : Beehive Stands. :

Our twentieth century demands something new, cheap and durable ir the way of a stand for our hives to rest on. Dr. J. W. Guyson, in Gleanings, of fers the following: 1 get the longes! quart bottles I can find, and with a hce I make a set of four or six holes—fous holes for one hive and six for twec hives. 'These holes are set at regulai distances apart to receive the bodies of the bottles. I set them in about half their length, with the mouths up. The bottles are to be leveled up with 2 straight board and a spirit-level. ‘Put them in straight rows just where’ you want your hives to be, and have them face just the way you desire your hives to stand. .

Now take some Ix 2 stuff and have it smooth. and well painted for the hives to rest on. Cut them two or three inches longer than your bottom-

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boards are wide; or if you want to have a double breaster, cut them long enough to reach clear across all three bottles. Now drive a five nenny nail through the timber just over ti:r mouth of the bottles. Leave not less than one-eight®f of the head end of the nails up. These are to hold the bottom boards from slipping and sliding about, and ‘the lower parts of the nails will hold the rails on the mouths of the bottles. Hard winds will not slip either rail or hive..

Such a hive- stand is very simple, and the glass posts are everlasting so far as decaying is concerned. It ean be made very cheap and serviceable as a dual stand or for three hives if preferred. I consider such a stand a most excellent one—so good that I shall adopt it for all of my hives. If desired, four pieces may be used to constitute the frame work, and these securely nailed together. Then g longer nail will be required to reach through and down into the necks of the bottles. Such a frame might be necessary where three gor four stories are left full of honey ﬁSr any length of time.

An auger-hole'may be made to receive a pin that will fill the mouths of the bottles instead of holding the frame work or stand with nails. In this case I would allow a quarter of the pin to stand akove to prevent the bottom-board from slipping. Shorter bottles, such as pint beer bottles, could be used and bought some cheaper. A long black bottle with a deeper recess or sink in the bottom could be used ahd set up much more easily by taking a wet spell to do the bottle part of the work. The necks could be pushed into the ground up to the shoulder of the bottle, and the concave end used to hold the frame work by means of small blocks of wood being cut just the size of the recess in the bottom. These long bottles will hold the hivebottom up so that one's feet may be shoved under the hive; besides, they hold the hive up from the ground away from moisture, toads and rats, as weljy as at a convenient working distance, thereby doing away with. so much back breaking toil. ; This stand puts one’s second stories and supers up just right so any one can do almost all the day’s work in an upright position. It’s just the right height for a double-decker queen-nur-sery. I have been reading different articles on hive stands and thougﬁt this might be of benefit to ‘some bee keepers. Almost any one can pick up enough bottles for a small apiary, free of cost and can make the stand very cheaply. - :

Clovers on Wet Land.

Clovers differ greatly as to their ability to live with water at their roots. Thus, the red varieties must be grown on land where water does not stand. A large proportion of the failures in getting catches of clover are doubtiess dque to the sowing of the seed on poorlydrained land. Where the red clover is wanted and the land is wet, the only thing to do is to drain it, so that the land will dry out well in the spring and get warm quickly, and so that it will remain warm till Jate in the fall. Cold land is not suitable to the growing of medium and red cloyer. But with the alsike it is different, to a degree. That variety will stand more moisture than the other kinds, but not se much as some people give it credit for.

Market for Ameriean Horses.

United States Consul General Worman at Munich believes that now is the golden: harvest time for - American horse dealers. The Russian edict prohibiting the éxportation of horses from the czar's domain has created a horse famine in Germany. Mr. Worman writes the state department that horses that would fetch more than $350 or $4OO a team in this country will readily sell for from $l,OOO to $l5OO in Germany. “There is much wealth in southern Germany,” Mr. Worman writes, “and those who have brought American horsés here bave usually realized good profits.”

A Plea for Country Life.

Many a farmer, who has retired and settled in some village, town or city, is winding up his days in homesicknesg and isolation. He finds the city a closed book so far as genial companionship and pleasant living are concerned, and in most cages the retired farmers are downright unhappy in their new sur. roundings. - For good old hospitality commend us to the country with ite plain living on the salt of the earth.— Miiland Farmer. ; ‘

THE CAUSE OF BALKINESS.

To Avoid Trouble from This Cause Colts Must Be Trained by a Sensible Method.

The cause of balkiness is not always the same. It is usually, if not always, due to improper handling in one way or another. It is sometimes due to pu\ting the colt to a heavy load too suddenly, before he has learned to pull, or when he has sore shoulders. To aveid trouble from this Source a writer in the Gazette suggests the following plan. The plan that I suggest does much the same for a horse’s shoulders as bitting does for his mouth. It accustoms the shoulders to pressure, and that in such a gradual way that the colt trains himself and stands properly to his collar from the beginning of his lessons in harness. This method I find specially usefu] for the over-willing, high-strung horse not bred for draft. Fix a pulley behind the horse’s stail or in some other convenient place about as high as the horse’s stifles, then run a rope up over another pulley and attach a light weight to 1t sufficient to keep the rope fully taut. When fastened to the horse’s ingletree, which is attached to the £Jgs'in i tfhe ordinary way, tie the horse as long as—you safely can and securely. The }‘\v‘eight must be off the ground ail thg !ft'ime. Thke horse may come back to the end of this halter for a time; bt he Will gradually brace himself toLv.}h.dld up a light weight, as it is more comfortable for him. This may be put on the horse at feeding time if a nervous horse and taken off the first few times before he has done eating. After a while increase the weight, but the more nervous he is the more gradually this should be done. When you are passing by give the rope a pull and put some of your weight on it. He will soon brace against it, and mind he'does not catch your fingers in the pulley. ~ If the horse has been badly balked previously and his shoulders have been hurt he should have a set of springs on his tugs when first hooked to keep him from jerking his shoulders. If you have not these take him out in the yard with a rope on his singletree and pull back on this as much or as little as seems necessary. Then hook him and back him up a little a few times. Study his actions and do not start him up until the right moment. The chances are, however, that he will have become so indifferent to the collar and so habituated to standing up to it that he will move quietly off. I-would like to make one suggestion in addition, and that is to fasten a colt back with two side-lines on his halter or a leather nose band, so that when he lunges ahead he will not jerk his mouth. A colt maturally thinks that the driver yanks him, when most of the time he does it himself.

THE FATTENING OF GEESE.

Hovs the Article Known Commercially ‘as “Foie Gras” Is Produced in France.

The most extreme method of artificial fattening is employed with geese whose livers are to be used for the delicacy known. as ‘“foi gras” (fat liver). This art of fattening geese until fatty infiltration of the liver- has set in and that organ weighs from 215 to three pounds is practiced on a large scale about Strasburg, and to a less extent -about Toulouse and elsewhere. The birds are usually confined in small, dark cages; they can move only a few inches, and are fed two or three times a day, commonly with all the ground maize or wheat-flour paste they can be made to eat. When they have become very fat, usually at the end of about three weeks, they are killed and the livers removed. :

The livers, which are perhaps no more abnormal than the flesh of an over-fed hog, commonly appear in our market in jars or tins in three distinct forms. Foie gras au naturel, pate de foie gras (by far the most popular) and puree de foie gras. The foie gras au naturel is simply the liver preserved without any dressing. The pates are made of large pieces of the liver, cooked and dressed with truffles and other condiments. These pieces are fitted into cans by trimming off the edges, and are covered with melted goose fat or suet. . Many persons find the flavor of the gooze fat too strong and prefer the suet. The trimmings of the liver in the pates are preserved with truffles, ete., and sold as puree de foie gras.—Bulletin Department of Agriculture.

EXCELLENT FEED TROUGH. ‘J ust the Thing for Farms )W,hose Owners Are Used to Feeding | Stock with Roots. A 'very handy trough to feed sheep and hogs with grain or roots in the yard is shown in ~ the cut. It is made @ of two boards nailed together a three-cornered piece at each end. The legs are made of 2x4-inch scantling 30 inches long, with a board 1x5x21 inches "nailed on each side, through which a wooden pin is put, which holds the trough. A strip Ix 3 inches is nailed on each side at the top to keep sheep or hogs out of trough. The trough can be turned on the pins bottom side up and fastened with a pin through the end boards. This will keep out all smow and ice, dirt and hens, and makes it convenient to clean out dirt, which gathers in feeding roots.—Oliver Sires, in Farm and Home. | ;

TIMELY LIVE STOCK NOTES.

The fattening up of show animals is criticised, but the others seldom take the prizes. It is a saying among stockmen that out-crosses show improvement in the first cross, but that subsequent crosses deteriorate. ? The herds and animals that take most of the prizes at our fairs have been handled by the best feeders. It is sometimes more a contest of feeders than of animals. %

Sheep can get along without water better than almost any other kind of stock, but they need water in spite of that ability to do without, and the water adds much to iaeir thrift, and, also, as a consequence, to the profits the farmer geps from sheep. .

THE RAGTIME AND THE CLASSICAL.

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THE STAND-PAT PLATFORM.!

Republican Enunciation of “Principles” Is an Insult to Intelli- : gence of the People.

The platform adopted by the republican national convention is fundament-. ally Bourbon. Nothing has been forgotten and nothing has been learned. All the achievements of the past are tagged, catalogued and enumerated, but the.future played so trivial a part in the deliberations of the convention that it was all but disregarded. : Considered, however, merely from the point of view of the stand-pat-let-weil-enough-alone republicans the platform leaves nothing to be desired. To people who paraphrase Napoleon’s maxim and insist that time and the republican party can accomplish everything this is an ideal platform, pecause it leaves everything to time and the party. Everywhere between planks is this admonition: “Don’t bother your blessed heads aboutanything. We have already solved all the political problems there are to solve; but if any have been overlooked we can be depended upon to solve them as they ought to he solved.” It is in respect to the Philippines and the tariff ‘that this masterpiece of “stand-patism” will be most vigorously and mostrighteously gssailed. Noteven the vaguest promises of the most remote independence for the Filipinos are made. The convention curtly informs them that they have “the largest civil liberty they have ever enjoyed,” and by implication tells them to run alongand not bother the government by asking for anything more.

The tariff declaration, says the New York World, is .equally patronizing. A platform that refers to the Wilson law as an act “based on free-trade principles” informs the people with an air of superb economic superiority that “to a republican congress and a republican president this great question can safely be intrusted.” This is to say that if the republican machine and the protected manufacturers think a revision -of schedules is advisable the tariff will be “readjusted” by its friends. Asall previous revisions by the republican party have resulted in higher schedules, this “stand-pat” plank has a certain merit that cannot be ignored, It threatens us with no new burdens.

The least tariff we can possibly tolerate, the convention tells us, must measure the difference in the cost of production. at home and abroad. Nothing is said about the difference in selling price of American articles at home and abroad, by which the home consumer pays for extending the protected manufacturer’s foreign trade. Neither is anything said about the fact that the greater productive ability of the American workman has in many cases mote than overcome the relative diffeffrffence in wages. There is no promise uttered or implied that the Dingley schedule will be reduced to a point that will measure the difference between the cost of ﬁr9duction here and abroad. Even the Chamberlain campaign for a protective tariff in Great Britain to retaliate against the United States and Germany is twisted into an argument in support of the inviolability of the Dingley schedules. !

As for reciprocity, the party that tore up the Kasson treaties is willing to reciprocate providing it can be dogje “without injury to American agriculture.” The part is greatér than the whole, and the interests of all the people must not be considered as against the least, least trivial interest of any class or individual. Foreigners that wish to trade with us on living terms must produce something that we cannot produce or imitate. McKinley’s admonition that “we must not repose in fancied security that we can forever sell everything and buy little or nothing” made no appeal to the convention. McKinley was long ago outMcKinleyed by his party. If he were alive he could have had no standing in the Chicago convention. Possibly he would have been denounced as a free-trader—-a Cobdenite at the very least. The thing to do is to stand pat and fry the fat. .

NOTES FROM HERE AND THERE.

——The trusts cannot cast their blight over everything. Even though spring lamb has been dear, the mint is cheap. —Washington Star (Rep.). - ——The republican national committee recognized tile Wisconsin bolters, thus clinching that state for the democrats.—Memphis Commercial. ——The republican national convention opened with the astronomical summer. * Does this signify that it goeth before a fall—Boston Herald.

——Charley Schwab says that the trusts should not increase prices. They did it, Charley, just to.give the people the pleasure, described by Secretary Shaw, of paying top-notch prices for everything.—Washington Post.

——James Bryce at a London banquet said that Theodore Roosevelt is the “‘greatest president the United States has had since Washingon.” They shouldn’t serve those queer mixed drinks at London banquets.—Baltimore Sun. ——The fact that there are united workingmen’s singing societies will of course be used as a “prosperity” argument by the republicans. But the truth i§ that many of us have to sing, or whistle, to keep up our courage.—St. Louis Republic. _

ROOSEVELT THE PLATFORM.

He Was the Chicago Convention and Will Run the Campaign to Suit Personal Whims. '

One needf not trouble one’s self with the resolutions adopted by the Chicago convention. These are not the republican platform. Mr. Roosevelt is the candidate. Mr. Roosevelt was the convention. Mr. Roosevelt was the comrittee on resolutions, the committee on contested seats, and he will be (by proxy) the chairman of the republican national committee. He and the federal patronage have subjugated the republican party. In a broader and an even truer sense, Mr. Roosevelt is the platform, and upon him, his record, and his temperament, the republican party is to stand and fall. | g

It is said by his admirers and eulogists that Mr. Rosevelt “does things,” and because he does things, he is not to be blamed for ignoring the spirit and letter of the Constitution, the centuryold limitations of executive power, and the recognized metes and bounds of international law and international courtesy, is the doing of them. Right there, issue is taken, and upon this contention much discussion will turn. But if Mr. Rooscevelt can do no wrong—if his “doing things” is a merit so great as to entitle him to be freed of the fetters of constitution, precedent, executive limitation and international usage, then clearly we need waste no time in reading or debating a documént so relatively weak and trival as a republican party platform Good, bad, or indifferer;t, here is no pledge, no past precedent, no assurance of future performance, which would bind the man who “does things,” when and how he has a mind to do them, and is applauded by his retainers for the fact of so doing. - The great question to be determined this year, says the Albany Argus, is and must be whether the people desire four years more of a Roosevelt released from the near approach of a presidential election, constrained no longer, but given the popular mandate to consider himself, his ways, and his make-up, the nation’s will and choice. This has been made the great issue, this the paramount plank and platform, not by the Chicago convention, not by the St. Louis convention, ‘but by Mr. Roosevelt himself.

Is he safé? Is he sane? Is he possessed of that balanced inind, cool, calm judgment and even temperament which are needed by every high public official, but over and above all others by the president of these United States? By what he has done, by what he has said and writtten and by his manner of action, speech, and writing, must Candidate Rogsevelt be judged. He himself has made the issue, and he has done and said the things on which that issuérests.

NEW LIGHT ON THE TARIFF. It Exists for Benefit of Workingman, _ by Putting Money in Pocket of His Employeé‘g J Our esteemed contemporary, New York Life, throws a new light on our sacred republican tariff which, it says, was first invented by Rameses 11. as a protection to embalming industries, and has since been used principally by the republican party. The tariff exists for the benefit of the workingman, by putting money in the pocket of his employer. If we had no tariff, there would be no Carnegie; no Carnegie, no libraries; no libraries, no popular trash to read; and no popular trash, no educated workingman; hence the benefit of the tariff.

The tariff takes every infant industry it can find on the doorstep, feeds it on roast beef, champagne, nectar and ambrosia, gives it a million-dollar establishment to live in, stocks up the coal bin with diamonds and other useful fuel, and generally helps it to keep the wolf from the door. =

Without a tariff we would be too honest to be happy. By providing ample revenues for the pension list and the agricultural department, our two principal industries are constantly gladdening our young lives by their homebrewed prosperity. - With a watchful, lusty tariff standing over us like a guardian angel, we can pay double for our necessities, in the calm assurance that we are benefiting the few men who really deserve to be well off. |

Bounties for the Wool Trust. Louis Windmuller has prepared for the New York Chamber of Commerce a report showing the effect of a 70 per cent. tariff on the wool industry of the United States. With such a degree of protection it would seem that the number of American shepherds would increase steadily, while their flocks would multiply exceedingly. That does not, however, appear to be the case. The population of the United States has almost doubled since 1867, but there are not as many sheep in this country now as there were 37 years ago. In 1867 there were 42,000,000 sheep; in 1904 there are less than 40,~ 000,000. *This is one case in which the protection has not developed an industry. Theshepherdsand their flocks have been practically at a standstill for 37 years. The only effect of the tariff has been the largely increased cost of wooleny goods to the consumer.—Baltimore Sun.

HOW JACK LONDON ARRIVED

Story of Early Struggleé Toward Sueccess of Brilliant War Cor- ' respondent.

Jack London, the fascinating shortstory writer and brilliant war correspondent, now at the front, is but 28 years old, says the Boston Globe. Three years ago he was unheard of by the reading world. To-day he is read everywhere, is sought by publishers, and the pages of the magazines, from the Century down, are open to him. ==

The story of his early privations and hardships—his boyhood on a California ranch, his years before the mast in the waters of the Golden Gate, his struggle for learning, and the daring trip to the Klondike, from which he returned with - more knowledge than nuggets—is known to most of his readers now. The story of how he “arrived,” how he first set foot vpon the stepping stone to success, he tells in the Editor, the New York magazine for literary workers, incidentally giving the latter class some excellent advice. Here are a few of his tarse,

pregnant sentences: i e Work! - Don’t | wait for some zood Samaritan to fell you, but dig it out youriself. Fiction pays best of all. ) Don’t write too much. Don’t dash off a 6,000-word story before breaktast. Avoid the unhappy erding, the harsh, the brutal, the tragic, the horrible—if you care to see in print the th™ngs you “write. Keep a notebook. Travel with it, eat with it, sleep with it. Slap into it every stray, thought that flutters up into your brain. This valuable advice is appended to the story of his own struggle for recogniticn. Every one likes to know Low the successful succeed. He had many liabilities and no assets, no income and several mouths to feed. He lived in California, far from the great publishing centers, and did not know what an editor looked like. But he sat down and wrote. Day by day his pile of.nfanuscr;pts mounted up. He had vague ideas, obtained from a Sunday supplement, that a minimum rate of ten dollars a thousand words was paid, and figured on earning $6OO a month, without overstocking the marxet. One morning the postman brought him, instead of the usual long, thick manuscript envelope, a short, thin one. He couldn’t open it right away. It seemed a sacred thing. It ‘contained the written words of an editor of a big magazine. When, modest as ever, he ‘had figured in his mind what the offer for this 4,000-word story would be at | the minimum rate—s4o, of course—he opened the letter. Five dollars! Not having died right then and there, Mr. London is convinced that he may yet qualify as an oldest inhabitant. g . But, by and by, in the course of its wanderings, one of his stories reached an editor who could see the genius of Jack London, and had the patience to penetrate .beneath the husk of wordy introduction and discover the golden grain—the capital Story, with a capital S, and—rarest quality of all—the business sagacity to offer an unknown writer more for a good story than he would pay for a commonplace one from a famous author. . Here is the incident that proved the turning point in Jack London’s literary career, as he so graphically tells it: “Nothing remained but, to get out and shovel coal. I had done it before, and earned more morey at it. I resolved to do it again, and I certainly should have done it, had it not been 'for The Black Cat. ‘ “Yes, The Black Cat. The. postman ibrought me an offer from it for a !4,0()0-word story © which was more ‘]engthy and strengthy, if I would ‘grant permission to cut it down half. Grant permission? I told them they could cut it down two-halves if they’d‘only send the money along, which they did, by return mail. As for the five dollars previously mentioned, I finally received it, after publication and a great deal of embarrassment and trouble. I forgot my coal-shoveling resolution, and continued to whang away at the typewriter.” And the rate he received for his first Black Cat story was nearly . 20 times what the five-dollar editor paid. Nor is Jack London the only writer who has been lifted from obscurity to prominence by the lucky Black Cat, which, as the New York Press has truly said, has done more for shortstory writers and short-story readers than any other publication. Each of .its famous prize competitions has brought new writers to the front. In jts most recent, the $2,100 prize was won by a young Texan who had never before written a story, and the second, $1,300, went to a lawyer’s wife in an obscure Missouri town. . It has just inaugurated another contest in which $10,600 will be paid to writers in sums of from $lOO to $1,500. This will, no doubt, add many .new names to the list of those who have “arrived” through its recognition. The conditions are announced in the current issue of The Black Cat, and will also be mailed free to any one by The Shortstory Publishing company, Boston, Mass. Even those who cannot write a winning story themselves may earn: ten dollars by giving a timely tip to some friend who can. But all should bear in mind that it will be entirely useless for any one to send a story to The Black Qat without first reading and complying with all the published conditions. Here is a chance for the reader to dig dollars out of his brain, for what life does | rot at least contain one tale worth telling? ! ‘ 5

- Precarious Living. Jaggles—What do you think of the stand taken by people who won’t work for a living? ' ' Waggles—lt is altogether too uncertain. Some fellows becoms millionaires at it, while others starve to death.—Town Topics. : Did Billy Eat the Shoef " “They do say, Mrs. Murphy, that high-heel shoes is unhealthy.” “Well, that must be what’s the matter with the goat. Sure, Mollie missed one of her shoes, yesterday!”—Yonkers Statesman. ' s 7

Modern Education

First Passenger—Well, thank goodness my children have finished ‘their eaucation, and are rcady to start out ‘in the world. They can swim, bike, golf and:play lawn tennis; they are well up in bockkeeping, smart shorthand writers, and good typists; thej' can swim, bike. golf and play lawp moderately and drink very little. i Second Passenger—Are they boys or girls? —New Yorker. . < $ L T

Making of Gyeat VM'an.

“Socrates \yag'a'»\\'ondexfful‘ny patient, forbearing, forgiving. though‘ gﬁ'eat‘ly imposed upon. man,” said Mrs, Meekton. :

“Yes,” answered Lecnidas, *and 1 under stand he owed it all to his wife.” —Washing: ton Star.’ . ) =

Delightful Summer Tours to the East are made more delightful by taking advantage of the many inducements ofiered by the Nickel Plate iload. Recognized 'as the Low Rate Short Line between the West and East, tourists are assured of .a quick and comfortable trip to the many . beautiful Summer Resorts located :along or within a short distance of the Nickel %’-lale Road. Close connections are made at Bufialo for all Eastern Points, Mountain Resorts and famous watering places. - 'Fhe ‘train service of the Nickel Plate Road is up-to-date in every respect and passengers are shown the best of treatment by the efficient corps of attendants to be found on all Nickel Plate trains. Ladies traveling - alone or accompanied by children are given special attention. It is-in the splendid Dining Cars where the. liberality -of management is particularly apparent. No stated amount is required for a meal in these - Dining Cars, but under the system of Individual Club Meals, carefully prepared menus are compiled into booklets containing” suggestions for a breakfast, luncheon or supper that will. not cost more than 25 cents, and on up to one doHar.. Meals are also served a la carte. All trains of the Nickel Plate arrive at and depart from the Great La Salle Street Station, Chicago. When purchasing tickets say “Via the Nickel ll)’late Route.”” : ) :

A summer girl’s igea of économy is to make one hammock do for two.—Chicago Daily News. : )

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