Plymouth Tribune, Volume 8, Number 52, Plymouth, Marshall County, 30 September 1909 — Page 6

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masses to tne position or a table delicacy for the classes. That Is the history of the peanut in the past fifty years. The possibilities of the peanut as a wealth producer seem not to have been realized until recently. And even now, not

withstanding an immense increase in the acreage devoted to the crop, they are being incompletely utilized, so that the Department of Agriculture is about to Issue a special bulletin calling attention to the chances for making money by raising the "goober." A very striking feature of the document in question is the showing it makes of the many new uses to which peanuts are being put nowadays. They form an important ingredient in the vegetarian "meats" which are much more widely consumed than most people imagine. Some of these "meats," by the way, are made to jmitate breaded lamb chops, with sticks of macaroni for bones. Peanuts are employed largely in the confectionery trade, and enter into the composition of many fancy cakes, such as macaroons, as a substitute for almonds. Peanut butter (likewise much affected by the vegetarians) is manufactured by the ton. and, put up in neat packages, is greatly esteemed for automomile lunches. Now that the pestiferous bell weevil is ruining the cotton over such wide areas in the South, many planters are turning their attention to peanuts as a money crop. Although $12,000,000 worth of "goobers" were raised in this country last year, the supply is still not nearly equal to the demand a condition sufficiently proved by the fact that we are importing great quantities of peanut oil from Europe. Thus, too, although there are tens of thousands of acres of waste lands in the Southern States which are only walting to be tickled with a hoe in a proper manner in order to yield enough peanuts to furnish all the ell we want, plus a liberal supply for export. Before the civil war there were practically no peanuts eaten in America, except by the negroes and the whites of the same social grade. Now more than 300,000,000 pounds of the nuts are consumed here annually. Fifty years ago nobody thought of raising peanuts for profit, and the few that were grown were either in the "gyarden patches" of the slaves or as curiosities in the experimental gardens of scientists. Now there are nearly 50),000 acres in the United States that are planted to peanuts, and 200,000 persons make their living as "hands" in the peanut' fields, to say nothing of the other people employed la the "factories" where the nuts are cleaned and prepared for market. No food product known, say statisticians, has had such a remarkable and such a rapid rise as the peanut. Nothing has sprung into popularity so quickly and so completely, and in the face of such an accumulation of preconceived prejudice, and there are few crops grown at the present time in any part of the world that yield better returns for the money and labor invested than the peanut crop of the United States. The reason for it all is that during the civil war, when food was scarce, some hungry Confederate soldiers raided the "gyarden patch" of an old negro down in Virginia, and, for lack of anything better, confiscated all his peanuts.- They found the peanuts were good to the taste and satisfying. They also discovered that the peanut made excellent food for horses. They wondered why they had never discovered these facts before, and, in thinking the matter over, they remembered how fond the negroes had always been of the little "ground peas," as they are often called even yet In Virginia, and how fat the little pickaninnies always were when the peanuts were bing picked. When the war was oer and thes soldiers went home to their battle-wasted plantations and began looking round for a way to bring a living out of the barrenness which they found, some of them thought of the peanuts. They borrowed some seed nuts from the negroes and planted their fields to peanuts, and without any knowledge of how to raise the crop, and little available labor for cultivating it, they succeeded in making a good crop the first year. That vas the beginning. Peanuts have been valuable as a marketable commodity in America from that time. At first only the common people used the nuts, but there happened to be enough of that class of society to make peanut raising profitable from the start, and since then common sense

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OPINIONS OF WASHINGTONS? ZOOlOGICAt? EXPERTS Do animals reason? It I.h a question that 1ms absorbed 5 i'utit with increasing interest ever giiM-e the days when Prof. (lamer ensconced himself ii a cage in the Junv of Darkest Africa and attempts b converse with the resident monkeys. According to the professor's reports, the aiie whose acquaintance ho made during his vfsit not only reasoned, but had a well-defined language of their own. ami the learned man went to far us to surest a monkey grammar, had be only patience enough to jungle his time, encaged In that far-off land. Prof. (Jarner's opinions, however, havt 1on regarded by conservative scientists as more the result of enthusiasm and vivid imagination than abso lute fact. Hut while zoologists have taken his statements with a grain of alt. bis investigations into the reason ing power of animals aroused an in terest never felt before. Curators and ATCHISON GLOBE SIGHTS. Many worthy people have poor taste. Don't be fanatical. It is a form of insanity. By affinity is meant the first man who asks. Watch the individual who uses "I said" too freely. "I earn all I get," is an expression you frequently hear married women use. "The men." the womeare fond of saying "have no sense.".." Some people can only attract attention by slamming door3. Women hate each other if they fail to kiss when they meet. How rapidly time flie3 from the day when a man distinguishes himself! One of a boy's 3rst ambitions is to get all the fiiod chicken he can eat. It is a rare man who can pay the fiddler without making his wife help. Occasionally a smart man Is met with, and it is a joy to hear him talk.

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keepers of all the great gardens throughout the world have since that time devoted themselves to the solution of the problem do animals reason? There are no wiser men in America than those who have charge of the Na tional (larden in Washington, and among them there is none whose knowl edge is more extended than that of Mr. P.lackburn. head keeper of the Zoo. who for thirty years has devoted his time to the cape and study of every kind of creature, from the lizard to the lion. "Yes, I have read all the nature faker stories," he said. "Hut I have yet to learn, after all my pxirient just what Is meant by 'instinct as distinguished from reasons. Scientists dofine instinct as inherited habit,' or. us another learned professor of psychology puts it. 'the blind pursuing of a means "to an end.' All this is too lechnical for me. I cannot see the difference between a man going under the shade of a tree to get out ul the hot sun, and a deer who grazes In the meadow during day, going into the mountain crags to sleep, where it knows It will bo safe from the lowland wolves. The man certainly reasons that under the shade of the tree he will bo protected from the heat of the sun; why can It be said that the deer reasons less when it seeks a sleeping place secure from its enemies? Why should one be called Instinct and the other reason? "The animals of the cat tribe stay hidden by day. They can not only see Every man has his asking price, and his selling prico. Don't give picnics; be a guest, and make fun of the management. After a man has been a rabbit a great many years it is difficult to turn lion. If a man behaves himself, people say he is cunning, and hides his meanness. People do many things that they do not like to do, that they do not need to do. The man is a dandy who can be licked in a fair fight and still not complain. Until a woman is able to tie a horse properly she should talk lcs3 about voting. The tariff may be oppressive, but all of us spend a great deal of money foolishly. Never agree with the grouch; he wants everything and everybody to be disagreeable. Isn't it too had that onions are not good to eat? Onions are so cheap and plentiful

and experimentation upon, the nuts as an article of 'food have gradually broken down the prejudice against them. Now everybody eats peanuts, tnn small boy at the circus and the epicure in his home, and man and beast alike are benefited by the many used to which the humble, and for so long despised, little nut has teen put. Many people are surprised wheft they learn how many things are made from the peanut, and how many ways the little nuts themselves are eaten. Everybody is familiar with the "fresh-roasted" of the corner stand, and the automatic whistle, and with peanut candy of all kinds, and some kinds that are not supposed to be peanuts, such as nougat and "bucnt almonds." The recent popular confection known as salted peanuts is another way in which 300,000.000 pounds of peanuts which this country alone produces every year are consumed. Then there are all the so-called health foods peanut butter, peanut flour, from which bread and pastry of all kinds are made, peanut "coffeo' and "cocoa," peanut meal, which forms the foundation for patties and croquettes, and vegetarian "meat" rolls, and. lastly, peanut oil. If nothing else could be made from the peanut, It would still be a very profitable crop, for shelled peanuts yield from 38 to 42 per cent of oil, and peanut oil has so many uses that the manufacture of it is fast becoming a more important industry than the making of olive oil. The peanut vine or straw from which the nuts have been removed is of considerable value for the feeding of live stock. The ash from the shells used in the factory as fuel is valuable as a fertilizer, containing as much as 3 per cent of phosphoric acid, 9 per cent of potash and 6 per cent of lime. The thin brown envelopes of the peas have a feeding value almost equal to that of wheat bran. The cultivation of peanuts was until recently confined almost wholly to areas in Virginia, Tennessee, the Carolinas and Georgia, but during the last ten years It has spread throughout the South Atlantic States, and even as far west as California. The peanut plant, like the bean and the garden pea, has the power of collecting nitrogen from the atmosphere and storing it in little nodules upon its roots. For this reason it is one of the most desirable of soil-renovating and soil-Improving plants. It Is necessary, however, with a view to this end, that the main portion of the roots shall be left in the ground. If this be done, the nitrogen accumulated in a season by the means described will have a fertilizing value of ?, or an acre. Peanuts give an average yield of thirty-four bushels to the acre, but it Is believed by government experts that the output can be increased to fifty or even sixty bushels by selecting superior seed from season to season.

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better at night, and therefore take their i rey with greater case, but they can lie saier ironi mcir iianuai i-m-mies. Among carnivorous animals. there has never been a cae known where a hungry creature attacked one that overmatched it in strength. "Generally speaking." said Mr. P.lackburn, "I think there is hardly an animal here that does not reason, when occasion requires. For instance, we have whips hanging up throughout the different animal houses, with which to chastise refractory or stuhltorn leasts. It is but a short tin;e before a new animal comes to know the meaning of the whip, and generally all that is necessary for a keeper to do is to reach toward the hook on which the whip is hanging: the animal knows what that means, and does what he has before refused to do. It seems to me that is reasoning." Lions and tigers, according to Mr. Blackburn, exhibit little reasoning power, except in the matter of getting something to eat. Snakes exhibit the smallest degree of intelligence, and iu the smaller species seem hardly to have sense enough to get their food. Clyde Powers, with twenty years of circus experience in the training of every kind of animal, except Teddy bears, expresses wonder that any one should doubt the power of animals to reason.' "There are different grades of mental power in animals just as there are among the human race," he said. CLASSIC ENGLISH. "Nothing doing." Addison's "Letters." "Cut in and win." Thackeray's "Vanity Fair.' "Twenty-three." Dickens' "Tale of Two Cities." "Gone to the wall." Iiunyan's "Pilgrim's Progress." "Forget it cast it away." Hawthorne's "Marble Fawn.' "Make good.' Deuteronomy, which is a book in the Uible. "It's a sure thing." Goldsmith's "She Stoops to Conquer." "She was a respectable old guy." Thackeray's "Vanity Fair." Seven of a dozen samples of gluten feed recently analyzed at the New York experiment station were found to be artificially colored with dyes dangerous to stock. One of the newest Inventions for warfare is the French "cyclanche," a bicycle with steel shields to protect the rider and tires.

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'From my experience, I've decided that 'he four-footed highbrow is the elephant. Most animals do their tricks merely to get food, but the elephant goes through his stunts as a matter of duty; you cannot bribe him or force him by withholding Iiis rations. Flephants are also endowed with a sense of humor." P. ut Dr. Edmund P.. Southwick. the eminent New York bug scientist, goes far lieyond all others in his conclusions, and asserts reasoning jxnvers wen in insects a fact that will be admitted, however, by any one who has ever had a duel with an indignant bumblebee. Dr. Southwick cites a case of some brainy caterpillars that were taken out of a tree on a New York street, and in seeking to et back to their feeding j-round of leaves climbed the walls of adjacent houses. Finding nothing to eat up there, they concluded there was no use staying outdoors any longer, and they might as well ro into wlnte: quarters, although it was long lie fore the time they should have ceased filling, and spin their cocoons. Accordingly they wrappnl themselves up hi their webs, sjtent the winter there, and emerged in the spring as moths. This, thinks the scientist, was -onclu-sive evidence that the caterpillars had thought it all out for themselves. Asosan, in Southern Japan, has the largest volcanic crater in the world. It measures fourteen miles across one way. and more than ten miles the ctlier. Italy has seventeen tobacco factories. Ninety per cent of the operatives are women, who are paid on a piece system and earn from 4S to 5S cents a day. An Italian engineer has completed a small hydroplane capable of skimming the surface of the water at a rato of 125 miles an hour. Telephone communication between London and Madrid, via Paris, will, it is thought. be established by the end of this year. Trade of the United States with its non-contiguous territory in the tisral year 1915 exceeded that of any previous year and was more than three times as much as a decade ago. The theory of gravitation was advanced by Kepler in 1017, seventyyears before Newton announced his discovery. Italy uses every year 1.S00 tons of orange blossoms and 1,000 tons of roses in the manufacture of perfumery. Every year Denmark sends $1,000,000 worth of poultry and eggs to Engbnd. Twelve rases of cancer in England

i havo been traced to the use of X-rays.

1IY HIDE L 0 : j I BY PESTS 0 FARMS

Injurious Mammals and Insects Cost $789,000,000 Every Year. NATION IS SEEKING REMEDY. Magnitude of the Work of Agricul ture Department in Extermination of Destroyer. j In the message of President Itoose-! veit. transmitting a report of the Na- i tional Conservation Commission, which was sent to Congress last January, appears the astounding statement that "the losses to farm products duo to injurious mammals is estimated at $l."o.oooakxi annually, and the loss through Insects is reckoned at $(T9,UUO,000 an nually." These statements are confirmed by the Secretary of Agriculture and tin scientists of that department who have charge of such matters. It is assert ed that the prairie dogs in the State o' Texas alone eat as much grass ever: year as would feed a million and i half of cattle. There are estimated t be 4X.O0O,l)0o prairie dogs In Texas an average of twenty-live to the acre : and 200 dogs will eat as much gras as a steer. P.esidcs this, the value o' the land is very much injured by the dog, liecause they dig up the roots o the grass and destroy it. Then, whei they have cleaned out all the vegets: tion in their neighltorhood. they tuigrat to another section and continue tliei work of destruction. The result I that entire townships of land have bee; made barren by their ravages. Texas. Kansas. Colorado and other Western states have lioen working for years to destroy the dogs by means of poisoned wheat. West of the Mississippi river ground squirrels are exceedingly destructive, and cause the loss of many millions of dollars annually. In California r;lone every year they eat up about $2.000.000 worth of wheat, ami they carry the germs of diseases which can be communicated to human tielngs through the agency of fleas. The State of Washington is troubled in a similar manner. and spends $20.000 a year in fighting

the pests. ; kunks, weasels, badgers, foxes and Iu Nevada the agricultural sections J moles should be known and appreclatare being overrun with field mice. Injed, that their lives may be spared and Humboldt Valley last year the mice de- they be allowed to continue their good

stroyed 1Ö.OOO acres out of a total of 20.000 acres of alfalfa, so that the fields had to replowixl and replanted. "The rat continues, to cause enormous losses throughout the entire United States," Secretary Wilson says, "and during the past year an attempt ais made to ascertain the approximate damage done to property by this ro dent iu the cities of Waphington and Ilallimore. Many business men were interviewed, Including dealers In various kinds of merchandise, feeders of horses, managers of hotels and restaur ants and manufacturers. The Inquiries Included all sections of the two cities and Itoth small and large dealers. It Is estimated that the loss from rats in Washington is about $400,000 a year, and in Raltiinore upward of $700.000 i year. Assuming, as Is probable, that similar conditions obtain In all our cities of over 100,000 inhabitants, the damage by rats In these centers of pop-

MORE THAN HALF A MILLION TRAMPS NOW ROAMING ABOUT THE U. S.

T IS conservatively estimated that there is an army of at least 500,000 tramps In the United States. This figure is .calculated by taking as a basis the number of tramps killed on the railroads every year and multiplying It by the proportion of train men killed in the year compared to the total number of train men killed in the year compared to the total number of train men employed. But it is entirely probable that

the number at present reaches nearer 1,000,000 than 500,000, says the lieview of Reviews. Tin recent industrial depression added large accessions. Reports from railway agents throughout the country show that never in the history of the railroads was so large a number of tramps met with. A large proportion are youths ranging from 1C to 21 years of age. Beginning with a yearning for adventure, about one-half quit the nomadic life and return home, or settle down, while the remaining half become inveterate tramps and gradually tend from vagrancy into a career of crime and semi-crime. A very large percentage of tramps, however, are adults, and comprise every species from men who will not work or who have become chronically unfitted for work, to those who are Innocent victims of downright adversity that knocks and keeps them down. Both the charitable societies and the railroad corporations have long desired some practicable method of dealing' effectively with all aspects of the tramp problem. If it could be done the charitable societies would be relieved of a burdensome drain upon their time and resources, and railroads would benefit by the stoppage of the great losses and annoyances to which they have been subjected, while from a humanitarian standpoint the tramp would be given an opportunity to regain his standing in society. Hitherto all experiments have failed. The charitable societies and the railroads believe that they have at'last came upon a plan which is quite certain to prove efficacious. This plan is a transplanting, with certain modifications suitable to American conditions, of the tramp colony idea already in force in Holland, Belgium and Switzerland. Since the Instituting of these colonies vagrancy has been unknown iu those countries, and although they have certain features which cannot well be adopted in this country, the general plan of these European experiments will be followed.

NOTES FROM WORLD OF SCIENCE If a nail be dipped into oil before being driven into hard wood It will enter without splitting. Oiling a file used on soft metals will make it cut more smoothly and prevent it from clogging. Italy 13 to build four "Dreadnoughts" and several swift scout cruisers, at a total cost of $52,S0O,OO0. North Carolina, South Dakota, Colorado, Alabama and Virginia, in the order named, lead in the production of mica. In their writings the Chinese use at least 114 groups of sisus. each containing from five to 1,354 separate characters. France has followed the lead of the United States in the establishment of a laboratory for the investigation of mine accidt nts. Washington's coal output last year of 3.016,r.7 short tons was the smallest for any year sine- 1D05. New Mexico produced 2.4C7.937 short tons of coal last year, a decrease of a trifle more than C per cent from the output of 1007. Illinois has the greatest number of electric plants of any State, 09S; New York is second with 358, and Pennsylvania fhird with 34C. A sagging door may be raised so that it will no: ,-vrape the floor by inserting a small washer or two on the plu between the hinge halves

u'ation entails a direct loss of $20,000,oH) annually. This enormous sum gives an idea of the still greater total loss inflicted by this rodent throughout the length and breadth of the land. The olPeers of the biological survey s; 7 that the gopher also, does a great drr.l of damage to the crops, because it feeds upon the roots of plants and destroys great quantities of grain and garden steff. It also throws up mounds of earth, which bury the grass and other crops. (Gophers have recently proved a serious annoyance to the irrigation service by burrowing under the dams and embankments of the reservoirs and canals, causing expensive leaks and breaks. No animal, however, is more easily controlled by 'rays and poisons, and sit the request f the reclamation service the biological survey recently sent out men to de-

ise ways and method of trapping -'phers. so that now the animals are r.ictically exterminated upon the govrnnunt irrigation system, although hey are likely to (Mine back again if iiey are not looked after. It is imiosible to estimate the amount of dam'ge that they have done. Rabbits are also doing a good deal f damage, particularly In the fruit ountries. In Australia a few years igo they lioeame so numerous that the ! ntire iopulation used to join in rabbit ' drives and slaughter millions of them ! at a single meeting. Rabbits breed so rapidly that it is difficult to keep them down, but it has been discovered that an inexpensive whitewash made of lime and sulphur will protect orchard trees against rabbits for at least a year, when It must be renewed. Wolves and coyotes are being gradually exterminated on the Western plains. Secretary Wilson says that more than l.SOo wolves and about 24,ttOO coyotes were killed last year by locating their breeding dens and poisoning the j-oung. lie urges that this work be continued throughout the West so long as wild land exists In vast tracts vhere they can find safe harborage and reeding grounds. Hitherto the losss to stockmen have averaged ?20O,00O,Ut) a year from these animals, but he ays that by persistent effort and at a omparatively small cost they can be kept down so as to limit the damage lone by them to a minimum. In their relation toargriculture mamnal differ considerably from birds. Vv birds are so harmful that their vholesale destruction is called for, in ce, by devouring destructive Insects, üost of them render a full equivalent Vr any mischief they may commit. uch Is by no means true of mammals. V few are very beneficial, and the usefulness of such servants of man as bats. work. Every year witnesses an Increase In the ,iumler of sportsmen who pursue our game birds, every species of which plays a more or less important part In destroying Insect life and preserving the balance of nature; and. this, too, while the reclamation of vast tracts of wild land for agriculture and other purposes encroaches on the breeding grounds of game birds, which are thus gradually becoming fewer In numbers, while the demand for them becomes greater and greater. Many of our insectivorous birds are also killed for food, despite the fact that state laws almost everywhere prohibit such slaughter. With these and other forces acting against the welfare of our birds. It becomes doubly important to use every means In our power not only to prevent the reduction of useful species, but to increase their numbers whenever and wherever possible. A novelty is a glove containing a purse in the palm, fastening with the usual clasp, to prevent loss of the con tents. Into the trade school at Liege, Belgium, there has been introduced a course in cigarmaking, fostered by government subsidy. Shellac will be more pliable and will spread more easily If a small amount ef gum camphor be added to It. Tests by an Eastern railroad have demonstrated that it Is possible for a single locomotive to haul over C.100 tons. A windmill successfully drives a dynamo in an English mill, even when the wind blows us slowly as six milos an hour. The deaths of 5,000 young children a year in Nov York are attributed to germs carried about and deposited upon food by Hies. A record for long distance direct telegraphy recently was established between London and Karachi, India. Of the world's average annual emery production of about 35,000 tons, about 0,000 tons come from the Greek island of .Naxus. v France's cider crop last year totaled 4 4", 750.H32 gallons, as against 72.S05.000 gallons in 1007 and 574,034,000 gallons in 1006. There is more steel in the hull alone of the newest American battleship than in an entire vessel of the cruiser Drookbyn type.

TAFT RENEWS PLEDGE.

Intention of Administration to I'ollow Conservation Policies. In a speech at Colorado Springs rresident Taft emphasized the indention of the administration to follow the policies laid down by Theodoru Itooscvelr. with reference to the conservation of resources, including the reclamation of land, preservation of forests and deepening cf water ways. 113 also repeated the pledge of his administration to put on the statute books such additional legislation as is necessary from time to time to regulate railroads and industrial corporations. The President said: "We are entering upon an era of prosperity that I hope will be exceptional even in the history of our prosperity, but in doing so we must be careful not to forget the obligation there is upon us to adopt such legislative measures in State and nation as shall prevent a recurrence of the abuses which were brought so plainly to the .mind of the people by my predecessor, Theodore Roosevelt. "It is easy when you are comfortable, and when the income is coming in, to think that everything Is all right, but it is just about that time when the sappers and miners begm their work on the foundations of society with reference to the abuses to which I have referred. "And this administration is pledged I with the aid of the people to put on ! the statute books such additional letv islation as "shall clinch the advance in I the standards of business and in the aianagement of railroads and Industrial corporations which were set p by my predecessor in his talks to the people and in his messages to Congress. "I think we have made great advances under his influence, but we must not stop. He took up the question of conservation of our resources, including the reclamation of land, the preservation of forests, the deepening of our water ways, and pledged all his efforts In the direction of a scientific solution of these questions. Such a policy can't be brought to a culmination in one administration or two or three. All that each one can say while he Is responsible is that his best efforts will be devoted to carrying out these policies, not only to devoting the government s attention, but also In cncouraginfe the use of private capital and private effort in the same direction." The railroads are striving to gain every pound of freight they possibly nn wVioti the rrnns o f the West beirin to move Eastward. Surplus cars are rushed toward the Mississippi and Missouri valleys, and efforts are made to cover the sections in which serious car shortages have been experienced. According to the American Railway Association there were 139,424 idle cars in the country on August 18, the date of the latest report. This was a decrease of 93,579 over the correspond ing date of last year. The most important decrease was In box cars. amounting to 21,141 There are about 80,000 surplus box cars now. of which half are in Iowa, Illinois, Wisconsin. Minnesota and the Dakotas. A large percentage of tha' remainder is in other agricultural districts awaiting the appearance of grain at the eleva tors. TK. MnlnltAnnfn ftf Vi V j,n fliiit1na to the state of business is made apiwrpnt hv a frlane. at the statistics of a J.. 4 - 1 tl-... tue AUimcau rv.au a Asjuuauuu. . , , , . , , ne recorus snow inai in Apru, nearly a nan million cars were siana-

lng upon the side tracKs or tne rau-j using them until rid of every syxnproads. By August this number had torn of kidney trouble. During the

been reduced to 253.003. Business was reviving, merchandise was moving and the companies were beginning to con sider the handling of the greatest crops so far produced in America. ot of Crime to the South. The Southern States have a coast line of 3,007 miles as against the roast line of the Northern Atlantic States of 8SS miles, and of the Pacific coast of 1,557 miles. In the matter of Im ports goods coming to America for distribution the three great ports of Boston. Philadelphia and New York have increased in eicht vears 29 ner cent. The southern ports have ina ia.) creased 02 per cent. The rivers of the south navigable are more than two to one when compared with any other portion of the United States. Within the Southern States is grown all that men need to wear or eat that can be grown from the north temperate to the semitropics The South has the cheapest land In the country. How much of our possibilities can be made cf no effect by a reputation for not punish ing crime? Left a Xante Ilehlnd. Daniel Hello, Jim! Who be yew adlgging that 'ole for? Jim Old Lawyer Skinner e died yesterday. Daniel Oh, what complaint? Jim Not a word o complaint. Fam ily rather pleased than otherwise. Ally Sloper's. The One Inception. "Isn't your climate rather change able? "Yes." answered Farmer Corntosscl. 'I reckon we have about every kind of weather' there is, except good weather." Washington Star. o Inducement. The Man Why don't you go to Sun day SchDol any more? The Doy 'Aw! didn't dey have dey're picnic a'ready? Wlirrrlii Tliey Differ. Jack Widows are wiser than maids In one respect, at least. Tom What's the answer? Jack They never let a good chance go by, thinking that a better one will come their way. '"ill- Informed. "Do you ever have any secrets from your wife?" "No," answered Mr. Meekton. "I have sometimes thought 1 had, but I always found out my mistake." Wash ington Star. What Jim in I Would Have Dono. Jimmic giggled when the teacher read the story of the Roman who swam across the Tiber throe times be fore treakfast. "You do not doubt a trained swim mer could do that, do you, James?" "Xo, sir," answered Jimmie; "but I wondered why he didn't make it four and get back to the side his clothes were on." Success. A tterman company in V'cuador cleared $117,571 in one year in cocoa production, with a capital of 5170,000.

TO LIVE rOKEVZH.

Thomas Edison has perfected a storage battery which he says will last Indefinitely and revolutionize the present propelling power. Prof. Munyon says it is only a question of time until a remedy is discovered that will supply the waste of the human body, eo that one may live on almost indefinitely, barring accidents. Thi3 seems almost too good to be true, but nothing seems to be impossible 'a these days when we consider the flying machine and the wireless telegraph. , Prof. Munyon has certainly revolutionized the practice of medicine. He does not believe In building hospitals for consumptives. He says that consumption can always be traced to a cold. Cure a cold and you prevent consumption. His Cold and Cough Remedy will break up almost any form of a cold In a few hour3 and positively prevent Bronchitis and Pneumonia. To convince the medical world and people In general of the truth of hla claims he has distributed millions of vials of the Cold Cure, absolutely free. from the leading newspaper offices throughout the country, and the cures that have been reported from Its use have been most astonishing. These little sugar pellets dontain no 'opium, morphine, cocaine or any harmful drug. They seem to relieve the head, throat and lungs almost immediately. In order that no one may be de prived of this remedy he has placed It with all the druggists throughout the United States for the small sum of 3 cents, or sent postpaid 6n receipt of price, and with each bottle he gives this guarantee: "If Munyon'a Cold and Cough Cure does not do all that Is claimed for It, I will refund your money." There are four advantages In taking Munyon's Remedies. First, they -r absolutely harmless. Second, they are pleasant to take. Third, they relieve almost immediately. Fourth-, they cost nothing unless they give satisfaction. Munyon's Guide to Health sent free on request. Munyon Remedy coPhlladelphla. Pa. A Hani and Fa( Pnrtjr M. Some women want the suffrage and some jo not. Some, moreover, whether they want' It or not. do not need it. Of the latter class was the woman of whom a writer in the Universellst I Leader tells. a matron of the most determined I character was encountered by a young j woman reporter on a country paper. who was sent out to interview leading l . I . "II... T see air. : sue asKea oi a siem-ioo-I r 1 1 1 . J A 1 1IdS woman who opened the door at one house. "No, you can't," answered the ma tron, decisively. "But I want to know what party he belongs to!" pleaded the girl. The woman drew up her tall figure. 'Well, take a good look at me." she said, "I'm the party he belongs to." STEADILY GREW WORSE. A Trplcal Tale of Suffering from Slclc Ktdaer. Mrs. L. C. Fridley, 1034 N. Mate St, Delpho?, Ohio, says: "Five or bIx years ago I began , to suffer with kidney trouble and grew steadily worse until my health was all broken down. For weeks I was in bed and could not turn over without being helped. My back was stiff and 1 ??f j 'r' paiuiui, rea I and i an mi M artA vhtn T -o -Ma I O-- . v. " " IW i ,. T ,1 , . . I "UUU I.UUIU UVSb UU LU J V 111 n. Xne first . Doan's Kldner Pills helped me so much that I kent on past three years I have enjoyed excellent health." Remember the name Doan's. Sold by all dealers. 50 cents a box. FosterMilburn Co.. Buffalo. N. Y. What Ailed Dar 31ar. Daysey ilayme Appleton was read ing a newspaper last night when suddenly she gave a scream and fell to the floor In a dead faint. Now, ac cording to the looks and tradition Daysey Mayme fainted because she read the announcement of an - old sweetheart's marriage or death (and it would turn out aterward. accord ing to the books and tradition, that he was a cousin of her old sweetheart by the ame namf- ral, Ilfe if unlike the books and tradition. Lpon being revived Daysey Mayme related thftt she hosiery advertised for 27 cents lnat sne had paid 3". cents for the day before. Atchison r.iobe. A Rare Good Thlnu. "Am using Allen's Foot-Iiase, and an truly say I would not have been T'ithout it so lone, had I known the relief H. would give my a?hing feet. I think it a rar? rood thing for anyone having fore or tired feet -Mrs. Matilda lloltwett. Providence, y I." Sol 1 by all Druggists, :;c. Ask to-di Vsder Certain Clrruiulr. "Is it true, doctor," asked the sumrii mer girl, "that eating cucumbers remove freckles?" Of course," replied Dr. Kidder. 'la certain circumstances. 'Really! What circumstances?" Well, provided the freckles are on the cucumbers." Answers. All Up-to-Data HoaeUeeper Red Cross Ba.ll Blue. It tasks tbm clothes clean aod sweet as wbsa ntw. Ail Utoctrt. , - j Too Expensive. It is an elementary although a genuI ine kind of humor that prompts a man to make a ridiculous remark In a serious manner. The fun increases If thi remark is taken at its face value. A case in point is that of a gentleman, who. according to a writer In thi Twiggs County Citizen, was talking t a crowd on the street about shlnglinf a house. "The old rule." he said, "was to allow sir inches of the ehlngle to show U the weather, but that is too much. Yoa really oughtn't to let more than foul Inches show." Some wag asked In a matter-of fact voice: "How would It do not to let anj show?" "I've seen roofs made that way," r plied the other, not thinfeing. "but Y. Ukes a great many slilncles." n I'A.. o a

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