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M in is te r T ells of Finding a Lost Ring in a Sw eet Potato.

T he Rev. J . E. Curry, p asto r of the t l r s t P resb y te rian church in Cran- |>ury, N. J ., vouches for the following: Com e y ears ago Miss Brown, now the jwife of th e Rev. H. H. Sleeper, rector o f G race Episcopal church in Eliza­b e th , N. J ., lo st her m other’s wedding r in g , as sh e supposed in th e saw dust O f th e gym nasium attached to the fBrainerd in stitu te in Cranbury. One Way, when th e incident had been for­g o tten , Mrs. Brown’s se rvan t w as pre ­p a r in g for d inner sw eet potatoes, which b a d ju s t been brought in from the gar­d e n . She noticed one w ith a peculiar b an d around the center, m aking it ap­p e a r as though two potatoes had grown togeth e r. She laid i t aside to show it to her m istress. Som ething about the sh ap e of the band a ttrac ted Mrs. B row n’s a tten tio n a t once, and inves­tig a tio n revealed the fact th a t it was th e long-lost wedding ring, badly ta r ­n ished , yet whole as the day it was lo s t. A little reflection solved the m ystery . T he ring had been lost, not In th e gym nasium , bu t in the chip y a rd , from which the ro ttin g particles w e re taken to enrich the sw eet potato b ills . One of the young tubers had g ro w n through the cen te r of the ring a n d thus brought it to th e light and re sto red i t to its place on Mrs. Brown’s linger, w here it is now worn w ith g re a te r joy th an ever.—New York T rib u n e .

BARGAIN COUNTER FARE.

W om an Bought Quickly the T icket M arked $1.49.

Sue was a short, stou t woman, w ith nu m ero u s parcels, and when she en ­te re d the Grand Central s ta tion she w a s puffing so audibly th a t a drowsy m a n on a se a t jum ped up, th ink ing it w a s the tra in he was w aiting for. ^ teach in g th e ticke t window she stack ­e d h e r parce ls on th e floor, opened her m oney bag and said to th e ag en t w ith­i n : ,

“ W hen does the nex t tra in fo r Sleepy C o rn e rs leave?”

“A t 3:15, m adam ,” replied the « g e n t.

“How fa r is it th ere?”“A bout sixty-five m iles.”

' “ W hat does a single tick e t cost?” ‘“One-forty-nine, m adam .” “One-forty-nine?” she repeated.

■“ How does th a t happen?”“ W ell, m adam , I guess th e price is

«narked down from $1.50.”Sm iling sw eetly, she handed in the

m oney and grabbed the tick e t w ith an -eagerness th a t proclaim ed h er appre­c ia tio n of a bargain.—New York Press,

Tim e for the Doctor.“N urse, has the baby had a good

«lose o f cas to r oil ?”“ Yes, m a’am .”“And those hyphophosphates?”“ Yes, m a’am .”“ And th e m agnesia?”“Yes, m a’am .”“ Did you put a poultice on his back?’- “ Yes, m a’am .”“ And a cold com press on his ch es t?” “Yes, m a’am .”

‘“And he’s no b e tte r?”‘“No, m a’am."“ How strange! I guess w e’d better

se n d for the doctor.”—Town Topics.

Gave Him the Limit.“ ‘How did the hazing come o u t?”

*asl:ed the rah-rah boy.“Fine and dandy,” replied the flag-

"On-the-cane lad. “He cried like a baby befo re th e finish.”

"W hat did you do to h im ?”“ Made him w ear a straw h a t down

Uovvn."—Chicago Journal.

Cupid’s R ehearsal.He— You didn’t seem sta rtled when

ft proposed to you.”She— No, I have so often dream ed

t h a t you proposed to me.—D etroit Freo B ress .

All Right Again.Opal, Wyo., May 16—After suffer-

tn g terrib ly for four or five years. Mr. A . J . K ohner of th is place has been com plete ly restored to good health. H is case and its cure is ano ther proof -of th e wonderful work Dodd’s Kidney B ills can do. Mr. Kohner says :

“ F o r four o r five years I have been « su fferer w ith Kidney trouble and a p a in over my Kidneys. I thought I w o u ld give Dodd’s K idney Pills a trial a n d I am glad I did so, for they have <lone me good work and 1 feel all right a g a in .”

M any cases are being reported -every w eek in which Dodd’s Kidney B ills have effected cures of the most ^serious cases.

T hese strong testim onials from earn ­e s t m en and women are splendid trib ­u te s to the curative properties of l>odd’s K idney P ills, and judging by T hese letters , th ere is no case of Kid­n e y trouble or B ackache th a t Dodd’s K id n ey Pills will not cure promptly a n d . perm anently.

A Joyous Game.“ W hat is a revolution?” asked the

tea c h e r.“ A revolution,” said th e w ise schol­

a r . “ is‘ a South A m erican gam e."—Chi­c a g o Post.

Evils of Eating Alone^---------- — ---------

There are some few happily dispos­ed individuals, says the London L an­cet, who can dine alone, and not eat too fast, nor too much, nor too little. W ith the m ajority it is different.

The average m an pu ts his novel or his paper before him, and thinks th a t he will lengthen out the meal with due deliberation by reading a little with, and more betw een, the courses. He will ju st employ h is mind enough to help, and too little to in terfere with indigestion. In -fact, he will provide th a t gentle m ental accom plishm ent which with happier people conversa­tion gives to a meal. This is your soli­ta ry ’s excellent idea. In reality he becomes engrossed in w hat h e ‘ is reading till, suddenly finding his chop cold, he dem olishes it in a few m outh­fuls; o r else he finds th a t he is hun­gry, and paying no a tten tion to the book, which he flings aside, he rushes through his food as fast as possible, to plunge into his arm chair and lite ra ­ture afterw ard. In e ither case the lonely man m ust digest a t a disadvan­

tage. For due and easy nutrition food should be taken slowly and the mind should not be intensely exercis­ed during th e process.

E very one knows that violent bodily exercise is bad ju s t after a m‘eal, and m ental exertion is equally so. Wise people do not even argue during or ju s t a fte r dinner, and observation of a fte rd in n er speakers neither endure them selves nor excite in their hear­ers any severe intellectual effort. In fact, th e experience of countless gen­erations, from the red Indian of the woods to .the white-shirted diners of a m odern party , has prepetuated the lesson th a t a man should not eat alone, nor th ink much a t th is time, but should ta lk and be talked to while he feeds. Most people do not th ink much when they talk, and talk ing is a n a tu ra l accom panim ent of eating and and drinking. How does it fare with the m any solitary women of to-day? No b e tte r we know than w ith the men, but differently. Alone or not, a m an m ay generally be trusted a t any tim e to take food enough.

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Grow of RosesIn the m inds of m any people a

breath of th a t subtle yet powerful perfume, a tta r of roses, conjures up thoughts of far-away Turkey and the orient. As a m atte r of fact, however, it is in La Belle France th a t one finds the rose gardens of the world whence comes by far the g rea ter p art of our supply of rose oil, the base of th is de­lightful odor.

These extensive flower gardens are situated on the southern slopes of the m aritim e range of the Alps bordering on the beautiful blue M editerranean in the vicinity of Nice. As no ra in falls here from M arch till Septem ber the clim ate is adm irably adapted to the industry. For m iles and m iles nothing can be seen except a v ista of flowers gardens. T hat the flower in­dustry is an old one is proved by the fact th a t in the village of G rasse one firm has had a factory for the m anu­facture of perfum es since 1768. W om­en äs well as men work on the flower fa rm s ,, which are not owned by the

big m anufactories, but by sm all farm ­ers who sell the flowers by the pound to the m anufacturers.

About 7,000 plants are required to each acre in the rose gardens and these yield about 50,000 pounds of roses. The gardens require a sunny slope and much irrigation. The bushes are cut down to the ground each year and the plants a tta in an enorm ous age. The flowers are picked each m orning while the dew is on them , because it is then th a t they re ­tain th e ir perfum e.

D uring the blossoming season many tons of roses are taken to the factories in g reat baskets, where they are dumped into big copper s tills which hold half a barrel of w ater each. Then comes the distilling process which resu lts in rose w ater. The rose w ater itse lf is afterw ard distilled, and on toj> of the fluid which arises from th is process float oily drops. These are very precious, for they are the essen tia l oil of the rose which is known as a tta r or otto of roses.

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Dogs Rich Man’s HobbyVery many wealthy men of the

United S ta tes go in a g reat deal for the p leasures th a t th e ir hounds and dogs afford them , but perhaps no ken ­nels are kept in b e tte r order than those owned and built by W illiam G. Rockefeller, of Greenwich, Conn. On a lovely slope overlooking the sound are located these excellent quartiers for the Rock Ridge beagles, for th a t’s the breed th a t the secretary of the Standard Oil company adm ires, while there are some Am erican fox hounds' also in the kennels.

The Rock Ridgo pack is m ade up of English and American bred beagles, largo sum s having been paid to E ng­lish owners of hunting packs, notably Mr. T. Johnson, of W hitchurch, Shrop­shire, a famous owner of 14-inch Stud Book beagles.

W hat s trikes the v isito r m ost a t Rockefeller farm while going over the kennels is the splendid condition in

which they are kept. They are aî clean as the day they w ere completed some th ree or four years ago, notwith stand ing th a t they have been con stan tly the home of half a hundred oi m ore beagles of all ages. They are under the superintendence of Joseph Lewis, who has been am ong dogs all his life.

W ell heated with ctoves and othei appliances, the dogs lack no comfort th e re being separate puppy quarters, a hospital arranged in the m ost ap proved way, while the m edicine de p artm en t would not disgrace the es tablishm ent of a leading veterinary surgeon. Even the d ir t of the kennel is destroyed by a pa ten t furnace.

All beagles of an age are exercised and hunted every week day throughout the season. W ith keen noses and beautiful voices they m ake the sw am ps about resound w ith their mu­sic.

Come to Free AmericaA recent consular report gives in ­

teresting im m igration figures. From 1818 to 1903—eighty-five years—the num ber of im m igrants was 21,265,723, or the equivalent of one-fourth of the total, population to-day. Of all th is num ber the United Kingdom, which includes the heavy Irish inflow, contri­buted 32 per cen t; Germ any con tri­buted 24 per cen t; Austria-H ungary, Italy, Russia and Poland furnished 21 per cent. But these la s t nam ed coun­tries in 1903 furnished 68 per cen t of the imm igration. Europe has sen t us 93 per cent of our im m igration, th e w estern hem isphere 4V6 per cent and China and all o ther A siatic countries, Oceanica and Africa, 2% per cent. The heaviest im m igration of Irish in one year was in 1853, when 162,649 came. Tho next largest from Ireland was in 188S, when 75,513 came. L ast year only 35,300 Irish came. T he high-

German Im migration Increases.S tatistics for the last year show

that 36,310 native Germ ans left their country to live abroad. T he vast m a­jority came to th is country. T his is a considerable increase over 1902 and 1901.

est figures for the E nglish were 82,394 in 1882. In 1854 215,009 Germ ans cam e and in 1882 250,630. From 1866 to 1873 the German im m igration aver­aged 120,000 a year. L ast year it was only 40,086. Its decline in the last ten years has been m arked. The in­com ing Italians las t year reached th e ir h ighest figures, being 230,622. They passed the 100,000 m ark in 1900 and what num bers they may a tta in can only be guessed at, for the tide is running high and chiefly from southern Italy and the islands. L ast year the R ussian im m igration

^am ounted to 136,093, while from A ustria-H ungary th ere cam e 206,011. T he im m igration from the Scandina­vian peninsula and the northern parts of Europe, which we have alw ays con­sidered the most desirable, has so fallen off as to cease to be much of a factor in the com parisons.—Indianap­olis News.

United S ta tes Navy.M easured by fighting streng th , in­

stead of by tonnage, th e American navy is now really m ore form idable than th a t of Germany or France, and therefore, rauks nex t to th a t of Eng­land.

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••Peruna has been used so tong" In our family that I do not know how I could get along without I t I have given It to all o f m y children at different times when they suffered with croup, colds and the many ail­ments that children are subject to, and am pleased to say that It has kept them In splendid health. I have also used It for a catarrhal difficulty of long standing and it cured me In a short time, so / have r every reason to praise Peruna.Mrs. K. Kane. *

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One o f th e g rea tes t foes w ith w hich every fam ily has* to contend is our changeable clim ate. To pro tec t th e fam ily from colds and coughs is a lw ays a serious problem , and o ften impossible.

Sooner o r la te r i t is th e inevitable fa te of every one to catch cold. Care in avoiding exposure and th e use of proper c lo th ing w ill p ro tec t from th e fre ­quency and perhaps th e severity of colds, b u t w ith th e g rea tes t of p recautions th ey w ill come. T his is a se ttled fact of hum an experience. Everybody m ust expect to be cau g h t som ewhere or som ehow.

Perhaps i t w ill be w e t feet, o r a d rau g h t, o r dam p clothes, or i t m ay be one of a thousand o th er l it t le m ishaps, b u t no one is shrew d enough to alw ays avoid th e inevitable catch ing cold.

T here is. no fac t of m edical science b e tte r know n th a n th a t P e runa cures ca ta rrh w herever located. Thousands of fam ilies in a ll p a rts of th e United S tates are protected from colds and ca ta rrh by Peruna. Once in th e fam ily Peruna alw ays stays. No home can

I Mrs. A. Hobson, 225 W ashington I St., Lansing, Mich., w rites:

• •Peruna has been such a blessing , to m y only child, as well as myself, that I feel Induced to give m y testi­monial. He has always suffered from catarrh of the head and throat, and I had to use extra precautions so as not to have him exposed to damp or cold weather. Last year he was taken with la grippe, and as it was a severe case, caused me much anxiety. No medicine helped him till be took Peruna. I noticed an improvement at once and In three weeks he was a different child; the grippe had been com­pletely cured and I noticed that the catarrh was made better. He kept taking it two weeks longer, when he waa entirely well. I now use It off and on for colds, crampSf indi­gestion or general Indisposition, and find It superior to any doctors or medicine I ever tried. It keeps me, ! aa well as my child, In perfect health, and I gladly recommend It' to mothers.”—-Mrs. A. Hobson.

spare P eruna a f te r th e first tr ia l of it.We have on file m any thousand te s ti­

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