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n’ v- - *va HEALTHFUL, DELICIOUS ‘ and CLEANLY PREPARED ‘ r CEYLON NATURAL GREEN Tea is all will displace Japan Teas just as “SALADA” Black is displacing all other black teas. 25c and 40c per lb By all sealed lead packets. grocers. if N. iVERY ODD METHODS OF TILL- ‘ ING THE SOIL. Forty Acres of Pine Stumps Clear- ed at One Explosionâ€"Elec- trifying Seeds. . The crops last year in the southern part of Berks Couty, Pennsylvania, were magnificent, while those in the surrounding districts were burnt up by drought. The president of the )Berkshire Agricultural Society atâ€" tributed the excellence of the har- Vest over this particular tract of country to the heavy blasting which ‘had been in progress all the year through at the Trappe Rock quar- ries, in the centre of the district. These blasts were almost invariably followed by showers of rain over the surrounding country over a radius of ten to twenty miles in diameter. Beyond that area there had been litâ€" tle moisture during the summer. Explosives play a far larger part in farming than most people imagine There are now over 1,500 hail-lightâ€" ing stations in the vineâ€"growing dis- tricts of Europe, principally ‘ North Italy and the South of France. At each of these are sever; al â€" bell-mouthed cannons pointed straight up in the air. When a hailstorm approaches, charges of powder are fired, and the vortex rings which they create go whistling upwards from their muzzles and BREAK THE HEAVY CLOUDS. The result is usually that instead of a destructive hailstorm, there is merely a fall of rain, and so the tenâ€" der fruit is saved from destruction. Q There is a precipitous hillside on the Duke of Argyll’s estate of Tiree which was for years an eye-sore to the late Duke from its barren condiâ€" tion. It was too steep to permit of its being planted by any ordinary means. Some twenty years ago the head of a great firearm factory stay- ing with the Duke, suggested that seed might be fired like shot against the hillside. Two small cannons were procured, loaded with tree seeds in tins, and the contents fired against the precipice. The experiâ€" ment was crowned with complete Success, and to-day the once barren hillside is covered with evergreens. For many years past dynamite has been mod to get rid of the stumps of cutâ€"down trees from newlyâ€"cleared land. One ingenious i’armer in North Georgia repaid himself for his outlay on such work by mining forty acres of large pine stumps, connecting them by electric wires and then advertising a grand exploâ€" sion for a certain date. Thousands of spectators came by special trains. The farmer made them pay for admission to his proâ€" perty, sold them refreshments, and got a comfortable sum out of the railway company into the bargain. The sight of several thousands of stlumps flying into the air at the same moment, produced an absolute- ly unique effect, and the farmer not only paid expenses, but made a I-I‘A'NDSOME PROFIT AS .WELL. In Northern California there are large areas of stiff, red soil, very difficult to break up. Some years ago it occurred to a farmer named Ric.qu Ilateson to try the experimei of breaking some of this ground wi explosives. Dynamite Was the agen employed, because dynamite, unlike most other einIlosives, exerts its force dOanards. A number of small holes, not more than a foot deep, were drilled at regular interâ€" vals, small charges of dynamite in- serted, and fired by electricity. The result. far surpassed all expectations. The Whole surface was crumbled, and the crops of the first year were about thirty per cent. better than those raised on similar land which :had been broken up by a heavy gang plough. ’l‘he expense was very little great-- er than that entailed by the use of home or steam power, and the exâ€" pedient of breaking land by dyna- mite has now been very generally adopted. Another advantage of this method of cultivation is the. en- ormous slaughter of harmful insects. Modern farmers have adopted many peculiar expedients for incresing the yield of their fields. New inven- tions are making everything move faster nowadays, and agriculture is moving with the times. It has been found possible to create Spring in Winter time, and to make plants do 7what usually takes three months in ‘a few days. ( By confining plants in a greenhouse or other inclosed space and exposing them to the action of the vapours of ether and bendiine, they can be made to shed their leaven A LMO ST milltlfilDIATELY . ,Withln two dogs they are here. Threyl‘um'ed by Wings- in the uses of electricity to hurr . y [the growth of plants. {electrifying various seeds before sow- ling them, and then planting It Then I tried Do-dd's Kidney Pills and th they cured me. t out them in the house.” the stroke'of the armed paw dashes the horror aside, flinging it mangled into the dust. gNevertheless, pussy 'does not yet dare to spring; the enemy, still alive, has almost instantly reformed his coll, but she is again in front of him, watching vertical pupil against vertical pupil. Again the dashing stroke; again the beautiful counter- ing; again the living death, is hurled aside, and now the scaled skin is deeply torn, one eye socket has ceasâ€" ed to flame. Once more the stroke of the serpent; once more the light, quick, cutting blow. But the tri- gonocephalus is blind, is stupefied. Before he can attempt to coil pussy has leaped upon him, nailing the horrible flat head to the ground with her two sinewy paws. Now let him lash, writhe, strive to strangle her. In vain. He will never lift his head; an instant more and he lies still; the keen teeth of the cat have severed the vertebra just behind the triangu- lar skull. ,. ., pure tea, and It is sold only in are then exposed to the open air for two days, after which they re ceive a second vapour bath lasting forty-eight hours. After this they can at once be placed in a forcing house, and flowers and fruit which in the ordinary course of events would not have appeared till May or June may -thus be secured three months earlier. I A series of very interesting experiâ€" ments have been recently conducted 5Lâ€"â€"â€".-- TEACHING A DOG TO READ. The intelligence of animals seems, as a rule, to be underrated rathte than overrated. An English dog breeder described the other day a wonderful collie that had belonged to Lord Avebury. “This dog,” he said, “would, when it Was hungry, lay at his master’s feet a card marked ‘Food.’ When it was thirsty it would fetch a card marked 'Drink.’ When it wanted to take a walk it- would being a card marked ‘Out.’ Lord Avebury trained it to do this trick in less than a month.' He put the food card over the dog’s food and made it bring the card to him before he would allow it to eat, and in the matter of drinking and going out he used a like method. The cards were similar in shape and colâ€" or; nothing but the writing on them differed. Since, therefore, the dog distinguishes them by the writing alone, it may be said that the ani- mal could read.” At Kew Gar- :dens the experiment was tried of ' them lside by side with other seeds not lelectriiled. The former came up lfirst, and made distinctly better plants than the others. In Belgium the electrician Lagrange itried another method of electrical farming. I'Ie sank a quantity of galvanised wire netting a foot or so below the surface, and arranged a number of pointed metal rods conâ€" nected with the 'wire netting, and sticking straight up eighteen inches above the surface, in order to gather [atmospheric electricity and carry it ldown to the roots of the crop. Po- ltatoes were planted on top of the wire, and when the crop was dug. Catarrh Cannot Be Cured . ' ' with LOCAL AI’I’I ICATIONS, as the in" was found that the ‘elgctnfied cunnot- reach the Jscat of the discasg ground had DI‘OdUCOd 1811 {â€"1501 and Catarrh is n. blood or constitutional disease, and in order to cure it you must take internal remedies. Hall's Catarrh Cure is taken internally, and acts directl on the blood and muccus surfaces. l'oll’s Catarrh Cure is not u quack medicine. 1t was prescribed by one of the best physicians in this coun- try for years and is o. regular prescrip- tion. It is composed of the best. tonics known, combined with the best blood purifiers, acting directly on the mucous surfaces. The perfect combination of the two In redients is what produces such wonder ul results in curing Catarrh. Sand for testimonials free. F. J. CHENEY 5:. 00., Props, . Toledo, 0. Sold by druggists, price 75c. Hall's Family l'llls are the best. finer potatoes than those grown in similar but nonâ€"electrified soil. But farmers must be very careful in the employment of electricity. Some plants are actually injured by it, especially when grown under elecâ€" tric light. Carrots, for instance, will not bear electric light, and spin- ach, beans and cress show doubtful results. Lettuce, however, is great- ly benefited by having electric light Shining on it for half of each night. By turning an electric current into the soil for eight hours out of each twenty-four, the yield of turnips can be increased 40 per cent., and of strawberries and raspberries as much as 75 per cent.â€"Pearson’s Weekly. ..__.___¢..__ EVIDENUE FROM UAMPBELLB‘DHD JAMES ATWELL’ S BLADDER TROUBLE CURED BY DODD’S KIDNEY PILLS. CURIOUS SUI’EBSTITION. A correspondent of the Field men- tions a curious superstition respectâ€" ing bees dying on the death of their owuer. "I have been," he writes, “to the sale of the effects of a gentle- man who died about a fortnight since. In the catalogue three stocks of bees were entered for sale, but when the man went to move them out they were all dead. This is the third time I have personally knowu such an occurrence." BEG G AR’S MONKEY BANK. A French professional beggar, who went about with a monkey, appear- ed inconsolable when the creature died, and had it stull'ed. He has been found with this effigy clasped in his arms. Inside the skin was a sum of $6,000, with a note saying that the dead man was afraid of burglars and feigned poverty 'to conceal his wealth. Plain Statement of a Long Stand- ing Trouble Effectually Disposed of. Campbellford, Ont., Sept. 21â€" (Special).â€"That the complication of diseases resulting from deranged Kidâ€" neys is easily curable by Dodd’s Kid- lney Pills is evidenced by the case of James Atwell of this place. Mr. Atwell is a hearty man toâ€"day and talks freely of his former illâ€"health and its cure. “I had Lumbago and Bladder Trouble for years,” he says, “and for over five months the pains in my bladder were particularly severe. In passing my urine would hurt me so as to almost cause tears to come to IT WAS NOT IN HIM. “Johnny,” said a fond mother to her young hopeful the other day, after she had returned home from calling on a neighbor, “someone has taken a big piece of frosted cake out of the pantry.” I Johnny blushed guiltily my eyes. I used other Pills but got “Oh Johnnv ,I, She exchimed “I no relief and a bandage prescribed didn’t think it was in you... lby the doctor failed to help me. “It ain’t au’n Whimd the boy, “ . ‘ f 't is in sist‘ N 11‘ . I will never be with- put 0 1 w C ’0 A begging letter, asking for a pair of castâ€"off trousers, closed with the words:â€" “So send me, most honor- ed sir, the trousers and they will be woven into the laurel crown of your good deeds in Heaven.” linum’s Ilmmem cures GUIflEi lll Gus. Magistrate (severely)â€""Prisoner, how did you have the audacity to break into this man‘s house at mid- night and rob him?” Prisoner (piteously)â€"â€"“But, your worship, last time I was before you you wanted to know how I could have the au- dacity to rob a man in broad dayâ€" light. When do you expect me to I 8 Mr. Atwell’s story can easily be corroborated, and other people here are telling of the good work by Dodd’s Kidney Pills. They .cure abâ€" solutely and permanently all forms of Kidney Disease. W MOST DEADLY OF SNAKES. Brazilian. Reptile Whose Bite is Invariany Fatal. The {credoâ€"lance is one of the most deadly poisonous snakes in the world. It is common in Brazil and some of the West Indian islands, and was particularly so in the forests of Martinique, now destroyed by the volcano. The head is flat and tri- angular, the length five to seven feet, a horny spike at the end of the tail rasps against hard objects. The bite is almost instantly fatal, and even when immediate death is avertâ€" ed serious and eventually fatal trou- bles may set in. The creature which fears the men-- ster least is a brave cat. Seeing a snake, she at once carries her kittens Ito a place of safety, then boldly adâ€" vances to the encounter. She will walk to the very limit of the serâ€" pent’s striking range and begin to feint, teasing him, startling him, trying to draw his blow. A moment more and the triangular head, hiss- ing from the coil flashes swift as if llut swifter still ; ’I you have 0 to :5â€" ls the greatest remedy in the world for all bodily Althea and Psi HS ‘ ’ (or. whieban external remedy may be used“. ' Brice, .25}; and 50c. vs». a A Business Man’s Tea 6 There are many occasions when a business man -' .5 requires a. healthy sedative and nerve soother. There is no better such than healthy. REMARKABLE ENGINE FEAT. An engine used in some works in Syracuse, N. Y., is stated, upon very reliable authority, to have recently completed a continuous run of twen- ty-two months. During the Whole period it had never once been stopped and since the speed was 250 revoluâ€" tions per minute this engine per- formed the astonishing total of some 241,000,000 revolutions without a stop. As is Well knowu, it is sel- dom that an engine is run for a week without being given a rest for some slight examination of its parts, although, of course, the engines liners and warships run, at times, for as much as three weeks without stopping. rie, if I asked to be released my engagement ‘7” it would make me love you more than ever, Harry, Mlnard's Liniment Cums Ellis. ale. or be Marjorie : She’s been both.” she has The nutrient qualities of this tea are especially suited to readiusting the nervous system and making the functions of the body normal and Forty Cents figfld 1“ ,0, Black, Mixed Ceylon Green Ask for the Red Label 5' He: “What should you say, Car» from She: "I think. n I ~ .___.‘-n Madge : “She says she would rath- a brunette than a blonde." “She ought to know. Lover’s Y-Z (Wise Head) Disinfect- ant Soap Powder is a boon to any on home. It dislnl’ects and cleans at the same time. Intuition is What a woman thinks when she makes a good He: ".Why do you persist in your guess. refusal to marry me when I have de- clared my inabilit to live without you?” She: “ iecauSe you have aroused my curiosity. I want to see how long you will be able to surv1ve. ’ ’ "â€"4 lllnard's Llnlmant limes Blsiemlel. “Do you sometimes have soulful yearnings which you long to convey in words, but cannot?” asked the sentimental girl. “Yes, indeed,” reâ€" plied the young man. “I was once dreadfully anxious to send home for money, and I didn’t have the price of a telegram.” ENGLSSH SPAVEN Lli‘llfflEliT Removes all herd, soft or calloused lumps and blemishes from bones, blmd spavm. curbs. splints. ring bone, sweeney. ethics. rains. sore and swollen throat, coughs, ole. are $50 by use of one bottle. 'Warranted lbe most wonderful Blemish Cure ever known. 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