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it so that it will be the more resistant to 

 thawing. At the end of the winter they 

 cover the enormous piles thus formed, 

 with branches, straw or trash, in order to 

 protect the snow from the sun's heat. All 

 during the Spring this mass of snow melts 

 a little during the days but freezes at night 

 until it becomes a great solid cake of ice- 

 Then, when the temperature rises to sum- 

 mer heat and the streams begin to dry up 

 from lack of rain, this snow ice commences 

 to melt away, and by means of a ditch 

 leading from it, the water which runs 

 down supplies the river until the recur- 

 rence of rainfall." 



The In a few days the Rev. Shel- 



NewSaUe'r. don's newspaper will be 

 launched upon the world, and the public 

 will have an opportunity to see how he 

 fulfills the promise made to run a daily 

 newspaper as Christ would run it. We 

 have spoken more in detail of this venture 

 in a previous issue. The Topeka, (Kan.) 

 Daily Capital is the medium Rev. Shel- 

 don will use for conducting his experi- 

 ment. As is pointed out by one of the 

 Chicago newspapers this publication of 

 Mr. Sheldon's will not be a true experi- 

 ment and will prove nothing "for a single 

 week," as the editor of the Chronicle 

 points out, "it will be easy enough to 

 draw such artificial support as its novelty 

 may create. It is the pace that tells in 

 the life of a newspaper, not for one week, 

 but for a series of weeks and years." Mr. 

 E. W. Howe, editor of the Atchison 

 Globe, announces that during the week 

 in which this experiment is being carried 

 on in Topeka; he will publish daily ser- 

 mons in his paper on "How Ministers 

 Should Preach the Gospel." Mr. Shel- 

 don says his plans are not entirely 

 matured bat that he will personally 

 inspect all matter that goes into the 

 peper, during the week he is in control 



and will subject it to the test "What 

 Would Jesus do?" 



Our Near Modern Mexico, says the 

 Neighbor. United States is the only 

 country with which Mexico does business 

 in which the foreign country does not hold 

 the balance of trade in its favor. The 

 United States sells Mexico more than all 

 the rest of the world, but she also buys 

 more than three-fourths of all Mexico sells 

 abroad. The twe republics are good 

 neighbors. They are getting better ac- 

 quainted and doing more business with 

 each other every day. The agricultural 

 development that has been going on in 

 Mexico during the last few years, is be- 

 ginning to tell. The modern machinery 

 introdticed, the new reservoirs that have 

 been built, and the new plantations that 

 have been started, are increasing the 

 country's output very materially, and the 

 value of the agricultural exports of Mexi- 

 co is showing an increase month by 

 month. 



Free Delivery The Postmaster General came 

 To Farmers, near causing a civil war by 

 introducing the free delivery of mail in a 

 rural district in Maryland, but in Wiscon- 

 sin the farmers took the opposite view of 

 the system. Mr. Hyatt, of Sheboygan 

 Falls, says: "One thing I know, I shall 

 write a great many more letters. You see 

 I know if I write a letter and just step 

 and put it in my mail box that ends it. 

 In the last year I traveled a great many 

 miles to get my mail. Farmers if they 

 but know it can learn enough about the 

 weather to pay them several times what a 

 good daily would cost. Scores of times a 

 farmer can plan his work to his advantage 

 if he can know what to expect of the weath- 

 er for the next twenty-four hours. The 

 weather man can beat corns and rheuma- 

 tism three or four to one predicting 



