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A, SEA 1 1 ' rn.ill ;rwl frill nnd !:i'nfy. ,iil 1 1 -r t 1 1 1 Hiinh 1 .4 I " H lirlvlil, II -1. 1 in iii i Willi : -H m ray.i. I 'n.i rn. It .) try t ! iriiril'.1(:i. If murmur- nf lit- , I nt.-i ir- Inif t m..f- . tnl .ill in v lth i y. . !-li. il- lit l..:inf V. f r ri rurve iiihI line, ff -m- .i MlMlfut fmiy Im.I r i-h..fi.-. .f II..- l.rln. - i: K M'li.kltllli k. lit riill.nl Il'l.l.l I.. !;: r. t 2 THE LOST OPPORTUNITY ICV I Hl IN i yit tiht"l '.'. In 'I lr' II r 1 1 llili.-.l "(!imm morning," ;aid I ill nhi ITiT nl I'lirlli. a ii 1 1 tin lit Hi- man's high lruwi. hen nodded dismissing!). Ditti nhoetTer hastened back to the I!xrh.inm. At tin- entrance In; met Iim partner. Smith - t he To." of I). D. I ilfi rili f. r Ai Co. "Mill. I'vi Just got an order from Greener t. mil ',,)') shares of Fed ial Telegraph." "Wh w hat?" gasped Smith. "Urii-iM-r Ki-rit for me, asked me wli' lhi r I'll aciTpt mi offer from him. I Hahl y'-i, ami h told me to sell fn, ooi shares of Telegraph ami I'm " Yoii'v got him. Han; you've got liim." exultantly. "I'm yninK to nui-r my 2''.i)0i shares with t Ii - first half of th order ami si ll tin- n-.-t the best I fan." "Man alive, this is ymir chance! Don't you see ynu'vi! tof him? Smilie -f the Kastirn National Rank tells ! tlnTf isn't a hank in tin- fit y will l'inl Greener money, and h needs it liailly to iay the last $lu.niO.Oit) to "You've jjot him, Dant You've got him!" the Imiian Pacific bondholders. He's t i t ofT ninrir than he ran rhew, damn 'im!" "Well. Hill, we'll treat Mr. Greener .is we do any uther customer," saiil DittenhoetTer. "But.'" began Smith with undisguis ed consternation: he was an honest man when away from the Street." "Oh. I'll get him yet. This won t save hint. I'll get him yet," with a confident smile. It would have heen very easy for Mm to take advantage of Greener's order to make a fortune. He was short ". shares which he ha.l put out at an average iriee of 9;k He could have taken Greener's Mock of r.o.nno shares and hurled it bodily at the market. Not even a gilt-edge stock could withstand the impact of such a fearful blow, and the price of Federal Telegraph doubtless would have broken l." points or more, and he could easily have taken in his shorts at 7.". or possibly even at 70. which would have meant a profit of half a million of dollars and a loss of a much needed million to his arch foe. Greener. And if he allowed his part ner whisper in strict confidence to some friend ho.v Han was selling out a hie line of Telegraph for Greener the "Room" would have pone wild and everybody would have hastened to sell, and the decline would have pone so much further as to cripple the little Napoleon possibly beyond all hope of recovery. Had Greener made the most A Ecor? of madmen were shouting. rolosial mistake of his life in giving the order t.- hi J enemy? Dan went to the Federal Telepraph os,t. where a score of madmen were shouting at the top of their voices the prices they were willinj? to pay or to accept for varying amount of the stock. He pave to twenty brokers orders to sell 1.000 sares each at the Lest obtainable price, and he him self, through another man. took an qual amount. On the ne't day he In person sold 20,tV shares, and on the third day the last 10,000 shares of Greener's order. This seeing, the Street thought, was for his own ac count. It was all short stock: that Is. his colleagues thought he was selling stock, he didn't own. trusting later on - - t 41 1? ' 1 SHELL I F I I ICI . .'! 1 rr. I'ajrt A K T 3 to buy it back cheaply. Such sellin1-: n-i-r ha: the depressing effect of "long" st'ick, liciiiiisi' it. is obviously that tin- short seller must sooner or later buv the slock in. insuring a future demand, which should exert a lifting influence on prices; for wli' m-IIs what Isn't liis'ii MuU l.ny H lia k or K" ' prls'u. And Dittenhoeffer was able to get an average of $SU per share for Greener's fiiMHMi shares of Federal Telegraph Company stock, for tho Street agreed, with many headshak ings, that Dan was becoming too reck less and Greener was a slippery little cuss, and I he short interest must be simply enormous and the danger of a bad "squeeze" exceedingly great. Wherefore, they forebore to "whack" Telegraph. Indeed, many shrewd traders saw in tho seeming weakness of the stock a trap of the wily little Napoleon ami they ".fooled" him by astutely buying Federal Telegraph. With the $1.:5oo.iiii() which he receiv ed from the sale of the big block of stock. Greener overcame his other troubles and carried out all his plans. It was a daring stroke, to trust to a stock broker's professional honor. It made him the owner of a great rail road system. Dutch Dan's attacks later did absolutely no harm. Greener had made an opportunity and Ditten hoeffer had lost one. Customs of the Arabs. Among the Arabs an interestins de partment of woman's duty is dairy work. Tl is. like all oluer operations, i- carried out on an old-fashioned and patriarchal plan. To make butter, for instance, a small sheepskin is Riled witn milk and tied to a ring in the wall. The woman then sits flat on the tiiHir and rocks it to and fro till little balls of butter begin to form within. These grow larger and larger and accumulate and are finally brought out as one big lump. The remaining milk is then boiled on the tire with bits of meat. The male members of the family now come? to gether, a large dish of rooked rice is placed before them and the boiled milk poured over it. Then, making balls of the mixture with his hands, each member quickly swallows his share and rises to wash his hands. This done, the girls and mother sit down and eat what the men are pleased to leave. Why "Can Not" Is Popular. "Have you ever noticed." said the niPii who finds fault, "how many peo ple avoid the contraction 'can t' nowa days, and make use of the two words 'can not?' I have been so much struck by the prevalence of the Jitter expression that I took pains to inquire into the cause of it. "I find that many people have adopt ed the double term because, having been brought up in a locality where the short sound of a prevailed, they find it almost impossible to twist their tongues around 'cahn't. and since they believe that plain, every day 'can't' stamps them as being of inferior origin, they cultivate 'can not.' "That requires no short 'a. and al though its persistent use may savor of affectation, it strikes the persons who can not get around 'cahn't' as a great improvement on the short 'a' 'can't.'" Threw the Judge Off. Mortimer Menpes. the English artist, in a recent book on India tells of the burial conduct of some British sol diers toward the natives. He writes: "One day a subaltern got into a first class railway carriage and found sit ting there a 'colored gentleman. In a fit of rage he seized the poor man iy the shoulder and shouted out to him. 'Out you go. you black beast!' pitched him and his portmanteaus on the platform. This, to his great as tonishment, caused considerable dis turbance: and when he inquired what the people meant by putting them selves out over a black man. an Eng lishman who was passing by an swered: "Well, pernaps. you don't know it. but you have thrown one of her majesty's judges out of the train.' " Stampeded the Audience. In the third century a Greek com pany of actors came to a city in Spain where plays had never been seen be fore. The honest country people were struck dumb with amazement and se cret horror on seeing the tragedian advance on the stage with his mighty body and immovable face vrith the enormous open mouth. But when he lifted "P his voice and began to speak with the sonorous clang of the tragic declamation there was a general panic among the public. All rushed out of the theater horror-stricken, as if he had been a demon. Medals for Firemen. The Rev. Father McKeever. rector of the St. Rose of Lima church of Newark. N. J., announces ths ie will offer gold medals as a reward Tor fire men who save lives. tOMG GOCD HEALTH MAXIMS. Physician's Ideas Thit May Dc Worth Remembering. A physician gives these common mi use health maxims: Have to faith in the popular notion that catarrhs and colds are due to cold weather. Most often they are the resu't ol Impure air breathed in badly ventilated, overheated dwellings. Adi rondack guides, northern trappers or Klondike miners seldom have colds. The int'i renc is obvious. I'.iy no attention to the idea that late suppers are injurious. The most vigorous and healthiest of natives have eaten their principal meal at the close of the day's work. Iet the brutes, guided unerringly by Instinct, be our teachers. They eat heartily before going to sleep. In healthy per--'ns the stomach knows when it has appetite. It has a voice of its own. Disregard those who say night air is poisor.oiis and advise you to shut tlbt tin- windows. The air without is infinitely purer than that within. Absence of sunlight does not poison it. else the millions who pass the night under the stars would soon perish, lint they don't. N'eer be persuaded that bodily strength depends upon eating much flesh food. M'-af yields fat. and fat is needed by the human system; but olive oil, no I food, milk and butter would answer the purpose just as well. Filially it is prude nt to bear in mind thai alcoholic stimulants arc not in dispensable in a cold climate; and that missing a meal often saves a sick m.'in a doctor's bill and a co.;r.-o cif drugs. New York Press. COULD NOT BE DECEIVED. Russian Peasants Did Not Understand a Polite Conductor. An Englishman traveling in Russia furnishes the following incidents to a Iondon paper an incident which he personally witnessed and which he says "shows better than volumes of description the customs and social conditions of Russian peasants: "At a railway station the train is on the point of starting. As usual in Russia, the bell rings three times before de parture, to warn the passengers to take their reats. At the first ring the chief conductor, seeing on the platform a group o peasants standing humbly and cautiously together, says very politely to them: "Gentlemen, the first signal is given; please take your places." One of the ueasants, turning to his comrades, says: "Dimitri, Ivan, Ste ven, do you hear? The master tells us to enter the train." "Oh, you stu pid," says another. "Are you a gen tleman? You heard him say 'gentle men.' He invited tho gentry." There is a second ring of the bell. The con ductor calls, hurriedly and angrily: "Please, gentlemen, take your seats; you hear the second signal." The same peasant says to the others: "It is for us. We must take out seats. The train will start." "You ass!" says his companion. "Do you think you are called a gentleman? Were you ever a gentleman?" The third ring of the bell is heard. The conductor, losing ms temper and hustling the peasants forward rries, "Idiots! Pigs! Beasts! Do you hear or not? Be off and take your seats!" "That is for us," say the peasants. "Dimitri, Ivan, hurry up. We must take our seats." Told of Disraeli. Disraeli once told a lady that two possessions which were indispensable to other people he had always done without. "I made," she said, "every kind of conjecture, but without suc cess, and on my asking him to en lighten me he solemnly answered that they were a watch and an um brella. 'But how do you manage, I asked, 'if there happens to be no clock in the room and you want to know the time?' 'I ring for a servant,' was the magniloquent reply. 'Well,' I contin ued, 'and what about the umbrella? What do you do, for instance, if you are in the park and are caught in a sudden shower?' 'I take refuge,' he replied, with a smile of excessive gal lantry, 'under the umbrella of the first pretty woman I meet.' " Show Ycur Hand. If you've a point on a fellow, don't make it; Just stop anl consider this fact. That he sometime or other, with interest. May insist on rt turnlncr the act. Then a moment with strife ne'er embitter, Korcive and forget if you can. I-est Time, with a dextrous shuffle. IVals trumps to a worthier man. No matter for clothes or condition. T!. ? man may be found under all; Tncrr's ne'er been a spark of humanity lost To the race since the time of the fall; It's there if you only can reach it. F.ut the heart can't be opened with blows. Am, kicking a man when he's already down Will ne'er raise him hitrher. God knows. For body and soul there's many a man Iattl;ng with life and its brunt. Taat Just by the Hip of a penny, per chance. May come smilingly up to the front. Sr this fact it were well to remember. As a point in one's own int'rest tc make. That tho hand giving help to another May sometime itself need a stake. La Vorte City (Iowa) I'rers. Prohibition Districts. According to statistics recently gath ered about 30.00O,'OO people are living in prohibition territory in this coun try. This is more than one-third of the entire population. In Maine, Kan sas and North Dakota they have pro hibition by state law, and in thirty eight other states they have it by lo cal option. New Uses for Soldiers. The British soldier in India is to become a baker and a butcher as well, for recommendations were re cently called for non-commissioned of ficers and men from commandants of units with a view to the formatior of classes for instruction in bakery and butchery. Foreign Bibles. Grants by the British and Foreip Bible Society to Dr. Morrison and hi assistants for producing the first Chr nese Bible totaled $50,000, while to D: William Carey and his associates i the various Serampore versions tb grants of money aim .material exceeac I ?5 0e(. ipADsooi -jjv jo s;uniNj oij finds ipAOsooj.1 uj o.is R- (- Mi ml 3 Reverse the picture and Commoner A CONSCIENCE CAMPAIGN. The elections of 11)03 are past and the campaign of li04 is upon us. What shall the democratic party do? Experi ence has shown that compromises and evasions aro as useless from the stand point of expediency as they are vicious from the standpoint of principle. And, moreover, a defeat which follows eva sion and compromise leaves the party weaker for future conliicts, while a fight for principles scatters seed which will bring a harvest later. In 1890 the democratic element in the demo cratic party, after a fair and honest contest at the primaries, won a deci sice victory and obtained control of the party organization. The pluto cratic clement of the party deserted and ever since that time has been plot ting against the party. It threatens defeat if its dictation is resisted and is powerless to give victory when the party yields to its clc-mands. It is plan ning now to give the democratic nomi nation to a representative of corporate wealth whose campaign would be made on money furnished by the trusts and whose administration, if he won. would be controlled by Wall street, as Mr. Cleveland's last administration was. To defeat this scheme and keep the party true to the interests of the people will require another contest, but this effort Is worth making. In the campaigns of 1S9; and J90o the party had to bear the sins of the Cleveland administra tion and another surrender would in crease the odium and postpone the day of reform. The party must be saved from humiliation and disgrace. Six millions of voters, if fearless and ag gressive, will soon win a victory for good government and they can only be made fearless and aggressive by the resolution that comes from deep con victions and high purpose. The demo cratic party cannot win a democratic victory by the use of money, even if it were base enough to try it, for such a victory would not be demo cratic if by any possibility it was achieved. If the people are to secure needed reforms they must conduct a conscience campaign; they must use honest methods and appeal to honest men who desire honest government. There is far more hope of success if the time is spent explaining democratic principles to conscientious republicans than there is if the time is frittered away in quarreling with men who call themselves democrats, but whose sym pathies are with organized greed. Votes that are for sale go to the high est uiuuer, and democracy's puny purse cannot measure itself against the over flowing chest of the republican party. But in an appeal to the higher and better elements of the human heart the democratic party would have little competition from the republican lead ers. The time is ripe for the conscience campaign. Wiii you enlist? Can you be counted on. not for a year, but un til our nation is redeemed from plutoc racy and made "a government of the people, by the people, for the people." Ixyal democrats have made note of the fact that it is the republican pa pers that talk loudest about the neces sity of democracy getting together on "old time democratic principles" meaning alleged democratic principles principles that have nothing demo cratic about them except the label. The corporation papers sagely in form us that the elections point to the nomination of Hanna on the republican ticket and the nomination of Cleveland on the democratic ticket. With Hanna and Cleveland ns candidates the cam paign would be lifeless. Wall street would say. "Both are good men." Mr. Knox, however, did not need the warning that the trusts must not be disturbed. Mr. Knox has never shown any disposition to disturb them. Those who believe that Tom John son is politically dead because he has suffered one defeat should secure an introduction to Tom Johnson. The old "don't come back If the re publicans lose" notice seems to be the chief weapon in the g. o. p. armory. That Chicago humorist stands con victed of lese ponderosite. The investigation of the shipbuild ing trust seems to have furnished a complete vindication for the late Jim Flske. Naturally enough it pains Philadel phia's republican managers to see New York once more in the grip of the tiger. Mr. Bristow will hardly point to Ohio as a vindication of his efforts to dethrone "graft." Of course Mr. Hanna will not fail to point to the vindication of the ship ping subsidy. see Mr. Roosevelt spoil the Comment. NOT AT Al-d, HRALu The Wall Street Journal says: "The men who are opposed to Mr. Roosevelt because he believed it to be his duty to enforce tho Sherman anti-trust law may believe that it is an injury to their interests, but they will find the injury is only apparent, not real." To be sure, the Journal did not mean to be really candid. As a matter of fact. Mr. Roose velt has not made a serious effort to enforce the Sherman anti-trust law. If the Journal really thinks otherwise, it might explain, what no spokesman of Mr. Roosevelt has ever yet under taken to explain, how it happens that the president has failed to direct the enforcement of the criminal provision which is the chief feature of the Sher man anti-trust law. The Journal un wittingly stated the truth when it said thr.t the trust magnates will find that the injury to trusts brought about by Roosevelt's "fight" against them is "not real." KNEW WHAT THEY WERE DOING. The Wall Street Journal reminds the members of the American Bankers' as sociation that "when they recommend ed that deposits of government money be made in the national banks secured by securities acceptable to the secre tary of the treasury, they substantially advocated an idea which, carried to its last limits, would make the government a partner in all the business enter prises of the country." The Journal need not imagine that it can frighten the gentlemen who adopted this resolu tion. They evidently knew what they were doing and it may be taken for granted that they would not be per suaded from their plan by the claim that it tends to socialism. They knew that plan was to their own personal advantage and they will doubtless in sist upon it regardless of any label that may be applied to it. "PROSPERITY" AND PROSPERITY. With crashes in Wall street, bank failures in Baltimore and Pittsburg, runs on savings institutions in St. Louis, men and women complaining that the cost of the necessaries of life having increased to such an extent that they cannot make both ends meet, there is not great encouragement for republican editorial writers to prate that the boasted prosperity is general and genuine. And yet there are re publican papers whose editors do not hesitate to palm off upon their read ers some of these well-worn prosperity editorials. A number of statesmen who saw a terrible wrong in European recognition of the seceding southern states are convinced of the righteousness of Pan ama's secession. This is due to the fac t that Panama's secession promises to hurrv up the division of a certain fund of 540,000.000. Governor Garvin, the democratic re former, has been re-elected in Rhode Island. Why don't the reorganizers take him up and boom him for the presidency? Simply because he is a sure-enough democrat and can't be controlled by the corporations or by the bosses. Our business with the Philippines, imports and exports, amounts to less than $15,000 per soldier who meets death in our "island possessions." But human life Is alwas's cheap in an age of commercialism. One hundred and sixty-five dead American soldiers are coming home on a transport that recently cleared from the port of Manila. Our Philippine Im ports are growing. The Washington correspondent of the Chicago Chronicle says: "It is possible for democracy to win next year with Cleveland." Win what? "Is Wall street hedging?" queries the New York World. If it is. it is making a grave mistake. Wall street should be busy caulking. Reports from Manila indicate that the grafter managed to get in between the flag, and the constitution. The shipping subsidy is again able to sit up and take notice. Kentucky seems determined to rid herself of political murders and feuds. Kentucky is safely back in the demo cratic fold. Doubtless the name of McClellan has been recalled to the president's mind since the anniversary of An yetam. Warfield was a loyal supporter of the democratic ticket in both 1896 and 1900. and yet the people of Maryland elected him governor. In some Joke Books, you will not find a Eingle joke. pui: .unjd -in r-i;A. features of Mr. Roosevelt. Courtesy of The Commoner. I'eople who cannot understand why railroads take a hand in politics should take a look at the money paid by the government to railroads for carrying the mails. Political lnllnc-nce goes a long ways towards keeping up Ike out rageous cost of mall carrying. Mr. Schwab seems to have made- a mistake in letting the true inwardnei-s of that shipbuilding trust come to light before the statute of limitations took effect. Mr. Schwab should take a few lessons in statesmanship from Con gressman Littauc r and Perry Heath. Pennsylvania's republican majority could have been mode larger if it had been necessary. The number of names on Pennsylvania tombKloncs has not yet been exhausted by the field work ers who have charge of the republican registry lists. The Ohio republicans who insisted that a vote for ilanna wa:- a vote for Roosevelt appear very much inclined to cut Mr. Roosevelt out of the case since the votes we re counted. Gaston, the democrat ie nominee for governor in Massachusetts, was not only a gold man in H'.', but is a cor poration man now. and et ho was badly beaten Iai-;t Tuesday. The political undertakers, men like the owners of the Chicago Chronicle, have been burying democrats for about, seven years, but somehow the corpses won't stay under ground. The government pays the railroad.-' nearly S70.txi0.000 a year for carrying the mails. If the postmaster general does not know where the deficit is he should dissect this railroad item. Speaking of "endless chains." have you noted the flaring bills Uncle Sam puts up to attract army recruits and the notices of death thip.s reluming from the Philippines. Governor Cummins points to the fact that he had the right "Iowa idea" for re-election, even if he ciid make a mis take in the "Iowa idea" insofar as the tariff i c oncerned. The revelations concerning the ship building trust would seem to indicate that the statute of limitation should prepaie to endure another severe wrench in the future. The corporation magnate who se cures his ends by means of unjust re straining orders is always the first to deprecate violence on the part of strikers. So Cleveland and Hanna are to head the tickets, are they? Why not put them on the same ticket? They would draw straws to determine which should lead. The gentlemen who are waiting to divide the $140,000,000 of Uncle Sam's Panama canal money seem to have scored first blood, with the aid of Un' Ie Sam. Governor Cummins has eaten his mebs of pottage, but the "Iowa idea's" birthright is in a sadly .dilapidated condition. Secretary Loeb is so busy designing court costumes that he has turned the job of officially explaining over to an other. The postal deficit for the year is SS.000.000. What it would have been if the grafters had net been exposed is something horrible to contemplate. It was real mean in those banks to fail the very next day after Mr. Han na's victory' bad restored confidence. After carefully digesting the Ken tucky returns former Governor Tay lor will douLtless snuggle up a bit closer to the governor of Indiana. Pennsylvania did not indorse thf Kansas City platform, but somehow the republicans swept the state. Doubtless Mr. Perry Heath will soon bob up serenely with a vindication marked "Ohio returns." Canada is a little slow in talking in dependence. Things have changed somewhat in 123 years. Ohio has voted overwhelmingly in indorsement of the statute of limita tions. When a man is about to get mar ried, in spite of his best efforts to get away, he is particularly mean about it. What doth it profit a fool man to sell a 10 cent article for a dollar and then get buncoed out of the dollar? Even In blue blood you will often find a streak of yellow. A girl of 16 thinks that every boy she meets Is her affinity. Can't Impose Export Taxes. British debaters of the tarllT ques tion, on both Hides, mnke the e rror of Assuming that tho United ,Maien enti Impose an export tax on goodie Kent abroad. Mr. Morlcy Is the latest mm to blunder In this particular, for ho Is reported us pitying at Mam heKter: "Suppose tho AmerlianH, indignant in. British retaliation, put a halfpenny a pound on your raw cotton, when would I.ancnMhlre be?" Tho United States con rI I tut Ion re.leH ion h an act Impossible. America cannot re taliate lu Just that way. How's Till? We oflvr On llundrr.l Pollar Knrnr.t for fijr " of c utarrb that ranimt t nit. lv llall a allarli turn. V.J.i lit- M- V A CO . 'rta..'l iili-ln . o. Wi, tlin undTli:iii-d. limn tui'.wn I'. .!. tirni-r fr Itir lt IS ycan.nu'l Iir1li Mm .rfrtly l...ie.f l.l In all Imalm! tranaortlDiis an 1 filiate lai ly alils l rurrjr iiui iiiit oMlKMllona mailr l.y lln'lr (Inn Wb-t ti lli'Ai. V.'l.nlflii I iniiilaia. I n!-.1i. o. Wiimvi. Kiinan & MiUWN, V!iil-aii lnm Klxta, T"l-il, I. Hall a Calnrrh -iir ta laKrn ti't'TTi'iUr. a' tttiif VriTlljr iiiii fliv I'l.M.cl an l iii:'ii i'ii I f Ihn vao'in. 'I hI liii'HilMla ji.t Inr. J'lt-:o 'uO Jx.r I., .t.-. f-'oM hjr all liriiicn!"!". Hull a 1- ai.illy 1111 art. Ilio l.ct. If every idle word tuiet b account ed for, l.OIlie folks Would better keep cjuic-t. " World's F.iir." A Ft. Louis World's Fair Informa tion Bureau lias been e: tabllsiied at 11 Fainain St.. Omaha, Noli., in charge of Harry I'. Moores. where nil information will be cheerfully fur nished free of charge. A K'rl iiii'I necessarily timid be cause she jumps nt a proposal. Leslie's Popular Monthly for Novem ber. The November Ia:h1Ic's Monthly H an enlarged and Improved innyuAin', with more pages, more pictures and more stories than -ver before. Tho leading article mid It Is one that must attract a great deal of ntlcntloii takes up th way lu which ihu big corporations influence legislation ut. Washington, t Us how the lobby U managed, and points out what Hen ac tors and representatives are In lhi service of th trusts and just what trusts they erve. II In a most strik ing Ftory and onu that is only too true. Then- Is also a c lear c ut r.keleli of Charles F. Murphy, the present leader of Tammany Hall, with it full page portrait. Physicians no longer bleed their pa tients with a lancet. You never hear any otui complain about "Defiance Starch." There Ih none to equal it in quality and quan tity, Hi ounces, lo cents. Try It now and save your money. Of all c.ieu it Is up to Iho geographer to be worldly wise. The man who wears the bed clothed may have the most, creditors. If you wish iNiniitifiil. elear, white-clotho use Red ('ms Bull liluo. Lurgu M OS. j.m-k.-ico, f ceuth. The oniy certain t'ps 7n base ball aro tho foul tip.".. If a man has plenty of nerve he will toon get l he coin. Defiance Starc h is put up 10 ounce:) in a pac kage, 10 cents. One third more starch for the same money. An Estimate of AuEten Chamberlain. Here is T. P. O'Connor's estimate of Austen Chamberlain, son of a fa mous father: "Of young Mr. Cham berlain I have oniy to nay that hn looks tho image of his father, with the lines softened and refined by the udmixture of another being and Kn ot I. er race, that he has had the ad vantage of university training over his father and that, altogether, he Is a replica tA his parcl, with a cer tain amount of the strength and Him vehemence taken out. He is nimble, industrious, even-tempered, self pos sessed, a parliamentary good young man." About Our "Pennies." A cent is a little thing, but in tho aggregate it is mighty. Wo speak of the "copper cent," but it Is not en tirely copper. Its composition is !)." per cent copper. ?. per cent tin and 2 per cent zinc. That alloy is in reality bronze, and the official name cjf tho cent is "bronze." There used to be a copper cent, but an act discontinuing Its coinage was passed in l.S."i7. For seven years (18.'.7-I8'4) we had a nickel cent, and up lo lr,7 a copper half cent. No mote cents are to be? made by tho Philadelphia mint for at least a year, unless a spec ial order Is Issued by the treasury. In the last five years 3,000,000,000 "pennies" havo been shipped for the mint to various parts of tne country. Between July 1, 1902, and June 1, i:03, M.OOO.oou bronze cents were coined. The total number of cents coined since; the mints were established, in 179.', Is 4. 281. it 1.393. Coinage was suspe-nded In 181 ; and 1824. AN OLD TIMER. Has Had Experiences. A woman who has used Potum Food Coffee since it came; upon tho market eight years age knews from experience the necessity of using Pos tum in place of coffee if one values health and a steady brain. She says: "At the time Po?:tum was first put on the market I was suffer ing from nervous dyspepsia and my physician had repeatedly told me not to use tea or coffee. Finally I de cided to take his advice and try Pos tum and got a sample and had it care fully prepared, finding it delicious to the taste. So I continued its use and very soon Its beneficial effects con vinced me of it3 value, for I got well of my nervousness and dyspepsia. "My husband had been drinking cof fee all hi. life until it had affected his nerves terribly. I persuaded him to shift to Postum and it was easy to get him to make the change for the Postum is so delicious. It certainly worked wonders for him. "We soon learned that Postum dcei tiot exhilarate or depress end doe3 not stimulate, but steadily and hon estly strengthens the nerves and the stomach. To make a long story short our entire family have now used Pos tum for eight years with completely satisfying results as shown in our fine condition of health, and we have noticed a rather unexpected improve ment in brain and nerve power." Name given by Postum Co., Battlo Creek, Mich. Increased brain and nerve power al ways follow the use of Postum In place of coffee, sometimes in a very marked manner. Look in each package for a copy of the famous little book, "The Road to Wellville." 0