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About Dakota County herald. (Dakota City, Neb.) 1891-1965 | View Entire Issue (Feb. 13, 1904)
l"-7 V V i i I! 11 1 54 ! la 'J A tw 1 H I ! BlO. 4 tpi . not in t fcaw 3 fctl V 4DVANI40E Or LARGE f AMILItS. Br BfsftoV nrr C. Potter, ot 5e ror. 1 fear it Is true Hint tlie American women of to-l.v arc opposed In fami lies", particularly large oih-k, of (lie old fashioned kind, and It l to lie regretted. In Webster's time the best men and women of the young renililie mine from large families: I think it muni have lieen tlie association of huge fam ilies of children with ea( h other, the doing for mi eli other, the self ilenliil. each one for the others and for their parents, that nindo tlie men of strong character iiml the women of h noble domestic life. This sort of home train ing, where there are brother and fil IzJ niMinr roTTt n. ter mingling together under the Mime roof, instill into boys and girls, young men and young women, the noblet instincts, the most worthy ambitions. Children and young persons must have an inltorn and Inbred veneration and affection as well as a responsible feeling for those nearest and nearest to them to make the best men and women. Modern methods of living as exetriplllled In the large apartment buildings of our rifle and towns have un doubtedly had a great deal to ilo with tlie passing out of existence to a large extent of what we may eol! the "old fashioned home." GAMBLING AND DIVORCE HIE CL'RSLS Or S0CIE1Y. By President Angell, ot Mlihlgan linlerstty. Certain customs which are rapidly gaining ground among women in what are called the higher social circles demand a vigorous effort on the purl of Intelligent and high minded women to secure (lie elimination of 'lie element of gam bling from amusements and A themselves. Furthermore, w have a right to ex pect from educated women pronounced condemna EL , I tion rather than indulgent views of the rapidly growing practice, for w hich both sexes are guiltily responsi ble, of procuring under loose laws, laxly administered, di vorces on trivial grounds or by collusion anil of contracting Mihscqucnt marriages with unseemly haste. In some quar ters and In what calls Itself our best society the renuncia tion of ifie solemn marriage vow on slight pretexts and the playing of games for stakes by women In private parlors are truated with a levity and publicly discussed with an Indifference which recalls tlie declining days of the Roman empire The purity of domestic life, the sanctity of the home the very foundation of society, are Imperiled by these abuses. PREACHERS SHOULD NOT BE PARROIS. Be Wee. madlson C. Peters, T3 Preachers should be prophets, not parrots 91 licrnlds proclaiming tlie coming prominent pulpits in America to-day the preach ers simply dare not be uncompromising In their I VI i denunciation of sin and preaching would drive out JL gotten -wealth makes them essential to the church AV because they can make large many a preacher Is compelled ers with virtues they do not possess, and for the sake of his bread and butter Is compelled to pander to prejudices In public -which In private he despises. The mightiest force In the world is the aroused conscience of a great people, and the chief qulckencr ami educntor of the conscience In the past has been the pulpit. The place of the pulpit and Is becoming the effectual support of virtue's cause. The man who U enthuslustle about present condition only gives proof that he has ceased to be n living factor In the world's progress. I am not now . speaking of Christianity, which Is the life and Inspiration CONGRESS APPROPRIATES $250,000 TO WAR AGAINST C0T10N-DESTR0YING PEST ffOLL WUVL The Mexican boll weevlll, marching eastward across the cotton belt, Is recognized as the greatest menace the South has ever know n. The desolutlon left by the Civil War was hardly more costly than tho ravages of tho tiny bug will he within tho next decade unless something can be found to check progress. Having spread over the cottton fields of Texas It now stands at the border line of Ixmlslana, and so great Is the alarm engendered by Its ap proach In that State that Governor W. W. Heard, Issuing a call for a special session of the Legislature, has led In a movement which has resulted In the appointment of a commission of five members charged with the waging of a systematic war on the pest. Tho Legislature appropriated $'-..nH) as a fund to be used by the commission and provided for a quarantine against all Texas products and goods which might bring the Insect Into the fields of I-ouIn1ana. Congress has passed a bill carrying an appropriation of $250,000 to be expended by the Department of Agriculture In fighting tho weevil, dlscov erlng measures to lessen Its harinfulness and endeavoring to find Its special enemy in the Insect world, that It may be used against It. multimillionaire: sits behind a ticket win 30 w At Kan Francisco, In the oftlce of the Oceanic Steamship Company, ono of the big enterprises owned by the Kpreckcla family, a young mini of aver age appearance sells tickets to tourists jomn d. aPRBCciLa, jr. ml want to go to Australia and tha Occident , A nsyal . observer might confidently ' a fait dovn as a 15-a-areek clerk, but he would be In error. QTh young did la John O. Spreckela, jr, to iuyie xuliiloua tbtA maj THE of our elvllizath.n. but I do say that Hie church Is not leading the way In the new civilization. What Influence the church has she uses to conserve the heritage of the past. Rut who dares say that the church In molding the future? With n narrow conception of her mission the church has wit on a high platform of empty dignity with folded hands while the V. M. ('. A., the V. (.'. T. V. and hundreds; of similar nrgiinl.ations are doing the work which the church should have done. Itcforms of the most Im portant character not only receive little support from the church, but have frequently to encounter Its bitterest opposition. . WHY PIOPIE HOCK the crowding together of many people In the city as tlie city grows changes the environment of children most unfortunately. They are apt to suffer for air In their homes, and they are likely to be deprived of opportuni ties for play. It has come to be believed with us, there fore, that the city has no higher duty to Its own people ot to the nation than to afford natural opportunities for its children for play as well as for work and for study. There Is one thing to be snld of every city that Just because It draws into Itself the best that Is In the country round about It and often from far afield It Is under special obligation to give back in some form of service that which It has so abundantly received. I wish that our cities may take Into themselves the elements of power that come from the country, as the coal receives the rays of the sun and ghes the power back again In warmth and light; that it may be the object of every city not simply to become great In size, but greatly to serve the worhL games innocent In MEN SHOULD AVOID By ot Pi.'a J . tual! who Is deserving of the name a true home Is of all things most desirable, and beautiful. Hut If he sees about him only women who believe that they have "mis sions" In the world far greater than the noble ones of a wifehood and motherhood, or women who crave continual excitement, then what Is left for men but a life about town? The average man's Judgment about the average woman is generally a correct Judgment. The average man of this twentieth century does not want the woman of to-day or to-morrow changed from the woman of yesterday. As a true woman Is to-day and as she has been in the past so man would have her In the future. He does not wish for the evolution of a new type ot motherhood that substitutes the formulated resolutions of a mothers' congress for the old time Instincts of self devotion, tenderness and never faillvg love. He does not yearn for a new type of wife hood, for he does not wish the sort of wife who would be a species of domestic comet, a dissolving view, or even a pi rson he could lwrrow money of. He rather wishes one who In the good old way will have no Interests apart from him and who will help him to make these Interests broader and farther reaching. day. In many wickedness. Such the men whose 111 contributions, and to credit his hear press Is taking the most Important and the church In Its youth on the Pacific slope. At the same time his wife, daughter of Wlllard Huntington and grandnleco of Collla l. Huntington, has more or less wealth. He says: "Why lo I work? Well, for ono thing. 1 need the money. Hut this Is not the principal reason. My father Is ut the head of the steamship concern, and I realize that some day I may have to take some part In the management of It. I have got to know the busi ness, and I don't know any other bet ter way of learning It than by begin ning 'from the ground up." This Is the place where the com plaints are made. Now, there Is noth ing better than the work required to cool down a kicker that Is, to dig Into his kick and find out what's wrong fir n joins man trying to learn the business. In doing this 1 discover many little details that would other wise have escaped me for a long time." Theology Was a 1'uzaler. "Which did do I-ord make tlrst, Hrud der Johnson, the beu or de egg?'' "De ben, ob koe de egg comes from do ben." n "Yals, but do ben cornea from de egg. too." , "Now, see yar, Drudder Jefferson ef de Lord bad made de egg fust, be'd bad to make a Incubator to batch It, a sawmill to got de wood fo' de tn gubator, Ufl mine fo' J Ua, A win feopilJE, TO THE CITIES. By Hon, Set Low, ot New fork. These are days In which everybody tends toward the city, it is easy enough to understand this tendency, for in the cities are a greater vol ume and variety of employment and an equally greater volume and variety of entertainment. The trend of life In cities, however, has produced some results the effects of which are only be ginning to be realized. It has come to be real ized in nil. the larger cities of the country that THE NEW WOMAN." Prole sor Pttk ot Colurrbl University. Against the twentieth century 'new woman" every man should set his face like flint. She Is striving for economic Independence, ami her ad vanced theories have already borne some fruit In the marked distaste for marrying that is growing among men. The cause for this distaste does not lie In niun's heartlessuess nor yet in his profligacy, but in the fanaticism and un wisdom of tlie modern woman. To even der glass factory fo' de glnss, a cotton mill fo' de cotton battln, a steam hea tin' plant fo' de heat and a drug store fo' a thermometer to tell de tem perature, besides getting de permission o' some walkln' delegate to operate dem Industries, an' takln' chances on de' egg batchln' at dat. No, no, llrud der Jefferson, de Lord dun simply make do hen first, and Ah reckon he didn't make a colored man fo" a year or two after." ruck. THE FIRST INDIAN PRIEST. Kull-bloodci! I'nttnwatnmie Kecentlr Ordained ut Home, Until Hev. Father Albeit Xcgnhii- quet completed his four years' course In the propaganda at Home, during fie . . . I Dresenf veur theft. had never been n full-blooded Indian admitted to the priesthood of the Ho in a n Catholic Church. Since tho tlrst days following America's discov ery, this church has ever been zeal ous In converting KKV. NKUA11NO.UET the IudtltllS, BUd through education placing them In a position to advance in civilization. There have been, too, many zealous converts, but none has ever before reached the priesthood. Father Ncgalmquet was born In 1871 on the Pottawatomie Indians' former reservation, near St. Mary's, Kan. Through tho untiring efforts of Jesuit missionaries the I'ottawatomie tribe, nearly a century before, had been con verted to the Catholic faith. The old est of ten children. Xegahnuuet v I taken, at a tender age, to the Church I of the Assumption, at Topeka, Kan., for baptism. Soon afterward his par cuts removed, with other members ot the tribe, to the Pottawatomles' new reservation. In then the central part ot the Indian Territory. He attended the government school for Indians, and his unusual Intelligence as a pupil at tracted the attention of the teachers. They encouraged lilm to go farther with bis studies, and he therefore en tered the School of the Sacred Heart, maintained for the Indians by the Catholics, In Southern Pottawatomie County, Okla. While fcttendlng Kucred Heart this Indian student came Into the notice of Motl er Kutherlne Dresel, a member of the celebrated Philadelphia family of th -a name, and through her assist ance and that of her sister, Mrs. Mor rell, ue was enabled to complete his studies at that Institution. He next went to Carlisle, Pa., and from It to tho Catholic Vnlverslty at Washington, frcm which In due time be passed to the propaganda at Rome. Population of Manila. Manila has a total population of something like 300,000, about 10,000 being American and. European born. The American population is estimate at about 0,ot. Time work fewer wonders tbaa tho dime wuaeuia manager exhibit, HOMESICK. It stands afar nddt happy, sunlit fiflds A little farm hnne, brown and old. With ancient, ivy-covered, buttressed walls, And straw-thatched roof of gold: And 1 n wanderer from the dusty town, Grown weary of its heavy ways, Wistful, from off the hot white road, look (awn Ami lorn; for the old days. For there the nights were blcsvl with quiet sleep. The days were filled with happy cures, And there the skips seemed ever blue, and then Was time for peace and prayers; While youth and laughter, Joy and hope, and lore Sang in my hesrt a happy song. Ah me! a song that's hushed for rvnr more, The crowded streets among. And now I stand and gaze, with heiiTy heart. Across dear fields in longing sore, To whpre another wnnuin, happier far, Looks from the low, half-door. Oh, little farm house, old, and brown, and sweet, I wake when all the world's at rest And think of you, and long for the old peace And the untroubled breast! -I'all Mall Gaxette. Roses and Potatoes. HKRE are the roses," said Polly, depositing a huge load of Amer ican Realities on the table and laying her muff and stole on a pile of grocery boxes. "The carnations and smllax and evergreens are coining down In the carriage with the Japa nese lanterns and the funny little tis sue paper caps. We were getting ready for the char ity dinner at the mission chapel, and, of course, Polly was doing the trim mings. Polly always does the trim mings. "Rut where," said I. gazing on the great masses of green and pink, "will they find room for the potatoes, for Instance." "Potatoes!" said Polly, scornfully, as she took u mass of blue forget-me-not?,, which she calls a "hat," off her pompa dour, nnd laid It on another grocery box. "Those, Mr. Heavy feather, will be considered afterward, of course." "Like matrimony, after courtship, 1 suppose." I sighed, picking up a long stenimed rose and holding It gingerly by the tip end. "Yes," said Polly, "or housekeeping after the honeymoon." "Or the bill after the dinner." "There won't be any bill after this dinner," said Polly, "because the dea con donated the potatoes and things, and a kind lady donated the roses and lent us her teacups." "How thoughtful of her," I remark ed. "I am sure those starving little slum youngsters are Just yearning for roses served In china teacups. Who was the lady, Polly V A LK'lsarte pu pll with fluffy hair and a pink tea man ner?" "On the contrary," said Polly, pull Ing the thorns off a long green stem with the dexterity of an expert, "she was a nice, commonsense little thing with a turued-up nose, and a violent In terest In her meals. I distinctly saw her take three helpings of chicken sal ad at the ladies' aid meeting." "The kind," I suggested, "who would spend ten minutes liefore breakfast curling her hair and two minutes iuak ing sloppy coffee." "Yes," said Polly, "and who would spend the whole afternoon planning an evening bonnet for herself instead of planning an cveuing lecture for her husband; and the whole evening say Ing pretty things aud flirting w ith you Instead of going over the grocery books. and her whole life making things Inter esllng and pleasant Instead of cutting down the expenses." "And her declining years," I added, "in the divorce court Instead of " "Darning sock!" broke In Polly. "Not half so many divorces," she went on, "are caused by cold ccTee as by cold dispositions. Whoever beard of a man seeking u separation because his wife let the biscuits burn while she kissed hi m In the morning? Nobody! Rut there are dozens of good cooks Blghlng for the husbands they forgot to kiss while they were busy making batter cakes. It Is never the woman who makes good biscuits who lures a man away from his fireside and his bachelor comforts, but the one who wears a rose In her hair. Potatoes!" aud Polly Jammed a rose down into the cpergiie with a scornful shove. You keep potatoes In your kitchen, don't you on the shelf? Potatoes are cheap. You can get them and hire Mary Anne to cook them for $4 a week. Rut you don't want them hanging around your drawing room, nor your dressing room, nor your den. Now, roses are accept able anywhere; you like them at the breakfast table In the morning, at your desk at noon, and In your button bob" " "I didn't know." said I. "that the modern woman liked to be carried around In a man's buttonhole like an adjunct." "She doesn't." said Polly, "care to be done brown and digested or left on a plate to be forgotten the moment she ceases to be useful." "And," I went on. Ignoring Polly's outburst, "If she does want to be orna mental as well as useful even a po tato bus a blossom, you know." "A sprout!" Interrupted Polly. "Which," I continued, 'a king once thought 'lovely enough to wear in his buttoulule." Polly picked up a full-blown rose with a Jerk that sent a hundred leaves fluttering about us like a pink snow storm. "Jtcses," said I, looking at the empty stalks insignificantly, "are so apt to fade and wither." "And potatoes," replied Polly, "get bard and old and knotty and develop eyea. " "That's so." said I. "and It isn't well for a woman to bavo too many eyea." "Besides." aald Polly, gathering up tbo fallen leaves and putting them and tho atalka In a little pile, "a roso baa a heart." "Bo baa a potato." I remarked. I 'But you bavo to dig through so much exterior to find It," declared Pol- LMPEROR j """ H F.niperor Mutsuhlto, of Japan, bears the ancient title of mikado, mean ing "the lionora hie gate," but in ail diplomatic documents he is addressed as Hotel. He was born ar Kyoto, Nov. :'. 1M.VJ. and ascended the throne on the l.'lth of February, 1 fSi T. upon the death of his father, Koiuei Tenno. The mikado was married Feb. It. lMi'.t, to Princess Haruko. and five children, a son and four daughters, have blessed the union. In 1S71 the feudal system was abolished In Japan, but tlie system of government remained an abso lute monarchy until ISS'.I, upon the lltii of February of which year a con stitution was promulgated. The emperor now combines in himself the right of sovereignty, and exercises executive powers with tlie advice and assist ance of cabinet ministers and a privy council, whom he appoints. During the emperor's wise and beneticent reign Japan has forged to the front as otic of tlie important nations of the world to-day. ly. "And the avera'ge man Is too lazy to dig. He wants the good things in life's repast set out on his plate, not hidden under it." "And yet," said 1. "discovering the heart in a woman who doesn't wear hers on the surface, and who seems cold and unfathomable. Is like discov ering a birthday gift under your plate In the morning. The surprise is very sweet." "Perhaps," said Polly, meditatively, holding a rose against her cheek, so that you couldn't tell which was which, "but how many men are going to hunt for the surprise? Nine times out of ten the poor little potato's virtues remain hidden to the end of her days, when she is left on the matrimonial kitchen shelf along with the onions nnd the cabbages. A woman," and Polly put the last rose in the epergne and stood off to admire the effect, "like a rose, is meant to be ornamental. If she can be useful, too, so much the better, but It isn't absolutely necessary. There are so many potatoes In the world twenty to every rose. Why, look at the woman's clubs; they are full of pota toes, nice, solid, substantial, useful la dies, who make the world good nnd in tellectual and stupid nnd uninterest ing. Iok at the reform organizations and the woman's rights associations. and the working girls' associations, and the working girls' unions; pota toes! potatoes! nothing but otatoes. Rut when a man wants a wife ho doesn't apply to the Intelligence office, nor to the secretary of the reform club. He doesn't go about searching for a nice, bard potato in short skirts, eyeglasses and boots. He doesn't ask a woman If she can make good pie crusts and darn socks so that they won't be knotty not nowadays, at any rate. He Just goes blindfolded Into a ballroom or a pink tea, or n fancy dress fair and walks out Idiotically happy with a roso in his mental buttonhole. Of course his theories are different, and " "Ouch!" I cried suddenly. Polly turned with startled Inquiry in her eyes. "It's a thorn," I said, nursing my finger, but looking at Polly with side long significance. "Roses seem to have thorns, don't they?" "Of course," said Polly, "and pud ding has spice. They are as necessary as the sauce on the meat, or the pep per on the potatoes. A little twinge now and then does a man good, and re lieves the flatness of things. A little defect In a woman makes her perfection more prominent. A little dent In her chin accentuates the t raceful curve, u little dimple In her cheek makes you observe its roses. And you never fully appreciate the sweetness of her smile until you have seen her pouting." "I think." I wild as Polly begun pick ing up the scraps and poking them into a little paper Ihx, "mat 1 a ltKe a po tato with a rose growing on It." "Of course," said Polly, extracting a rose from the Jar and pinning it In a bunch of curls over one ear.. "That's what every man wants. They are all like the baby who cried lieeause he couldn't see both sides of the moon at once." "I wish," said I plaintively, "tlmt you wouldn't put a rose In your hair while we are discussing a serious prob lem." "Why?" said Polly, inuocently. "Because," said I. "it somehow re minds me of tho lady who sent the pink teacups and, besides, it'a dis tracting." Polly leaned over a box and the roso nestled down against her cheek. "And dangerous," I added. Tolly pulled a potato out of the box and held It up for my Inspection. "Shall I cbango It for this?" she asked sweetly. "Dvn't jou darcr I cried. OF JAPAN, Polly held the potato up against my coat lapel and stood off to admire it. "Take it away." I pleaded. Polly dropped the potato into its box. "And now," she said, shaking her finger at me, "will you ever again malign the lady who sent the roses and the teacups?" "Never!" I declared. "Or snub her if she should ever make you sloppy coffee " "I don't understand." said I. "Or cry for meat and potatoes when she gives you kisses and roses?" "Rut. Polly " I began. ".Miss Lee," said the maid, coming In with a trayful of dishes, "here an; the teacups you told me to tiling down, and your mother says please to step out to the carriages nnd bring in the rest of the roses and things you or dered." "Polly," said 1 humbly, "I beg your pardon." Polly smiled forgivingly and tucked a white rose in my buttonhole. "There is something," snld I, "that you mentioned in connection with roses something that generally goes with them." And then somehow that rose In my buttonhole got horribly crushed. Helen Rowland, In Washington Post, THE ARMY'S SOCIAL QUEEN. Mr. Aduu K. Choffeo Well Fitted for Her -New Pr,t. A new qui en has lately c6nie to reln In the social domain made up of the households of the officers of the United States army, sta tioned at Washing ton, and it may be said without the slightest fear of exaggeration that had especial fitness to wield this social scepter been the sole consideration a search of the en tire country would have disclosed no other woman so ad MUS. CHAM-EE. mirably adapted to the task as Mrs. Adna R. Chaffee. Mrs. Chaffee Is the general's second wife, and bt'ck of their marriage was a pretty little romance. Mrs. Chaffee's ancestors were all New Knglanders, but the later generations of the fam ily, like many another, drifted west ward, and the former Miss Annie Rock well was born and her girlhood was spent In Illinois. 'Then her father re moved to Kansas, und it was here tlmt Prince Charming came upon the scene in the uniform of a I'nited States army officer. Miss Rockwell was a girl in school when the dashing Chaffee was first detailed to Fort Riley, but Cupid's shaft was winged In short order, and a few years later, or In 1S7.1, the cou ple were married at Junction City. Followed The hiime Oart. In the days when Sir Charles Uavan Huffy w as a leading figure In Victorian polities- there sat in the Melbourne parliament a wealthy but not well informed butcher. The chief secretary of the day was deprecating the atti tude of the leader of the opposition, whose conduct was, he declared, worse than Nero's. "Who was Nero?" In terjected the knight of the cleaver, with equal acorn and sincerity. "Who waa Nero?" replied the delighted secretary. "The honorable gentleman ought to know. Nero waa a celebrated Roman butcher." Some people know no other fear than fear of a policeman. But a po liceman Is a small terror, compared with some others. A bobo's Idea of a nlghtinuro la to dream of working. I ' " "" ' - fhysical Changes In Man. f Recent researches 1 ave furnished ome startling facts reginling changes which man is at present undergoing physically. It Is believed that man was formerly endowed with more teeth than he now? possesses. Abundant eri dence exists that ages nnd ages ago hu man teeth were used as weapons of de fense. The practice of eatlug our food cooked and the disuse of teeth as weapons art said to be responsible for tho degeneration that Is going on. In ancient times a short sighted soldier or hunter was almost an Impossibility; to-day a whole nation i afflicted with defective vision. It Is almost certain that man once possessed n third eye, by means of which he was enabled to see above bis head. Th" human eyes formerly regarded t'.ie wet-Id from two sides of the head. They are even now position. In the dim pi-t the ear fla was of great service In ascertalnln n . u u .... .. . - the direction of sounds, and opcrat . . . .. Mi I -. T -' e 1 - the muscles of the ear have fallen I disuse, for the fear of surprise by emles no longer exists. Again, sense of smell Is notleiably inferior that of savages. That it Is still de le na creasing is evidenced by observatlone of the olfactory organ. Gratitude Well Impressed. Sault Ste. Marie, Mich.. Feb. 8th. Mr. C. L. Smith, painter and decorator, whose home is at 301) Anne street, this ?ity, makes the following statement: "I was laid up with some kind of mlns. Some said It was Lumbago, oth ers Sciatica, and other again Rheuma tism. A few of my fri -ids suggested ;hat it was lead poison, but whatever ;t was It gave me a gre.vt deal of pain, in fact, almost completely crippled me. I had to use two canes o walk about mil even then it was .i very painful task. "A friend advised me to try Dodd'a Kidney Pills nnd I began the treat ment. After I had usc.l the first box l was able to throw a v. iy one of tut! ! Mines and was considerably Improved. l'he second box straightened me up so that I could go about free from pain ' without any assistance and very soon ?' ,ftcr 1 was completely cured, well nnd mppy, without a pain or an ache. Dodd's Kidney PFlls seemed to go right i to the ppot in my case and they will Sherlock Holmes 11. Chief Millikin (at the opera) That lit tle man over there in the bos is a pro fcFfor of mathematics. Inspector Casey Is he an acqunint- itice of yours? Chief Millikin No; 1 never saw him before. Inspector Casey Then how dil yon know he is a nrofcs.Hi.:i al mathemati- ! cian? I Chief Millikin By tie interest h takes hi the figures on the ftage. Moravian Barley and Speltz. Two great cereals makes growing and fattening hogs and cattle possible in Da kota, Montana,- Idaho, Colorado, yes, ev erywhere, and add to aboxe Saber's Bill ion Dollar Grass, Teosinte, which pro duces 80 tons of green fodder per acre, Salter's Earliest Cane. Salzer's 00 Day, Oats and a hundred of other rare farm seeds that he offers. JUST CUT THIS OUT AND RE TURN IT with 10c in stamps to the John A. Sal ter Seed Co., La Crosse. Wis., and get their big catalogue and lots of farm seed samples. (C. N. U.) Diagnosis Is Accepted. An old woolly headed darky appear ed at the dispensary of one of tho hospitals the other morning. "Well, uncle, what is It?" inquired the young medico In charge. "Ah've got de mlshuy pow'ful bad, bos," said the aged darky. "Where have you got the misery?" "Ah dun got it evuhwheah." "Well," inquired the doctor, "what do you think alls you':" "Ah think," solemnly answered the old black, "dat Ah've dun got some thin' de mattuh wlf mah vermifuge de peudlx." "What makes you think that's your trouble?" inquired the doctor, smoth ering the chuckle that rose In his throat. "Well, sub, Ah had de nose bleed pow'ful bad las' night, an' Ah hain't ! no aptite 'tall fo' wutulimillyons dis ' yeah." 1 "Well, It's your vermifuge depemllx : that's bothering you all right, uncle," ; said the young doctor, "but I'll fix you out quick enough. Take one of these before each meul." He handed the old darky a little box of bread pills, and the old woolly head departed with a broad grin of happi ness, no less because he had got free medicine than because bis own diag--nosls of his case had been so promptly accepted. Washington Post. Her Superstition. "Are you superstitious?" "Just a little," answered young Mm Torklns; "whenever I see a poster an nouncing a race meeting I can't help thinking It a sign of bad luck." Wash lngton Star. WELL POSTED. A California Doctor with 40 Tears' Experience. "In my 40 years' experience as a teacher and practitioner ulong hygienic lines," says a Los Augeles physician, "I have never found a food to compare with Grape-Nuts for the benefit of tho general health of all classes of people. I have recommended Grape-Nuts for a number of years to patients with the greatest success, and every year's ex perience makes me more enthusiastic regarding its use. "I make it a rule to always recom mend Grape-Nuts and Postum Food Coffee in place of coffee when giving my patients Instructions as to diet, for I know both Grape-Nuts and Postum can be digested by any one. "As for myself, when engaged In much mental work my diet twice a day consists of Grape-Nuts and rich cream. I find It Just the thing to build up gray matter and keep the brain In good working order. "In addition to Ita wonderful effects as a brain and nerve food tirape-Nuta always keeps the digestive organs In perfect, healthy tone. I rarry It with ue when I travel otherwise I am al most certain to have troublo with my stomach." Name given by Postum Co., Battle Creek, Mich. Strong indorsements like the abovo from physicians all over tho country have stamped Grape-NuU tho moat scientific food In tho world. Tbero'a a reason. Look in each pkg. for the famooa little book, 'The Road to WellTUIe."