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About Dakota County herald. (Dakota City, Neb.) 1891-1965 | View Entire Issue (March 12, 1904)
MY THE How the Toiis of Falling Water Are Being Con verted Into Energy Avail able for Driving the Ma chinery of a Great City. -j ii IS 111.11 riAR l THE TRLSLNT DAY. babrlcl de la Hointtouiauld. To-day we are far removed from fear of lint. of cold, or of wild ordinals. We nave cap, coats, houses and firearms, The most poverty stricken among us In infinitely belter protected from all dn tiger llian m the most powerful ruler of ancient days. Nevertheless we possibly are heroine only the more fenrful. How often In a tralu we hear a corpulent man shout: '( lose that door. Iion'l you feel the draft?" The tone of a person terrified by the sight f some great lnger. Our own epoch is not content, However, wun rear tug Illness alone; It fear life also. How many despairing Individuals we find In every claw: How many tragedies And their origin solely in the disgust felt for life Itself! How many suicides sre due to the dread of a struggle! tAnd how ninny unfortunates there are who, feeling re pugnance at this brutal manner of st.lvlng the problem, Seek In another way to forget their sad fate.. And forget jfnlneRS In the majority of case in found In the laboring rlasnes In Inebriety. It Is not to wine or alcohol, how ever, that the wealthy classes have recourse In order to forget their troubles, Generally subject to heart weak jness, the momliers of our high society are sentenced by Ihelr physicians to a regime of water. They are the vic tims of their parents and of their ancestors, who have left them bodies charred by too abundant feeding, and blood burnt out by too long continued diet of truffle. Thus It happens that they generally demand of the dru-zgist poisons which will stupefy them or en.xble them to avoid pain. Monslenr fears a touch of toothache quick, bring cocaine. Madame feels a suggestion of headache; get some cere brine or antlpyrlne. Only the roar of a cannon or the declaration of a war Is needed to cause the fear of living to give place to the fear of 'dying. Then, as of old, the fear of death takes possession of humanity. Brothers, relatives and friends are being killed. Manklad, for a few weeks or a few months trembles as did the man of ancient time. The crisis of madness ends, civilization takes np Its work. Then the weakening processes begin again, the races con tinue to grow old, and man, pursued by fear of suffering, takes recourse to theory and to science, and yet In spite of all he does or thinks, fenr lives on undestroyed, hidden and Inaccessible, ir J Vvrl - 1 ? in supreme reverence by al around, but a reverence whlcii had in it passionate and unchanging affection as well a ciisttun. In Japan national loyalty has not as yet divided Itself from the actual worship given to the dynasty whose origin loses Itself, In the thoughts of forty-live millions of homogeneous people, amid the mysteries of the Invisible. Time was, of course and only a few years ago when such a proximity as ours to that divinely new-ended personage would have been Impossible, Incredible, madly presun.;tu ous. I nree times afterwards even I myself had the privi lege of respectfully watching from near at hand the dark. serious, unchanging. Introspective countenance of him upon w hom Is focured the absolute d'votlon of the Japanese peo ple, In a manner not only unparalleled elsewhere, but hardly even comprehended. It Is this traditional sentiment of the wonderful nation which Is the mightiest of all her forces, and which will bring her lu honor and triumph out of all dangers. I shall not attempt to dwell upon what I have seen and heard personally of his Imperial maJeMy. Other pens may dare to make him Into paragraphs. Win never I saw that silent potentate I was set thinking of the ancient legends, anil of the sun goddess, and of Avaloklieswara. Now that 1 can only recollect. It Is still with something like awe, as well as with profound respect and sympathy, that I recall the steadfast brows and the stern, sad lips of his Imperial Majesty Mutsuhlto whose Order of the Rising Sun I have the honor to bear, and of whom I am the humble servant and well -wisher believing, as I do, that In his august hands Providence has placed the duty and the glory of Unking forever together the Kant and the West In n union which once appeared Impossible. IVIMZaTIOX Is constantly de manding new forms of energy Ith which to work the number- ess complex machines which sat isfy the wants of civilized mankind. At present nearly the whole of the world's energy Is obtained from coal which Is used In heat engines. Atten tion, however, Is being turned more and more to other ways of. obtaining energy and one of the chief of these Is falling water. Thousands of dollar have been spent at Niagara In costly plant to render available for man the Immense source of power which hos In the past only been employed to a slight extent. At Niagara nature drops 15, 000,000 cubic feet of water a distance of 170 feet every minute, the upper riv er leading the water to the falls and the lower river conveying It away. The enormous Increase of electric horse power from turbine wheels In the United States has naturally Influ enced a corresponding development In Canada. It Is directly due to such de velopment In the Ktates that Canada will soon possess electric generators of 10,000 horse power, or twice as large as the biggest dynamos In the world. The past decade will be notable for the JAPAN WML TRIUMPH THROUGH HFR LOYALTY. By Sir Edwin Arnold. Although no value could possibly attach to any opinion of mine upon liuilcal military problems, at the present Juncture I venture to recall i t; the incidents ana pictures of a nicmor A able day which I passed In the com pany of his Imperial Majesty the Km- peror oi .lapan, wun nis miuiary man, mil some 8r,iXH) troops detailed for the inniial maneuvers. Never can I forget the glorv of that early dawn, alomr the lu"'" iidao of the southern hills, which awecp through all the length of coast, from KaiiHikura and lovely Knoshlma, over the foot of splendid and fctatcly Fuji Yania to Gotcmha, OIho and Nora Itself. 'We were ad vancing up the steep paths,-many thousand strong horse, foot and artillery but chiefly foot, to hold the long ridge against some detested enemy deploying In the vast flats to the eastward ami southward. Hlght ahead of us, In the center of the position, not far away, was a breakfast table roughly Improvised out of four ammunition boxes, and over these thrown a richly embroidered tablecloth of silk purple In color, with golden kiku the Imperial chrysanthe mum worked by hand upon It, the only touch of anything like luxury visible throughout the vast martial display. Though the sun was yet hardly high enough to touch the mow upon Fuji Yamu with saffron and 'rose, his Imperial Majesty was there drinking tea from a small sliver cup. The young sovereign was held, as one might easily see, VANITY IS MODtRN WOMAN'S HANDMAID. By Mm. Deimond Humphrey ("Rfa"). '1 here uevcr was an ae when woman's vanity was so Impressed upon the public mind and so absolutely paramount In her own. She scorns to rule the press by her tiuiiiallticd defects and her need of curing them. She is apparently wrongly made to begin with. That Is a good sendoff for the corset manufacturer and an ad vertlsement for senseless Idiots who write of sixteen Inch waists as u desirable possession. Has she a good skin It must be creamed and massaged and electrified In order to keep It In condition. Has she a bad one? Then she Is more to be pitied, for every Journal she takes up offers her a remedy. Is she too slender? I.o! there appeals to her the Inventor of anatomical develop ment. Is she stout? Are there not delectable tablets and wondrous unguents for reducing Inartistic measurements to due proportion? Has she no color, or too much Reme dies for both defects flure before her sight In the columns of any feminine or unfemlnlne weekly that covers the tiountcous book stalls! Does the shape of her nose, or the color of her hair, or the mole upon her chin offend her? She need no longer fear to "cast out," or remove, or have removed, any such personal unslghtllncss. The handmaids of Vanity stand on every side. Is not this the age of the worship of the beautiful? It Is an appalling tlntnlil. when one looks at the mod ern woman, how much Is real and how much art? What will wash, what will take off, and what sort of face will pay its devoirs to Morpheus? It Is only to be expected that It will differ materially from that of the beautifully gowned, colffured, tinted, massaged nnd artificial beauty who takes (or thinks she does) twenty years off her ase by dally and nightly service nt the temple of the beauty spe elallst, whose cult she has built up and whose comfortable Income tdie supplies. There Is but one efliclent method of preserving the skin, preventing wrinkles, and defying gray hairs. The woman who would defy the ravages of time must never shed tear, never worry over anything In life, and never love or consider any human creature but herself! Thus will she achieve perennial youth and be able to smile defiance at beauty doctors and their nostrums. For, however ex cellent a cure may be, prevention Is a million times better. HARNESSING NIAGARA FALLS. Civ mi wl leu j lighting. The remaining 11,000 vol'.affft Is required in the immediate vicinity of the twer station. j Cost of Water-Mude Pome- I In transmitting the pfwcr twmty six miles to Buffalo the current Is tar ried In aerial cable circuits and de livered to low pressure transformer i stations for distribution. Another com pany aims at taking Its power seventy sights can. On the other hand, the utilization of the water gives a beau tifully clean, smokeless source of pow er, Aity greater than any the world has seen could lie built round Niagara, and never an atom of smoke need hide the light of the sun from Its inhabit ants. It could be a clean, white city without factory chimneys or fogs. Method of Using the Water. The power at Niagara Falls is di vided Into three groups. The smallest of these below the Amerlcnn full nnd suspension bridge, furnishing pow er for the flour-milling district, which has been there since the memory of man and was formerly operated by the wster power and belt lines. Here the visible penstocks or water tubes have n fall of 215 feet, and together with the turbines and dynamos are located In the gorge at the edge of the river In stead of In whcclplts as above the falls. This district, together with huge advertising signs, form un eyesore to sightseers by disfiguration of the land scape. The power at present employed Is 3.YM)0 horse power, although It may be Indefinitely Increased If the authori ties will permit. It Is merely a quest tlon of dropping more pens'.ocks over it fi I a t . ' 11 4 , 4- ' MX" . 'jr.f ( r, -ma CAN A1IAN IMWER-TU.NNEL OUTLKT. miles to Toronto. The cost of elec trical power of $-0 per horse power for every twenty-four hours of the year as ugalnst $.'!(! per steam horse power for every ten hours of 300 days (a year less Sundays nnd holidnys) has naturally "knocked out" steam, oil and natural and artificial gas plants Jn the vicinity. Indeed, there has been a nat ural migration to Niagara Falls and vicinity of industrial plants from all over America which have been cursed with fuel famines, fuel strikes, liiih priced fuel and other adverse condi tions. ' JADE USED AS MEDICINE. CHEAT POWER, WAVES FLOWINU INTO NIAGARA GOROE. ROCKING THE BABY. 1 hear her rocking the baby Her room Is Just next to mine And I fancy I feel the dimpled situs That round her neck entwine. Am she rocks and rocks the baby, Id the room Just next to mine. I hear her rocking the baby Each day when the twilight conies. And I know there's a world of blessing and love In the "baby bye" she hums. I can see the restless fingers Playing with "mamma's ring," And the sweet little smiling, pouting mouth That to her In kissing Hugs As she rocks and sings to tlio baby. And dreams as she rocks and sings. 1 bear her rocking the baby, Slower and slower now, And I know she Is leaving her good night kiss On its eyes and cheeks and brow. From her rocking, rocking, rocking, I wonder would she start, Could she know, through the wall be tween us, She was rocking on my heart? While my empty anus are aching For a form they may not press, And my emptier heart is breaking In Its desolate loneliness. 1 list to the rocking, rocking, Id the room just next to mlue, Aud breathe a tear In silence At a mother's broken shrine. For the woman who rocks the baby In the room just next to mine. Philadelphia Telegraph I REJECTING I 61ER T7D OM knew little about the thcatrl II cal Bcctlun of the great city, but, latterly, he had been reading u jjood deal of It, and felt that he was uot wholly unversed In Its geography, Inhabitants and customs. Ever since Edith Klythe hud left StuutonvUlc to go on the stage, Tom bud been a subscriber to and u devoted render of all the dramatic ami setul l -a in i I If newspapers on which ho .uld lay a baud. Once lu a while, far down the street, i't u.iuld spy some one, who by the j;'..s of her head or tlu manner hi which site walked, made him tliinU for ;n-::icut that she was F.(t!tlittil cj.-h t lie was disappointed. j t ''i at hist she caaie, pu;;ht ! M feody of the crowd, and was almost just hliu before he could reach her fcide. - They had luucheon together; not at one of the big restaurants full of peo ple who laughed too loudly and looked u though they were all men and women accustomed to t-atlug aad frlnkii)ff too much, but at a quiet place wu the avenue, which Tom had dUcov ?jd during previous visits. , Aitd at the luucheon they talked. .talked of Btauntouvllle, where uotulug to oenr. "I've been away for four years," said Edith, with halt a sl((h, "but I don't Imagine that I should find the place changed so much after all, should If "Changed." replied Tom, with his hearty laugh, "nothing ever changes In Stauntouvllle." "You have not, at any rate." "I have not changed In any particu lar. I hope." "Not In anything, Tom?" Edith was not looking at him as she asked this last question, but out of the window. The question was Innocent enough In Its wording, but there was a little half minor cadence In her voice as she asked It that lent significance to the words. "Not In anything." be answered, very soberly. "I take the Stauutonvllle Clarion, Tom, and I have always been expect ing to read that you were married. Haven't you found the right woman yet?" "You know that I found the right woman long ago, Edith, and I am still waiting for her. I will always be waiting for her." "So. Stauutonvllle and you never change! I have been living in a world of constant change for bo long that It seems strange to think of people who do not change." There was the same dreamy, half minor cadence In her voice, as of one who was indulging In retrospection and saw a pleasant. If not regrettable, vision. "Rut you, Edith, In your world of constant change, hate also remained unchanged. You are what you were before Just Edith. And you know you are the only woman I ever loved or ever could love. Are you still de termined to make a career for your self upon the stage? I take It that you have been fairly successful, but do you never think It might have been better to have chosen the other life? You know It Is not too lata I am always waltlug for you." "I have been fairly successful," she replied, "and when I met you I was Just coming from rehearsal. I have been engaged to play the second role lu the company of Miss , the star. And It begins to look as though suc cess were not far ahead of me. "Rut do you know that when I was e:ii;,'el, Miss asked me to lui:-,!i-con with her and had a long talk w'a'.i i.'e. it rccius that she took siiii. mv a I",, i y M nu ami was lns.rtiii:e.i,al ';: obtaining the engagement for nr-v "She asked me If I hud fully denr mined to make the stage my life work, and when I answered lu the aillrinatlve she sighed. Then she went ou to tell me Just what the life. In all Its drudg ery, Its uncertainty and Its destruction of borne ties meant. "She asked me If I had ever been In well, I mean I told her about you. She asked all sorts of questions about you, and then then she but you don't know her, so why should you be inter ested In what abe said?" "Wtf AtottU I be Uureeted Oo right on and tell me what sho sold. What did she odvlse you to do?" "She said that success, even success like hers and you know that she Is one of the most popular actresses lu the country was not worth the price one paid for It. That any woninn hud better marry and settle down In in a village like Stauntonvllle than ever achieve stardom. In short, she advised me to marry you." Tom leaned suddenly across the ta ble and took Edith's hand. He utterly forgot that they were In a public res taurant. Fortunately they were cut off from the general view by a bank of palms, and their wulter, discretion personified, promptly retired when he saw that his presence was not wauled. "And you are going to marry me, Edith?" "I have a very high opinion bf Miss K , aud attach much weight to her opinion," she replied, demurely. "Rut are you sure you still want me?" "I told you that things ueverchanged In Stauntonvllle. You must go buck with me to the world where things never change. Just send Mla K a little noto to the effect that you have token her advice; It la only a few blocks to "The little church around (he corner," and we can leave for Stauu tonvllle this afternoon." Indianapolis Sun. remarkable changes In methods of cur rent generation and the concentration of Industries around, motor power per mitting the transmission of electric power over distances formerly deemed Impossible. Those who visited the Buffalo expo- Early Precocity of Great Men. The young Mozart was seated In bis cradle, composing a scherzo in R minor for the left hand. ."What doest thou, melu lleber klud?" Inquired the coming maestro's mother. In very fair south Gernianese. The child wonder waved her aside with his chubby fllst. "Mutter," he said In vexed though prattling tones, "you haf Interrupted de flow of chenlous. I wus chust hold ing a sustaluet seventh, sostcnut cum largo, ven you proke In upon me in it 'vat vast -v t V. l v H 1 , THoiSAMiw or nous rowtn hkbe. sit loo In luOO and saw tho brilliant electrical displays would be surprised at the changes wrought In that vicinity since that time, owing to the power generated at Niagara Falls. Buffalo baa seemingly extended In a night the side of the canyon and Increasing the size of the canal or flume which taps the river above the falls. The other two groups comprise the Niagara Falls Power Company and the Canadian Niagara Tower Company, operating above the Horseshoe Fall on opposite aides of the river. On the Canadian side the power house is Iden tical In size and appearance with No. 2 on the American aide. The Canad'm house on the edge of the Horseshoe Fall has eleven turbines In the wheel pit operating as many electrical gen erators of 10.000 horse power each, or 110,000 horse power, as against eleven turbines in the wheel pit of 5,000 horse power each, or f55,000 horse power In the new house on the American side. The Canadian tunnel. to;her with the wheel pit, Is about 2,210 feet long as against a 7,000 foot tunnel on the American side. Power Conveyed Across the River. While the Canadian charter permits the transmission of power throughout the province of Ontario the pressing market for It for some time will be on this sldo of the rfver. whence It will be largely conveyed by cable until the American power houses catch up with the demand, If ever. Power, plant, and construction In dangerous localities is a alow proposition. The electric gen erators or great dynamos are located at the surface at the top end of shafts, 150 feet long, set vertically In turbine wheels, which revolve them. As the water rushes out of the wheels it Is made to turn upward and uphold the entire weight of turbine, shaft, and dynamo, of 180,000 pounds, v which would otherwise test the strength of any bearings ever devised. The waier passes from the turbine wheels through the tunnel at the rate of twen ty miles per hour, emptying below the falls. The current of 2.200 volts pass es from the electrical generators to the huge transformers In a special station, where it Is raised to 33.000 volts, of Ph jrslcinns of China KtnployOdil Com pound to Cnre the Aillns, Everything in China of any rarity whatever is quite certain to be drag ged into the pharmacopoeia of the Chi nese physician. Jade Is no exception to the rule. It may be swallowed us ii powder or In little pieces the size of hemp seed for various stomachic complaints. Even pockmarks and scars may be obliterated by being dally nibbed with a piece of pure jade. It Is also considered to be of n very niois nature, and we read of an Im perial favorite of the eighth century who was cured of excessive thirst by holding a fish-shaped Jade In her mouth. And so. when the tomb of the great commander, Ts'ao Ts'ao, third century A. D., was opened, 200 years nfter his death, among the usual objects found In such circumstances was a large silver bowl full of water. That the water had not dried up was accounted for by the presence in the bowl of a jade boy three feet In height. Jade Is chiefly brought from the K'un-lun or Koulkun range, between the desert of Gobi ond Thibet; from Khoten or Ilchl, In Yarkland, and from Lau-t'len, on the Belurtagh mountains, still further to the west. This Lan-t'len has been confused by Chinee writers with another Ltm t'len In the province of Shen-So, near the city of Hsian, whither the Chinese court fled the city In August, 1000, upon the relief of Pekln. In the tenth century, A. L., the hitter was actually known as the Jade Hills district, thought it does not appear that any Jade has even been found there- Nineteenth Century. your Idle Inqulrlngs." He pnr.sed and twen, ',,X '"""I, n"r,hw"r1d 'a SuK,t,u rested his bulbous bead on his t Un hand. '1 cauuot take oop my work ngaln yet. I am not in de humorlu.4 for it. Vere Is my bottle?" "It Is vanning In de ofen,' replied his doting parent. 'I will prlng it ho quickly." And us she stamped heavily fr.nn the room the child nr. 1st puckered his I'iny lljti and skilfully whistled, fur ihe first tlin,' in public, a wcodcu shoe march that was In perfect rhythm with his ivn.il p.uvut's ponderous fo. it steps. Havings Hank Laws. It Is anticipated that several of the Southern States will soon pass savings bunk laws similar to those of New York aud the New England States. First of American Btrlkee. Three hundred shoemakers who struck for blgher wages in Philadel phia In 1870 were the first worklngmen to adopt such tactics In this country. A man must be mighty crooked slon Bridge and Is continuing miles further, to be ultimately stopped only by Lake Ontario. Herein Is the ralson d'etre of the beginning of a great pow er plant on the Canadian side at Niag ara Falls or Cliflou, nunicly, the growth of industries, buildings and populations along the American shore of Niagara River. The development of electric power ut Niagara will ulti mately be the largest lu the world and possibly the longest transmission. Niagara's jiower Is already over con tracted for by Industrial enterprises, aud more aud more water Is being drawn from the Niagara River lu order to drive turbine wheels, which In their turn drive electric generators. The ma chlncry Is operated by Niagara water flowing through tunnels and not by the Immediate fall of the water at the famous falls. No machinery Is visible there. The flow over the falls has not yet lessened to a degree which Is per ceptible to the eye. Any decided les sening of volume of water flowing over the falls would lie a great loss, for the sight impresses the power of natural 3SI '-If A v4 5 ' if 4 Uww tbqra to got luU Um yeuiUutluqr. teces tUe :p::tator aa few other N1.W CANADIAN COWKtt HOUSE. which 22.200 volts operate the Indus tries of &o square miles area of Buf falo and Lockport, including as many uillea of aurface car Unea and street Adirondack Abodes. There arc camps aud camps In this world, but the group of cosy structures wblcb are often found In the great North woods bearing this modest title are unlike any other camps in the world. Outwardly they are villages of log cabins, quaint and picturesque, fit ting unobtrusively Into their wild sur roundings. Within they ore, In many instances, filled with a bizarre confu sion of luxurious furnishings ar.d adornment, picked up in the marts and curio shops of every known land, Great fireplaces fill the corners glow ing with hickory coals, autlcrs are ranged around the walls, cases of rllles and fishing tackle occupy odd nooks. There are some camps In theso degen erate days, having private electilc plants and elaborate systems of plumb lpg, but these weaknesses were not to the taste of the commodore. Intended chiefly for brief summer sojourns when the gay owners tire of the resorts, and aa a center of bachelor festivities In the November shooting season, these camps are rarely opened for their owners in the winter time, but It Is possible now, through the pen etration of th inner woods by the rail lines, to leave New York or Buffalo at night and reach these sylvan retreats In comfort and safety the following forenoon. From "Charms of a Snow Bound Camp," In Four-Track News. School Essay on iMicfcs. A schoolboy in Jewel City, Kan., was assigned to prepare on essay on the subject of "Ducks," and this is what he wrote: "Tho' duck is a low, heavy-set trirl composed mostly of inent and feathers, lie Is a mighty poor singer, having a hoarse voice caused by getting too many frogs in bis neck. He likes the water aud car ries a toy balloon In his stomach to kecii iiim from sinking. The duck has i n y two legs nnd they are set so far back on his running gears by nature that she came purty near missing his body. Some duvks when they get big have curls on their tails and are called drakes. lrakes don't have to set or hatch. I'V.t just loaf, go swimming and cut. If I was a duck I'd rut her be a drake every time." A Mean Advantage. "I cannot cure you," suld Dr. Fox, "unless you promise to do exactly what I tell you. Do you solemnly promise?" "I do," replied the patient "All right. I.et me have your check for that old account that has been standing so long." Philadelphia Fresa. Many Trust Companies. There are 740 trust companies in ' United States. Itlrda Rip Arptite. If c man could cat as much In pro portion to his size us a sparrow la able to consume h? would need a whole sheep for daner, a couple of dozen fowls for breakfast, and six turkeys for his evening meal. A tre sparrow has been known ta eat 700 grass seeds in a day. Birds can do work far harder than human beings. A pair of house-martins when nesting will feed their young on an average once In twenty seconds Uit la, each bird, male and female, makes ninety Journeya to and fro In an hour, or perhaps 1,000 a day. It must be re membered that on each Jouniey the bird hue the added work of catching an In sect. Even so tiny a bird as the wren bos been counted to make 11 trips to and from Its neat within 430 mlnutea, and the prey It carried home consist ed of insects much larger and h carle than were caught by swallows. A Physician's Advice. Yorktown. Ark.. March 7th. Dodd'a Kidney Pills must not be confounded with the ordinary patent medicine. They are a new discovery, a specific for all diseases of the Kidneys ana have been accepted by physicians only after careful tests in extreme cases. Dr. Leland Williamson, of this place, beartlly endorses Hodd s Kidney Pitt "as a remedy for the. various forms ol the diseases of the Kidneys, pains In the back, soreness in the region of tha Kidneys, foul-smelling urine ana cloudy or thickened cotiditloua of the urine, discharges of pus or corruption, Gout, Rheumatism. Inflammation and Congestion of the Kidneys and all kin dred complaints." Continuing he says: "I could mention many cases in which I have prescribed Dodd's Kidney Pills with success. l or Instance, Mr. Robert Weeks, farmer, malaria haema- turla or swamp fev- three times, kid neys weakened, co itinual pain and soreness In back, wl.:di made him very nervous, had a little fever and some times chilly. Urlm changeable, but generally very hih-colored, an old chronic cose who had taken much med icine with little effect. After taking Dodd's Kidney Tills about six weeks be wns entirely cured and had gained fifteen pounds In weight. The last time I saw him he was the picture oi perfect manhood." ' Kcrnell's .M stake. The late John Kemell, the Irish comedian liked, in his prime, to go back to Ireland, whence he would often bring material, gathered in ale bouses and on the highroads, that after wards served him well In dialogue up on the stage. Kernel! once said, nt a little aunner party in Boston, that be had met on a summer day in Galwuy an Irishman driving a borse so thin that it stagger ed as It walked. "wny. aon i you pui more nesu on that nag?" Kernel! exclaimed indig nantly. "More, is it?" the Irishman answer ed. "Why, by the powers, don't you see that the poor creature can hardly corry what little there Is on hlra now?' PUTNAM FADELESS DYES do not stain the hands or spot the kettle, ex cept green and purple. Indirect Answers. Yankees are said to answer one ques tion by another. Turks meet question! by another sort of evasion, quite at Irritating. Sir A. Henry La yard 8ay in his "Autobiography," that during a Journey through Asia Minor he. mot a shepherd driving his flock. I asked how many goats be posses ed. - Hla reply was, "As many aa passed by you." "But," said I. "I did not count them now many are there?" "The same number I took with m to the mountains." "But bow many did you take to ttw mountains?" "Aa many aa I had." It was useless to inquire any further. Passing a caravan of laden camels, I asked one of the drivers whence ht came. "From that side." waa tho answer, pointing with bis finger In tho direo tlon. "But from what town?" "The town Is theie." pointing again, "But the name of the town?" "It was toward Smyrna." And so the collaquy ended. This habit is aeriveu rrom tne nieion entertained bv Easterners of Ktmnirers. who are cenerallv taken fot iroim-nment officials on rome mission connected with tax-guthcruig or othet business distasteful to tuo population- Seoul, the capital of Korea, Is eighteen miles from its seaport, Chemulpo, on Us Yellow Sca ON A RANCH Weai Foaad th Food That Vltted Hyr. A tinwmniwr woman went out to 4 Colorado ranch to rest and recuperate and her experience with the food prob lem Is worth recounting. "The woman at the ranch was pre eminently the worst housekeeper I have ever known poor soul, and poor me! "I simply had to have food good and plenty of It, for I had broken down from overwork and was so weak I could not sit up over one hour at a time. I knew I could not get well un less I secured food I could easily di gest and that would supply the great cct amount of nourishment. "One day I obtained permission to go through the pantry and see what I could find. Among other things I came across a package of Grape-Nuts which I bad beard of but never tried. I read the description on the package and be came deeply interested, so then and there I got a saucer and some cream and tried the famous feod. "It tasted delicious to me and seem ed to freshen and strengthen me great ly, so I stipulated that Grape-Nuts and cream be provided each day Instead of other food and I li!era;!y lived on Grupe-Nuts and cream for two or three mouths. "If you could have seen bow fast I got well It would have pleased and sur prised you. I am now perfectly well uud strong again and know exactly how I got well and that was on Grape Nuts that furnished me A powerful food I could digest and maie use of. "It seems to me no bra In) worker can afford to overlook Gropf-Nuts after my experience." Name given by Poe tun Co., Battle Creek. Mich. Get the miniature book; "Tut Boad to Wtllvllle," in each rk i