A REMARKABLE CURE FOR DRPEPSK Munyon’s Stomach Treatment Performing Miracles. MUNYON TELLS YOU HOW TO GET WELL FREE OF CHARGE “A few days ago I received a letter from a young man, who states he is 28 years of age, and has occupied several Important positions, but owing to indi gestion and inability to sleep he has been unable to concentrate his mind upon his work and has consequently been dis charged on the ground of neglect of duty. He goes on to say that he is a young man of steady habits, but for years he has suffered from dyspepsia, which has so affected his nerves that he is unable to sleep, and that it is not neglect upon his part, nor lack of interest in the busi ness, but simply physical weakness. He asks my advice in this matter. “For the benefit of a large number of those similarly situated I propose to answer this letter publicly, hoping that It may be the means of helping many who may be affected in this way. “In the first place, the stomach must be made well before the nerves can be made strong. The nerves must be made strong before one can sleep well. No one Is capable of doing his best who is in any way troubled with insomnia or any form of nervousness. The greatest gen erals have been men of iron nerve and Indomitable will. They have had perfect digestion, being able to eat well, and di gest all they ate. “It is said that Napoleon lost the bat tle of Waterloo because of a fit of indi gestion. Grant's enormous reserve power wras due to a well stomach. Abraham Lincoln said that ‘he did not know that ne had a stomach.' Grover Cleveland, it is said, could work 18 hours a day, eat a hearty meal at 2 or 3 o’clock in the morning, go to bed and sleep soundly un til 9 o’clock and get up refreshed, ready for a new day’s work. “Pres. Taft is another type of healthy manhood. Who thinks for one moment that he would be the President of the United States today had he been a dy speptic or affected with some nervous ailment? I claim that two-thirds of all the failures In professional and business life are due to weak and deranged stom achs. “No business house would care to em ploy a dyspeptic representative to sell goods for them on the road. One-half the men who stand behind counters to day, earning from $12 to $15 a week, will never get beyond these figures, for the reason that they are physically weak. They lack the nerve power and com manding strength that come from a good, sound stomach. “No one cares to hear a dyspeptic preacher. No matter how pious he may be, he is bound to reflect his bilious and jaundiced condition. He will unconscious ly inoculate his hearers with his melan choly feelings. “No one would think of entrusting an Important legal case in the hands of a dyspeptic lawyer, any more than ho would care to entrust his own life, or that of a dear one, in the hands of a phy eieian who is nervous, irritable or a dy speptic. Men must have good digestion, strong nerves and vital manhood in or der to render a clean, clear-cut decision either in medicine, law or business. “I believe that more than half of the divorces can be traced to 111 health. I want every dyspeptic to try my stomach treatment, for it corrects nearly all forms of indigestion and nervousness. It makes old stomachs almost as good as new. Its marvelous power for digesting food and getting the best out of It makes for good rich, red blood. This, in turn, strength ens the nerves, builds up the general sys tem, and will surely prolong life and make it a pleasure to live and do the things allotted to us.” Professor Munyon makes no charge for consultation or medical advice: not a pen ny to pay. Address Prof. J. M. Munyon. Munyon’s "Laboratories, Fifty-third and Jefferson streets, Philadelphia, Pa. TOO MUCH FOR SMALL BRAIN Big Word Meant an Effort, but This Little Girl Made Brave Attempt. This incident occurred just after a Jewish holiday. It wa3 in a third grade school in Cleveland in a dis trict of Russian and Hungarian Jews. The teacher was explaining the meaning of the word judicious. She asked the children to give her stories about the word. After several had given illustra tions about the judicious use of money, the teacher said: "Now, give me a story about seme thing judicious, without money in it.” A little girl finally volunteered. She said: “On our holiday we had roast goose and a whole lot of other Jew dishes.” Such Is Fate. "Why do you rock that boat?”' asked the wise man. "Because, in case of accident,” re-, plied the fool, “I’m always saved.” There is a certain amount of lye in soap, but that is no reason why it should be injected into the advertise ments. A reasonable amount of egetism is good for a man. It keeps him from brooding over his neighbor’s success. Don’t Persecute Your Bowels Cut out cathartics and purgatives. They are brutal, harsh, unnecessary. Tryj CARTER’S LITTLE LIVER PILLS Purely vegetable. Act gently on the liver, eliminate bile, and soothe the delicate, membrane of the^ bowel. Cure, Constipation, Biliousness, Sick Head* . ache and Indigestion, as millions know. SMALL PILL, SMALL DOSE, SMALL PRICE. Genuine must bear Signature for raMMnsiSBrnH lye ■I'jnmatMsjUffji aches U3lHfil3iSlUa8M t . R“e MEMBER ^ \fa/sa’s\ ? for Couchs L Colds 3 MR. WYSP AND HIS WIFE By Helana Smith Dayton HER OLD FRIEND, GHERKIN. a + mm m ■ an a. - — — — - * — -a- - - - - Whenever Isabel Wysp came upon Gerald Gherkin's name In a newspaper she would blush a little and hand the paragraph over to her husband with a tantalizing little smile that Henry in terpreted as: “Just think, I might have been Mrs. Gherkin. Henry had never met Gherkin, for Isabel’s acquaintance with him had happened ’’ages ago—before I met you, Henry.” So, of course, It was absurd for Henry to have any little feelings of Jealousy against the man and It was always to refer to him as “your old friend. Pickle." “Whom do you think Is In town—and called me up on the ’phone?” asked Isabel, mysteriously, one evening at dnner. “I never was a good guesser,” Bald Henry. Isabel tried to look unconcerned. "Why—I never was so surprised In my life—and at first I didn’t recognize the voice—he’s so anxious to meet you, Henry—’’ "Who’s ‘He?’” interrupted Henry. “Ge—Gerald Gherkin. You remem ber hearing me speak of him—” Isabel's voice trailed off. “Pickles, eh?” Henry laughted. "Why didn't you Invite him up to dinner?” “I—I did," admitted Isabel. "Tomor row night. You’ll like him, Henry. Perhaps I ought not to have done It— You know It might be just a little em barrassing. On the other hand, not to Invite him would have seemed so In hospitable. He’s an old friend from home—even If once he was foolish enough to—to—I felt so sorry for him at the time and I am afraid he thought I was heartless—” ‘You did Just right to Invito him,” said Henry heartily. “I can afford to be generous to the poor chap. I got you, you know!” “It’s splendid of you, Henry, to be so nice about It," Isabel murmured, gratefully. “And please don’t Imagine I have ever had the least little tiny re gret about turning him down even If he Is handsome and—er fascinating and because he has made a lot of money and has become rather famous.” Henry’s magnanimity toward bis un successful rival was all on the surface. All the following day he tried to steel himself for the ordeal and tried to fig ure Just how civil he would have to be under the circumstances. This Pickle man would probably be elegantly thin and romantic looking and he would gaze at Isabel with dark, melancholy eyes. He would feel like physically hurting his feelings and Instead would have to Inquire solicitously: "Won't you have another piece of chicken?” When Henry came home that even ing Isabel’s toilette gave him another Jolt. Angels probably wore such fluffy white gowns when they went to part lea In a stiff silence they awaited the arrival of the guest. He came. Why will fat men always sit down In the frailest chair In a room? Mr. Gherkin said he never felt really at home In a place until he had broken a chair. As Henry Wysp helped him to hl3 feet, roaring with laughter and good nature, Henry had never felt kinder toward a fellow man. "Nice little place you’ve got here,” said Mr. Gherkin, when he was sub stantially settled In a Morris chair with which had been especially recom mended. "Going to have one like It myself pretty quick, so I'm sort of sit ting up and taking notice of such things. Yep! I’ve decided to take the fatal step myself! He pried open his watch at the back and passed It to Isabel. Isabel murmured some polite con gratulations and then looked at the pic ture of the youngish woman in the case. “She—she Is very pretty,” she said with an effort. “She’s sensible,” corrected Mr. Gherkin, “Nice level headed girl and a bang : p housekeeper. No nonsense about her. Want you to meet her." Mr. Gerkln rambled along about the prac tical prize he had won, until dinner was announced. When Henry Wysp urged some more chicken upon his guest, there was noth ing forced about his cordiality. At the salad course they were calling each other "Wysp” and ’’Gherkin’’ and swap ping business experiences. Isabel sat politely bored and as remote as Cape Town, having given up trying to find any trace of the Gerald Gherkin—the slim, poetry-quoting young man—of her first young lady days. Of course, It was very comforting to her conscience to know that poor Gerald had not allowed her to spoil his life, but—she had often sincerely hoped that he would sometime meet some nice girl, etc., but—It was much less awkward, In a way, for him to act Just like any old friend from home, but —she was glad Henry lilted him so much; oh, It was Infinitely better than If he had Just sat and glowered at him and acted like an old silly—but Isabel was a woman and she hated seeing hei little romance turned Into a farce. Mr, Gherkin had left her life a Hamlet and had returned a Falstaff. "You haven’t changed a bit!” de clared Gherkin, meeting her eyes sud denly. Thero was a twinkle In his own. "I suppose you wouldn’t have known me. though, if we’d met unexpectedly. As the song says: ’My architectural plan Is far more Gothic, but I used to be in the Chippendale class.’ ” But Isabel knew that the change that had so disappointed her In Gerald was not a matter of avoirdupois. Somehow, thanks to Henry, the even ing passed off a success as far as their guest was concerned. When he came to take his leave he was beaming. Hen ry was called to the ’phone and for a moment Isabel and Gherkin were left alone for the first time. It might have been a little balm to Isabel’s vanity if Gherkin had looked just a bit self con scious, if Into his eyes had crept some thing beside that everlasting twinkle, If he had just said "Isabel" in a wist ful 10-year-ago voice. Instead: “I like this wall covering—what d’you call It? Just what I want to have on our walls!” "Japanese grass cloth,” Informed Isabel. "It comes In charming, soft colors." “I’ll make a note of that. Always make a note of everything." He was writing "Japanese grass cloth” In a memorandum when Henry returned. When the door closed behind Gher kin, Henry said: "He’s a mighty fine V // “Henry came home unexpectedly and found Isabel burning something in the open grate." man. Isabel! Don't know when I’ve met anyone I like so much. Say. I’m sorry I ever called him "your friend, Pickle.” "You wouldn’t have liked him so much If you’d met him 10 years ago!" snapped Isabel. "Oh, people can Improve a lot In 10 years,” said Henry. "Improve!” "Yes. I think he’s a lot better look ing than he was when that lanky pic ture you’ve got of him was taken," said Henry. “I was very agreeably disappointed In him." “I—I—suppose I would be very agree ably disappointed If I saw that Hen derson girl I’ve heard you apeak of," said Isabel, with a sudden little giggle. "It’s 16 years since you saw her. Isn’t It, Henry T" And then they both laughed, appar ently for no reason at all. The next afternoon Henry came home unexpectedly and found Isabel burning something In the open grate. It was a little package of something that must have been letters—for a bit of blue ribbon wap still smoldering— and something that had once been a photograph. Being a wjse man, Henry made no comment but said briskly: “Get on your bonnet, girl, and come .for a spin. 'It's such a corking after noon, It seems a pity to let It go to waste.” "Splendid 1" declared Isabel, giving the oharred mass another poke. “Oh!” said Henry, as an after thought,! "here's an Interview with our friend Gherkins In the paper.” "Is that tiresome person In the papers again?” asked Isabel, sniffing. The Golf Ground By the Town. The clover blooms are fading From the golf grounds by the town; The greens they are shading Into something of a brown. The summer winds are shifting From the regions of the south. And the honey bee Is drawing Down the corners of his mouth. He knows the frost Is coming, When the honey days are past; That the murmur of his humming Soon will vanish on the blast; And he works a little harder Round the blossoms, gettln’ brown; And he stays a little later On the golf ground by the town. I am sorry for to see It— The wind Is shifting west— Sorry that tho snow Is coming . But the bee It needs a rest; For the toll of making honey Ain’t the easiest, you know; Like the work of making money It Is dreadful hard and slow. So goodby, sweet clover blossom. An’ goodby, old honey bee; You have made tho breaf of summer Sprt Pf musical to me. I shall think of you with kindness Wen the snow Is cornin' down On the dead and faded green Of the golf ground by the town. _—Contributed. Syrian Peasants Not Illiterate. Louise Seymour Houghton, In the Survey. A caution may be In order here. American travelers In the Levant usu ally go thither by way of Egypt and Palestine, and before they reach Syria their notion of the peasantry of the nearer east has been formed by what they have seen of the fellahln of the former countries. So far as Syria Is concerned, nothing can be more er roneous. The Syrian peasant Is a fel lah neither In name nor In fact. Usu ally he owns his land, and though the victim of excessive and arbitrary taxa tion, he Is subject to none of the ill* which the Palestinean fellahln owe to absentee landlords, nor to the condi tions which from time Immemorial have weighed upon the Egyptian fel lahln. Furthermore, the latter are al most invariably illiterate, which Is not the case in Syria. The comity of mis sions gives Syria to the American Presbyterians, Palestine to the English and German established churches. The policy of both these last has been to establish schools only in the large bities; and as the Turkish government ^maintains none, except where self ©reservation compels it to oppose a fcative Moslem to a foreign Christian School, the peasantry of Palestine have Bio educational opportunities whatever. ■The policy of the American mission is Ifcrecisely the reverse; its village schools fere scattered all over Lebanon, and though the large percentage of illiter jite Syrian immigrants (56.42 per cent ■pf those over 14 years of age) shows Shat not all the Syrian peasants have fcnjoyed these opportunities, yet their superiority in this respect over the gen eral average of Turkish Immigrants (69.03 per cent), gives some idea of the superior advantages enjoyed by Sy rians. It would indeed be difficult to rfind half a dozen illiterates in any one fcf the 107 villages where American schools exist. What the "Mona Lisa” Really Means. Now that the sphinx of modern con troversy, the "Mona Lisa,” is missing, there has been a fresh outburst of in terpretations of her famous smile. In fact, there are as many readings of her riddle as there are—or were—visitors to her shrine in the Louvre. Among the attempts to describe and define her those best remembered are Wnlter Pater’s and Oscar Wilde’e. Justus Miles Forman, in his latest novel, "The Unknown Lady," the scene of which is Paris, makes his two young artist her oes endeavor to dismiss the problem with their youthful levity and omni science. They argue heatedly together, one contending "that the cat-like grin of Mona Lisa Gioconda was a vastly over rated facial contortion, and all the popular cackle about its alleged mys tery would astonish the good Leonardo very much if he could rise from his grave to hear It.” Mr. Forman was himself an artist before he turned novelist, and spent a number of years 1 In Paris. CROCHETED BUTTONS. Small and large buttons made of white cotton thread coarsely crocheted are now In first fashion. They are placed on blouses, on one-piece frocks on top wraps, in every size. They are used on blouses instead of pearl but tons and on white linen skirts. 1 PUTTING IT UP TO CENTRAL All Caller Wanted Was Mrs. Smith’s Number, and Surely That Was Easy to Get. “Halloa, there, central! Is this cen tral? It Is? I thought It was, but I couldn't quite be sure. The other day I supposed I was talking to central, and here it was only my grocer. I do think there are some queer mixups in this telephone service. What I want now Is to find out the telephone num ber of Mrs. John Smith—S-m-l-t-h, Smith. I find that there are more than 100 persons of that name in the book, and 1 don't know which one is the husband of the lady I want. She is a large lady with a florid face and prematurely white hair, and I think her husband is a traveling man, and a brother-in-law of hers, named Jones, lives somewhere on M street—a stout ish, elderly gentleman with side whis kers. Kindly let me have Mrs. Smith’s number at once. I had it on a slip of paper that I can’t find. Seems to me it was two-four-sixteen ring three, or none-two-sixty-four ring two. You know how confusing telephone num bers are. Let me have Mrs. Smith’s number right away, please.” HE WAS ON. Grace (as clock strikes 12)—Gra cious! Twelve o’clock. How the hours have flown. Tom—Yes; and your father has helped ’em some, too. I’ve heard him tinkering with the clock in the library for the last ten minutes. Degenerated. Kid McCoy, the hero of 125 battles, is to open a sanitarium at Stamford. He said the other day to a New York reporter: “I hope in my sanitarium to restore lots of grumpy middle-aged people to perfect health, and if I give them back perfect health I'll give them back youth and gayety and romance. If mid dle age is stupid, if middle age is pro sale, it Is only because the health of middle age is poor. “The woman,” he continued, “who sends her grumpy mate to my estab lishment will no longer have to make the bitter complaint of Mrs. Blank. “ ‘My husband, 15 years ago,’ said Mrs. Blank, ‘used to kiss me every time we passed through a tunnel. But now—’ “She gave a bitter laugh. “ ‘Now,’ she said, ‘he takes a long pull at his traveling flask.’ ” Exits From Every Room. A school building in which every room has a direct connection w ith the ground, without first entering the main hall, has been built just beside the site of the famous Collinwood (O.j school in which 176 children perished by fire in 1908. It represents many unique features of construction and is said to be as fireproof and panic-proof as it is possible for a school to be.— Popular Mechanics. Keeping Busy. We are told that at New Yorks com ing munipical budget exhibit bells will be rung and lights flashed to show a birth every four minutes, a death every iseven minutes and a marriage every eleven minutes. Just what sort of demonstration is made every time a cafe bottle pops, or a bellboy is tipped, we are not told." Nipped in the Bud. “Until now I have never had to ask for a small loan.” "And until now I have never been obliged to refuse you." BEAUTIFUL POST CARDS FREE Bend 2c stamp for flvo samples of my very choic est Gold Bmbossod Birthday, Flower and Motto Post Cards; beautiful colors and loveliest designs. Art Peat Card Cluo, 721 Jackson Bt., Topeka, Kansas Wasted Opportunity. Stella—What do you consider a waste of opportunity? 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A statement denying the recent re ports about the abandonment of the Red Cross Christmas seal sale has been issued by the National Associa tion for the Study and Prevention or Tuberculosis. The statement declares that not only will the sale be held this year, as in the past three years, but that It will be conducted on broad er lines than ever before. The only order Issued by the postofflce depart ment which bears on the sale of Red Cross seals was sent out on July 1, and prohibits the use of the malls to letters and packages bearing non postage stamps on the face, and also to any mail bearing seals which re semble postage stamps, if used either on the faco or back. The Red Cross seal to be used this year has been submitted to the postofflce depart ment and approved, and thus may be used, but only on the back of letters and packages. The design to be used thl3 year depicts a pretty winter scene enclosed in a heavy red circle. The corners are white, thus giving the ef fect when affixed to a letter or a package of a round seal. Lesson In Good Manners. When the "Boy Scouts” movement was at its height, three of the young sters journeyed from Baltimore to Washington to be Introduced to the president. When Mr. Taft shook hands with them, one of the little fellows stuck out his left hand. “Why do you give me your left hand?” asked the president. "That's the way us Boy Scouts shake hands,” said the boy, with pride. "Well,” commented Mr. Taft dryly, “the sooner us Boy Scouts learn bet ter the nicer us Boy Scouts will be.” —The Twice-a-Month Popular Maga zine. Lawn Economics. "I note,” says the sage, "that you al low a sprinkler to spray water upon your lawn almost continuously.” “Yes,” said the native. "We do that to make the grass grow.” “But the other day I saw a man pushing a clicker contrivance over the lawn and—” “Oh, yes; that was a lawn mover.” “And what is its purpose?” "Why, it cuts the grass.” “Then why do you put water on it to make it grow if you simply cul it down as fast as it comes up?"—Judge. A Preference. "Marriage is a lottery,” said the ready-made philosopher. “No, it isn’t," replied Mr. Growcher. "In a lottery you can lose once and forget about it, instead of having to put up alimony.’ Cement Talk No. 8 The appearance of any place can be greatly improved by using concrete wherever possible. If you have a nice home, whether in the city or in the country, you can add greatly to its attractiveness by building not only the sidewalks, but the steps, curbs, fence-posts, cisterns, foundations, drive ways, cellars and so on, of concrete. Build of concrete and use UNIVERSAL Portland Ce ment. Concrete is cheap, easy to use, clean, fire, rat and rot proof. 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