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His pulse was felt, hla tongue was examined, his heart was listened to, and his lungs were thumped. He seemed to be sound. “Do you sleep nightB?” asked the physician. “Yes, but I don’t epjoy my sleep.” "Ah—what disturbs you?” “Nothing, except I don’t get any good out of sleeping. I go to sleep the minute I hit the bed and the min ute ITm Awake I have to get up. How can feljfiw enjoy his sleep when he doesn’t IsnoW ■it?” ?. 4. . . — -— ~ ■; Suffer From Plague of Rats. A “pied piper of Hamerlin” is need ed at Santa Paula, Cal. Thousands of rats, and all big wood rats, have in vaded the place, and the situation is such that women are afraid to go to church. The rats seem to have a preference for churches and on several occasions have forced the feminine attendance at services to take to the high benches. The city authorities are seeking means to abate the pest. The rats are believed to have been driven out of the woods by recent fires in the forests. j Great Effect*. “What Is that terrible noise?” asked k the pedestrian. *' “That,” replied the policeman, "is caused by an ordinary one cent safety pin sticking into a $3,000,000 baby.” DREADED TO EAT. A Quaker Couple’s Experience. How many persons dread to eat their meals, although actually hungry nearly all the time! Nature never intended this should be so, for we are given a thing called appetite that should guide us as to what the system needs at any time and can digest. But we get in a hurry, swallow our food very much as we shovel coal into the furnace, and our sense of appetite becomes unnatural and perverted. Then we eat the wrong kind of food or eat too much, and there you are indigestion and its accompanying mis eries. A Phila. lady said: “My husband and I have been sick and nervous for 16 or 20 years from drinking coffee—feverish, indigestion, totally unfit, a good part of the time, f, for work or pleasure. We actually 6 dreaded to eat our meals. (Tea is just as injurious, because it contains caffeine, the same drug found in cof fee.) “We tried doctors and patent medi cines that counted up into hundreds of dollars, with little If any benefit. “Accidentally, a small package of Postum came into my hands. I made some according to directions, with surprising results. We both liked it and have not used any coffee since. “The dull feeling after meals has left us and we feel better every way. We are so well satisfied with Postum that we recommend it to our friends win have been made sick and nervous and miserable by coffee.” Name giv en upon request Read the little book, “The Road to Wellville,” In pkgs. Postum now comes in concentrated, powder form, called Instant Postum. It is prepared by stirring a level tea spoonful in a cup of hot water, adding sugar to taste, and enough cream to bring the color to golden brown. Instant Postum is convenient; t there's no waste; and the flavor is ■ always uniform. Sold by grocers— 60-cup tin 30 cts., 100-cup tin 60 cts. A 5-cup trial tin mailed for grocer’s name and 2-cent stamp for postage. Postum Cereal Co., Ltd., Battle Creek, Mich. Adv. t NIFTY SCHEMES OF ♦ 5 CRAFTY BOOK AGENT ♦ From the New York Time*. Tm here to mention one thing,” put In the reformed book agent to the little group In the smoking compartment, "you can talk about all the tricks In this game of selling goods, but the man who peddles books from house to house In these small towns has to be wise to a few more little gags than anybody who carries a sample case. We could all sit up and take pointers from the average book agent.” "Well,” conceded the drummer with the mottled hose, "if you could sell one of those ‘Lives and Sayings of Great Men'—the kind the agents say would be so nice for the children—I must con fess that you ought to be able to sell any old thing, from a gold brick to a plush album with a celluloid picture on the back.” The Book Agent’s Story. The reformed book agent nodded and took up his story. "It was at the close of my second year in college,” he said. "I was out for some means of acquiring a little money during the summer months and I listened to the siren song of the pub lisher's special representatives. I al ways had a prejudice against being a book agent. I always thought It was a calling that would make people look down on you, the same as if you were a poet. But when I heard how simple the game was when you play according to the system, I thought I’d Just sit in for a little while and see If half the man told me was true. "Well, I learned a lot. I’ve had a lot of respect for a book agent ever since. I never knew before that every little move the man makes when he’s showing you a book is part of his sys tem. Take It from me, it’s a deep system, too. Nobody Wants a Book. "That time I tried to sell those anat omical charts—” broke In the drummer with the black cigar and the modish cravat. "Keep out of the way and let the parade go on,” growled the ready-made clothing drummer. "The funny thing about selling books” went on the reformed book agent, overlooking the Interruption, "is that you never strike anybody—no matter how many books you may man age to sell—who really wants to buy a book. I never sold a book in my life to anybody who realy wanted to own that particular book. No book agent ever did. "You see, if a man really wanted a book he would go to a store and buy it. There would be no need of a book agent to hunt him up and harass him for an hour or so, would there? Near ly everybody I showed my book to—it makes no difference whether the book was ‘Art and Artists of Ancient and Modern Times,’ ‘Household Physician,’ or 'All Sorts of Strange and Useful Facts' or what not—the man would tell me he didn’t want It. The Trap is Baited. "I wasn’t in the business long before I discovered that selling a book to any body Is Just like going into a men’s furnishing shop to sell the proprietor a JTTTTTTTTT ▼ ▼TTTTT T ftttttfT | AMERICAN GUNNERY. ♦ | ROBERT W. NEESER. t T In The North American Roviaw. -f The credit for our high records of today In gunnery has been ascribed almost unanimously to the system in augurated by an officer of the Brit ish navy. But It appears that the re juvenation of American naval gunnery really began long before then—In 1892 on board the gunboat Yorktown, when the telescopic sight was first used. Its lessons, however, were not sufficiently appreciated by the service and the ad ministration until years later, when actual facts brought us to our senses. But these were not the only details remedied. The present system of traln lag was carefully studied by a num ber of officers, and from their efforts resulted those three secrets of success: the “ping-pong" machine, the “dotter," and the “dummy loading-machine.” Never before had there been such an era of gunnery training as now set In. Every one went ping-pong mad—and to the continuance of that feeling are due our results of today. All relics of the old system were now abandoned. By means of the ping pong and the dotter gun-pointers were taught the secret of continuous aim and of “keeping on the target,” wheth er the ship rolled and pitched or not. The men without exception seemed to prefer the ping-pong device, which fired shots from a small rifle fixed to the guns, because they liked to hear the noise and see the holes made by the bullets, whereas the “dotter” made only a pencil mark which they could not see, but which has since proved to be much more accurate. An additional Incentive was also found In the use of the dummy drill-gun, a device by means of which the crews became ex pert in the handling of shells and pow der-bags and at which they were now continuously exercised; such practice formerly had not been possible, owing to the danger of Wearing out the breech-blocks of the guns. Surprising scores almost Immediate ly began to be made at target prac tice, and an enthusiasm aroused among officers and men that needed no fur ther encouragement. _ “Cop” Arrest* His Own Dog for Stealfng. From the Pittsburgh Post. The thief who has been depleting 1 chicken coops In the vicinity of South Sixteenth street the last few weeks and who has caused the police a lot of trouble, has been captured. Through the efforts of Sergeant Edwin Jacobs, the culprit was brought to time Satur day morning and is languishing In an Improvised cell In the Jacobs home. 127 South Sixteenth street. It was a great shock for the Ser geant to discover that his own little brown dog, “Dandy,” was the guilty party, but Jacobs says the law must take its course, and, although he feels sorry for “Dandy,” the canine has no one to blame but Itself. Every morning the last two weeks complaints have been received in the South Thirteenth street police station. In many cases the evidence, mostly feathers and bones, was brought along by the Indignant residents. About 20 chickenr. have been killed, It is said, and there had been some talk of a vigil ance committee being formed by the citizens. If the police could not appre hend the thief. Saturday morning when Sergeant Ja cobs was on his way home, he saw “Dundy” sneaking along Sixteenth street with something In his mouth. One of Jacobs’ neighbors also saw the dog, and Jacobs says he will pay for all the fowl killed, because he can see no other way out of the difficulty. Woman’s Way. From the Memphis Commercial Appeal. First California is, and then she Isn’t. That comes of letting the women use the ballot. line of crockery. The man that can do It Is pretty good, hey? “I had my line of talk all put up in courses that I could serve in any order I wanted to. And the beauty of It was that my victim never knew how many more courses were coming. He would listen to me in the hope that everything I said would be about the last from me. When I was giving hir* the soup course he was hoping against hope that the next would be the finger bowl. Fighting for Time. "Now, the way the agent has of hurdling back and forth over chapters in the book is not because he can't keep his mind on things in the order that they come. It is because it’s the only way he can make sure of keep ing your interest. If he were to begin at the picture in the front and go over the pages in regular order as a teacher would take a pupil through algebra, you would say to yourself: ‘Good heavens Look at that great big book this man's going to show me! And he’s hardly started yet. I might as well Insult him and get rid of him right away.’ ” The other drummers in the smoking compartment nodded their approval, and the reformed book agent smiled. “As you probably know,” he re sumed, "it's useless to try to escape from a book agent by argument. If the victim says she can’t afford it, he will point out that after the order is taken it will be several weeks before the book is delivered and the cost will not amount to more than about 4 cents a day. It makes a person look pretty cheap to let the 4 measly little pennies block the way to a means for the youngsters to get a good education right at home. Women Dislike to Sign. "One of the greatest obstacles the book agent has to overcome is to get a woman to sign her name to the contract in which she agrees to pay for the book when it is delivered. The order is no good without her signa ture, as she probably would change her mind by the time you came around with the goods and wanted your money. “But lots of people, women particu larly, have a great prejudice against signing their names to any paper in the hands of strangers. Often a wom an will agree to take a book—whether she wants it or not—but will back down when you want her to sign. A Ruse to Get a Name. “You go on talking about the book and as you talk you fold the order slip lengthwise and place your pencil in the fold. Then accidentally you allow the pencil to fall into her lap. Naturally, she picks up the pencil. “Now she s got the pencil In her hand that’s something gained. You take advantage and place the order slip on your prospectus, which you hold toward her. When one has a pencil in one’s hand the Inclination is to use it. The thing one is most likely to write is one’s own name. In this case, the only paper upon which the woman may write is your order slip, which you hold temptingly before her. About four times out of five the mental suggestion works and she will go ahead and sign the order. “But one thing that a book agent dreads above all else,” continued the latter, “the thing that he can seldom overcome if the bluff is properly worked, Is to have a person feign deaf ness in order to get rid of him. x POETRY OF PRESENT. ♦ ■f - ♦ | HERMAN HAGEDORN. ♦ ■f The North American Review. -f Whether this age Is vastly more Im portant than the age of Socrates and Plato, the age of Michael Angelo and Columbus, or the age of Augustus, Virgil, and the Christ is at least de batable; and men will differ In their opinion as they approach hopefully of skeptically the only legitimate claim of the age to greatness. Its attempt to put Into effect the proposition that the brotherhood of man cgn be at tained by legislative program. But the greatness or littleness of the age Is beside the point here. My contention Is that a poet need not limit himself today, any more than in the time of Homer, to the stories and the back ground of his own age to speak to It truths which the man on the street will admit are vital, real. . . . I plead, then, for a larger world than this bit of earth we tramp over dally with our feet, we embrace hourly with our talk of politics, economics, class struggle—a larger world for the poet to give, the reader to wecome. Let poetry not fetter Itself at the begin ning of Its new life with the fetish of realism. Like the microscope whose obedient son it Is, has opened up new regions for exploration, and poetry should gratefully accept them, not thereby, however, discarding Its old | world. The craving for reality, which underlies the pen trick of realism, should widen the poet's vision; so far it has only narrowed It. The intense human sympathy, which Is the domi nant passion in all modern fiction should exhibit Itself In the poet of to morrow, not only as a sympathetic un derstanding of the oppressed, but also of the oppressor, as in much of Gals worthy; not only in a glorification of today, but also In a revitalizing of yesterday. X believe that the passion for reality Is the greatest impulse that has entered literature since some one In the 18th century discovered Nature, but this enthusiasm will have lasting results, of course, only In so far as writers emancipate themselves from the tradition of realism. The more men bother about the ephemera of life the farther they get away from the fundamentals. Trapped By a Sandwich. From the New York Herald. Alvin Hornherger, of Mohnton, this county, who was arrested by federal secret service men on a charge of counterfeiting, was caught through the agency of a cheese sandwich. Some one passed 20 $10 bills In Philadelphia November 16 In as many saloons. They turned out to be coun terfeit. The secret service men say It was Hornherger. At one of the sa loons the man took a bite from a strong cheese sandwich. He didn't like It and laid It down. When the money he had turned In was found to be bad the barkeeper re membered the sandwich. The officers took a cast of It and this showed the marks of false teeth. A plaster cast was taken of Hornberger’s teeth and these are now being compared. literary’ saws." The late Adrian H. Jollne of New York was distinguished as a writer no less than as a lawyer; and an ad dress of his before the Groller club Is still remembered for the many literary aphorisms It contained. Among these aphorisms were: "Fine leathers do not make fine works.’’ "Circumstances alter bookcases.” "Authors will happen, even in the best regulated families.” "Never look a gift book in the bind ing.” "A roving manuscript gathers no dross.” Chicago street railways yearly collect over $10,000,006 in fares. | HOW TO CURE RHEUMATISM / Prominent Doctor’* Beat Pre*crlp 5 tion Easily Mixed at Home. This simple and harmless formuli has worked wonders for all who havi tried It quickly curing chronic ant acute rheumatism and backache. "Fron your druggist get one ounce of Torli compotinfT (In original sealed package] ami one ounce of syrup of Sarsaparfllt compound. Take these two Ingredient! home and put them In a half pint ol good whiskey. Shake the bottle ant take a tablespoonful before each mea and at bed-time.” Good result* com! after the first few doses. If your drug gist does not have Torls compound Tr stock he will get It for you In a few hours from his wholesale house. Don’! be Influenced to take a patent medi cine Instead of this. Insist on having the genuine Torls compound in th< original, one-ounce, sealed, yellow package. This was published here lasl winter and hundreds of the worst casei were cured by It In a short time. Pub lished by the Globe Pharmaceutical lab oratories of Chicago. Why He Changed HI* Mind. John L. Sullivan met with somt amusing incidents while giving boxing lessons. One day a husky young man cami to him as a pupil. He took his boxing lesson and went home somewhat the worse for wear. When he came for his second lessor he said: ‘‘Mr. Sullivan, It was mj idea to learn enough about boxing from you to give a certain young gen tleman a good licking. I’ve had it ir for him a good while. But I’ve changed my mind. If you have no objections I’ll send this young man down here to you to take the rest of my lessone for me.”—Pittsburg Chronicle-Tele graph. RASH ALMOST COVERED FACE Warrenville, O.—"I have felt the effects of blood poisoning for eighteen years. I was never without some erup tions on my body. The terrible itch ing caused me much Buffering and dis comfort, while the rubbing and scratching made it worse. Last spring I had a terrible breaking out of blis tery sores on my arms and limbs. My face and arms were almost covered with rash. I could not sleep and lost nineteen pounds in five weeks. My face was terribly red and sore, and felt as if my skin was on Are. At last I tried a sample of Cuticura Soap and Cuticura Ointment and I found them so cool, soothing and healing, that I got some Cuticura Soap, Cuticura Ointment, and Resolvent. I bathed with hot water and Cuticura Soap, then I applied the Cuticura Ointment every night for two months, and I am cured of all skin eruptions.” (Signed) Mrs. Kathryn Krafft, Nov. 28, 1911. Cuticura 9oap and Ointment sold throughout the world. Sample of each free, with 32-p. Skin Book. Address post-card "Cuticura, Dept L, Boston.” Adv. No Money, No Marriage. "A fortune teller told me that you are going to marry me,” said the young man with the prominent socks. "Did she also tell you that you are going to inherit a very large for tune?” inquired the girl with the mat ted hair. “She didn't say anything about a fortune.” “Then she is not much of a for tune-teller, and you had better not place any reliance in anything she says.”—Washington Herald. These Gridiron Days. Miss Culchaw—Do you like the “Passing of Arthur?” Mr. Chump—I’m not up on football players. What team is he on? If a man didn’t have a wife he prob ably wouldn’t know that he had neigh bors. A bird In the hand fall* to catch the early worm. ALFALFA 8BBD, M. Timothy and Clovwr mixed, i MAO. Will ship e.o. d. Farms for sale and rent on crop pay menu. J. Mulball, Sioux Uty, Iowa. Adx. The man who consults a beauty doctor evidently has a leaky brain box. 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Doctor (to Mrs. J., whose husband is very ill)—Has he had any lucid intervals? Mrs. J.—'E's 'ad nothink except what you ordered, doctor.—Lippln cott’s. Personal Privilege. “You sometimes contradict yourself In your speeches.” “I know It,” replied the positive can didate. “And I want you to under stand that I am the only man in our party who dares attempt such a thing.” Took Load Off Mother’s Mind. Six-year-old Dora returned unusu- j ally early from school the other day. | She rang the door bell. There was no answer. She rang again, a little longer. Still there was no response. A third time she pushed the button, long and hard. Nobody came to the door.' Then she pressed her nose against the window screen and In a Bhrill voice, which carried to the ears of every neighbor on the block, called: “It’s all right, mamma. I ain’t the installment man!” SHE KNEW. “Big men are the beat lovers.” “How do you figure that?” "Why, they're ao demonstrative In their love-making.” “Never Judge a lover by hla signs.” Cough, Cold SoreThroat V * Sloan’s Liniment gives quick relief for cough, cold, hoarseness, sore throat, croup, astnma, hay fever and bronchitis. HERE’S PROOF. M*. Ai.sert W.Paick.of Fredonla, Kan., write* : “ We use Sloan'* Lini ment In the family and find It an ex cellent relief for cold* and hay ferer attack*. It stops coughing and sneev ing almost instantly!'’ i SLOANS LINIMENT RELIEVED SORE THROAT. Mrs. L. Brewer, of Modello,Fla., J write*: •» I bought one bottle of your Liniment and itdidmeall the good in the world. My throat was very sore, and it cured me of my trouble. * GOOD FOR COLD AND CROUP. j Mr. W. IT. Stra^OK, 3721 Elmwood j i Avenue, Chicago, 111..writes: “A lit- ; tie boy next <ioor had croup. 1 gave the mother Sloan’s Liniment to try. I; She gave him three drops on sugar \ before going to bed, and be got up without the croup iu the morning.” Price, 25c., 50c., $1.00 Vt' tewmjm CANADA’S OFFERING TO THE SETTLER THE AMERICAH RUSH TO WESTERN CANADA IS INCREASING Free Homesteads In the new Districts of Manitoba, Saskatche wan and Alberta there are thousands of lfree Homesteads left, which to the man making entry In 8 years time will be worth from DIO to 126 per aero. These lands are well adapted to grain ig and cattle raising. EXCELLENT RAILWAY FACILITIES many cases the railways In nada have been built In ad vance of settlement, and In a short time there will not he e settler who need be more than ten or twelve miles from a line of railway. Railway Rates are ' regulated by Government Com mission. | Social Conditions The American Settler Is at home In Western Canada. He is note stranger In a strange land, hav ing nearly a million of his own people already settled there. If Sroaperoai writ® ana lead tor taniure, nlai, etc., to J.a.fcdaUH.InMrSn, Vfertm.il.. V. IMBpie Rpsifpre °* this PaPer desiring to buy nCallCI 9 anything advertised in its col umns should insist upon having what they ask for,refusing all substitutes or imitation 1366 Aoras^^rM.SS^S^ On transcontinental By., DO m. east of Calgary; 1 m> to Station. Write C*l. MIMm, Ovmt, B«i SAI, CUvvj.Cm, OEFIANCE STARCH SiSaSH>«MllnrI4teMk Invalid Men and W®men 1 will give you FREE a sample of Dr. Pierce’s Pleasant Pellets that have brought health and happiness to thousands—also a book on any chronic disease requested, During many years of practice I have used numer- | ous combinations of curative medicines for liver ills. s I have kept a record of the result in case after case, so that my staff of physicians and surgeons, at the Invalids’ Hotel, Buffalo, N. Y., are able to diagnose and treat cases at a distance with uniform good results. But for the permanent relief of blood disorders and im- - purities, I can recommend my “Golden Medical Discovery” a blood medicine without alcohol or other injurious ingredients. R. V. PIERCE, M.D., Buffalo, N. Y. j Nature’s Way Is The Best Buried deep in our American forest we find blood root, queen's root, mandrake and stone root, golden seal, Oregon grape root and cherry baric. Of these Dr. R. V. Pierce made a pure glyceric extract which has been favorably known for over forty years. He called it "GOLDEN MEDICAL DISCOVERY." This "Discovery" purifies the blood and tonas up the stomach and the entire system in Nature's own way. It's just tha tissue builder end tonic you require. IDr. Pierce’s Golden Medical Discovery has the endorsement of many thousands that it has cured them of indigestion, dys pepsia and weak stomach, attended by sour risings,heartburn,foulbreath,coated tongue, poor appetite, gnawing feeling in stomach, biliousness and kindred derangements of the stomach, liver and bowels, “In coughs and hoarseness caused by bronchial, throat and lung affections, except consumption, the ’Golden Medical Dis covery* is a most efficient remedy, espec ially in those obstinate, hang-on-coughs caused by irritation and congestion of the bronchial mucous membranes. The ‘Dis covery* is not so good for acute coughs arising from sudden colds, nor must it be expected to cure consumption in its ad vanced stages—no medicine will do that— but for all the obstinate, chronic coughs, which, if neglected, or badly treated, lead up to consumption, it is the best medicine that can be taken.” Sold In tablet or liquid form by all principal dealers In medicines, or send fifty one-cent stamps for trial package of tablets. To find oat more about the above mendoned dis ea sea and all about the body In health and disease, get the Common Sense Medical Adviser—the Peo ple’s Schoolmaster in Medicine—revised and up-to date book of 1,008 pages. Cloth-bound, sent post paid on receipt of 31 cents in one-cent stamps to pay cost of wrapping and mailing only. Address: Dr. Pierce’s Invalids’ Hotel, Buffalo, N. Y. PUTNAM FADELESS DYES drc»nr°lt»n?£nt Without Upping* wrt™ Wnt^for'Vree d^l^«^How,to ^eTBJelchimd MLxCo^orm.* ^‘oNBQC*PBl^G* t^>MftNr^ q5«c?! iff 4