the food reached the stomach It Is subjected to a peculiar^
churning movement by the muscular walla of the stomach*—(See ^
Dr. Pierce’* Medical Adviser, page 45). In the liver, kidneys and
skin, the blood is purified of its waste materials—these organa act
as human filters, leaving the blood pore clear—unless liver,
digestive tract and kidneya are clogged.
v
Dr. Pierce’s Golden
Medical Discovery
is a stomach, liver and kidney tonic—by assisting
the stomach to assimilate, the liver to filter, the
kidneys to act—the poisons are removed, the red blood
corpuscles are increased and one feels light, fresh and active
instead of logy, dull and heavy. The “Discovery” stimu
■ — lates the stomach, increases action of heart and arter
■ le* and is a most satisfactory alterative in blood-taint of any character.
■ The refreshing influence of this extract of native medicinal plants has
| been favorably known for over forty years. Everywhere some neighbor
9 can tell you of the good it has done,
SoU by ad medicine dealer* in liquid or tablet form, or mend SO one-cent
^ stonys to Dr. Pierce, Buffalo, N. Y.,and a trial box arid be mailed you.
Modern War Firework*.
The most elaborate fireworks in the
■world are those reserved for use In
time of war. The possibilities of sig
naling for long distances and of il
tamlnating the enemy’s position by
night have been carefully studied and
•reworks of unprecedented size and
brilliancy have been constructed.
Lot another great war be fought and
Che fireworks display would completely
nelipso our most elaborate Fourth of
3Wy celebrations. One of the most
baautlful of these fireworks Is tho star
Miell. By means of a large rocket ar
rangement these stars are sent to
■mat altitudes, and on bursting throw
n powerful white light over a consid
erable radius.
The war rockets are the largest ever
■instructed, measuring eight feet or
■ore in length. On exploding at great
altitudes combinations of colored Btars
are *et free which will signal widely
aaattered troops.
Only One “BROMO QUININE”
•» r«t rho genuine, nail for full name. I.AXA
ftVH BROMO QUININE. I.onk for signature of
•> W. GKOVit. Cures a Cold in One U»». 2Sc.
His Complaint.
Church—I see New York has six
Mind operators at telephone switch
board*.
Gotham -To say nothing ol a lot of
•aaf ones.
“BOUND FOR
WESTERN CANADA”
A PRAIRIE SCHOONER SLOGAN,
THAT STARTED FROM
NEBRA3KA.
Four horses abreast attached to a
M painted prairie schooner, with
'Windows and a protruding stovepipe,
■tth the words, “Bound for Canada,”
•ft the schooner’s side, was the object
•gf considerable interest as it passed
IB the way northward from Nebraska
A short time ago through the towns
k Nebraska, South and North Dakota.
After some weeks of strenuous travel
ing in this way, Mr. J. F. Jensen made
the overland trip from Jameson, Ne
braska, and with his little family made
flw regular customs entry at North
^rtal, In the province of Saskatche
wan. Their destination was Willow
Aanch, a district that Mr. Jensen
had selected as one in which It was
Cslble for him to work out his for
e. He located on a good half seo
Aoa of land, and Intended putting on
A some cattle that would fatten on
fee wild prairie grass that grows so
Anurlously In that district. In addi
Aon to this his purpose was to culti
vate a portion of It and raise wheat,
•nts, barley or flax. In short, a life
•■voted to mixed farming was what
he had In view and It Is easy to un
•writsrid that ho will make a success
It 1L and in a year or so will attach
•ome more land holdings.
Although his beginning may be
■Mil, It may safely be said that Mr.
Aansen, like thousands of others who
Bftve begun life in western Canada on
ke more and with probably much less,
Will prosper. He will not be far from a
few of railway. Schools will be close
M hand and other social conditions so
■eoessary in a new country are avail
able.—Advertisement.
Half and Half.
Hon. Horace E. Stanton, apropos of
fea mismanagement of a railroad that
had gone Into a receiver's hands, said:
"The calm and bland excusos offered
■or their mismanagement by tile road's
various heads remind me of Smith.
•Smith, last Sabbath, put in a stren
•ocb day cleaning up his garden for
fee spring planting.
"But Jones, his next door neighbor,
tackled him indignantly in the smoker
the following morning aud Bald:
“ “Look here, Smith, do you think I
Want all your tin cans and bones and
tad shoes thrown over Into my gar
“ ‘You haven't got ’em all, old man.
You've only got half,' said Smith
talmly. ‘Brown, on tho other side,
pot the other half.’ ”
Argentina a Good Customer.
Argentina is the foremost South
American country as a market for
products of the United States, our
■ales thereto in the last calendar year
haring been $55,000,000 in value com
pared with $40,000,000 to Brazil aud
$61,000,000 to the remaining 12 coun
trtea of that continent.
Bought It (or Cash.
Marks—What did you gain in your
teal with Brown?
Parks—A great deal of respect for
Brown’s business ability.
Paw Knows Everything.
Willie—Paw, what is light Action?
Paw—Gas and electric light bills,
■ay son.—Cincinnati Enquirer.
Locating a Quarrel.
"And when you were abroad on
your honeymoon trip did you visit
the Palace of Peace at The Hague?"
asked the girl friend of the bride Just
homo from abroad. ,
"Oh, yes,” was the reply; "we had
our first quarrel there.”
Putnam Fadeless Dyes do not stain
the hands. Adv.
Knew the Game.
"How did you ever get papa's con
sent to our marriage, George?” asked
the sweet young thing,
“Why, Grace, you seem to forget
that I took medals at college in the
hurdle event, and am a crack-a-jack
at getting over obstacles.”
Doctor up that. Cough—Dean’s Mentho
lutcd Cough Drops are a sure relief for all
coughs and colds—5c at Druggists.
Style.
Mrs. Styles—To be In style tho pa
pers say one must have something
slim about them.
Mr. Styles—Well, I'm In style, all
right, then.
“How so?”
"Why, my poeketbook looks that
way, all right."
M Important to Mothers
Examine carefully every bottle of
CASTORIA, a safe and sure remedy for
Infants and children, and see that It
Signature of
In Use For Over 30 Tears.
Children Cry for Fletcher’s Castoria
His Status Established.
"I understand ho Is a southern
planter."
"Well, practically. Ho Is an under
taker In Mobile.”
Believed In Daylight Saving.
Tho late King Edward practiced
daylight saving on lines similar to
those proposed In the daylight saving
parliamentary bill. For many years
and Sandringham he caused his clocks
to bo advanced 30 minutes during
the summer months, and in tho last
two years of his life he caused the
same rule to be observod at Windsor
and Balmoral, and said that ho was
favorably disposed towards tho bill.
Non-Inflammable Movies.
Neptune, being the god of the
Seven Seas, very properly comes to
the aid of tho moving picture in ban
ishing tho menace of Are, but ho does
not offer water—sca-wecd Is the
thing. From this an English experi
menter has found that a product
called "algln" can bo extracted. It Is
used In the manufacture of non-tn
tlammable films and In tho treatment
of paper to make It waterproof,
flame-proof and germ-proof.
Tidal Wave Submerges Island.
Inlskeerach, a small Island lying off
Arranmore, on the Donegal coast, and
having a population of about 90 per
sons, has been almost entirely sub
merged by a tidal wave.
Roused by the road of the waters,
the residents were able to escape with
their lives, but suffered Bevere loss of
property, chiefly in regard to their
stocks of seaweed stacked ready for
kelp-making. Tho tidal wave reached
Arranmore also, but tho conformation
of the land there protected the neigh
borhood from tho ravages of tho wa
ters.
WANTED TO KNOW
The Truth About Grnpe-Nuts Food.
It doesn’t matter so much what you
hear about a thing, it's what you know
that counts. And correct knowledge
Is most likely to come from personal
experience.
"About a year ago,” writes a N. Y.
man, “I was bothered by indigestion,
especially during the forenoon. I tried
several remedies without any perma
nent improvement.
"My breakfast usually consisted of
oatmeal, steak or chops, bread, coffee
and some fruit.
"Hearing so much about Grape-Nuts,
I concluded to givo It a trial and find
out if all I had heard of it was true.
"So I began with Grape-Nuts and
cream, soft boiled eggs, toast, a cup of
Postuin and some fruit. Before the
end of the first week I was rid of the
acidity of the stomach aud felt much
relieved.
"By the end of the second week all
traces of indigestion had disappeared
and I was In first rate health once
more. Before beginning this course of
diet, I never had any appetite for
lunch, but now I can enjoy the meal
at noon time.”
Name given by Postum Co., Battle
Creek, Mich. Read “The Road to
Wellville,” in pkgs. "There's a Rea
son.”
Kver read the above letter? A nevr
one appears from time to time. Tbep
are seualoe, true, sad full of banal
Interest. ,
Do Women Do the Buying ?
By Truman A. DeWeeso. Buffalo, N. T.
The literary fellows have a habit of
stating a truth In the form ef a ques
tion. In selecting the above caption I
have followed this idea. I think the
answer will Immediately come te the
mind ef nearly every person who be
longs to what we call the newspaper
reading class. As a matter of fact S#
per cent of all the commodities In the1
average store are purchased by women,
i The newspaper stands first as an ad
! vertlslng medium because It Is pecu
I Itarly a home Institution and. therefore,
sustains an Intimate relation to the
family circle. It Is fer this reason that
' It makes a strong appeal to women.
I Did you ever stop te think of the wide
range of a woman’s purchases? Women
I not only purchase all the commodities
that are for her personal use, such a*
; her own apparel and household fur
j nlshlngs, but In many Instances she
actually buys nearly everything that
j gees Into the home, Including the wear
' lng apparel for her children and her
husband. Of course she selects the
furniture fer the home, the carpets, the
rugs, the curtains. Also the utensils
for the kitchen and everything that
facilitates the management of the cul
inary department; but she also lh maijy
Instances buys her husband’s shirts, his
I socks, his neckties and even his under
wear. In many Instances It la her
jdeasant duty to select the husband's
shaving soajj, and to discover those
little comforts and conveniences that
are not brought within the range ef his
busy mind. If there Is a boy In the
home she lg very apt to buy his cloth
ing because her practical mind can
select that which Is In the best taste
and Is apt to wear the longest. She Is
more Interested In the garden, has more
time for enjoying Its pleasures and de
lights and hence she buys the seeds
and the garden tools. Of course she
buys the musical instruments for tile
home, and If there Is a victrola In the
house her educated musical taste nat
urally leads her to select the rocordb.
Ninety per cent of all the new novels
and even the more sorlous books of
erudition and travel are largely read by
women. Therefore It follows that she
Is the heaviest customer of the book
publishing houses.
With this brief survey of woman’s
purchasing powers It Is easy to see
that the newspaper, because of Its In
timate relation to the woman’s sphere
of action, must stand first as an ad
vertising medium for nearly all com
modities that are sold In the average
store. The newspaper Is not only the
best medium because of Its direct re
lation to the housewife In the home,
but because It reaches the members
of the family at the best hour of the
day when their minds are most re
ceptive. Other literature that comes
into the home Is read at leisure mo
ments. The newspaper le quickly and
promptly read because Its life Is only
24 hours and tomorrow Its news will
be stale and uninteresting. It Is. there
fore, the medium for quick and de
cisive results—for making an Imme
diate and definite Impression upon the
mind of the reader.
Ail this emphasizes the need of great
care and study in preparation of
"cony." Anybody can write the mushy
stories In the body of a magazine and
mest anybody can write the "news"
matter in the paper, but not every man
can write the kind of advertising copy
that will attract attention, that will
convince and persuade the possible
customer.
The chief characteristic of good ad
vertising copy must be decisiveness
and lucidity. Advertising copy must
say a great deal In a few words. The
space is valuable and the impression
must be quickly made on the readers’
mind. Spending two days in writing
an advertisement of 39$ words is not
a watlte ef ft me or grey matter. An
advertisement should be written and
rewritten until it is a medle of Incisive
English. Hasty and imperfect copy Is
a waste of time and money.
If we accept all these preposltiens
then It Is easy te accept the conclusion
that an advertiser in a newspaper
should use a large space. It is not pos
sible to carry out any of these Ideas In
small space. The attempt of a mer
chant to tell "the story of his past life’’
in two or three Inches of newspaper
space is always a pitiful and grotesque
flrsde. The wonderful development of
modern nejvspajper advertising makes
It Impossible for the merchant to at
tract atbemtton In small space. He Is
burled and lost In a mass of big adver
tising ef memiiamts who are doing big
things In a D4g way. But even If he
succeeds In attracting attention he
cannot say anything worth while in
small space. There is something about
the bigness and boldness of a large ad
that arrests immediate attention and
inspires confidence In the advertiser.
The average reader says te himself,
“No merchant could srfferd to advertise
in that way if he did not do a big
business and if lie dees a big busi
ness it is a sure sign that he has earned
the business through enterprising up
to-date merchandising." The same ar
guments In behalf of the use of hig
space also apply to the use of streng,
clean cut Roman type, the kind that Is
easily and quickly read by the average
reader In the average home. Te the
man who knows the attention value ef
clean, strong, plain type, the use of
smaller types such as Old English type)
and freakish letters is almost a crime.
What Is to be gained by the advertiser
who prints an Important message to
the consumer in type which tie con
sumer cannot readt
SHOOTING A MAN.
“
By John Philip Orth.
(Copyright, 1914, by the McClure News
paper Syndicate.)
Miss Blythe Milward was taking a walk
In the park at an early morning hour.
Her brother George had told her that if
she would get out early she would tlnd
the squirrels hunting for their breakfast.
If she went around by the Zoo she would
find the hippopotamus Jumping through
paper hoops and playing a mouth organ— |
a thing he never did after the hour of 9
o’clock.
A hippopotamus has his hours for,njay
and his hours of dignity, the same as a
United Slates senator, and when he's off
his dignity he’s a very Interesting animal.
Miss Blythe saw the squirrels.
IRhe saw the hippo.
Incidentally, she saw the kangaroo and
the giraffe, but they were side issues.
Some one also saw Miss Blythe. He
wasn’t an animal, but a human being. He
was a young man under 30, and he had a
smile and a smirk. Ho also had a mus
tache and wore a bogus diamond ring.
He might have been in the park to see
the squirrels and the hip. He was saun
tering about and flourishing his cane and
pulling at his .mustache, when his eyes lit
on the girl. He removed his hat with a
great flourish. He smiled. He smirked.
He observed that it was a fine morning
for a walk.
For a moment Miss Blythe looked at
him In astonishment. It was her first
meeting with a masher. Then the identity
of the creature slowly dawned upon her
and she drew herself up and indignantly
exclaimed:
“Sir, pass on about your buslpess!”
“Ah! See you again,’’ he smirked as
he passed.
“What’s the matter with the kid?**
asked Miss Blythe’s brother George, as
she regchetHhome with tears in her eyes.
Brother George W’as 13 years old. and
he really hoped that something had hap
pened to call for a display of chivalry on
nis part.
“Map—In the park!’’ sobbed the sister.
“Wild man?’’
“Ne— tame!”
“\Vhnt did he do?”
“S-spoke to me!’’
“And what wTere you doing?”
“Hooking at the squirrels.”
“Anjl didn’t you blast his eyes?**
“Y-yes.”
“And you told him to go on about his
business?”
“Yes.”
“And he w’ent?”
“If he hadn’t I was going to call for
help.”
“I’m glad you didn’t have to.” sagely
replied the brother. “Sister, neyer call
for outside help If you can avald It. If
you do they will get your name and veur
picture In the papers, and a groat lot of
stuff about veur lighting to the last gasp,
and all of that. They will also want to
know' what ssrt of a ccuvboy I am not to
be around when wanted.”
“But what shall I do If I meet him
again?”
“Tonight I shall hand you my revolver.
It won’t be loaded; but when you go to
the park in the morning, you carry it
with you.”
“And It won’t go off?” asked the sister
with a shudder.
"How can it? You want it simplv to
menace tho man. If he shows up again.
As soon as he begins bowing and smirk
ing you want to pull your gun on him
and say;
“ ’Out of this with you, base wretch, or
you are a dead man!”
“But he may laugh at me.”
“No danger of that, if you speak in a
stern voice. The sight of a gun gives
such scoundrels tho quake every time.
There’s hardly a day passes, sister that
I don’t make some aesperado take to
his heels by drawing a gun and looking
at him. You just try it once. Money
back tf it don't work.”
When Miss Blythe went to the park next
morning she had tho "gun” along with
her, but she didn’t mean to menace any
body with it If she could avoid it. She
therefore took another path. If that mash
er was on the watch he w'ould be fooled.
When she had reached a spot half a mile
from the encounter of the day previous
she sat down on a bench and lost herself
In watching the robins.
“Ah, there, good morning!”
It w as the masher come back! H® hadn’t
been fooled!
• Beautiful morning?”
No reply.
“Beautiful park?”
No reply.
“What a happy bird the robin Is!”
Miss Blythe was now looking him
squarely In the eyes.
“Would that 1 were a robin to be
looked at by a beautiful young lady!”
“You loafer, you, how dare you speak
to me again!”
“Call me not thus, fair one. I admit
that I Admire, but It Is with all due re
spect."
Miss Blytho rose to her feet and out
came the revolver.
Gecrge said that It wouldn’t be loaded
but It was to be used only to menac®
with.
However, It turned out to be anothsr
of those frequent cases of "didn’t know
It was loaded."
Up came the weapon on a line with the
masher's right eye. The girl didn’t
knew the trigger from the muzzle. It
can't be recalled to this day that any
thing was done beyond wobbling the
weapon about, but all of a sudden there
was an explosion.
A bullet not meant for anybody took a
piece out of the masher’s right ear and
then went singing away into the brush.
The masher yelled out. He Jumned clear
of the ground. He clapped a hami to the
bleeding ep.r, and shouting "murder!” at
the top of hls volcee |ie struck a jack-rab
bit aait and was soon out ef si&ht.
"What have I done1! Oh, what hg,ve I
done!" wailed the girl as she dropped
back on the bench ahd covered her face
with her hands, having dropped the re
volver as soon as the shot was fired.
There was no one nearby. No one came
running. After giving herself two or thfcee
minutes to recover from the shock, Miss
Blythe qtarted for home at a fast walk.
The evening papers ef that date had a
column article under f4ur or five scare
heads, the largest and blackest of which
was:
"Attempted Murder In the Park!"
And then the article related that as Guy
Osborne, son of the insurance man by
that name, wrb sitting in the park at an
early morning hour, smoking hls cigar
(not n nlckle on#), and reading hls paper,
a bullet, fired by a would-be assassin
from the underbrush at hls faithful heart
had hit him in the calf of the right leg.
The assassin had been concealed there
for half an hour, prohably. He certainly
meant murder. No suspicious person was
seen by the park police, but a general
alarm had been sent out to collar every
I man In the city with a Reman nose.
Brother George had been told about the
masher, and he was highly exultant.
When he saw’ the papers, how'ever, he
sober**! up and said: "Sister, you will
have to hit the high spots.’’
•What <1ow that mean?" she asked.
"You will have tc seek the woods and
camp out until this ti as blows over."
"But how can I?"
"Dunno, unless you tell mother you are
dying of consumption and must have an
sutojloor life for awhile."
Poor Miss Blythe. She wept and she
tried to plan. Brother George had ceased
t# be a consolation. In fact, he showed
a disposition to skip the country. All
that needed to tee done w’as to keep quiet,
as ftp on had seen the shooting, hut the
sh#oter fc.lt that eveJ-y finger in the efty
was pointing at her as the guilty one. She
b#re up under it for two days, and then
without a word to any one she set out
for the residence of the wounded man'a
fit the r. |
Mr. Guy Osborne was sitting np, with a
support for the wounded leg. A neat hole
bored through the calf wotiid not trouble
him for lone. The guilty and conscience
stricken girl was admitted to Ills pres
ence. . ,
"It was I that shot you as you sat In
the Bark!"
what? he asked.
•■with my little revolver I did It, and
you may semi me to prison."
im GuV Osborne send her there? He
didn’t. He just fell In love, with the
shooter, as was ordained ho should, and
If It doesn’t end In matrimony before
huckleberries come again, then Mrs.
Grundy and lots of other folks will turn
out false prophets.
Electric Milking Machines.
From the Electrical World.
One dollar per month for each cow
milked is the saving which the dairy
man can accomplish by the use of an
electric milking machine, according to
James E. Davidson, vice president and
general manager of the Pacific. Power
and Eight company, of Portland, Ore.,
who presented a paper on electrified
farming before the recent Seattle con
vention of the Northwest Electric Light
and Power association.
"Eight times out of 10,” said Mr.
Davidson, "the salesman who Is trying
to sell an electric milking machine will
accomplish his result if he directs at
tention to the facts that with electric
milking "5 per cent of the cost of
milking is given back to the dairyman
in net profits; that the output of milk
Is celaner and better because of the
decreased number of bacteria, and that
, the use of the machine dissipates the
nightmare of always trying to find a
reliable, cleanly, gentle and efficient
man who will stay right on the Job
twice a day, S65 days In the year, who
has a disposition so patient that he
; will gently milk a cow while sh,e laps
■ her tall around his neck and places her
: foot in the bucket or who will cooly
I sit down beside a hot cow and milk
' her In fly time with the thermometer
! 100 degrees in the sljade."
Starting Something.
"John we have been married 11 year*
! today.”
j ”Oh, forget It. What’s the uae of
> trying to atart a Quarrel?"
HORRIBLE ATROCITIES
CONTINUE IN BALKANS
DECLARES MAJOR FORD
Paris. Special: Misery in the most
poignant degree is general among the
Bulgarians, according to Maj. Clyde
Ford, of the medical corps, UnKed
States army, who is returning to
America after many months spent in
the Balkan region.
Major Ford was detailed by the
American government and accompanied
the Bulgarian forces in the field with
the especial object of observing the
treatment of the wounded and prison
ers by their captors. His final report
to the secretary of war, which he will
prepare soon after his arrival in
Washington, will contain accounts of
many fearful atrocities committed by
the Turks and Greeks.
Bulgars a Manly People.
“A1I the parties to the recent wars.”
said Major Ford just before his depar
ture from Paris “are guilty of acts of
cruelty and rapacity. The Bulgarians,
however, are a manly people, who ex
pend the native violence of their char
acter upon men, not upon women and
children. No cases of cowardly out
rages upon the weaker sex can be laid
to their charge.
"On the other hand, such acts on the
part of the Turks were almost innum
erable. I saw in one place 400 skele
tons of men and women, natives of
small towns, whom the Turkish sol
diers had summarily shot.
Turks’ Cruelties Continue.
“The cruelties of the Turks did not
cease with their own war with the al
lies. They are systematically and
without pity turning the Bulgarian
population of the Adrianople district
out of their homes and driving them
across the frontier into Bulgaria.
"Close to Adrianople I saw an en
tire Bulgarian village destroyed. The
Bulgarians were bundled Into jvagon#
on a half hour's notice and were not
permitted to take any of their Belong
ings with them except the gt&mente
they happened to be wearing. The
Greeks are pursuing exactly the same
course in Macedonia.
"I saw many thousands of Bul
tgarians driven out of Macedonia,
which they and their forefathers have
inhabited for generations. Their only
refuge, of course, is Bulgaria, where
the misery already existing is very
great.
Fugitives Increase Misery.
"The flocking of these fugitives In
to the country has increased the misery
to a desperate degree. Bulgaria fully
deserves the sympathies of the [Chris
tian world. Her defeat in the last war
was wholly due to the fact that Rou
mania stood ready to fall upon her
from the rear.
“The plan of operations against the
Servians and Greeks which was ap
proved by King Ferdinand, and which
I have carefully studied, would have
insured victory tf it could have been
carried out. The Bulgarians had the
enemy enclosed as in a trap.
"The Bulgarians are sincere,
straightforward and trustworthy,
without vicious tendencies. Thethris
tion world knows what it owes them
for standing for centuries as a bul
wark against Islam. It now has an
opportunity to pay that enormous debt,
at least in part,
“I think there never have been an oc
casion when civilized humankind was
under a more obvious obligation to
render speedy and ample relief."
ENGLISH SUFFRA6ETS
ARE CONFIDENT THAT
THEY ARE NEAR COAL
Labor Party Makes Suffrage One of
Its Planks—Women Point to Suc
cess of World Wido
M ove.
London. Special: Pressure of the
demand for suffrage will be kept up by
women of England with unrelenting
vigor during the year 1914, according
to announcement from the National
Union of Woman’s Suffrage Societies.
This organization, which is working
only along constitutional iin.es, will
hold Its annual council In February to
map out its political campaign, which,
it has already been decided, will be
begun with a great mass meeting in
Albert hall on February 14 “to voice
the united and constitutional demand
from all classes throughout the coun
try for a government measure for
woman’s suffrage.’’
In review of the work of the past
year it is pointed out that increased
pressure has been directed upon the
government in constituencies repre
sented by anti-suffraget ministers, and
upon strengthening the position of the
labor party, the only party in the house
of commons which has made the wom
en’s cause an integral part of its policy.
The whole work has been concentrated
on the demand for a government
measure, attempts during the year pre
vious for a bill introduced by private
members or an amendment to the
government’s franchise bill having
both failed.
A recent bye-election in South Lan
ark is cited as showing the activity of
the women, in helping to sweep away
a liberal majority, and reduction of
the liberal strength Is also reported in
many important constituencies.
The review continues:
“Not long ago Sir Edward Grey ad
mitted that the record of the house of
commons on the woman’s suffrage
question had not been good, and if to
suffragists it has been profoundly un
satisfactory, the success of the advance
in the country is only the more sig
nificant. The pilgrimage in July from
Edinburgh to London was the great
est demonstration which the national
union, or Indeed any suffrage society
ever produced.
• •a*. iirhon racontmpnt nfffllnst
militant methods was at Its height, the
country villages and the great towns
showed their appreciation of law
abiding propaganda, by hundreds of
crowded meetings. Isolated acts erf
hooliganism there were, but they gave
way rapidly before the general good
will which was above all demonstrated
in the great final mass meeting in
Hyde park on July 2G.
"The support for woman’s suffrage
from responsible citizens is represented
by favorable resolutions from nearly
200 county, town and rural district
councils, and from the branches of
nearly all the trades unions in the
country.
“Practically all the greater woman s
organizations suppqrt woman’s suf
frage. including the National Union of
Woman Workers, which has once
more discussed the question this year,
and of the 50 suffrago societies exist
ing, the national union alon.e has a
membership of nearly 50,000. while be
tween 28.000 and 30,000 Friends of
Woman’s Suffrage have been enrolled
up to date. About $100,000 has been
administered from headquarters dur
ing the year and tho total number of
meetings held is considerably over
2,700.
“One danger during the year has
been averted. The passage of the man
hood suffrage bill was rendered im
possible in the face of tho unredeemed
pledges. After the speaker's ruling
and the postponment of the bill till tho
end of the session was decided upon,
the annual conference of the labor
party by 2 to 1 passed a resolution
opposing any further extension of the
franchise to men without the inclusion
of women. In the following September
tho trade union congress adopted a
resolution censuring the government
for failing to redeem its promises about
women's suffrage and demanding a
government reform bill which would
include women. Finally the year has
marked the growing strength of the
movement In the church indicated by
the sympathetic attitude of the church
congress at Southampton and the let
ter of the Bishop of Winchester urging
the definite prospect of the introduc
tion of a suffrage bill as a first class
measure.
"The strength of feeling amongst the
more progressive liberal women and
their determination to stand for suf
frage principles or for what they re
gard as an essential part of liberal pol
icy, Is further seen in the recent forma
tion of the Liberal Women's Suffrage
union. Amongst men it has its coun
terpart in the Liberal Men's Associa
tion for Women's Suffrage.
"A review of the suffrage during the
past year carries us far beyond the
limits of our own country. When ad
Jrrestnrf the international congress last
June, Mrs. Chapman Catt, the presi
dent, reminded her audience that the
question of woman suffrage had been
considered in 17 national parliaments
during the past winter, and in 33 states
and other legislatures. In the far east
China was about to be admitted to the
international alliance and even Persia
now had her progressive movement.
Of the enfranchised countries, Austra
lia, California, Norway, Oregon and
Washington sent official government
representatives to the congress and
during the session, news was received
that Norway had obtained her full
equal suffrage rights. The Territory
of Alaska must also now be added to
the list, and in June Illinois obtained
enfranchisement on the same terms as
men, involving the enfranchisement of
her 1,000,000 women in Chicago.
“Since the international congress the
parliament in Iceland has again passed
the amendment to the* constitution
granting the vote to women on the
same terms as men, and the bill now
awaits the sanction of the king of
Denmark. This will be granted, if the
bill is confirmed by the newly elected
parliament next April. On October 7th
and 8th the reform bill in Denmark,
including the enfranchisement of
women, having passed its third read
ing in the lower house, was read for
the first time in the upper chamber.
When parliament opend in Holland,
the queen in her speech gave a promise
of a bill for amending the constitution
and granting equal suffrage rights to
women and in Poland the president of
the diet when replying to a recent
sut fra go deputation, stated that his
new proposal for reform would include
woman suffrage, though not eligibility.
The situation in Sweden is very en
couraging and there is reason to sup
pose she will obtain her enfranchise
ment during 1914, while in Finland the
parliamentary elections last August re
sulted in an increase in the number of
women members of parliament, of
whom there are now 21.”
HUMAN SKIN CHANGING;
SUPERMAN IS FORESEEN
Parts Special: The race of super
men which may eventually replace
present day humanity on our planet,
according to some prophets, will have
a skin greatly different from that of
the man of today.
Prof. Daniel Bertnelot, the eminent
French specialist, ueciares that the
skin of the human race has undergone
great changes since our primitive an
cestors. He finds notably that while
the whitest of modern skins refiect al
most all the colors of the spectrutn, the
skin of the more primitive races ab
sorb the colors of higher and finer vi
brations and only reflect the stronger
colors at the spectrum's lower end.
For instance, the skins of the primitive
negro races reflected practically no
colors at all. The red-skinned races
reflected only the reds at the lower end
of the spectrum, and the so-eallefl yel
low races only as far as the yellows in
its center. The white skins of the
races of today are able to reflect not
only the blues, but also the violets at
the top of the visible spectrum, al
though the strength and clearness of
the reflection varies with eaoh individ
ual skin. But no skin has been found
so far capable of reflecting the ultra
violet rays, which, although present In
almost all light, vibrate at a rate too
high to be visible by the humajt eye.
It is, therefore, believed that the past
evolution of the human skin fbre
shadows the existence in the distant
future of an ultra-white race, which,
in addition to its other capacities, will
have a skin capable of reflecting the
invisible ultra-violet rays.
Yet Crime Fails.
From the Cleveland Deader.
TYhen many burglaries are committed,
without the arrest of ttie housebreakers,
and much property is stolen without the
apprehension of the thieves, it may look
to young men as If crime were a com
paratively safe and sure road to ease and
abundanee. Yet In the end it is always
exactly the opposite. The burglaries, the
highwaymen and the other thieves are
often obliged to take only a small fraction
of the value of the property they steal.
They see the larger part, except when
they obtain money, go to the men who
buy their plunder from them and dispose
of It as thfw find opportunity. And after
a period which may be very brief or may
run on for several years there Is the In
evitable disaster. Discovery comes and
brings Imprisonment or death In Its train.
A hunted life ends In a cell or a bullet cute
It short, in a street or a room. In many
cases one term of imprisonment follows an
other until the convict breaks down and
dies. Half of the energy used tn danger
ous and brutal crimes. If applied to some
honest pursuit, would insure a decent liv
ing and self-respect. It would permit en
tire peace of .mind and freedom of move
ment. There would be no fear of the law
and its officers. Old age might come In
peace and quiet. Home life would be the
natural and normal lot. The robbers and
the thugs play a losing game. Many of
them know It and some try to stop, but
when once fairly embarked upon their
ruinous course they find It almost Im
possible to get clear of their entangle
ments and break the bonds of their habits.
And for all of these reasons It Is th«
’ worst of folly to begin the life they lead.
There Is always a censor at the Ger
man court dances who watches the
dancers, and If any one Is awkward
or unacquainted with the steps he la
notified that he will not be invited
ugaia unless he learns to dance better