Rhodes and Rain.
Among the stories in the duchess of
Aosta's book is one relating to the
celebrated statue of Cecil Rhodes
which stands in the main square of
Rulawayo. The empire builder is fig
ured in contemplation of his achieve
ment, with head bared.
The whole district had been griev-,
ously plagued by drought for over a
twelvemonth, when the natives got up
A great agitation and marched in enor
mous numbers to the square, and,
.thronging around the statue of Cecil
Rhodes, insisted that it should Im
mediately be given a top hat.
They said that "Heaven respects
;thls great creator of empire too much
to send the needed rain while he
stands there bareheaded.”
ECZEMA SPREAD OVER HANDS
101 S. Boots St., Marion, Ind.—"First
the eczema started on my fingers, then
Apread all over my hands. It* broke
(Out in tiny blisters, then would get
idry and crack and swell so I could not
tavo my hands in warm water they
**’ Jhurt me so badly. I could not do all
!my work. The itching and burning
■Were terrible. The more I scratched
any hands the worse it made them,
jffhey were so bad I could not help
Acratching them and would walk the
jfloor they annoyed me so. I could not
Aleep, lost many nights of rest on ac
count of the eczema. My hands were
Hot fit to be seen and I kept them
jwrapped up and wore mittens that I
made out of old linen.
“I was about ono year using reme
dies, then I saw an advertisement In
ithe paper saying that Cuticura Soap
and Ointment were good. I wrote at
■Once for a sample. Then I bought one
cake of Cuticura Soap and one box
of Cuticura Ointment. Before the sec
ond box of Cuticura Ointment was
jgone my hands were well and have
remained well ever since.” (Signed)
Mrs. G. W. Sharp, Mar. 21, 19lf.
Cuticura Soap and Ointment sold
throughout the world. Sample of each
iree.with 32-p. Skin Book. Address post
(Bard "Cuticura, Dept. L, Boston.”—Adv.
l 1 ~ "
t i Trials of Teaching.
Mrs. Hitch was having some trou
ble with a little fellow in her spelling
class at Claysville.
"B-e-d, spells bed,” she explained,
over and over again; "b-e-d, bed. Do
you understand?"
"Yes’m.”
“Well c-a-t spells cat, d-o-g spells
dog, and b-e-d spells— What did 1
tell you b-e-d spells?”
“Dunno.”
"Don’t you know! You don’t know
what b-e-d spells after all I’ve told
you?”
"No’m.”
"Well, once more, b-e-d spells what
you sleep in. Now, what do you sleep
In?”
“My drawers!” triumphantly ex
claimed the urchin.—Cynthiana Demo
crat.
Two Porches.
Kathleen Jones, aged four, made
mud pies on Mrs. Reed’s steps.
"Run away, dear,” said that Iadv
"Go and play on your mamma’s
porch.”
“But mamma has just scrubbed hers
ell nice and clean and she don’t want
foe to dirty it up.”
"Perhaps I like to keep my' porch
clean, too.”
"Huh!” said Kathleen. "I didn’t
know your porch was clean ever."
\ --
' A Thing the Wealthy Miss.
The rich and proud needn't think
they have all the pleasure there Is in
life, never experiencing, for instance,
the delightful thrill that comes when
the lawn mower breaks down hope
lessly.—Ohio State Journal.
SISTER’S TRICK
But It All Came Out Right.
How a sister played a trick that
brought rosy health to a coffee fiend
is an interesting tale:
“I was a coffee fiend—a trembling,
nervous, physical wreck, yet clinging
to the poison that stole away my
strength. I mocked at Postum and
would have none of it.
i “One day my sister substituted a
cup of piping hot Postum for my morn
ing cup of coffee but did not tell me
what it was. I noticed the richness
of it and remarked that the 'coffee'
tasted fine but my sister did not tell
me I was drinking Postum for fear 1
might not take any more,
i “She kept the secret and kept giv
lng me Postum instead of coffee until
I grew stronger, more tireless, got a
better color in my sallow cheeks and
a clearness to my eyes, then she told
me of the health-giving, nerve
strengthening life-saver she had given
me In place of my morning coffee.
“From that time I became a disciple
of Postum and no words can do jus
tice in telling the good this cereal
drink did me. I will not try to tell It,
for only after having used it can one
be convinced of its merits.”
Ten days’ trial shows Postum’s pow
er to rebuild what coffee has destroy
ed.
Name given by Postum Co., Battle
Creek, Mich. Read "The Road to
!Wellville,” in pkgs.
Postum comes in two forms:
Regular Postum—must be well boil
ed. 15c and 25c packages.
Instant Postum—Is a soluble pow
der. A teaspoonful dissolves quickly
In a cup of hot water and, with create
and sugar, makes a delicious beverage
Instantly. 30c and 60c tins.
j The cost per cup of both kinds Ii ,
f about the same.
* "There’s a Reason” for Postum.
—sold by Grocers 1
ACTIVITIES OF WOMEN
Women's feet are growing larger.
Prussia has a woman master watch
i maker.
British factories employ over 200,
000 women.
Jane Addams mothers thousands of
slum children.
One-third of the clerks in the Uni
ted States are women.
Women in New Work are not al
lowed to work after 10 p. m.
There are only 5b,580 more men than
women in New York state.
Great Britain has 70 women paper
hangers and four bricklayers.
There are over 26,000 women chauf
feurs in the United States.
Only 19.5 per cent of the women in
the United States are unmarried.
Over 5,000 women received in
struction in German universities last
year.
The tobacco factories of this coun
try employ 90,619 women and children.
The average wages earned by women
throughout Great Britain is $1.76 per
week.
The daily hours of work for women
laundry workers is unlimited in 18
states.
Women workers in Birmingham,
England, must sew 384 hooks and eyes
on a card to earn a cent.
New York state, has 41,633 women
teachers in its elementary and sec
ondary schools.
Nearly 200,000 women and children
ire employed in the cotton mills in the
United States.
in r-nnaaeipma a napy is Dorn on an
average of every 12 minutes during the
day and night.
In Jam, confectionery and tin box
factories of Great Britain many women
earn only $1.50 per week.
Nurses in the St. Louis hospitals are
only required to be on duty nine hours
>ut of 24.
The chair of biblical literature at
Vassar college is held by Miss Eva
Olive Dutcher, of Brooklyn, N. Y.
In the event of a civil war in Ire
and the homes will be protected by
in armed corps of women.
The average pay of all the women
ichool teachers in the United States is
$51.51 per month.
Girls can earn a? much as $11 a
week Jn New York city making flowers
>f satin and velvet ribbon. —
The first Greek theater in the United
States was built by Katherine Tingley
at yoint Loma, Cal.
There are over 500,000 women in
Sreat Britain earning less than $3 for
, full week’s work.
The first female aeronaut was
dadame Tibe, who made an ascension
<n a balloon at Lyons. France, in
1874.
India has 9,412,642 girls under the
age of 16 who are wives and 302,425
under the age of six who are married.
Miss Anne Morgan, daughter of the
late J. Pierpont Morgan, made her first
leroplane flight recently in Paris.
Eighteen-year-old Nellie Gilbert is
the only girl mail rider in Arkansas
and makes a 25-mile-trip three times
s. week.
Mrs. A. R. Jacques runs a 600-acre
farm in Gray county, Kansas, from
which she harvested 10,000 bushels of
wheat this year.
Miss Nelda Jaeger, recently appointed
to the bench in Tacoma, Wash., is the
only woman police judge in the United
States.
Madame Pavlowa, the Russian dan
:er, is offering $1,500 in prizes for three
new dances which she will Introduce
next season.
On the ground that they would be
mable to handle disorderly persons,
women are refused licenses to operate
taxicabs in London.
Mrs. Cecelia Bruno has been elected
treasurer of the school board of Hazel
ton, Pa., and will receive 2 per cent of
all moneys paid out.
A bill has been introduced In con
gress which imposes an extra tax of
25 per cent on the income of American
women who marry titled foreigners.
Mrs. Cornelius Giddings, of St. Louis,
has been engaged as directoress of
lunches in the Pittsburgh public
schools at an annual salary of $2,500.
Over 8,000,000 women are now engaged
in gainful occupation in the United
States, which is over 18 per cent of
the female population.
Miss Katherine Kurth, of Philadel
phia, has offered to sell all or part of
her beautiful hair to start a fund for a
home for lonely girls.
Mrs. S. P. Wescott, of Pelham, N.
Y., recently made her 98th trip across
the Atlantic ocean and incidentally
celebrated her 98th birthday on board
tho ohin
The Duchesa of Marlborough, for
merly Consuelo Vanderbilt, claims that
the only way to effect economic re
forms is to establish home hotels for
working girls.
New South Wales is considering the
advisability of removing the sex dis
ability for representative Institutions,
Including parliament and municipal
councils.
Commissioner of Labor Lynch, of
New York, has changed his mind about
excluding women from holding posi
tions in the new state bureau of em
ployment and has ordered that they be
allowed to take the examinations.
Several English women of title are
Shopkeepers. Lady Decies (motherln
law of George Gould's daughter) is
marketing a patent medicine for in
fluenza, and Lady Sackville special
izes in artistic lamp shades.
The medal of the American School
Peace league has been awarded to Mrs.
Kathrina Trask, of Saratoga, N. Y..
whose book is a most stirring appeal
for world peace.
A bill before the Hungarian diet
which, if it becomes a law, will compel
the women of that country to render
military service in time of war else
where than on the battlefield.
Miss Alice F. Banta, of Elizabeth, N.
J., is at present acting as a physician
for a big mining company at Nome,
Alaska, but will, in the fall, return to
Los Angeles, where she has a lucrative
practice.
Miss Christina Mullaney, of New
York, has patented an emergency cov
ering for hats, made of waterproof pa
per that can be secured to the hat by
the customary hat pins.
The present crown of the English
king was originally made for Queen
Victoria, at her coronation, in 1838. The
principal jewels were taken from older
crowns. The most noted stone is the
great ruby which was given to the
Black P.-ince by Peter the Cruel, after
the battle of Navarette in 1367. It was
also worn by Henry V in the crown en
circling his helmet at the battle of
Aglncourt in 1416.
A fur seal commission, consisting of
Edward A. Preble, assistant biologist of
the United States biological survey;
W. H. Osgood, of the Field museum of
natural history, Chicago, and Hr. G. H.
Parker, of Harvard university, has been
sent by the government to the Pribilof
islands this summer to ascertain the
condition of the seal herd, and to study
various economic and scientific ques
tions connected with its administration.
Sweden claims a population of 5,638,
(81 persons.
I PLAYING BALL IN |
X ANCIENT AMERICA *
“Pla-a-a-a-y Baw-aw-aw-1!" Is not
as new an expression of popular Im
patience to have some one "start some
thing" as some people may think. Nei
ther is playing ball for a living a strict
ly modern invention, in fact, thou
sands of year sago, 'way down in Yu
catan, impatient crowds sat around in
ball parks, yelled themselves hoarse,
beat one another in the back, and threw
their feather head-gear into the arena
in the enthusiasm of the moment, just
as we are doing today. Also there
doubtless were Ty Cobbs, whose skill
in "batting” and "fielding” was such
that they could afford to hold up the
management occasionally for a few
more hundred Jaguar skins a year, bj
threats to quit professional ball and
go to farming.
Of course, the game was not exactly
baseball But the point is that It was
a ball game, that there were regular
ball parks for courts and that there
were professionals who played the game
for what there was "in It" to them.
Mayhap the medium of exchange took
the form of jaguar skins, pounds of
cacao, fancy feathers, or what not. but
it was money all tne same, and they
could buy with it at the club, or in the
market place, as the case might be.
They had their peculiar systems of
"slang," too, at leant in some parts of
the Americas, which, translated into
English, means about as much to us as
ours would to them; all of which is
brought out by Franklin Adams in his
story "Indigenous Games in LatiV
America,” in the July number of the
monthly bulletin of the Pan American
Union. Washington, D. C. That the ball
game Is an ancient institution In the
Americas may be gathered from the
following:
the ball game Is indigenous to the
Americas. Perhaps the first simian
Inhabitants found true sport In catch
ing the cocoanuts tossed from the tall
palms—certain it is that several thou
sand years ago the ball game itaji
reached a high state of development in
the 70 cities scattered throughout i’u
cataln. On clearing away the matted
forests enveloping these marvelous
ruins, ball courts were disclosed near
the most sacred temples and. from the
elaborate hieroglyphics and pictographs
ornamenting the walls, much was
learned of the complicated character of
the sport. gepturleg after the passing
of these ancient Mayans, came the first
SP&nlsh explorers who found that a
younger race in contiguous territory,
thp Aztecs, had revived the old pastime
into a "national game,'1 with a stone
"God of Sport” beaming on every court.
"The peculiarity of these early games
was that the ball, when In play, was
not thrown with tlje hand hut struck
by the hip, around which the player
wore a protecting pad of leather. At
each end of the court was a great stone
disk with a hoh) In the center, and
through this orifice the ball was driven
before a point was scored. Very natur
ally a "lively” ball was used, sines
rubber trees dominated the forests.
"Old chroniclers marvel at the skill
and endurance of the players, for a
game was seldom won under four hours
of constant play. Such exhausting
contests, with a dozen participants In
almost constant action, were not for
amateurs but professionals. Thus,
from tho Aztec word, “olll,” signifying
“ball,” came the word "molloncjul",
"one who plays ball for a living."
Another form of ball game Is played
by the Indian tribes of the Cudulary
river region In the wilds of Brazil. A
carefully leveled field lies in front of
the malokas, or large communal houses
and daily', at 5 o’clock, the men return
ing from tho day’s fishing or hunting,
Indulge in the sport—not a complicated
game like that of the early Mexicans,
but ono calling for a high degree of
skill, as two balls are used by the
players, who drive them with their
hands toward their opponents. Yellow
tall feathers of the Yapoo bird are af
fixed to the rubber balls for accuracy.
The Araucunian Indians of southern
Chile play an ancient game with wood
en balls driven by wooden clubs. In a
clearing, S00 by 75 yards, Inclosed by
cut branches of trees, these Indians
play “chueca,” which greatly resembles
lacrosse or field hockey. The game Is
played from childhood and the players
acquire great skill and the matches
drgw large crowds. The game calls
for great endurance and while general
ly played In two or three hour periods
several days have been known to pass
before a decision was reached. During
the play It Is not unusual to hear a
player cry, "Am I not a real oat tree?”
or "Is he not a lion’s leg?” after a
brilliant stroke. Such is Araucanian
slang.
Tho French Feminists.
From Harper's Weekly.
The more progressiva members of the
French feminist movement are determined
upon the herculean task of cleansing the
chamber of deputies, says Robert Sned
don. They have chosen, however, a more
subtle method of attaining their end than
what a French suffragist calls "the
harsh, coldblooded logical struggle of our
English sisters. . . . strange and pain
ful acts which shock the heart of a real
woman." Their methods are not those of
the militant. They rely on persuasion, on
tho Influence which they exert in the
home circle. They remember that man is
half bear and half child, and they appeal
to the child in him. They are not above
making use of their sex wiles. They pre
fer to wheedle and mother man. rather
than assail him with invective and bricks
Moderation is their motto.
The feminist movement In France has
three parties: Those who demand com
plete civil and political equality with man;
those who acknowledge the strength of
long established prejudice, and claim only
municipal rights; and those whose modest
demand extends only to complete equality
in civil rights. In this last party are en
rolled thousands of the rich and Inde
pendent middle class.
An Austrian government bureau has
officially estimated the population of
that country this year at almost 29.
000,000.
GERMAN EMPEROR’S
MINISTER OF WAR
General von Heeringen. German Min
iater of War.
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CANADA’S HUGE GRAIN BINS
Port Arthur Paper Is Peeved at the
Mention of Kansas City Elevators.
From the Port Arthur (Canada) Erenlng Chronicle
Kansas City gains the attention of
the New York Evening Post and is
given five inches of space in that ad
mirable newspaper by reason of in
creasing the capacity of a grain ele
vator there. The Evening Post says:
"When the additions and alterations
to its huge grain elevator at Kansas
City now under way are completed the
Missouri Pacific-Iron Mountain rail
road will have one of the largest
plants of its kind in the world.”
The present capacity of the Kansas
City product ia one million bushels.
When it gains its promised stature
and becomes “one of the largest in
the world” it will have a capacity of
2,133,000 bushels.
At the mention of grain elevators
the twin ports at the head of the lakes
prick up their ears and take notice.
The name of Idoyd-George at a Tory
garden party, or of President Wilson
at a bankers’ convention catches at
tention no quicker than the word "ele
vator” in the hearing of a Port Arthur
Fort William man. Toronto prides
itself on its churches; Pittsburgh
specializes on millionaires; Chicago
has its pork and Boston its pork and
beans—as for us, we rise to fame on
the bins of our elevators, and he who
says "one of the largest” about any
old two-mlllion-bushel outfit in Mis
souri must withdraw the statement or
name the place and weapons.
If the Evening Post had said "one
pf the largest in Missouri,” or in the
general but expressive American
phrase had Baid "some elevator,” we
wouldn’t have minded it so much, but
when it describes this etunted Mis
souri receptacle as "one of the largest
grain elevators in the world” then it
is time to kick. Why, two-milllon
bushel elevators are so common here
abouts that the secretary of the board
of trade does not point them out to
distinguished visitors. Nothing could
show clearer than that what we think
of two-million-bushel elevators.
When we have pointed to the 9,500,
000-busliel C. N. R. elevator and the
7,800,000-bushel C. P. R. elevator and
the 6,500,000-bushel G. T. P. elevator;
then to the 3,600,000-bushel Dominion
Government elevator which is only
the first unit of what is to be a 30
mllllon-bushel plant, by that time the
air is so full of millions that the
listener would be annoyed if we both
ered him with mention of a mere two
million-bushel affair. So we just lump
the balance together and describe the
grand total of 45-million-bushel capac
ity already standing at the head of
the lake®.
Upon the basis upon which Kansas
City got five Inches of space in the
Evening Post we claim a complimen
tary writeup of at least three columns
and in the article we would state that
in one respect wo are like Kansas
City—when it is a question of big ele
vators wo also are from Missouri.
Some Cause for Fear.
The Professor’s Wife—The profes
sor is in the laboratory conducting
some chemical experiments. The pro
fessor expects to go down to posterity.
From tho Laboratory—Br-r-r-r-r!
Bang!
The Visitor—I hope the professor
hasn’t gone!
BY NO MEANS A STRANGER
Not the First Time Lawyer Had Slum
bered With the Companion of
His Travels.
The new senator from Alabama,
Francis Shelly White, Is a lawyer and
has a large practice in his state.
Sometimes his work takes him out
In the Interior, and on one of these
trips he was accompanlod by his cli
ent. and client being a pious man, a
deacon in the church to which White
belonged.
It was late at night when the darky
pulled up his span before the doors of
the Inn, which was presided over by a
lady of generous heart and equal pro
portions. When he went to the desk
to engage a room White was apolo
getically told that it was Impossible,
on account of the Influx of visitors, to
give him a separate chamber.
"I guess I can get a separate bed,
then," said lie. But to this tho reply
was the same.
“May 1 ask who is to be my bod
fallow?" asked White, who did not
relish the Idea of sharing his couch
with a stranger.
"Why," replied the landlady, "It will
he the gentleman with whom you
came."
"Oh, that’s all right then,’’ said
White, with a sigh of relief. "He
and I are both deacons In the same
church and have been sleeping togeth
er during the 11 o’clock sermon in the
First Baptist church for 20 years.”—
Providence Journal.
Pass the Vinegar.
A gaily gowned and garrulous house
maid sat down by an acquaintance on
a trolley and at once said:
"Hello, Sadie! Where you livin'
now?”
"Nowheres,” was the reply.
"How's that?"
“I’m married.”
“You ain’t!”
"Sure thing. Look at that!”
She held up her ungloved left hand
in triumph; for there on the third fin
ger was a shining new wedding-ring.
Staring at it in wonder for a mo
ment, the other girl asked, "Well, who
got stung?”
The Cost.
Owner—What’ll it cost to repair this
car of mine?
Garage Proprietor—What alls it?
Owner—I don’t know.
Garage Proprietor—Thirty-four dol
lars and sixty-five cents.—Puck.
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