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About The frontier. (O'Neill City, Holt County, Neb.) 1880-1965 | View Entire Issue (Feb. 3, 1916)
OPA COUNTRY The Natural Pride of Those Who Take Part in It. To those who have built railroads through and across the prairies ol Western Canada, connecting that great empire of grain and cattle, horse and sheep with the world’s markets in the east, must bo awarded the privilege of looking upon their work, and its results with pardonable pride. If they reminiscence, and tell of the hardships and the privations, why shouldn't they? The broad prairies on which the buffalo roamed and fed, are now alive with cities, towns and villages. Farms—large and small—on which machinery has chased the bugaboo of laborious work oft the farm, and mak ing farm lif« one of the most pleasant and prosperous of occupations—aro being cultivated by men of the highest stamp of manhood. Many of these have Inherited from their forebears tho physical strength and the high typo manliness that was theirs in the da^S when they hewed their homes out of the virgin forost, and mado them what, may be seen today, beau tiful farms in the east. On tho whole the western prairies breed a high typo of manhood, wrest from him faults and diseases which would bo his were It not for tho upbuilding influence and character of prairie life. When the builder of the western Ca nadian prairie looks upon tho result of his work, why shouldn’t his chest ex pand? It was probably some of this feeling of pride that took possession of 8ir Donald Mann, vice president of the Canadian Northern Railway the other day In Winnipeg, when ho said: "I am not in the habit of giving ad vice, but I have no hesitation of advis ing the young men of Canada, every young man, to get out and got a piece of western Canada’s land that now can be had for tho asking and be their Awn mnolnra M “It was 36 yoars ago when 1 firat came to Winnipeg,” lie said. “At that time there were less than 160,000 people west of Lake Huron In Canada, and the only bit of railway in opera tion was between St. Boniface and Em erson—about sixty miles. Today there are nearly 20,000 miles of railway in actual operation and the population is over two and a quarter million, a won derful achievement In such a short pe riod you will agree, when you have contemplated It a moment." “At that time all the flour, meat and many other supplies for our contracts ■were brought from the States. Now consider what the west is doing to day. You have a grain production ex ceeding a bijS^n bushels and yet only a comparatively small area of the till able land of the country is occupied. Five yoars hence you will be more than doubling that.*’—Advertisement. Easy. Mrs. Jones—What would you give a dog to prevent Its barking at night? Mr. Smith—Give it away. THE PROFESSOR’S STATEMENT. Prof. Aug. F. W. Schmitz, Thomas. Okla., writes: “I was troubled with Backache for about twenty-five years. When told I had Bright's Disease in its last stages, I tried Dodd’s Kid ney Pills. After using two boxes I was somewhat re lieved and I stop ped the treatment. In the spring of tbo noxt year I bad another at Prof. Schmitz. tack. I went for Dodd’s Kidney Pills and they relieved me again. I used three boxes. That Is now three years ago and my Back ache has not returned in its severity, and by using another two boxes a lit tle later on, the pain left altogether and I have had no trouble since. You may use my statement. I recommend Dodd’s Kidney Pills when and wher ever I can." Dodd’s Kidney Pills. 60c. per box at your dealer or Dodd's Medi cine Co., Buffalo, N. Y.—Adv. The Species. “There is a lot of rot in this local option business." “Then 1 guess it's dry rot ." ITCHING. BURNING SCALPS Crusted With Dandruff Yield Readily to Cuticura. Trial Free. Cutlcura Soap to cleanso the scalp of dandruff cruatings and scalings, and Cutlcura Ointment to soothe and heal ltchtngs and Irritations. Nothing bet ter, surer or more economical than these super-crcamy emollients for hair and scalp troubles of young or old. Free sample each by mail with Rook. Address postcard, Cutlcura, Dept. L, iioston. Sold everywhere.—Adv. It (b hard to convince a schoolboy that summer vacation days are longer than winter school days. Important to Mothers Examine carefully every bottle of CASTORIA, a safe and sure remedy for Infants and children, and see that it "ignature of In I’se for Over 30 Years. Children Cry for Fletcher's Castoria Diplomacy is often a knife in tli* i.ajids of the underhand. GERMAN COURTS RULE AGAINST SCIENTISTS Berlin—Frauleln Huesgen and Frau Ahrend, the two Christian Scientists recently sentenced to prison for being responsible for the death of two Berlin actresses, have appealed from the judgment of the trial court. Bocal legal authorities, however, predict a certain affirmation of the judgment, basing their view on opinions already handed down by the imperial supremo court In similar cases. In each of these the court held that the assumption of the treatment of the patient and the failure to call In a physician constitutes gross negligence. It said In one case: "The trial court found the negligence of the accused to exist In the fact that he carried on the treatment of tho patient alone, although he knew the dangerous character of the illnes and must also have known that this ill ness required a proper treatment, and ho could have foreseen that death might possibly be the result of his treatment. In these circumstances the court could assume without error that the accused lost sight of the required cure and perception, and especially that he did not. as 'healer' lake proper con sideration for the life of Ills patient, and therefore acted against duty and in a guilty manner.” The provincial court of Berlin de ■f ♦ ♦ MORE LIGHT ON THE ♦ ♦ YOUNGSTOWN RIOT ♦ ♦ ♦ ttT?TTTTT??TTTTTTTTTTTTT*▼ From the St. Louis Republic. As the truth about the riot In East Youngstown develops It becomes Increas ingly clear that underneath the whole trouble lay a failure to regard the men as human beings and potential citizens of the United States. In the shops of the Youngstown Sheet & Tube Co., It is found, there are men who speak 23 European dialects. They are un able to understand their leaders or to un derstand one another. They had been formed Into some sort of organization by the American Federation of Labor, with the help of polylingual organizers, and had been called upon i« strike. Just who instigated the violence Is not °lear, but all accounts agree that there appeared among the men a considerable number of strangers who were able to speak to the men In their own tongues and who also had a liberal supply of money. The employers ehargo that these men were agents of the federation. The federation say they were imported by the bosses to make trouble and so compel the state to send troops. One theory is (hat these strangers were sent by persons who wished to depress the value of stocks In the companies and so to interfere with i contemplated merger. Another theory, not credited by the Youngstown officials, Is that the agitators were in the employ ■>f Austria or Germany and bent upon stopping the manufacture of munitions. The account given by the strikers is that K'hen these men came among them they .v'gun giving orders which were obe,ycd. l’lie men say they do not know who they «vere, but they adopted the suggestions as they were gl\on and began the demonstra tion which ended In riot. Nothing of that kind could possibly have happened If the men had known English and hod understood the government under which they lived and the organization to which they belonged. This is not saying that violence in labor strikes may not oc cur among men who know English and know their relations to their government. We all know it does, but it is very certain that real Americans could never be taken over by a handful of utter strangers pos ing as authorized leaders and turned into a howling mol>. What made that possible was the fact that thp men leaving the customs, the restraints and the language of their old homes behind them had come to a new land where the language was un intelligible to them: where the lawn for their protection were unknown to them and the proceedure by which they might expect redress of their wrongs through or ganization or otherwise was not under stood. The universal language of force was theirs, and they understood it. When the suggestion that they use It was madr they were all too ready to accept It. The first and Indispensable thing to hr done to meet such situations Is to spread the knowledge of English among foreign language speaking workers. With that ns a tool they can begin to understand the country they live in and (he condi tions under which they live. Thov will ex press their own wants through their own men. Citizenship and the vote will becorm their goal and the consciousness of a state and a country to be used for the better ment of society and to be defended be cause they are good will take the place ol ignorant irresponsibility'. New Wav to Rob Banks. Girard In Philadelphia Ledger. A tall, well dressed young man strode vigorously into n large bank. He walked to one of the glass covered desk, took from his pocket a piece of paper, scrib bled something upon it and went to the paying teller’s window. ”1 would be obliged If you will give mo that in new fifties,” said the young man with a certain air of positiveness. It was a certified cheek for $850. The paving teller examined it, recognized the signature of the bank and counted out 17 now' $50 bills and slipped a little rubber band around them. Just as the tall man started from the window with his money in his overcoat pocket a shorter, older and fatter man edged up alongside of him. ‘‘If you move a step or say a word 1 11 shoot you for the crook you are.” said the stout one. At the same time lie shoved a pistol against the side of the younger man and handed a cord through the window to iho paying teller. “Pinkerton*’ was there in big type and below a man’s name as special detective. “This fellow,” said the man with the gun. ”is a counterfeiter wanted In Cin cinnati. Now hand back that money.” he said to the captured criminal. The little sheaf of new' fifties was returned. ♦ if you will let me take that check I’ll do the rest.” addr" the detective, ami the obliging teller returned it. There had been no noise, no excitement and no observers to this odd transaction. When the pair left the bank they dtdn t go to a police station, but to another ban* not 200 feet away. There they went through exactly the same performance—got 17 nice new 514) bills, handed the little bundle back ana iiso got their alleged bogus check. And from this second bank they went to six others In the soaeo of less than an hour. Later in the clay when counting up their cash the eight hank tellers made a re mark able d l seo v cry. Mach one was shy, as the poker players >ay. exactly $150. What happened was this: While the stout confederate posing as a detective went through his role, the other slipped three of the $50 hills from the little lub ber bound sheaf and "eturned not 17 but only 14. Unless you sto > to count them. 14 new bills feel and look as much like 17 as one guinea pig look like another. It was done so quickly tin tellers didn't seem to think it necessary to count the returned cash. As for the check for $850, it was really genuine and the swindlers got hack that money before leaving town with their 51,200 in those nice new fifties. This did not happen in Philadelphia, but a Philadelphia banker assures me that it happened in another city. ♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦44* ♦ 4 4 DESPAIR HAS NO PLACE. ♦ 4 4 4 From the Outlook. 4 4 Despair has no place in a world 4 4 for which Christ died and in which 4 4 millions of men. however mistaken, 4 4 are ready to lay down their lives 4 4 for country or for honor; it is a 4 4 time to face tlie fact that the world -4 4 must patiently go to school until it -4 4 has b urned those great lessons of 4 4 justice self sacrifice, and helpful- -4 4 ness which will make wars and ru- *4 4 mors of wavs memories of "far off, <4 4 unhappy things and battles long -4 4 ago.” -4 ♦ 4 4 4 44444 4444 +<r 4 +444 444 4 +44< j A Thankful J Thanksgiving "I don’t fee! as if I should enjoy thi Thanksgivin'," said Mrs. Josel Nlsbett looking down Into the basket of glossy red-cheeked Spitzenbergs as if It wen a family vault and taking up an appk as if it had been a skull; “no, 1 don't.’ “Then, Sarapeta,” observed her hus band, who had Just thrown a huge lo| on the open fire, “you don't disari nothin' to be thankful for! It’s a: harnsome a turkey as ever flapped and I don't know of a year when I’vi had nicer pumpkins on that ar’ con lot!” " 'Taln’t turkey or pumpkin pies o cranberry sass as makes Thanksglv In',” sighed Mrs. Nlsbett. "What is it, then? Ef it's eold weath er, I shouldn’t ha’ thought the last fros would ha’ done the business for yoi pretty fairly. Them artemisias by tin front door is scorched black, and th' old maple is losln’ its leaves as If the; was ruintn' down. Parson Jarvis i: coinin' all the way from Sloatesvllle ti preach tomorrow, and the quire': larned a bran' new anthem Just a-pur pose, about bein' thankful for harves and all that sort of thing. I’m sure don't know what else you’d have.” Mrs. Nlsbett only answered by a sigh "I wonder if 'tain't possible Stephi 'll be hum tonight," she said after i pause. "He writ not. He thought he’d droi in arly tomorrow mornin’ if he caugh the train he expected. Only think, ok woman, it's five years since Stephe wa: hum to Thanksgivin’!" Old Nlsbett rubbed his horny hands with a chuckle, adding: "And I s'pose, If all accounts Is true he’s gettin' to be a great man out It that western country. It was kind o a hard pull when he went off and lef us, hut maybe the hoy was In tin right." "Yes,” said Mrs. Nlsbett dolorously "but somehow I can’t get reconciled t( the Idea of his maryin' a strange ga out there.” Joel scratched hls head. This was i phase of the subject that he scared; felt competent to discuss. “Maybe you’ll like her. Stephen say: she’s a nice gal.” "Stephen says! As If a man ovei head and ears In love wouldn't saj anvthlntr ” "1 wish he'll told us who she was.’ Mrs. Nlsbett groaned again. Joe went out to the woodpile, the everyda;. shrine whence lie generally dorlvet what little of philosophic inspiration lit had. “Mrs. Nlsbett!" It was a soft little voice, and the old lady’s fuco relaxed instinctively a? It sounded on her ears. "Why, Lida Tremaine—'taln't you!' “It Is. I've done everything that Aunl Constance wanted, and now I've Jusi run over to see If you don't need a bll of help.” She stood In the doorway, a fair lit tle apparition, all Hushed and ros; with the November wind, while he: blue eyes sparkled as if they were twit: sapphires hidden away under her long dark lashes. She was neither blonde noi brunette, but a fresh cheeked girl, wit! nut brown hair, skin like the leaf of : damask rose, a straight, refined nos? and lips as ripe as a red crabappio though by no means so sour. Generali; she had a demure sort of gravity lin gering about her face, but when sh< did laugh a dimple came out upon nei cheek and a row of pearly teeth glim mered instantaneously. In one hand she carried a bunch o late autumn flowers. "See!” she cried, holding tliapn up "I ransacked Aunt Constance’s gardei for these. I knew that big vase on thi mantel needed something, and, with i branch or so of scarlet leaves. I'll havi a royal bouquet to help you kecj Thanksgiving." Mrs. Nishett took the fair oval faci between her two hands and kissed th' fresh little mouth. “Set down, Lida,” she said. "I wasn’ a-calculatln’ to have no sech flxin’s up but you've sech a way, child, I can’ never say no to you.” “But you're going to keep Thanks giving," cried Lida, throwing off he outer wrappings and dancing up to th looking glass like a little gale of wind "because you invited Aunt Constanc and me to dinner and because you son is coining home.” "Yes, child," said Mrs. Nlsbett, sub siding once more Into the mournful ke; from which Lida's sudden appearanc had momentarily aroused her. "Joel' got (he turkey shut up In a coop, am the bakin' done, and I'm Just a-flxlr them apples, and” "Oh, oh,” cried Lida, who had flut tered to the window, "what glorlou red leaves speckled over with littl drops of gold! May I make som wreaths for the wall? Oh, please, sa yes!" Mrs. Nlsbett said “yes”—It woul have been hard work to say “no" t Lida—and the girl soon came In. he apron full of sprigs of the old mapl tree, whose shadowy boughs kept th window veiled with cool shadow through the glaring summer days an ! showered fading gold upon the dea 1 grass when the autumn came. Mrs, Nlsbett looked with tendernes upon the graceful little figure seate i on the hearth rug, when the shine c the high heaped logs lost itself In he bright hair and made sparkles in he ' eyes, as the wreaths and trails of up lumn leaves grew rapidly beneath he I deft fingers. mua, sne sam soiuy, pacta, my dear!" Lida looked up. •'[ saw your Aunt Constance yester day. hut there's something reserved about her, and I didn't like to ask about you—whether you had decided to go out as a governess or not: because my dear, Joel and I were talkin' lust night, and we both thought what a comfort it would be to have you here." "To have me here?" "We're old and we're alone and some how we've both took a fancy to you, my child. So when your Aunt Con stance goes back to the city, If you ■hoose to come here"— Mrs. Nisbett paused abruptly and burst into tears. "We had a little girl once, my dear, and if she’d lived she would ha' been nigh about your age.” Lida let the leaves drop down on the (loor as she sprang up and threw both arms round the old woman's neck. "Oh. Mrs. Nisbett." she whispered softly, "you are so very, very kind. Helieve me I appreciate it all, but— but—I hardly know how to tell you.” Mrs. Nisbett listened intently. Lida smiled and cried a 1 it tip and then whis pered so low Is was scarcely audible. "1 am going to bo married." "Married!" ejaculated Mrs. Nisbett. with all a woman's interest In this im who to?” "Your son lives in Iowa—In Parling ton?" "Yes." "Well, did he ever mention the name of—" Lida paused, her cheeks glowing roses. Old Nisbett had come in with an armful of wood, bringing a gale with him from the frosty outer world. "I'll tell you by and by,” whispered Lida as Rhe went back to her work. "Joel 'll go out again arter awhile," thought Mr3. Nisbett, "and then I'll hear about Lida’s beau." J Lut Joel sat down before the flta with i a complacent satisfaction which boded I ill for the gratification of his wife's | curiosity, and finally accompanied Lida , home, thus frustrating all h^j wife's designs and cutting oft her chance of hearing Lida’s story. 1 "Lear me!” thought she. “I don’t be lieve the man was ever born who i knowed when he wasn't wanted! How lonesome It seems when Lida’s gone! ' What does the girl want to get mar ; ried for when I could ha’ took such ; a sight of comfort with her? Oh, dear, dear! It does seem to me as If the world was all askew!” \ The next day, in spite of the weather ’ prophet’s prediction of snow, dawned 1 clear and brilliant as the dying smile 1 of Indian summer. By 11 o’clock Mrs. ; Nisbett was dressed In her best silk ' and ca.p, with the turkey browning 1 beautiful!}' in the oven and the cran berry tarts doing credit to themselves as well as to their master, the table set, the fire high heaped with crack ling legs and the platfes dressed with coronals of autumn leaves. Aunt Con stance, a tall, prim maiden lady of un 1 certain age, stood before the bedroom ’ looking glass arranging her coiffure. Lida, In a blue dress with a late au tumn rose in her hair, was tripping ’ hither and thither as light-footed and J helpful as half a dozen household fair 1 ies merged into one, while Mrs. Nisbett stood regarding her with a loving eye, murmuring to herself: "Well, well, it seems like it was the Lord's will to deny us of just what we ; most want, but If I had a daughter I ‘ could wish she was like Lida.” As the old kitchen clock struck I Mrs. Nisbett. looking from the window, ’ gave a little cry. “There he comes—there comes Joel, and, as I live, there's the boy with ! him?” Lida ran Into the bedroom. When she returned, Mrs. Nisbett was clasped in the arms of a tall, handsome man of four or five and twenty. , “Lida,” said the proud matron, striv ing to disengage herself from the affec tionate clasp, "this is rny son Stephen, and—why, what’s the matter?” For Stephen had dropped her hands with an exclamation of surprise and amazement and Lida stood there glow ing crimson. "Lida! Why, mother, this is a sur prise indeed that you have prepared for me!" "I prepared!’’ echoed the astonished old lady. “Well, that’s a good un, when I'm ten times as much surprised as you' be! Lida, whut does tills mean?” "It means," said Lida, with a demure smile—she was beginning to recover her scattered self possession—"itmeans that this is the gentleman I am to be married to!" ntepnen: cried airs. Nesbitt, is Lida to bo your wife?” "She lias given me her promise to that effect, at least,” said Stephen, looking proudly down upon his lovely little tlancee. "Well, if it don't beat all how queer things do happen!” said Mrs. Nisbett, her face radiant. "And you've been livin’ neighbor to me these six weeks and I never Unowed It. Lida, why didn't you tell me?” "Beause I never dreamed that Ste phen Risingham, my betrothed western lover, was anything to Mrs. Nisbett,” said Lida, laughing. "There tis, now!” ejaculated the farmer. “How was she to know that he was only my nephew, adopted when his parents died, twenty good years ugo. We’ve always called him son, and he's always been a son to us. But Lida didn’t know. Old woman, what do you say to Stephen's wife?” Mrs. Nisbett clasped Lida to her heart. "I do say,” she ejaculated, "this Is the thankfullest Thanksglvin* I ever lived to see!"—New York Dally News. | A NOVELTY IN PUDDINGS. > Carrot Fruit Pudding a Delicious Ad ' dition to Thanksgiving Menu. From the Woman's Home Companion for November. 3 \ fruit carrot pudding is a novelty which I urge you to try, even though ‘ you do not introduce it into your ' Thanksgiving dinner menu. A hostess c never makes a mistake in having a hot fruit pudding at a dinner where men are present, for It Is a universal favor ite. Free one cupful of beef suet from 3 membranes, work until creamy, which • may be most easily accomplished by ’ using the hands. Add two and two r thirds cupfuls of stale bread erupnbs and one cupful of grated carrot. Beat " the yolks of four eggs until very light, and add gradually, while beating con 3 stantly, one and one-third cupfuls of ? brown sugar. Combine the mixtures, } and add the granted rind of one lemon and one tablespoonful of strong vine gar. Mix one cupful of raisins that ' have been seeded and cut in pieces and ’ three-fourths of a cupful of currants; 5 then dredge with one-third of a cupful 5 of Hour mixed and sifted with one and r one-half teaspoonfuls of salt, one tea spoonful of cinnamon, one-half tea 1 spoonful of grated nutmeg and one 5 fourth of a teaspoonful of cloves. Add r this to the mixture, then also add the 3 whites of four eggs beaten until stiff. 3 Turn into a buttered mold decorated 3 with raisins and citron cut in diamond 1 shaped pieces, and adjust the cover. 1 A few currants will adhere to the mold if it is well buttered. Place the 3 meld in a trivet In a kettle containing 1 boiling water, allowing water to come f half way up around the mold. Cover r closely, and steam three and one-half r hours, adding more boiling water as ■ needed. Remove from the mold, and r serve with sterling sauce. Cream one fourth of a cupful of butter, using a V small wooden spoon: then add gradu ally, while beating constantly, one cup - ful of brown sugar mixed with three J fourths of a tablespoonful of flour. Add t very gradually three tablespoonfuls of o sherry or Madeira wine, the yolks ol y two eggs well beaten, and one-half cup . fu! of milk. Cook over hot water, stir t ring constantly, until the mixture thickens. Pour onto the well beaten white of two eggs, cook one minute, and i- serve. f -s' m The Reason. Jinks—I've ridden on this line for fl\e •• months and never offered a woman a ’ll seat. Je.iks—How do you manage it? Jinks—Never had a sea; *• THE SKATING CRAZE. Everything in favor of this fad, and nothing can be said against it. I hope everybody will catch It and nobody will get over it. It is difficult to keep fit in winter. Everybody expects to come out of the winter fat and soft. A man in mid dle life expects his winter wheat to run at least five pounds over scale, and lie knows at the excess is fat. He knows, further, that his deep red muscles will be light in color and soft In texture next spring—that is, if he follows his usual habits this winter. Every woman expects that next spring will see her several shades paier than now. Every mother knows that she can expect some of her children to have adenoids, enlarged tonsils and neck glands next spring. Every health officer knows that the winter death rate is the highest of the year. The rate, having started on its upward climb the latter part of No vember, continuously ascends until the maximum is reached about April 1. Every physician knows that winter is the season of colds and pneumonia. For these well recognized conditions there are several reasons. One result is due to one cause and another to an other cause. But one cause runs through every situation — excessive number of hours spent quietly in warm, ill ventilated rooms. Skating offers a remedy. It is a sugar coated pill. There is no better exercise. It calls into play muscles and nerves of every part of the body. It stimulates the heart and quickens the flow of binod. It causes every slug gish portion of the body to be washed clean by fresh blood and lymph. The excess of body beat is easily lost to the surrounding cold air. As a means of getting fit and keep ing fit throughout the winter skating is a most worthy craze. Those who become its devotees will develop good, hard muscles. They will not suffer from winter constipation nor from win ter headaches. It is good for the com plexion. it is a fine remedy for pimples on the face. As a preventive of spring roughening of the skin it has no superior. As a means of preventing colds and pneumonia It is excellent. The open air contacts of skaters do not cause people to catch cold from people cap able of spreading it. One catches pneumonia from pneumonia carriers in warm rooms, but not on the cold open of a frozen pond. Children who skate will not develop adenoids, tonsils, nock glands, or earaches. Furthermore, if the warming fires are built in the open and close warming rooms near skating ponds are avoided tiie skating craze will lessen the winter dangers from diphtheria, scarlet fever and measles. 4 4 4 HOW VACCINATION HAS 4 4 LESSENED SMALLPOX 4 4 4 John B. Huber, in Collier’s. Before Jenner put vaccination on and showed how to take smallpox off the map of civilization, whole nations were deci mated by this virulent infection, whole cities were depopulated, whole towns and villages wiped entirely out of existence. Public officials divided the people Into those who had had. those having, and those going- to have smallpox. One in four sufferers died; of the survivors many were hideously blinded. In Johnson’s and his Boswell’s time every other adult met on the thoroughfares was pock-marked; nor did this variola respect royalty and the quality any more than it did the com mon people. Such is the before-picture. Look now on the after-picture. For ex ample. since Germany adopted compul sory vaccination she has during long peri ods not had a single smallpox ease among her sixty-odd million of people; and great er New' York, which has a thoroughly ef ficient health department, had in 1913, de spite its 50 or more varieties of immi grants, just one smallpox death. Ponder ous tomes of statistics are to the same effect. But cannot smallpox be avoided in any other way—isolation, notification, disin fection, and quarantine? Yes. these meas ures help: but a superabundance of fate ful experience lias shown that they will simply not take the place of vaccination. Is vaccination dangerous? The dangers here are Infinitesimal by comparison with what this measure shields us from. Any one refusing to see this point lacks per spective and a sense of proportion. All surgery has elements of danger; so has a pin prick or c. razor scratch. Walking along a country road these days is a thousandfold more dangerous than vacci nation. Our doctors vaccinated 3,500.000 Filipinos without a single death or any postvaccinal complication. Practically all conceivable danger comes not with but after this slight operation: from unclean llness and the lack of proper precautions. And it is not true, as has been main tained. that tetiinus germs are to be or have been found in the virus used for vaccinations. Obey your doctor, or follow the rules of your health department (sent you on request), and there will be no danger. But Is vacc’nation needed nowadays | when there is so little smallpox? There Is now so little of this disease because our health departments, being eternally vigilant, are constantly demonstrating the efficacy of vaccination when epidemics threaten. Besides, one of the most grue some facts about smallpox is its perio dicity; it has had its lessened prevalence when the supply of the susceptible hu man material was exhausted, only to thrive anew with the fresh generations. Thus, from 1S93 to 1697, smallpox killed off 346.520 in 16 countries—275,000 in Russia alone—simply because vaccination was no longer deemed necessary. Lot us. then, not be bold against an absent danger, nor despise the antidote while one has no painful experience of the bane. When, at the reopening of public schools, the authorities require new pupils to be vaccinated, parents, for their own safety and that of their communities, should meet this salutary requirement without misgiving. Passing of Farm Loan Shark. From the Kansas City Star. 7n the “early days” of the west, espec ially in Kansas, there was, in almost every little town, a few men who grew “land rich” by making farm loans at a rate of interest which spelled ruin to the borrower. That old institution of pioneer days has disappeared. Nowadays the men who deal in farm mortgages, as a class, pride themselves on the extreme rarity of the necessity for taking over the security on their loans. That may be taken as an evidence of the change that has come over the idea of what constitutes “good business.” The old economists held that or.lv one party to a bargain could profit. Nov/ the farmer who seeks to mortgage his place usuallv is among the most progressive of the community. He wants now capital to improve Ids land, to get the best possible returns. The man who lends him the money takes that tact into consideration. It now is regarded as folly to lend more than can reasonably he paid, and the amount of the loan usually is regulated by th • needs of the mortgagee. If the farm er is “shiftless” or slack in his business methods or is a poor farmer, the amount is lowered, if. indeed, the loan is mailt• at all. And one of the first questions asked by the man who lends the money is: “Does ho drink?” Today’s methods of making farm loan** are a far t ry from the old-time moneybag* who made farm loans with only two idea in view: One. io get outrageous interest rates; the other, to get the farm. To My Friend. Ofttimes l sought for treasure not yet Some good surpassing all my life had known, Contented not till l should find the best. And pa-, ng >>' the lure of gold, or power or place. Rare w. n’th I’ve found in the affection o! «;*y tiV.'d. --S. II.. Lincoln. Neb Look and Feel Clean, Sweet and Fresh Every Day Drink a glass of real hot water before breakfast to wash out poisons. Life is not merely to live, but to live well, eat well, digest well, work well, sleep well, look well. What a glorious condition to attain, aud yet how very easy it is if one will only adopt the morning inside bath. Folks who are accustomed to feel dull and heavy when they arise, split ting headache, stuffy from a cold, foul tongue, nasty breath, acid stomach, can, instead, feel as fresh as a daisy by opening the sluices of the system each morning and flushing out the whole of the internal poisonous stag nant matter. Everyone, whether ailing, sick or well, should, each morning, before breakfast, drink a glass of real hot water with a teaspoonful of limestone Phosphate in it to wash from the stomach, liver, kidneys and bowels the pievious day’s indigestible waste, sour bile and poisonous toxins; thus cleans ing, sweetening and purifying the en tire alimentary tract before putting more food into the stomach. The ac tion of hot water aud limestone phos phate on an empty stomach is -wonder fully invigorating. It cleans out all the sour fermentations, gases, waste and acidity and gives one a splendid ap petite for breakfast. While you are enjoying your breakfast the water and phosphate is quietly extracting a large volume of water from the blood and getting ready for a thorough flushing of all the inside organs. The millions of people who are both ered with constipation, bilious spells, stomach trouble, .rheumatism; others who have sallow skins, blood disor-v ders and sickly complexions are urged® to get a quarter pound of limestone phosphate from any store that handles drugs which will cost very little, but is sufficient to make anyone a pro nounced crank on the subject of in ternal sanitation.—Adr. Prejudiced. Whitney Warren was talking at the iletropolitau club in New York about the central empires’ submarine policy. “Any American who supports that policy,” he said, “any champion of the sinkers of the Lusitania and Ancona, must have a taste like the old Scot’s “An old Scot was once boasting that / Scottish apples were better than our • splendid Oregon ones—our sweet, \ juicy, enormous, red-cheeked Oregon apples that sell in the restaurants of Europe for forty or fifty cents apiece. “ ’Yes,' said the Scot, ‘our Scottish apples are the best.’ “ 'Come now,' said a fruit farmer, you can’t mean that.’ “ 'Yes, I do mean it,' said the Scot: 'but maybe I’d better tell ye, laddies, that for my ain taste 1 prefer then; tour and hard.’ ” Archie’s Neck. Little Willie—in small hoy stories the central figure is nearly always named Little Willie—came running into the house, stuttering in his ex citement ; "Mommer,” he panted, “do you know Archie Sloan's neck?" "Do you know Archie Sloan's neck?" mother. i "Do I know Archie Sloan s neck ” ^ repeated her offspring. “I know Archie Sloan," answered the puzzled parent; “so I suppose I must know his neck. Why?” "Well,” said Willie, “he just now fell into the backwater up to It.”—Sat urday Evening Post. 1 --- I COFFEE WAS IT. People Slowly Learn the Facts. "All my life I have been a slave to coffee. X kept gradually losing my health, but I used to say nonsense, it don't hurt me.’ "Slowly I was forced to admit the truth and the final result was that my nervous force was shattered. "My heart became weak and uncer tain in its action and that frightened me. Tlien my physician told me that [ must stop drinking coffee or I colild sever expect to be well again. "I thought of Postum but could hardly bring myself to give up th« coffee. “Finally I concluded that I owed it to myself to give Postum a trial. I got a package and carefully followed tho directions, and what a delicious, nour ishing, rich drink it was! Do you know. I found it very easy to shift from coffee to Postum. "Almost immediately after I made the change I found myself better, and > as the days went by I kept on improv 9 ing. My nerves grew steady, I slept ’ well and felt strong and well-balanced. Now the old nervousness is gone and I am well once more." It pays to give up the drink that acts on some like a poison, for health v is the greatest fortune one can have. Name given by Postum Co., Hattie . Creek, Mich. \ Postum comes in two forms: Postum Cereal—the original form— , must be well boiled. 15c and 25c pack ages. instant Pcstum—a soluble powder dissolves quickly in a cup of hot wa ter, and, with cream and sugar, makes a delicious beverage instantly. 30c and 00c tin3. Both kinds are eaually delicious and ^ coat about the same per cup. f , "There's a Reason" for Postum ' —sold by Grocers.