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
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♦ MORE LIGHT ON THE ♦
♦ YOUNGSTOWN RIOT ♦
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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.
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♦ 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
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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
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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.