Spread of the Drug Habit
With the facts brought to light by
the state board of pharmacy, which
has secured indictments against cer
tain druggists alleged to have sold co
caine illegally, the need of energetic,
concerted action to suppress the durg
habit becomes apparent. The most
dangerous feature of the abuse of
drugs is that once established in a
community it becomes almost ineradi
cable. A few of the victims are cured,
but the others do not escape its
clutches until they die, and meanwhile
the vice is steadily securing new re
cruits. There is reason to fear that
were it left unchecked the indulgence
In cocaine, opium, chloral and similar
drugs might become as great a menace
as drunkenness.
In its effort to stamp out the habit
by preventing the sale of these drugs,
the board of pharmacy should have
active support not only from boards of
health and states' attorneys, but from
the druggists themselves, both indi
vidually and through their associa
tions. It would he a wise and timely
action ior druggists to take the in
itiative in discountenancing the at
tempt to gain profit in this way. It
Bhould hardly be neeessaiy to add that
a conscientious physician who finds it
necessary to prescribe drugs for his
patients owes it to society to exert
every precaution to keep his patients
from becoming habituated to their use
—Chicago News.
French Taught by Phonograph.
They are beginning to use the phon
ograph in teaching foreign languages.
If French, for example, is the language
under study, a native of France talks
into the phonograph and the record
is sent to the pupil, who with the aid
of a phonograph of his own, hears
the correctly spoken French and tries
to reproduce it with his own vocal or
gans. The results thus obtained are
no doubt better than the student could
achieve by studying the language from
books and guessing at the pronuncia
tion, and the phonograph method
might be employed advantageously by
educational establishments which un
dertake to teach the modern languages,
but cannot afford to employ fully com
petent instructors. Oh, yes, there are
such institutions. One of them is the
United States i 'itary academy at
West Point, whf. * one man has so^>
charge of the department or modern
languages, including English, French
and Spanish. They have a French
speaking phonograph at “the Point,"
and Superintendent Mills says it is a
"wonderful help.” He thinks that it
would be well enough to have a Span
iard and a Frenchman to talk to the
cadets, in class, in their respective
tongues. Superintendent Mills' con
clusion seems reasonable. But the
United States is so poor!—Rochester
Democrat and Chronicle.
Blessed is Work.
Work is the blessing of blessings if
only we are property instructed in it,
and if we choose wisely what we are
able to do. Merely as a resource in
times of trouble and perplexity of
mind, work is worth all the exertion
and pains one has put into learning it.
especially work where the brain takes
its part. The most wearing thing
about routine housework is that it dot's
not occupy the mind while one is
about it. One can think of one's trou
bles over dishwashing; 1 suppose there
has been an ocean of tears'shed over
that prosaic work. I knew a girl once
who was in great grief over the death
of her sister. She diligently practiced
singing her scales every morning while
she worked about the kitchen. It kept
her from brooding over her trouble.
I never hear “do, re me, fa," without
thinking of this brave, cheery girl,
who became a great singer, and what
Is much more important, a very hap
py, helpful woman in alter years.—
February Woman's Home Compaion.
A Careful Lad.
A school teacher in Kentucky had
some trouble in teaching a little fel
low to say “double 1," “double e,” “dou
ble s.” etc. But after a while his ef
forts were fruitful, and he was grati
fied by an extraordinary appearance
of interest on the pupil's part. In fact,
the boy became a double-letter hunter,
and ceased altogether to require atten
tion at that point. About that time
they reached the lesson concerning the
early riser, beginning with “Up! Up!
and see the sun!”
He read it, "Doupble up! and see- the
sun!”—February Woman's Home Com
panion.
A Professional Interest.
Caller—"My husband read this poem
at a public celebration, before hun
dreds of people. It was the last poem
be ever wrote.”
Editor (glancing over manuscript)—
“Ah, yes, I see. Did the lynching take
place at once, or did the mob wait
till nightfall?”
Mother Gray'* Sweet Powder* for Children.
Successfully used by Mother Gray, nurse
in the Children's Home in New York, cure
Constipation, Feverishness, Bad Stomach,
Teething Disorders, move and regulate the
Bowels and Destroy VV orms. Over 30,0X1 tes
timonials. At all druggists, 25c. Sample
FREE. Address A. 8. Olmsted, LeRoy, N. Y.
The quiet man is generally there in
an emergency.
To Cure a Cold in One day.
Take Laxative Bromo Quinine Tablets. All
druggists refund money if it fails tocure. ~5c.
A bad pre~ ise is like a good cake—
better brok*-u than kept.
Lewis' “Single Binder" straight r>c
cigar. Made by hand of ripe, thoroughly
cured tobacco, which insure • a rich, satis
fying smoke. You pay 10c for cigars not
so good.
A beautiful woman enhances her
charm if she can surround herself
with an air of mystery.
AIX Cl' TO DATE llorsEKKEPERH
use Debance Cold Water Starch, because
it Is better and i oz. more of It for same
money.
It is easy to forget a slight—when it
is the other fellow that is slighted.
I do not believe Piso's Cure for Consumption
has un equal tor coughs and colds. - John F
Uoriu, Trinity Spring*. Ind., Feb. 6. 190U
Illusions are the veils that destin}
throws over our eyes to blind us or tc
enchant us.
j THE LAND OF MAKE-BELIEVE.
' It H» •Svell to wander sometime* In the land of Malte-Belleve,
Through Its ever-smlllng gardens, where the heart may cease to grieve.
Where the beds are gay with roses and the paths are paved with gold,
And our hopes, like soaring songsters, their mercurial wings unfold.
I.et us all be little children for awhile and make our way
Through the sweet and sunny meadow land of Make-Believe to-day.
There's a Queen within an arbor, where she rules In high renown.
With a lily for a scepter and a rose wreath for a crown,
And her laws are love and laughter, for they know not sorrow there—
Never hate or pain or money enter In her kingdom fair.
So we sing the songs the children sing and p'.ay the games they play
As we wander In the golden land of Make-Believe to-day.
The Work of the Puppy
-— ., - ' '
Mr. John Preston was in a discon
tented and uncertain frame of mind.
He told himself a dozen times over
that he had been very badly treated;
that life was a blank.
Mr. John Preston had been (and
still was, for the matter of that) hon
estly in love with little Lucy Minton.
But there had come a time when
John wanted his way, and Lucy knew
that she meant to have hers. John
Preston had gone off in a rage—and
had cooled five minutes afterward,
when it was too late.
“I never want to see you again—it
has all been a mistake," Miss Minton
had declared. "I sincerely hope, for
your own sake, that you w',11 find
some one who will understand you."
There are quite a number of people
in this world ready to be sympathetic
on an emergency; when the emer
gency comes you wonder why you
haven't thought of them, and begin to
see virtues in them they never before
possessed.
There was Miss Clara Harcourt, for
instance. True, she was reported to
have a temper, but Clara Harcourt
thought well of him; there was much
in that.
During three flays Mr. John Pres
ton thrust out of his mind the image
of Lucy Minton and resolutely held
before him that of Clara Harcourt. On
that third evening he came out of his
office into the raw air, and thought
for a moment what a hideous place
the city was.
He came to a long, narrow street,
with various articles hanging outside
the shops for sale, and with other
streets opening from it. Wandering
aimlessly and stopping now and then
to look at the shops, he came to one
the window of which was fitted with
small cages holding birds. From in
side came a noise of barking and yelp
ing, mingled with the twitter of many
birds.
And that was where he saw the
puppy. The puppy was not associated
in any way with ordinary puppies, or
even ordinary dogs; he had a cage to
himself. And as John Preston stop
ped to look at the shop his eyes were
on a level with those of the puppy.
He was a nondescript sort of fellow,
that puppy. In a word, he may lie said
to have been all head, like a species
of hairy tadpole, and to have had no
legs to speak of.
"Nice dawg for a lady, sir," sug
gested a man in ills shirt sleeves, who
lounged out through the doorway at
that moment. “ ’E's a 'andseme dawg
that."
“1 should scarcely have called him
handsome,” said John Preston, with a
smile.
‘You take ’ini in your ’amis, sir.*1
urged the man, opening th" cage, and
hauling out the puppy unceremonious
ly. “Feel ’is teeth, sir.”
Net desiring to appear an amateur,
Mr. John Preston felt his teeth; and,
Incidentally, the puppy, not to bu out
done in courtesy, “felt” Mr. Preston’s
finger.
On the man urging again that this
was really a very good dog Mr. Pres
ton remembered that. Misi.- Clara Har
court had once said that she loved
dogs; this should be a propitiatory gift
—an excuse for calling that night.
So the puppy was bundled uncere
moniously into a basket, and fastened
down with a skewer, as though he had
been so much meat; the price was
paid and Mr. John Preston walked
away with him, wondering a little,
before he had gone a hundred yards,
why he had bought him at all.
He wondered still more, during the
r’ii . ■ 1 1 i i i i i
And That Was Where He Saw the
Puppy.
next half hour, because the puppy
kicked. More than that, he wriggled
a blunt little nose out of one corner
of the basket and yelped.
Finally, in desperation, Mr. John
Preston boarded a car and there the
real ‘rouble began.
, The car had just started, when the
puppy announced who he was, and
where he was, by a series of yelps that
drowned the rattle of the wheels. In
stantly all eyes were turned on Mr.
Preston and he endeavored to sup
press the puppy by pressing him hard
between his knees.
“I don't b'lieve the pore thing can
breathe in there,” said an elderly lady
sitting opposite. "Come to that, I
don't think the law let's yer keep ’em
shut up like that.”
Mr. John Preston looked helplessly
round, and then ho observed a curious
thing. He was looking straight into
eyes that he knew, in a corner of the
car—the eyes of Miss Lucy Minton, !
and the eyes were dancing.
Of course, etiquette demanded that
“I Wanted to—to Give Him to Some
one I'm Very Fond Of."
lie should take absolutely no notice of
her; indeed, no sooner had the danc
ing eyes met him, than they were
turned in another direction.
The puppy continued his yelping. It
was only when the conductor began to
make kindly inquiries concerning the
breed, and what it was fed on, and
other things, that Mr. John Preston
caught up his basket and swung off
the car into the road.
The car passed him as he strode
along gloomily. He had an idea that
he could see those laughing eyes look
ing out through the lighted windows at
him.
He told himself recklessly that he
did not mind what she thought, al
though his heart was bitter enough;
he tried to look forward to basking in
the smiles of Miss Clara Harcourt.
"Keep still, you little beast!” he ex
claimed, petulantly, as he shook the
basket. “I wonder if you'll be quieter
if I take you out and carry you?”
He pulled out the skewer, and
dragged forth the small wriggling an
imal from the basket. Tossing the
basket into a doorway, he tucked the
puppy under one arm and strode cn
again.
But he didn't know that puppy; it
wriggled and wriggled, and kicked
and squirmed, until at last it was ac
tually hanging by its head under John
Preston’s arm.
Then, as John stooped to gather
him up afresh, the puppy made a dex
terous forward plunge, and shot right
out of his arms.
And with what surprising agility he
moved on those diminutive legs! John
Preston whistled, and called, and
snapped his fingers; the puppy tucked
his small legs under him and went on
at a sort of romping gallop. Sudden
ly he stopped, however, and John
Preston felt that he had him.
The puppy stopped near a slight,
girlish figure walking on ahead of
John Preston; more than that, the
puppy Hung himself right in front of
the feet of the girl, and “yopped" at
her, and made little forward rushes
at her toes; so that she had to stop
and stoop down and pick him up.
John Preston, going forward with
raised hat and with thanks on his lips,
stopped in astonishment; the girl who
held the puppy was Lucy Minton.
“This is your puppy, I think,” she
said.
“Y—e3,” he stammered. “Tlo
slipped out of my arms, Miss Minton.”
"Shall I carry him?” she asked, al
most in a whisper, and immediately
added: "Mr. Preston?”
"You’re very good," he said lamoly.
The puppy knew' how to manage
himself, thank you; he was perfectly
comfortable. He snuggled down
against Lucy’s mu IT, and—his mission
accomplished—went fast asleep.
She carried that happy puppy all
the way to the depot. There Mr. John
Preston, with a memory of his
wrongs, suggested that he would take
the dog himself, and. spare her further
trouble.
But the puppy made such a fright
ful business of it, and kicked and
yelped and how led to s ich an extent
that, for the sake of peace, the doa
bad to remain coiled up against Lucy’e
muff.
“Goodby, Mr. Preston,” said I-ucy,
when they got outside their own par
ticular station, and stood together In
the dark road. And she held out the
puppy in both her hands toward him.
"1 don’t know what to do with the
little beggar,” he said, helplessly.
“O,” she said, softly. "Then why
did you buy him?”
He suddenly took hold of her hands
—puppy and all. “I w’anted to givo
him to—to someone I'm very fond of ;
someone wrho’ll be kind to him •be
cause of me—someone who—”
Of course, you understand that it is
absolutely impossible to make intel
ligent replies to anyone when an ex
citable puppy is making soft dabs at
your chin and when ycu are vainly
striving against him.
But, at all events, Mr. John Pres
ton seemed to be quite satisfied and
the puppy went to sleep again, obvi
ously content that he had put in a
very fair evening’s work.—Black and
White.
WATCH SMALL AS A NICKEL.
Triumph Scored by an American
Maker of Chronometers.
The smallest watch yet turned out
in this country has just been put on
the market, although few are on sale
yet. The new watch Is the size of a
5-cent piece.
The smallest watch which American
watch factories had hitherto succeeded
in making had been as big as a quar
ter, so the nevv watch is looked upon
as marking a distinct advance in the
industry in this country, where
watches have only been made for a
little more than half a century. Watch
makers also regard it as indicating
that the time is not far distant when
Americans will soon overtake the old
world’s watchmakers, the Swiss, in
turning out watches of minute size.
The Swiss still make a watch small
er than the Americans, but the watch
just put on the market here by both
the Waltham and the Elgin companies,
the two largest watchmaking concerns
in this country, will have the advant
age over the Swiss watches that all
the other watches made here have pos
sessed, namely, that of being turned
out in quantity. Under American
methods the daily output In one fac
tory is 2,500 a day.
The new watch is the result of
months of patient endeavor by the
watchmakers ami machinists. For
every new sized watch designed new
machines have to be made, and as
the size of the watch is reduced, by so
much more must these machines be
made more delicate.
It Did Not Matter.
The man in the ease was old and
profoundly in love with a young, beau
tiful and fashionable woman.
Whether she loved him in return is
not said. It. is enough to say that she
permitted his attentions—nay, more,
she encouraged them.
In fact, they were to be married.
Is it necessary to state that he was
rich?
“My darling,” he said to her as he
clasped a magnificent bracelet of dia
monds about her wrist, "I love you
more than I can tell you.”
He spoke the truth, too, for it is
easy for an old man to love a young
and beautiful woman who smiles upon
him.
”Oh,” she laughed, as she tapped
him playfully on his bald head, “you
don’t have to.' Money talks, you
know."
And the old man thought it was so
very bright and funny that he stooped
down and kissed her.
Her Letter and Her Answer.
“Would you bo kind enough to re
turn my photograph?” she wrote. ‘I
gave it to you in a moment of girlish
folly, and I have since had occasion to
regret that I was so thoughtless in
such matters.”
Of course she pictured that photo
graph framed and hung up in his
room, and was inclined to think that
he would part with it with deep re
gret. Just why she wanted it re
turned is immaterial. Of course he
had offended her in some way, but it
is unnecessary to inquire how.
The answer to her note came the
following day.
“I regret,” it read, “that I am un
able at this late day to pick out your
photograph. However, I send you my
entire collection, numbering a little
over 500, and would request that you
would return all except your own by
express at my expeusc.”
Failure.
Not always Is It he who wins his way
Through proud achievement to Hs world
ly goal.
Upon whoso shoulders falls the sacred
stole
Of sweet serenity when wanes life's day.
Ofttlmes the weary who beneath the
sway
Of so-called failure would give up his
role,
Has risen through the gloom with
strengthened soul,
And caught the gleam of some divine
ray.
Failure, success are terms but relative:
They are not measured In the Mind Di
vine
Hy such poor standards as our earthly
are.
Who patient through apparent failure
live
Are like the watcher who. nt sun-decline,
As daylight fades beholds the even star.
—Herman Montague Donner In "Lyrlca
of a Finnish Harp.”
Uncomfortable.
Finnictis—“I wonder why il Is that
those who attain the pinnacle of suc
cess never seen to be happy?”
Cyunicus—“Because the pinnacle cf
success is like the top of a particularly
tall lightning rod with a particularly
sharp point, and those who succeed tn
perching temporarily upon it usually
find that they are targets for all the
j world's thunder."—Town and Country.
Mi ss Rose Peterson, Secretary Park
dale Tennis Club, Chicago, from experi
ence advises all young girls who have pains
and sickness peculiar to their sex, to rely on
Lydia E. PinkhanTs Vegetable Compound.
How many beautiful young girls develop into worn, listless and hopeless
women, simply because suflicient attention has not been paid to their physical
development. No woman is exempt from physical weakness and periodic
pain, cud young girls ju: t budding into womanhood should be carefully
guided physically as well as morally.
If you know of any young lady who is sick, and needs motherly
advice, ask her to write to Mrs. I'inkham at Lvmi, Mass., who will
give her advice free, from a source of knowledge which is un
equaled in tlio country. Do not hesitate about stating details
which one may not like to talk about, and which are essential
for a lull understanding of the case.
fliss H?inna!i E. flershon, Coliin^s
woed, N. J., says:
^ “I thought I would write and tell you
flvl that, by following your kind advice, I feel like
M5 a new person. I was always thin and delicate,
and so weak that I could hardly do anything,
if Menstruation was irregular.
“I tried a bottle of your Vegetable Com
pound and began to feel better right away. I con
tinued its use, and am now well and strong, and
menstruate regularly. I cannot say enough for
' , what your medicine did for me.”
How Hrs. Pinkhain Helped
Fannie Kumpe.
“Pear 5!r.s. Pinxiiam :— I feel it is mv duty to
write and toll you ot the Ix-iient i have derived from your advice and
the use of Lydia E. Pinkhum’s Vegetable Compound. The pains
in my back and womb have all left me, and ciy menstrual trouble is
corrected. I am very thankful for the good advice you gave me, and I
shall recommend your medicine to all who suffer from female weakness.”
— .Miss Fannie Kumpe, 1 ‘.*22 Chester St., Little Lock, Ark. (Dec. 10,1900.)
Lydia E. Pinkliam s Vegetable Compound will cure any
woman in tlie land who suffers from womb troubles, Inflamma
tion of the ovaries, kidney troubles, nervous excitability, nervous
prostration, and all forms of woman's special ills.
To Make Popcorn Balls.
Popcorn balls are quite in order at
this season, and it will afford the chil
dren entertainment to make them at
home. Pour one pint of New Orleans j
molasses In a rather deep saucepan
and set over the fire. After it comes
to a boil, let it cook five minutes. Add
throe cupfuls freshly pop pea corn,
< ook two minutes, stirring .carefully,
and pour into a buttered pan or on
oiled marble. As soon as cooled,
shape into balls and roll in some fresh
corn, so liiat tiie outside will not be
sticky.
It is better to enjoy p. laugh at your
own expense than at the expense of
others who may not be able to stand
it.
Dealers eay that as soon a:; a custo
mer tries Defiance Starch it is im
1 osslble to sell them any other coin
water starch. It can be used cold or
boiled.
Ignorance is the stepmother of prej
udice.
Senuible Housekeepers
will have Defiance Starch, not alone
because they get one-third more for
the same money, but also because of
superior quality.
The homely woman can afTord to he
“so good.”
Dropsy trented free by Dr. H. IT. Greon’s
B®us, of Atlanta, Ga. Tbo.grente.st dropsy
specialists in tho world. Hoad their adver
tisement in another column of this paper.
A man carries his memory in his
pocket when there is little else there.
Economy is the road to wealth.
PUTNAM FADELESS DYE is the
road to economy.
Industry is something tile.lazy man
admires in the other fellow.
Hoff'i TTi!»t
W o offer Ono Hundred Hollars reward for any
ease of Catarrh that cannot be cured by Hall's
Catarrh Cure.
P. ,i. chF.N'EY & CO., Props., Toledo. C.
We. the undersigned, have Unown P. .1
Cheney tor tho last 15 years and believe him
perfectly honorable in all business t ransae tions
and financially able to carry out any obliga
tions made by their firm.
West & Truax, Wholesale Druggists. Toledo,
D. -. Wulding, Rinnan & Marvin, Wholesale
Druggists. Toledo. Ohio.
Hall's'tatarrh Cure Is taken Internally, act
ing direct, v upon the blood and mucous surfaces
of tint system. Testimonials sent free. Price
f5c per bottle. Sold by all druggists.
Hall’s Family Pills aro tho best
Warm friends are mora plentiful in
summer than iu winter.
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HAS FREE HOMES FOR
MILLIONS.
1'pvaril, of 100.000 American*
have Bottled In We*tern Canada
durlnif ilie past 5 yearn. They nr.
CONTENTED. IIAFFY,
AND 1’ltOSl'EKOll*.
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MIIiUONS.
Wonderful yield* of wheat and other grain.. The
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ellmatt : jdenty of water hiuI fuel; (rood achooW. ex
cellent churches; ni'lendldrailway facilities.
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the only charge for which is #10 for entry. Bend to tho
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Storekeepers report tlmt the extra
quantity. together with the superior
quality, of Defiance Starch makes it
next to impossible to sell any other
brand.