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A VOICE PROW THE PULPfT;r '7 ’.I1 U** V1'*- ■’? ""l IT* i. C £m* Ret. Jacob -D. Van Donen, of 51 Sixth street, Fond1' Dtr Lac., Witf., Presbyterian clergyman, says-; "I had . , - , attacks of kidney dis oruers wnicn Kepi me in the house for days at a time, unable to, . do anything. What I 7 suffered can hardly be told. Complica tions set in, the par ticulars of which I will be pleased to give fn a personal in terview to any one who requires Infor mation. This I can conscientiously say: Doan’s Kidney Pills caused a general im provement in my health. They brought greet reHeT by lessening the pain and correcting the action of the kidney •ecretkms.” Doan’s Kidney Pills for sale by all dealers. Price, 50 cents. Foster-Mil* torn Co., Buffalo, N. Y. 4 Could Not Be Bribed. A good story is told of A C. Mac Daren, a well known cricket player.'* He #a#; flaying a picnic match “up country* ih Australia when one of the batsmen skied a ball very high between the wickets. MacLareh waft waiting- for the cateh. but the striker In rnnaing-past cried, “Oh, Archie, drop it, do, and! I'll allow you to kiss my sister.” MacLaren, it is added, was pnk>f agaidst the attempted brib er. . . . - -| -|| , , , ■ X Home for Aged Animals. A wealthy Frenchman receives in his park near Paris aged animals and birds. .The oldest inmate is a mule ®f seventy-three, whose affectionate companion in retirement is a goose, ©f thirty*seven. Among the other in mates is a cow, aged thirty-six, a hog •( twenty-seven, a bullfinch which has reached the ripe age of twenty-eight, and a sparrow that stepped from-the egg in Not the. Man—The Son. When a man has to support his grown-up son, his mother says he has an artistic temperament.—New York Press. Six Doctors Failed. South Bend, Ind., Oct. 24 (Special) •—After suffering from Kidney Disease for three years; after taking treat ment from six different doctors with out getting relief, Mr. J. O. Laudeman of this place found not cnlv relief blit a speedy and complete cure in Dodd’s Kidney Pills. Speaking of his cure Mr. Laudeman says: “Yes, I suffered from Kidney Trouble for three years and tried six doctors to no good. Then I took just ♦wo boxes of Dodd’s Kidhev PiHs and they not only cured my kidneys, but I gave me better health in general. Of ; course I recommended Dodd’s Kidney Pills to others and I know a number ■ow who are using them with good re sults.” Mr. Laudeman’s case Is hot an ex ception. Thousands give similar ex periences. For there never yet was a ease of Kidney Trouble from Backache to Bright’s Disease that Dodd's Kid ney PiHs could not cure.’ They are the only remedy that ever cured Bright’s disease. Heaven on Earth. If husbands and wives were always fweethearts there would be no long ings for another and better world. How’s This ? We offer One Hundred Pollen Reward for any •Me of Catarrh that cannot be cured by Han’t Catarrh Cure, _ V. ). CStNET A CO., Toledo, O*. W«, the undersigned, hare known F. J. Cheney ter the laat 15 rears, and believe him perfectly hon orable In all business transaction* and financially •hie to carry out any obligations made by hi* firm. Waldtso, Kin.vax A Mabvi*», _ ... ' WboleealePrn«Kjate. Toledo. 0. Hun’s Catarrh Cure la taken Internally, acting lraetly open the blood and muooua surface* of the Astern. Testimonials aent free. Price 73 cent* Par Cottle. Sold by all Prugglsrs. Take Hall’s Family Fill* for constipation. The Wabash is the Only Line Landing You at the World’s Fair. Rrouttd trip rates from Omaha are pa follows: 38.50 sold daily except Friday and Shtnrday, good 7 days. $13.80 sold daily, good 15 days. The Wabash is the only line that land’s passengers at the main entrance Of the World's Fair grounds. Also the only Ine that can check your baggage to the World's Fair station. Think what a saying of time, annoyance and ex tra car fare. ' All agents can sell yon through ticket and route you over the Wabash. Very lew ;rates to many points. South. Southeast. For beautiful World’s Fair folder anu all information call at 1601 Farnam St. or address Harry E. Moores, Gen. AgL Ptusa. Dept. Wab. K. Rl Omaha, Neb. 'i ■* C ■ - • • * Mosquitoes in London. Apparently mosquitoes have come to London to stay, and they seem to he making their way into the country places. -" ; j-”'J ' >■ ■' • •'" : Every housekeeper snould know that if they will buy Defiance Cold Water Starch for-laundry use they will save-not only time, because it never sticks to the iron, but because, each package, contains 16.07,—one full ponnd—while alL other Cold Water Starches are ppt,up. hr .&-pound pack , ages, and theT price is the same, 10 cents. Then again because Defiance Starch Is free' from all Injurious chem icals. If yOtir -grocer tries tb sellyOu a 12-o». package’ tt hr because he hasr a stock on-Baud which'he wishes to dispose of before- he puts ih Defiancei He knows that Defiance •Starch ha? printed oii eYerjr package ift large’let fees and flghrei • :>‘16 ees;'’ Demand Defiance and ssive ttm&h time and money and the nnnoyuhce of the iron clicking. Defiance neve* sticks/ ’r: * , _ Whpr Mien Desire-. ’ if the man vfio represented the 'ma: Jortty of then were gsk.ed ■whit he' most liked pj Vomen his answer would bet Ofye nre: beauty, all beauty; to walk and ‘'to frivol with; SDOP^thy, •11 sympathy, to itdk and to like with!*—Chic. <; 1 • Tourists Enrich Ortaoa; • • II Is aStl mated that about 4,B0dtrav etes fross tMt United States havu vis Iked Greece during seek of ■ the last jpav years, end - have • annaally latt -tevtte Making Market Butter. The churn should always be scaldfed and cooled before being used. If this Is neglected- once the churn is dam aged beyond repair. The temperature used in churning should be such that the butter comes in about three quar ters of an hour. The churn should be stopped while: the granules are still quite small. A few small particles, of butter may be lost in the buttermilk, but with fine buttergranules.it is pop-, sible to hold ,2 per cent more mois ture in the butter in a very finely di vided condition, giving the butter a much drier appearance. In washing butter a quantity of water equal to the buttermilk removed should be used. The temperature of the wash water Should be such as will leave the butter neither too hard nor too soft for working. Butter should be salted in the Unurn whether the com bined churn is In use or not. An easily soluble salt, not too fine grained should be used. It should be so ap plied as to be thoroughly mixed through the butter with the minimum amount of working. From three-quar ters to one and one-half ounces will; be required according to, the condi tion and amount of moisture in .gutter and the demands of the market. Aft er being salted and worked lightly the butter should stand until the salt has dissolved when it should be reworked and packed or printed. Packages should be prepared by steaming and soaking in brine con taining 1 per cent of formalin. Lin ers should be of the best quality of parchment and should be soaked in the same solution. The finish should be neat and the packages clean.—J. W. Hart. " ' r _« . .. .. « . — .4. t i *■»' Tvyo Cows. Twd cows m&y differ very little as to their production and yet one may be worth twice as much as the other. One cow costs $50 to keep and she produces $55 worth of butter. The other cow costs $50 to keep ahd she produces $60 worth of butter. A superficial estimate would place the two cows in value as 11 is to 12 mak ing the best co'w one-eleventh more valuable than the other. But the fact is that the method of comparing the cows is faulty. It is the profits that must be compared and not the total receipts for the.milk. Compar ing the profits we find that one cow gave $5 profits and the other $10 profits. Therefore the second cow was worth twice the first.' TL'e first cow, we will say, Sells on the market for $30. The second cow is there fore worth $60. That the public has not yet taken that view- of it Is evi denced by fact that thesb two cows will; sell in the market at about $30 and $35 respectively-. ■ We do not put the propet financial value on the good cow and we* give the poor cows too high a value. But it frequently hap pens that the- difference in profits be tween two cows is very much greater than this. One cow will make $5 a year profit and another $75 a year profit The one is worth fifteen times as much as the other is worth. When farmers come to really appreciate this difference the good cow will be more commonly kept on the farm than she is now. A Cheap Buttermaker. At one place that 1 called last sum mer the creamery had but four months before passed into the hands of the farmers. They had asked various creamerymen for advice and were told that the most important thing to do was to hire a first class butter maker and not allow a few dollars in wages to stand in the way. They, however, were of the opinion that a good enough man could be obtained for $35 or $40 and got a young man for the latter figure. In four months they lost nearly $400 on the butter and the day I got there he had left them after washing up and when I got there about 7 o’cloch in the evening the cream was at a temperature of 70 and had 5% degrees of acidity, plenty ripe enough to churn. There was no wa ter in the glass on the boiler and no water in the tank and the pump was broken and the churn which was a new one was in a very bad condition. I got some -ioe and cooled the cream down and stayed two days breaking in a new man, who I am pleased to say hae been having good- Success, some of the credit for. which may be due to his wife, who works in the creamery with him—RroL J. G. Moore. ,*■ j v ... •;* .>T- ir The Debt-Making Cow. Therfc are a good many cow/s in the country that are making debts fdi' their owners rather than clearing then! of debts. The worst thing about it is that these debt makers are not known to be debt makers. They are tolerated and accepted on their face. A man with a good large herd of debt makers-always finds a lot of ; work to do, but somehow or,other his family are always lacking the things they thinR they should have. The only good thing to be said about these cows is that their milk swells the volume of the milk that goes to-the cities and so'keeps down the price the poor people hare to pay. So-far as the farmer is concerned the quicker these debt makers are sent to the; neet barrel or the butcher's block the bet 1®*V ■ 1 :d.. 1^ eft'" * 9* lid . « . Butter,Molds. , - , . • The spqres that, develop into butter mplds are said to he.everywhere,pres ent and to require only''the proper Conditions to send forth, the plant ufe that we know as moi<L The re quired conditions are warmth, and dampness. - -These cpndltioas happen In many creameries and butter room|' in summer^ when the toe.basjnin low or ;dteappear:edy aU0fifitbeA.(;.Tiier pers of butter sky that too frequently the' Scats that carry the butter are al lowed to run out of ice and become both damp and wains with.the result that the butter arrive* at Its destina tion in a moldy condition. j ' •: ftt : itfA' Tbepcaeh tuts very quickly, and where lt.fi* tp bersfrlgetatUd at ail ^houid be fisfriamtad. wkhin , *>fibw tour, from <t. »to. It I. let*. Egg Production Variation. When hens are. investigated as thor oughly as dairy cows they wilt be found to vary as greatly in their abil ity .to produce eggs. We have as a ppopla gone on the assumption that a hen was a hen. That was true, but sometimes she has proved to be noth ing more, so far as eggs are concerned —not even a layer. But we are only nerw, beginning to find that out. The dairy cows have been investigated as to their ability to produce butter cheaply. Some were found that made butter at a cost of eight cents a pound and others that made butter at a cost of 70 cenfe a pound. The' hens have been investigated as' to their ability to prod nee eggs cheaply and some have been fofind that produced eggs at ten cents a doaen in wfpter and others at a dollar a dozen.- A good macy items, like a-good many cows,- are. more profitable dead than alive.. We will never, get very satisfactory work done in the line, of experimenta tion till we are able to keep hens by themselvds and know for a. certainty the record of each hen and be able to watch each one in^ all respects. There aye hens that are almost non producers oT eggs. * In the' ordinary flock they mingle with the others aid are always healthy. They would make admirable potple, but the owner feels that he' cannot dispense with any of his layers. There axe other hens that are not attractive looking, yet if they are kept by themselves they wiH be found to ,be great egg producers. Very often egg producing gets a fowl out of shape, and this very thing leads to her being killed off for the table when she should be retained. - - - ■_.i: • 1 .»• Some Guinea Hens. Gnrnea fowls have been raised on American farms „fdr a long time, bnt they probably have never received more attention than they are ^o-day receiving. Guinea fowls are easily and cheaply raised when they are given their liberty, as they are great foragers and prefer to hutrt their own support if possible. The females are quite prolific layers, and it is reason able to suppose that at some time their eggs will sell well in the market. Their smallness and brown color mili tate somewhat against them at the present time, as the buyers do not know the eggs wall enough to demand them, it may well be believed how ever that if they were so common that they were constantly obtainable in the market they would soon be in deniand. Where there is a flock of these fowls the housewives soon learn to use their eggs for high quality cooking Thd hens try to btte their nests which sum simply little holes iii the ground. : In these they lay numerous egg.*. /The birds however nave the habit of the common hen, in publish ing abroad the fact • that they have; laid an egg a st*on as that dot is per formed. The result is that it is not at all djfilcjilt for the owner of the bird to find out her laying place. i Every poultry -gancior should have a copy. u£ tins American Standard of Perfection and learn to judge his own birds. Then he is little likely to send to the show any birds that will score very low. Opportunities for Poultry Raisers. Tq the farmers living within twenty or thirty miles of the large cities there are always opportunities that should prove very profitable. Great hotels are always ready to take con signments of poultry and eggs pro vided the consignments can be made every day the year round. One Chi cago hotel was for some time trying to find a farmer that would furnish 25 dozen eggs a day at 25 cents a dozen. The contract was too big for any one of them to take. There were farmers that would agree to furnish 25 dozen of eggs a day through the laying season, but they could hot promise to keep it up throughout the year. The knowledge of how to pro duce winter eggs is so lacking gen erally that few have the temerity to base a contract on the ability to do so. Few American farms have the equip ment necessary to produce 300 eggs a day, even if the laying habits of the fowls are ever so well apportioned as to season. It will pay our farmers to so equip their farms that they can takev'-advantage of the very profitable opportunities that so frequently pass by. Tm-th® bid' mythology Fathef Tirae has a. lock ©f hair on the ffont part of his head to signify that who everwoui4 make the moat ot' time must be, able to seize the opportunity as it comes and. net as it goes. The farmer that is rea»dy fortbe opportun ity before, it comes will generally find the opportunity coming his way. ■ ■■■*■ Pauttry and Orchards. " •• It Is-Tfre^tiehtly astefted' that or charding and poultry , raising ’go1 to gethen, >7 This, j perhaps la tr«e on a small scale,* but we can hardly eon-“ ceive of a great.commercial'Orchard. Comprising hundred* of -aereB of land being l&d# al«or*a if6dltry :'raip:e. In such? a Case the- combination Would be overdoaie; 63 the shade from the tree*, being constant, would militate against the health* of the loWla. -On a small scale the combination is a happy bub. The.bugs end woman are eaten by the fowlaf and the’ grass- forma; a handy adjui^et.jto-the feedingicrperattonB;-The ^Kaa*, ifb.W)t... wanted, anyway in the:, orchards and if the poultry can keep ft.down ^, much the betterofrlt-Wllfc t%i. ®wt he necessary to? even cun the.-weederovec the ground to keep the weed^/r^. becoming *1;*pismnpe«; ;' The plum, orchard la.-a - very good kind of wrehstd+irt which to keep- (Joul try. 'aa the limbs of the trees do* ‘not Shut eft too much-aim from the bints, wahave .seou poultry yard* of small sign, ig^each: one of which waa >»? Bin-1 kie, plum .tree growing’ a»d thriving. Thera ia no- reason why trees in socb; location* should f»t prove to be-very fruitful-; Jtjiajr -are certainly sure of not becoming grass-bound. Alfalfa in provifig td^bd I Veihr §iig.v ful feed in the Wert, whefe ft is lined extensively. On it both beef and taut- > o*#rt feodnoed of suflclent quality o «o directly tethg m*rket w«houf he animalB receiving grain for the _ The Yield to Expect. A farmer should have some fairly w?N'!(*xud Idea of how much crop he should got from a certain piece of land and then hunt ahout for the reason, if his expectations are .not realized, ft does not pay to be too easy with Na ture. The exacting man is the one that gets most from her. We have been surprised to see certain men sat ; isfied with the very meager returns they received from land. The returns were seldom more than enough to pay the expenses of growing the crop. Yet i they were satisfied apparently and i merely remarked, *‘Oh, we!!, that land never does better than that." The men in question belorig to that group known -as "hand farmers.” That is, they farm by the use Of their hands aad not by the use of their heads. We know of a place where some of this kind reside, A man that farms with hia brains came along and said, "How much corn did you get this year?” "About twenty bushels.” “Why-dori-’t you get more?” “I don’t know; the land never does better than that amount, here." Thq man that farms with his head thought it worth while to find out for the sake of these farm ers what was the trouble, .As the land wats ricTi in humus he asked one of them if ™ Would use some potassium ifrbe supplied it. He replied he would and he dfd. On the piece treated with potassium the yield the next season was at the rate of 65 bushels of corn to the acre. That showed that the land laeked potassium, yet the men that farmed with their hands had never tried to find out whether it lacked anything or not. Why could hot they have done the vrork of find ing out? < ’ Some people are helpless in circum stances and others try to control the circumstances. Those that try to con trol the ^circumstances are wise, for the circumstances can generally be controlled. in a remarkable -degree, when a man. sets himself about it A'farmer should not be contented with any yield less than a good yield, as the average yield is usually a money loser. There are few farms where the yields of crops cannot be greatly in creased except those farms under the management of our most advanced farmers. The problem'should be not how to increase the number of acres producing poor crops, but how to pro duce a greatly increased yield on the : acres already under tillage. -■ I How One Thing Changes Many. j A recent wriier on Argentine agri i culture says that were it not -for alfal i fa Argentina wonid- occupy an unim; i ' poxtant place in tb© li©t of beef pm j ducing nations, at least so far as ex j port.beef is concerned. The people ol, the United States supposed that. tbe> t had. gained control of • the English: market and- could hold it for all tipi© ! * But along cam©, the alfalfa plant and the South American was at once able to send beef to Europe to. compete with American beef. ' One little thing like that changes the course of com merce, even of agricultural commerce Up to the present time nations bays been so careless Of each other that one hardly eared to inquire what the other was doing. But the nation thal finds a sharp competition arising where there was no competition be fore is forced to inquire what the changed conditions are that make il possible. W© must henceforth com pete with alfalfa in Argentina. Thai is the real fact. The beef is merely the way of marketing the alfalfa. But as a result of that one thing entering into the problem we may have to change our methods in several ways. Preparing Potting Soil. On every farm it happens in the spring that the farmer wants a sup ply of rich dirt filled with vegetable matter and that will cause the tender seedlings to push forward with the greatest possible speed. This dirt is called potting dirt, but it is used also in the hotbeds. To have it ready for use in the spring its preparation must begin in the fail long before the ground is frozen. Sod and manure are the elements out of which good patting soil -is compounded. ; If thfe sod fs clay sod a good deal of sand will also have to be added to it in the spring. At this time, however, the $od and manure may be mixed. A layer of sod and a .layer of manure piled up to any height to rot is the foundation. In applying the sand it must be remembered that a good com post of this.kind, requires in, it final ly at least three times as much sand as clay. Cotton Seed Me^l and ,Pigs, It Is weir for swine raisers to go slow in the feeding of cotton seed meal to swine. There is, much in the bulletins about it from tlnjefo time, tnd new men arfe trying to find'out ow to feed It to the pigs and not kill them.* The experiment stations can better afford to lose- pigs than can the farmers. It is safe also not to take $tack in the assertion of the wise fel low whq can tell you just how to feed It. successfully. . He thinks he knows;. but It is just as well to let him try it bh his own pigs.. When the, stations haye found sure, a Vfcy of feeding it successfully Will* % |liOe enough. for the common farmer tb risk killing bis, rm __ ■ " A New MO* lPreservj|tive. ‘f The French are experimenting' in he maklngrof AtmUk preatrver ifrom , ! vhich they hppa great .things. It fa to b*ye SJ»tiseptic,-propertieB ;and yet be harmless to the human stomach,: If they are able io bring, this- about great things may result, .They call the .su.bstanjp€j oxygenated water... It 1 m(W 'jnic'robes 1^ ,'tKe milk* byh 1 h/ the end of six hqiurs it has itself. ’ disappeared, having changed into" * oxygen add water; , 1 fit. mum Mi S la iwtmmfjw $u i -j!-r— . | Western agriculturists agree that ] present range methods are. wasteful. He grass on toe «?aah5»uWe,;jMfe, (urea is destroyed by close cropping ! ot^ too jnnrh t rsmni ORIGIN OF THE THERMOMETER, Fahrenheit Said to Have Copied Frorr. Sir Isaac Newton. According to Sir Samuel Wilkes, Fahrenheit constructed his thermome ter from one made many years before by Sir Isaac Newton. “In the transac tions of the Royal society for 1761 will be found the paper written by Sir Isaac NCwton, who was at that time secretary to the society,” says Sir Samuel. "He invented an Instrument for measuring the degree of heat in fluids by taking a tube and filling it with linseed oil. On this he marked the freezing point as zero by putting the tube in ice, and in the same way he marked the point when placed in toiling water. The very awkward scale which we now use is evidently that Of Newton, for the decimal sys tem not being then in use, he took the number 12 to denote the heat of the body; this be found, and made It the starting point of his scale both up ward and downward. "It was some time^after this that, for convenience's sake, the degrees were divided Into two, and thus the body heat was 24 above zero and boil ing point 53. When, many years after ward, Fahrenheit made his instru ment and used mercury instead of linseed oil, he again divided these de grees into four, so if the number bo multiplied accordingly we have 212 for the boiling point and 96 for the body heat. ' “Fahrenheit, finding he could get a lower temperature than freezing, made this point- zero, which brought the number 8 of Newton’s to 32 of Fahren heit. In this way the thermometer was constructed; awkward as the scale is, yet it is historically interest ing as having been made by our own great philosopher and formed on. the basis of the heat of the human body.” , j • . j I His Complicated Task. A watchman who had been engaged by the directors of an Australian bank bed: brought' with him good recom mendations. The chairman of the board sent for him and proceeded to "post him up” as to his duties. “Weirr James,” he began, “this Is yo«r first job of this kind, isn’t it?” “Yes, sir,.?* r “Your doty must-be to exercise vigi lance.” “Yes, sir/’ : . “No stranger must be allowed to enter the bank at night under any pre text whatever.” “No, sir:” “And our manager—he is a good man, honest and trustworthy; but it Till be yoijr duty to keep ycnr eye on him.” But it will he .hard to watch twc men and the bank at the same time.’ “Two men? How.” “Why, Sir, it was only yesterday that the manager called me in for a talk, and he said you were one of tfce best men in the eity, but it would be just as vreb to keep both eyes on you, and let the directors know if you hunt about after hours/*—London Answers , Fleischman. He did not pay hig salaries to investigate the poor; ’Fhfct’s why his light- above the rest shines like a Kobinoor— „ Remembering, in simplicity. Just what the Master said. He simply found the hungry, and he sim ply gave them bread; * j U tC 4 I SJ-iJ n 154* ■•i.- Li . ... t-t* He did not help .to., raise the pile of granfte so- much prized By those who think that Charity's a tin "not organized.’’; And why a man was starving didn’t much disturb his head. He simply found the nu,ngry and he simply gave them oread. He did not pour more gall on Want with myriad questionings. Or hire other folks to do such question able things. But. ere tr>e famished mortals here were altogether dead. He simply, found ,.ie hungry and he sim ply gave them bread. Ah, well, the experts call his course "un scientific. quite," And since they built this science up, of course they must he right: Twould hurt them should his notions—or Christ’s—too freely spread; He simply fpund the hungry and he sim ply gave them bread. —Brooklyn Eagle. Studying Celtic Language. The PanrCeltic Congress, in session it Carnarvon, Wales, recently, is a conglomeration bf several gatherings, -hief of which is the great Welsh Eis teddfod. Ireland has two annual Cel tic1 gatherings—the Oireachtas and the Feis Ceoil. The Highlands of Scot , land has a Mod, and Brittany also keeps its Celtism aflame at an annua assembly. Manxland has no such as senably, but the study of the Gaelic is being encouraged in various ways while even in Cornwall, where the use if the “language that was spoken ir Eden” has died out. altogether, there, ire enthusiasts who are trying to in lugurate a renaissance. Sometimes “in the Air.” They were discussing various men it the Players’ club when Williaier Norris remarked that some actor’s legs were too short. ■ “That can*} fee,” said pne listener •Aferahatn Lincoln said that a man’s tegs should be long enough to react ihe ground. Blank’s legs do that al right.* ” • * "• r';u: •••••*■ *1 hardly think so,” said Jtfr. Norris ?*he is up in the air a good share oi Ihe time.” ;\.Jugg1fng with Figures. | “Here we have a most extraordinary lemonstration of the uncertainties o* nathematics,” said the thoughtful nan at the concert. “Ip wbAt. wayT’.Vwas. the natural in ,;>f. J*i:. iiKsr* USO 1 n t-1* -’Vr :(.< | “Why, we have proof that three ,ami hree make two, haven’t we?” “Three and three make two*” /‘Certainly,” ,v rv .}'■{ •r^Du’ise speaking of addition?? “Of course.” “I can’t see it. Three and three nake 4wo%(:V/ ”Tw'b trios.*- or. r aa IK: SXilt:>ii w-ipiUH' -• ■ i tli ..." : j»T .13 & SaltorsGst their Pay. ■* “the saflork: of "the steamship CheL ' enbaiti,'which was: sefcfcd by the Rus lihfr Vladivostok BqdaHrob, July«*'fp' rsiptfheaaitatfera' got 660 each dad tfcii wilts £ suit against the owners, in .ondo*.: It' took them three weeks *f rail to go from Vladivostok to St. Petersburg. Tbey nearly* starred andf bey suffered other1 hardships. The 3 Idmages wwrw granted because they tad not beets ctold wn "shippfng ttii(: he vessel was to carry contraband. J ■ :L:-.__■■■ . ■__: ->Tote—The following article has Been widely published and is one of the most remarkable illustrations of the value of careful marshalling and aa-atysis of facts in presenting a sub ject to the public. LEVELERS. ; ! I-!*i " - * W • Jr ■. , - ' * t * . The, Mission of Whisky, Tobacco and Coffee. The Creator made all things, we be lieve. It so, He must have made these. Wo know what He made food and tv’hter for, and air and sunshine, but why Whisky, Tobacco and Coffee?' i They are here sure enough and ea‘cb. performing its work. .There must be some great plan, be hind it all; the thoughtful man seeks to understand something of that plan and thereby to judge these articles for their true worth. Let us not say “bad” or “good” without taking testimony. ! ■ 5 There are times and conditions ihen it certainly seems to the casual observer that these stimulant nar qotics are real blessings. , “Right there is the ambush that con ceals a “killing” enemy. " One can slip into the habit of either whisky, tobacco or coffee easy Enough, but 'td “untangle” is often a fearful struggle. It seems plain that there are cir cumstances when the narcotic effect of these poisons is for the moment beneficial, but the fearful argument against them is that seldom ever does opg find a steady user of either whis ky, coffee or tobacco free from disease ui some Kino. - * Certainly powerful elements In theii effect-on the human race. It is a matter of daily history, testi • fled to by literally millions of pedple, that Whisky, Tobacco and Coffee are smiling, promising, beguiling frieads on the start, but always false as hell itself? in the end. Once they get firm hold J enough to show their strength, they Insist upon governing apd drive the victim steadily toward ill health ih some form; if permitted to continue tb rule, they will hot let up until pbjts ' ieal and mental huin sets in. A inan under that spall (and “un der the spell*- is correct) of any one of these drugs frequently assures him self amd "his friends. “Why, I can leave oft any time I want to. I did quit for a week just to show I could.* It Is a sure mark of the slave when one gets to that stage. He wiggled through a week, fighting every day to break the spell, was finally whipped, and began his slavery ail over again. :. The slave (Coffee slave as well as Tobacco and Whisky) daily reviews his condition, sees perfectly plain the steady encroachments of disease, how the nerves get weaker day by day and demand the drug that seems to smile and offer relief for a few minutes and then leave the diseased condition 1 plainer to view than ever and grow ■ ing w-orse. Many times tho Coffee slave | realizes that he Is between two fires. ; He feels bad if he leaves off and a little worse if he drinks and allows the effect to wear off. So (t goes on from day to day. Every night the struggling victim promises himself that he will break the habit, and next day when he feels a little bad' (as he is quite sure to), breaks, ndt the habit, but his own res -olution. It is nearly always a tough fight, with diseaster ahead sure if the habit wins. There have been hundreds of thou sands of people driven to their graves through disease brought on by coffee drftfking alone, and it Is quite certain that more human misery is caused .by coffee and tobacco than by whisky, for the two first are more widely used, 1 pnd more hidden and insidious in the effect on nerves, heart and othet vital organs, and are thus unsuspected un til much of the dangerous work is done. Now, Reader, what is your opinion as to the real use the Creator has for thbse things. Take a look at the ques tion from this point of view. There is a law of Nature and of Nature^ God that things slowly evolve from lower planes to higher, a sturdy, steady and dignified advance, toward more perfect things in both the Physi cal and Spiritual world. The ponder ous tread ‘ of evolutionary develop ment is fixed by the Infinite and will not be quickened but* of natural law by any of man’s methods. Therefore we see many illustrations r owing how nature checks too rapid t vance. Illinois raises phenomenal i ops of corh for two or three years, if she continued to do so every year b-H' farmers would advance in wealth l r beyond those of other sections or % Ountries. So Nature interposes a bar every three or four years and brings on a "bad year.’* Here we see the leveling Influence; at Hvork; s ! I- «... . 1 ^ ... Jt * — f ; • , i - . . . . •«. a JT *11 a man is prosperous in bis Business for a number Of years and grows rich. Then Nati/re sets the “leveling influ ence” at work on' him. Some of his investments lose, he becomes luxuri ous and lazy. Perhaps it is whisky, tobacco, coffee,. women, gambling or some other form* The intent and pur pose id to leVei him—keep him from evolving too far ahead of the- masses. A nation becomes prosperous and great like ancient'Rome. If n.ct ’Jtjyelj ing influence set in she would domi nate the world perhaps for all time' But Dame Nature sets her army of “levelers” at work—luxury, overeat ing and drinking, licentiousness, waste and extravagance, indulgences of all kinds—then Cotees the wreck. Sure,5 Sure. 8ure. - ■ Thy law"of the unit la thehaW of thh mass. Man" goes through the same prbCess. Weakness (ih rdhfidhobd),” gradual < growth' Of ‘strength;* energy, thrift, * prbMty, prosperity;5 • wealth, cbmfort, ease, relaxation," Self-ifldW senoe, luxury,Idleness, waste, debauch ery. disease.and the wreck follows. Fhe “levelers” are In the bushes, along the pathway of every successful man an'd Woman, and they hag the majbr jrjtoRtiTo- f*! as if- r: 'Wy . * |-y»4 fjrft nt )k^««A4 0. -JQjfj' : Only now and then can a man stand out against these “levelers” and.hold his fortune, tame and ’ health to ’the _a1xj'v '{ZkTiT-: sin:-: v !& thp £i4iitof liair use for Whisky; Fobacco and CoffCe tb level down the BuCcesfwi lmea and -those who show signs bf being pdccessftil, and keep thhmJ back tit the ’race, so that the great “field” (tfte~maases)-may not be lift too far behind. And yet we must admit tb&t saa.« all-wise Creator has placed it -n i • power of man to stand upright, c • f in the armor of a clean-cut st ,i mind, and say unto himself. •[ to exchange my birthright for a n. s of pottage. “i will not deaden my, sense- , weak en my grip on affairs and keep -y. self cheap, common and behind in t V tnne and fame by drugging with w! i< ky, tobacco or coffee. Life is too short. It is hard enough to win uv good things without any sort of handi cap, so a man is certainly a h ; ..p er’ when he trades strength, in-alrh, money and the good th ngs that come with power for the half asleep condi tion of the ‘drugger’ with the certainty of sickness and disease ahead.'' it is a matter each individual must decide for himself. He «au u a lead er and semi-god if he will, or h< can go along through life a drugged down, a cheap “hewer of wood or earn r of water.” Certain it is that while the t,r. ,.t Father of us all doets not set .t , “mind" if some of his children ar-*j foolish and stupid, he seems t<» seh •„ Others (perhaps those he intends i r some special work) and allows them to be threshed and castigated m fearfully by these “Ieyelers.”' If a man tries ftlrtifag with these lev elers a while, and gets a few slaps as a hint, he had better take (he hint, pr a good solid blow will follow. When a man tries to live upright, clean, thrifty, sober and tmdrugged, manifesting as near as he knows what the. Creator intends ho should, happi ness, health and peace seem to come to him. Does it pay? This article was written to set peo ple thinking, to rouse the “God with in,” for every highly-organized man and woman has times when they &*• 1 a something calling from within f -r them to press to the front and ?be kbout the Father’s business." Don't mistake it; thC spark of the Infinite is there, and it pays in every wajr— health, happiness, peace ami even worldly prosperity—to break off the habits and strip clean for the work | cut out tor us. it has been the business of the writ er to provide a practical and easy way for people to break away from the coffee habit and be assured of a re turn to health and all of the good things that brings, provided the abuse has not gone too far. and even then the cases where the body has been re built on a basis of strength and health run into the thousands. It is an easy and comfortable step to stop coffee instantly by having well made Postum Food Coffee served rich and hot with good cream, for the color and flavor is there, but none of the caffeine or other nerve-destroying ele ments of ordinary coffee. On the contrary’, the most powerful rebuilding elements furnished by Na ture are in Postum and they quickly set about repairing the damage. Sel dom is it more than two days after the change is made before the oil stomach or bow’el troubles or com plaints of kidneys, heart, head or tterves show unmistakable evfdence of getting better and ten days’ time changes things wonderfully. Liferally millions of brain-working Americans to-day use Postum. having found the value and common sense m the change. : --- - C. W. POST. PAID DEARLY FOR CAUTION. Woman's Distaste for Publicity Cost Purse and Handbag. For years Mrs. Storey's life had been haunted by the fear that some day she might be called upon to servo a3 a witness in court. Her gran - mother was a witness once, and w hen Mrs. Storey was a little girl she us : to hear all about it. Grandma, it ap pears. had been so scared she couldn’t tell tbe judge her own name. "And,” said Mrs. Storey to her hus band, “if there is anything more dis graceful than to be unable to tell your own name, I’d like to know w hat it is.” In order to reduce the possibilities ot such a calamity to a minimum, Mrs. Storey would walk on with deaf ened ears and averted head Whenever she happened to be near a Are. a ftaht or the scene of an accident. Only the other day she had occasion to shut her eyes and ears to the seething world about her. She was waiting in the Grand Central station for Mr. Storey who had gone around to the baggage room to cheek a trunk. Presently she became aware that something exciting was happening close beside her. Hastily she shut her eyes and stuck her fingers, into her ears, but before these protective .'measures could be accomplished she learned that a female thief had snatched a handbag which she had found dying on the floor, and was be ing pursued by an excited crowd. Not being entirely devoid of the curiosity of her j sex, Mrs. Storey would have liked ta know more, but. the old fear Of ..being detained as- a witness held her inert upti her husband’s return. Thim she ventured to ask if they had caught the thief. “Yes,” said Mr. Stoaey, “hut they Jouldn’t do anything with her. Ev ryone Whs confident the bag didn't helbng tb her. but as nobody appeared -to' claim it the policeman had to let her go.” J Jft: that Mrs. Storey opened bar ; eyed. 5T am so glad," she shld, “that I it Is alf over. I am rChdy to go now. But—oh. dear me. where fire tty purs* and’ hfibdhag? r hifid them here a foment"* I go? They must--have : dropped-i-c®, I Wcaiflei1—’*■ 1 •’Ye*/’ eald Mr. Stbrey, heartlessly, stole* bag ^ undoubtedly waa jours.’'—New Ybrk'ifWefi*. SI ..<TJ , Teaching Gunnery. S Therri^' byeiter^ of' gjvlfcg yorujg British sailors a six weeks1 prc!fm lifry gun drill to see if they are rap- ' able of farther tufciffbn works fahriy well and is a gTeat improvement bn the old;System, when a taan waS fuHv trained in gunnery, whether be was fitted'for ik or not, at the expense of the -Cduhlry, says the London Es presbl - ; - " • i. Hi;.*-rra 1\ The only drawback to ’the scheme is that gunnery is no complicated news days that a man does not have time-* Co-grasp the details thoroughly. The admiralty tries to make him a fighp- ' ing machine before he is an Individual.