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Loop City Northwestern J- w. BURLEIGH. Publlahar. KWJP CITY, ... NEBRASKA. An Interesting Ititk. Capt. Tilho, of the Fninch colonial Infantry, who is at the head of tha French mission for the delimitation of the French Sudan from British Ni? I .geria, has been giving some interest? Ing particulars of the task entrusted jto him. He is to work in concert with Maj. O'Shee of the British mission .to give practical effect to the Anglo iFrench treaty of May 29, 1906. That treaty establishes in theory the fron tier between the French and English possessions from the Niger to Lake? Chad. The two missions will now define those boundaries. Capt. Tilho i ■considers that about IS months will be necessary for the completion of this work. His personal relations with the chief of the British mission are exceedingly friendly, and near ly all hs officers speak English. Capt. Tilho and his party were to reach Daker on November 4, and will pro ceed thence to Ilo, the first British l?ort on the Niger, where they will meet the British mission. From Ilo, the two missions will start on their work of delimitation, which wrill ex tend over 1,500 miles. The British mission is to reach Ilo on December 30. It is expected that the work will have been completed up to Lake Chad by December, 1907, and that both missions will be. able to return to Eu rope in the spring of 1908. Mexico’s President. President Diaz is now 76 years'of age. but he is equal to the administra tive tasks of a man of 56. For more than 50 years he has been the central figure in the national affairs of Mexi co, and of that time 30 years as an active soldier. Since he came into power the country has known absolute jieace, where before it was in constant revolution. Railroads now run in every direction, developing great in dustries and opening up the wonder ful mining districts of Mexico. Miles ' upon miles of telegraph lines are given in figures that astonish foreign ers. To President Diaz was given the honor of completing the great work of the drainage of the valley of Mexico, which has made the capital so notably healthy in comparison to former years. This important engineering problem was commenced 300 years ago, but swing to insurmountable difficulties the project never materialized until the preesnt era of peace and enlight enment. To President Diaz is also due the inauguration of numerous great port works, besides many other enterprises during recent years. Caterpillar Fever. “Caterpillar fever is contracted by many in rural districts,-’ says the Medical Times, quoting the London Mail. “There is often an epidemic of ‘caterpillar rash.’ characterized by Intense itching of the palms and some times of the face, with vesicles which, when they occur above the eyes, ob struct vision. Prophylaxis requires that the caterpillars be left severely alone. The ‘palmar worm,1 for in stance. the hairy caterpillar of the gold-tail moth, one of the commonest and most beautiful objects in the country at midsummer, passes from hand to hand. It leaves a few of its loosely attached hairs upon the palm; and an urticaria results, in the opin ion of English rural physicians.” 1 ' -' , -- / Protection to Workmen. By recent legislation France takes the lead of all countries in the pro tection which it affords to working men. A workman in the discharge of Diis duty does not have to prove neg ligence on the part of his employer in order to recover damages. The government guarantees the laborer; against loss through his employer be coming bankrupt, and in some cases an annuity of a value as high as 60 per cent, of the workman's wages goes to his family In case he is killed. The employers, in order to protect themselves, insure against all kinds of liabilities, and the companies which do this insurance, are, in turn inves tigated by the government. Robert Galley, Princeton’s old-time center rush, has sailed for China again, sent out by Princeton's under graduates and alumni to develop a "Young Men’s Christian association in the city of Peking, with special refer ence to the educated and official classes. Gaiiey has been spending a year in the United States after seven years at Tientsin, where he stayed at his association post during the boxer war. There is a vast difference between the economy which administers wise ly and that niggardly economy which saves for the sake of saving and spends a dime's worth of time to save a penny. I have never known a man ■who overestimated the importance or caving pennies, to do things which be long to large minds.—Success Maga zise. 'There are none so blind as will not be able to peruse the latest projected magazine. • Oren Root, a nephew of the secre tary of- state, while scarcely over 30 years of age. was recently appointed vice president of the Metropolitan street Railway company of New York. Boot started at the bottom of the lad der. He began with a construction gang as a laborer, and later, before going into the offices of the company, be acted as a motorman, and for sev eral months rang up fares. — ■ " i — Remember that an easy-chair is an part of the strenuous life, j m • "New York is bounded on the North, • South, East, and West by the • State of Divorce.” • “Nothing is final in Nature, not even • Death,” quotes the clergyman • from his sermon. /If death is not • final, why should marriage be • final? * * * Oh, yes, an excellent • sermon. * * * All New York was • there and all New York went • away happy.” • “What are divorces among friends?” • “A woman should marry when she • has the whim and leave the rest • to the divorce court.” • "People like us should meet on equal • terms,” says Mrs. Karslake, speak • ing of divorced women. “If peo • pie like us don’t meet there would • be no society.” • ^••••••••AAAAAtiAAAtAAAAAil "American girls marry for nothing • and divorce for nothing, because 2 you are nothing.” • “You American girls are fine talk- J era,” says the Englishman. "You • talk and talk, but there's nothing # here, (pointing to his heart). I • once knew an American girl. She £ was the nicest kind of a—boy. • These American marriages for • title have been in bad odor in * England lately. * * * Marriage in • England means three things— • Honor, obedience, and three chit- # dren.” • "I stop at ‘obedience,’” remarks • the American woman.” J "The judiciary have mixed this • thing (marriage and divorce) up * so we can’t tell we’re married un- • til we’re divorced.” J ... . „ .. ^^ ^ • New York.—“The New York Idea” has been a much-discussed play. Peo ple have wanted to know why Mr. Langdon Mitchell, leveling his satire at divorce, was at pains to describe it as a New York idea. “I chose New York for my title be cause New York is the greatest of American cities and reflects American life,” Mr. Mitchell explained: "The play might have been called ‘The Chicago Idea’ or ‘The Philadelphia Idea' just as well, I suppose. The most explicit title would probably be' ‘The American Idea.' ” “In other words,-’ remarked the re porter, “you used the words New York to mean America, just as we say ‘Paris’ when we mean France, or speak of London when we think of England?” “Precisely.” “Why do you assume the attitude you do on the divorce question?” The author settled back in his chair as if to weigh his words. Mr. Mitch ell is anything but a flippant young man of the town. His urbane manner and an almost imperceptible impres sion of reserve at once recall his fa ther, Dr. S. Weir Mitchell, the noted physician, and himself a famous au thor. “Mrs. Fiske suggested several years ago,” he said, gravely, “that I write a play with divorce as the theme.” “Would not such a play be serious?” “If there were children in a drama of divorce it would be a great tragedy. I decided, however, that my play should be a comedy.” ^“Acting, I suppose, on the principle that ridicule is the most dangerous of weapons,” suggested a representative of the New York Times. “No. There is a great drama in the divorce question, if treated as a seri ous problem. I should like to write such a play. My decision was reached, however, to make my play a comedy.” “It has been suggested that your methods resemble those of Bernard Shaw. Did you have his work in mind?” “Any resemblance to Mr. Shaw's plays in ‘The New York Idea’ is quite unconscious, I assure you,” Mr. Mitch ell replied. “I know Mr. Shaw, having met him in London while I was liv ing there. He was very kind to me when my first play was produced in England. I have never been a student of his plays, though. I can almost say I have not seen performances of them. Of course, 1 make a round of the theaters every season, but I go away into the country to write my plays.” Life as the Author Sees It. "Then your criticisms of modern conditions merely reflect life as you see it?” “Marriages based on affection, loy alty, and a sense of duty are not affected by the satire and rebuke in my play. Nearly all married people have quarrels. Where the husband and wife have a sense of loyalty and obligation they pass an unpleasant day or so and then are good friends again. With people like Cynthia and John Karslake, on the other hand, a divorce is the first thing that sug gests itself—the easy, the usual end of a quarrel in married life. "Who is to blame for such a condi tion? The law makes marriage a civil contract; divorces are easy to ob tain. The church may place a ban on divorce. Why does npt that keep husband and wife out of the divorce court? Can it be that the people I am criticising have ceased to be guided by the church?” “Mrs. Parsons recently suggested marriages on probation,-’ suggested the reporter. "Is such a system pos sible?-’ “When we come right down to it,” Mr. Mitchell replied, “do not some marriages amount to precisely that? ‘"The real trouble and the blame,” continued Mr. Mitchell, “lies deeper than the foolish husbands and wives I have sought to typify in Mr. and Mrs. Karslake. The people I really aim at are the fathers and mothers of such husbands and wives. Why do they not teach their children that marriage is a solemn thing, not to be entered into lightly and carelessly cast aside? These parents are the guilty ones. Careless, indifferent, apathetic, or worse, they allow their children to marry without telling them what married life means, much less teaching them that a husband and wife must be steadfast and are not to rush off to the divorce court at a whim or after every quarrel. Is it amazing to think that the girls of such parents look on marriage merely as a matter of clothes, church, parson and orange blossoms, and know noth ing of the obligations that come after? Blame the Parents. “The parents of such girls should be punished. I read the other day that a state in the west had passed a law directing that girls under 14 years of age should not be allowed on the streets at night. Does the law punish the girl? No. It directs that the par ents pay a fine of five dollars every time the girl is found on the streets after dark. We should have such a law here. It places the blame where it belongs—on the parents.” “In the third act of ‘The Newr York Idea,- ” remarked the reporter, “the Englishman criticises the American girl and says that American girls who have married foreigners of title are in rather bad odor in Europe. Was that comment prompted by recent events in England and France?” “No.” Mr. Mitchell replied. “It was suggested months ago, while I was writing the play. I read an article in the Fortnightly Review in which some one had prepared a table showing 100 marriages of American girls and 100 marriages of young women from Aus tria-Hungary to Englishmen of title. The American girls, according to the article, were mothers of 50 children and the wives from Austria-Hungary of 300 children. That means an aver age of two American wives to one child and three children for every wife from Austria-Hungary.” The reporter mentioned the charac ter of Rev. Mathew Phillamore in the play and his remarks which seemed to excuse divorce. The Insincere Minister. “I meant that to hit hard,” replied Mr. Mitchell. “I aimed the blow at the insincere minister, the man who twists his words to suit the likes and dislikes of the people in his congrega tion.” “You mean the clergyman who com promises at every point?” “That’s what I mean, precisely— the compromising clergyman. No one has a more sincere admiration than I for the true clergyman—Phillips Brooks, for example, a man I knew well; or Bishop Doane, who has just said exactly what he thinks about divorce, no matter who is hurt; or a man like my old master at St. Paul’s Academy in Concord, N. H., Dr. Colt. I have known him to walk into a sa loon and up to the bar, take an ex St. Paul's boy by the arm and lead him away as though he were a little child. TRIPS INTO DISMAL SWAMP Jic Jamestown Exposition Will Run Ex cursions Into the Thousand Miles of Wild Land Comprising the Famoue Marshes — Washington Had Project for Building Canal Through the. Territory—Origin of Lake Drummond. A trip into the Dismal Swamp is to be one of the attractions offered by the approaching Jamestown exposi tion. It is proposed to open up a steamboat route through the 1,000 square miles involved, which, more over, are said not to be so dismal as their name indicates. The Dismal Swamp was once the hiding place of runaway slaves. The haven gained there was security. There was also plenty of game. Tra dition says that whole tribes of aegroes gathered there. As* soon rnlaused into a nrimitlve life; they hunted, fished and slept, fought when elemental passions aroused themselves, committed occa sional depredations on the border set tlements and acknowledged allegiance to the strongest individual. Few As early as 1763 Washington sur veyed the swamp; subsequently he formed the first loan company on this hemisphere, the Dismal Swamp Land company. The stock was subscribed for with some hesitation, but it paid small dividends and remained within Virginia families. Even as late as the present year the Dismal Swamp Land company is on the records and there is a profit balance for stock holders. Washington conceived the idea of digging a canal from Elisabeth City, N. C.,*to Norfolk, Va., and connecting Albemarle sound with Chesapeake bay. Under his supervision the ef fort was undertaken. Here and there during the progress of the work sunk en forests were encountered. “I don't mean such men, but the preachers who twist and turn theii words to suit the occasion. I believe that many of the people who see 'The New York Idea’ will recognize the type and will agree with me. I wanl to hit such preachers hard.” Bishop Greer’s Opinion. Rt. Rev. David H. Greer, bishop coadjutor of the diocese of New York, when told of Mr. Mitchell's views on the divorce question, said that in his opinion the prevalence ol divorce was not due to the indilfer ence of parents or the lack of instruc tion to those about to marry, but was a manifestation of the moral irre sponsibility of the day. "I doubt if the lesson Mr. Mitchell outlines can be taught in the way he has qhosen,” Bishop Greer said, “i am not even certain that it does young people any good to teach them all that married life means—its sufferings and sacrifices. They know- well enough what marriage is when they get into it. ‘ The attitude toward marriage and divorce, which we are discussing, is a sign of the day, of lives based on the habit of living for the hour or the day—in a word, the attitude of irre sponsibility. So far as morals are con cerned, the people seem to be drift ing, to lack strong convictions. Per haps it may be traced to the modern spirit of agnosticism. It is one mani festation of many of this spirit in modern life.” “Such as corruption in political or moral life?” suggested the reporter. "The spirit makes itself felt in many ways,” Bishop Greer replied. “It is frequently seen in the tendency to let well enough alone, and to ac cept life as it is.” Moral Irresponsibility. “Then this moral irresponsibility is a disease?” “Yes, it is a disease: a malignant disease that should be cut out.” “What is the remedy for this dis ease, so far as it concerns divorce?” “There must be some remedy,” Bishop Greer replied, after a moment of thoughtful silence. “The law' can help, the church can help, and the newspapers can help. It is all a mat ter of public opinion, of making peo ple realize their responsibilities. “Do not believe for a moment that I am pessimistic,” he hastened to add. “On the contrary, I am optimistic. Why do the newspapers, for example, show only the darkest side of life— man in the village where the boy had lived all his life. The boy remem bered him distinctly, he was so strange, so different from the others. As he walked along Broadway he saw a dozen lame men. He remembered them rather than the hundreds of peo ple who were sound. So it is with our pessimists. They can see only the lame men.” Felix Adler, professor of political and social ethics at Columbia univer sity, expressed the opinion that the responsibility for divorces lay not with the lack of instruction of those contracting marriage, but in the view of parents that marriage is a means to obtain felicity and comfort, rather than an institution having for one of its important objects the preservation of society. “Mr. Mitchell has skimmed a sub ject,” said Prof. Adler, “which, to be thoroughly discussed, would require all the reflection of a work on philoso phy. I should be inclined to go beyond the people in the divorce courts and beyond the neglect of the parents to inform their children regarding the duties and obligations of marriage, and to say the blame lay in tbe ab sence of thought and mature consid eration of the marriage relation in the parents themselves. "Marriage should not be considered, as is sometimes the case, merely for the felicity and comfort which the re lation affords. Marriage is an insti tution for the perpetuation of the best spiritual element in our race. A child i needs the protection, the spiritual in fluence, and the material guidance of the home long after infancy is passed. We see in nature the mountains, the rocks, the rivers. They are perma nent. We face a condition in which the most precious thing of all—life— is ever in danger of extinction. It is the preservation of this most precious thing that should be the source of thought and study by those who live in the marriage relation. The blessed felicity of marriage is a result, not the motive, of marriage.” “Is the ignorance with which young people approach marriage due to a lack of frankness on the part of the parents?” “I would hardly say that,” Prof. Ad ler replied. “A New England woman asked me recently whether she should tell her young daughter everything about married life before her wed ding. “I was of the opinion that it would not be for the best. The mother CP fti/SAX /F/nwtY^-1^ aw roMMW/jfCO/KlMY, AND CAT A D/WACT rmDfi.SroMmr /m wr/rr//o/f£ the sins and crimes and sensational events? .The pessimistic view of life always reminds me of the story of a boy from a country town, who was brought to New York by his father on his first visit. “ 'Well, what do you think of It?’ •asked the father when the trip had ended. “The boy was clearly disappointed. ‘All the people are lame,’ he replied. “Some questioning was required to find out exactly what the boy meant. It appeared that there was a lame should tell her daughter certain things, but if she learned everything there would be danger'that the bald ness of the narrative would neutralize the beneficial object of the lesson. The time would come in the young wife’s life when she would give seri ous thought to the question. At such a time, other elements of married life —of affection, pride, loyalty, and the like—would enter into her considera tion of the subject and help her to a sensible conclusion.” The tools of the excavators were highly inefficient for these difficulties, so the sunken forests were sublimely disregarded and banks after the fash ion of levees of the Mississippi were built up on either side for several miles. Tools, spades and wheelbarrows, plus energetic men, did the labor on the canal, but time flew by on wings. In comparison with this venture the Panama canal of to-day is no more prodigious. The successive builders of the canal did not finish their work until the nineteenth century was in its infancy. Washington’s ditch is still visible, and Jericho canal 1b there—the canal which was dug for the purpose of floating timber out of the swamp. The swamp is largely covered with juniper timber, by which the waters are strongly impregnated with medi cinal qualities. Peaty formation is definite; in places vegetables mold exists from 10 to 15 feet deep. Occa sionally fires break out in the swamp. If the season be unusually rainless the water recedes from the surface leaving it dry to a denth of three or * i four feet and a fine temptation for a conflagration. The fires then bum into the peaty mass slowly for weeks and weeks, until at last the heavy rains of the wet season come and quench the smoldering mass and re store the water to the surface again. The theory of a fire origin is given for the presence of Lake Drummond, an expanse of clear water in the heart of the swamp. It is thought by many students of the region that a fire of unusual length and severity during the dry season formed there a basin several feet in depth, which when the rains fell again filled up and became a lake. The canal has been a great commer cial benefit to the Dismal Swamp, be cause it has done the work of a drain age system. In the days of the colon ists the swamp was infinitely more marshlike than at present, but with the completion of the canal it was ob served that large areas of morass be came traversable for pedestrians. To-day an extensive portion is used for agricultural purposes. In the North Carolina section a large sheep ranch thrives. They sat on opposite seats, the young man with his back to the loco r.ive, the young woman, of course, facing it. He was reading a news paper; a book lay open in her lap, but she was looking out at the land scape with much interest. After a little while the man yawned. ‘‘I’m going back into the smoking com partment,” he announced. ' “All right,” said the young woman, ■ and she too yawned, quite extensively, though more delicately, than her hus band, and resumed her inspection of the landscape as he sauntered away. In a few- minutes she turned to her book and read several pages with an air of great absorption, after which she began to flutter the leaves. She hardly looked up from this occupa tion when the man returned, and, seating himself, picked up his paper. “You remember when we were in the White mountains two years ago?” he said. “Yes.” “This scenery reminds me of it.” “It is something like it.” “I wonder what the cook will have for dinner when we get home. Do you know I hardly think she's as good as she used to be. What do you think?” “Perhaps not quite so good when she first came to us,” said the young woman. “But my! She is so much better than the others were.’* The man had a fit of coughing and his wife patted him on the back. “You must do something for that cough, Richard.” “I must,” agreed the man, wiping ilia c*ca. “You haven't had such a cough as. that since we've been married." “I don't remember that I have.” The mau sitting in the next section began to cough and the couple looked apprehensively at each other. The woman lifted her eyebrows; the man shook his head. “Certainly not,” he said. “No earthly reason. Are you cold?” "I think, perhaps, that window—” The man reached across her to lower it. “Excuse me,” he said. The woman smiled and inclined her head. “Let me put that wrap around you,” he said, solicitously. She frowned at him. “Or you'll be catching cold and I'll have another doctor bill to pay for you,” he continued, rather brutally. ‘‘I’m not at all cold,” said the young woman, with some asperity. “I wish you wouldn’t fuss so much. “I wouldn’t if you weren't always so careless," the man retorted. “Well, never mind." “I believe I’d be more comfortable on your seat,” said the man in a little while. "“Would I disturb you?” “Not at all,” answered the young woman, moving her skirts to make room for him. "Oh!” "What's the matter?” “Nothing. Please don’t.’* The man whispered. “I'm sure they will—if they don't already.” The person in the section behind rose and walked in the direction of the smoking room. “Good enough," said the man, with an air of relief. "I thought we never would get a minute. Don't you think I’ve doing pretty well?” "Don’t you think I have?" “I should say so. Didn't we man age beautifully and don't you think there was a sick crowd at the other station? I had James take all those old trunks and check ’em in the bag gage room and told him to go around this evening and haul them all back again. I'll bet you anything you like that those Indians bribed the baggage man and broke in and placarded and desecrated them from stem to stern. Oh, it was a good one on them all right.” “Wasn’t it!” "How are you enjoying the journey, VIrs. Parkinson?" “Dick, doesn't it seem strange? I can’t realize it at all. Can you? Mrs. Parkinson!” “If you don't like the name it’s too 1 late to change it now.” "I—Dick, straighten up, quick! They’re watching us across the aisle. [ feel sure they saw you then, and if they did—” “They didn't.” “I wonder if they—Dick, are you quite, perfectly sure that there wasn’t anybody at the station we knew? That porter’s talking to those people there. I feel sure it's about us, and—dearest, won’t you go out into the baggage car and look at our trunks just to make sure?” “I will, of course, if you say so,” said the man, "but I’m quite sure it’s all right and nobody has the least sus picion.” He rose reluctantly and went away. When he returned the young wom an's face was suffused with color. “It’s all right,” said the man. “Dick, it isn’t,” returned the young woman. ‘They know. After you were gone they whispered and laughed and I distinctly heard somebody say, B. and G.’” 'I declare!” exclaimed the man. “Now, how do you suppose they ever got on to that?"—Chicago Daily News. The Two Sides. Old Brother Tremby—“Yessah, I se gwine to git mar'd. Yo’ see I s an old man now and I kain’t spect to linger yuh much longer, and when de end comes I wants to have some one to close mah eyes.” Brother Brownback—“Dat’s all right Bah. I ’plauds yo’ zeal, but I dunnab so much about yo’ judgment. Dis yuh lady will be yo’ fifth wife, won’t she? Well-uh, I isn't had but two, muhse'f, but bofe o’ dem done opened muh eyes—yassah. dey done opened ’em good and plenty!”—Puck. The Mode. “Johnny has got the political job he was after and he’s kicking all the time. What do ts he want, anyway?’ “A bigger on », of course.”—Detroit Free Press. A New Sleeping Car Story. Among the railroad visitors in town ,'esterday was F. A. Miller, general jassenger agent of the Chicago, Mil vaukee & St. Paul Railway. He vis ted all of the general offices in town md at the Holienden Hotel yesterday old a story of one of the sleeping car jorters who was recently found ■sleep while on duty. This is con .rary to the rules of The SL Paul load, and the negro man was in .rouble when found by the inspector m The Pioneer Limited. He had his vits about him. however, and in re iponse to the inspector’s inquiry as |p what he was doing asleep, he said: “I’ll tell you how it was, boss. I lave only been with the company a ihort time and before coming here i was working on such and such a ailroad. The line was so rough that I could not get any sleep. Since I lave been working for the The S*. 3aul the road has been so smooth that I just could not keep awake " Mr. Miller says that while the ne jro had violated the rules, he was permitted to keep his job on account if his wit.—Cleveland Leader. A woman’s idea of a perfect gen deman is any man who agrees with her. Lewis’ Single Binder straight 5c cijpir. Made of extra quality tobacco. \ our Jealcr or Lewis’ Factory, Peoria, 111. Rich Prize for Scientists. The person who discovers a method if communication between planets will receive $20,000 from the French Acad emy of Science. Young Man Extensive Traveler. Lord Ronaldshay, though only thirty years of age, probably has done more traveling for his age than any man living. Few people know more than he about the Himalayas and Per sia. He has also found time to ex plore Kashmir, Baluchistan, Ladak. Thibet and the Persian gulf, to a»y nothing of Ceylon. Rifle Shooting in Schools. Rifle shooting will hereafter be in cluded in the curriculum of the ele mentary schools of Great Britain. Mr Birrell, the president of the board of education, who made the announce ment in the House of Commons, said that the educational authorities had been given permission under certain restrictions, to allow children of cer tain ages to be taught to shoot at miniature ranges, the instruction to be paid out of the public funds. Museum Gets Fine Pulpit. King Friederich August of Saxony has given to the Germanic museum at Harvard a full-size reproduction of the sandstone pulpit of the Church of Wechselburg, near Leipsic. This gift is regarded as the most important made to the museum since the fine collection of casts was sent by the German emperor. The pulpit be longs to the beginning of the thir teenth century, and is a massive struc ture, 15 feet high, resting on Roman esque columns. inearthing the Briber. During a recent campaign in Eng land a certain woman called on a la borer’s wife and asked if her husband would vote for Lord Blank. "No, be won’t,” was the reply. "But, remem ber the blankets and coals you get from the clergyman.” "Never mind them. He’s been promised a new p'air of trousers if he votes for Mr. Dash.” Suspecting that this was a case of bribery that must be outdone, the woman canvasser offered a sovereign if the woman would tell her who had promised the trousers. The money paid over, the woman smiled. ”1 promised them,” she said, ’ and I’ll buy them out of your sovereign.” WoSd at Eight Dollars a Pound. “French walnut is the finest wood we have,” said the cabinet-nicker. “It comes from Persia, but it is prepared in France. I have seen French wal nut worth |8 a pound, and it is a com mon thing to pay $2 a pound for it. Of course it is used principally for Veneering. Only millionaires could have chairs and tables of solid French walnut. "Mahogany, wonderful as it is. rarely fetches such high prices. From $2 to $3 is a very good price per pound for this wood. “Ebony, if it is in a particularly large piece, so that it will cut well, will often bring $5 a pound in the wood market.” NO MEDICINE. But Change of Food Gave Final Relief. Most diseases start in the aliment ary canal—stomach and bowels. A great deal of our stomach and bowel troubles come from eating too much starchy and greasy food. The stomach does not digest any of the starchy food we eat—white bread. , pastry, potatoes, oats. etc.—these things are digested in the small intes tines, and if we eat too much, as moat of us do, the organs that should di gest this kind of food are overcome by excess of work, so that fermenta tion, indigestion, and a long train of ails result. Too much fat also is hard to digest, and this is changed into acids, sour stomach, belching gas, and a bloaty, heavy feeling. In these conditions a change from indigestible foods to Grape-Nuts will work wonders in not only relieving the distress but in building up a strong digestion, clear brain an-3 steady nerves. A Wash, woman writes: "About five years ago I suffered with bad stomach—dyspepsia, indigestion, constipation—caused, I know now, from eating starchy and greasy food “I doctored for two years without any benefit The doctor told me there was no cure' for me. I could not eat anything without suffering severe pain in my back and sides, and I be came discouraged. "A friend recommended Grape-Nuts and I began to use it. In less than two weeks I began to feel better, and Inside of two months I was a welt woman and have been ever since. “I can eat anything I wish with pleasure. We eat Grape-Nuts and cream for breakfast and are very fond of it.” Name given by Postuni Co., Battle Creek, Mich. Read the little book, "The Road to Wellvtlle,” in nkn. "There’s a reason.”