FROM SUNNY ORANGE GROVES. The Twice-Told Experience of a San Bernardino, Calif., Man. From Sunny San Bernardino, in the midst of orange groves, writes Lionel -- M Hpntli rtf 1 r:o Eighth Street; "For fifteen years I suf fered with pains in my back, frequent calls to pass the se cretions, dropsy, rheu matic aches and other symptoms of kidney trouble 1 rnnlrt «rpt no relief until I used Doan's Kidney Pills. They cured me five years ago. and this is twice I have publicly said so. The cure was thorough." Sold by all dealers. 50 cents a box. Foster-Milburn Co., Buffalo, N. Y. PERHAPS A NATURAL MISTAKE. Physician Had Reason to Think He Had Lost His Patient. Henry Grimm, who was formerly one of the prominent members of the German-American society, tells a story about a German friend of his who was taken ill. For many days the German was close to death, but after a time he showed improvement in condition. The doctor told the German's wife that ner husband might have any thing to eat that he liked. The German expressed a desire for Limburger cheese, and the wife, being a generous woman and pleased at the improvement, and in order that her husband might have a nibble at any time he had a taste for it, put some cheese in every room in the house. It is easy to imagine the aroma. The next morning the doctor called at the house, and as soon as he opened the door he asked: ‘ When did he die?”—Hartford Post. HE COULD BE TRUSTED. Youngster “Made Good” Before Temp tation Was Put in His Way. A train from "the north pulled into the station at Charlottesville. Ya. An elderly man thrust his head out of a ■w indow of a day coach and summoned a little colored boy. The following col loquy ensued: “Little boy, have you a mother?” “Yassuh.” “Are you faithful to your studies?” “Yassuh.” “Do you go to Sunday school?” “Yassuh.” “Do you say your prayers every night?” “Yassuh.” “Can I trust you to do an errand for me?” “Yassuh.” “Well, here's five cents to get me a coirple of apples."—Success Maga zine. Losing a Tenant. A landlord in the Highlands of Scot land had a “crofter” tenant, who paid him ten shillings a year as rent for the little farm. At the end of the second year the tenant came to the landlord and said that he was not able to pay more than five shillings a year, as crops had been poor. The landlord agreed to this. At the end of the third year the tenant appeared before the landlord again and complained that things were going so poorly with him that he was not able to pay any rent. The landlord agreed to let him remain rent free. At the end of the fourth (year the tenant once more appeared before the landlord, and said: “Colonel, if you don’t build me a bam I’ll have to move.” John D.’s Eagle Stone. John D. Rockefeller pretends that he is net and never was superstitious; still he carries in his pocket an eagle stone. It is a perforated stone of great : antiquity, found in an eagle's nest, and is supposed to be a charm against I disease, shipwreck and other dis ‘ asters. It is of a brownish tint and about the size of a pigeon egg. When shaken it rattles as if another stone were inclosed within it. A ribbon 1 passed through the perforation is said to possess more virtues than even ■ John D. himself. When the old gentie fman wants to confer a particular favor upon some one he gives a few inches of this ribbon.—New York Press. The Thunder Cloud. Rt. Rev. Chauncey B. Brewster, , D. D., bishop of Connecticut, told an interesting story not long ago of a fc colored clergyman, who was far from being a brilliant preacher, and had the habit, when exhorting his breth ren, of shouting in a very loud tone of voice. The bishop thought he reprove him, so suggested kindly that perhaps his sermons would have as good an effect if delivered more soft Aly. But the colored minister replied: "Well, you see, it's this way, bishop, I has to make up in thunder what I lacks in lightning.”—Harper’s Weekly. No Trouble to Shew Goods. Old Gentleman (to beggar)—Wbat do you do for a living? Beggar—I make post holes, sir. Old Gentleman (absent-mindedly)— Yes? Well, I never give charity; bring me along any you have on hand and I'll bny them from you. Who Likes Lemon Pie? You should try at once "OUR-PIE" Preparation for delicious Lemon pies. A lady says: "I will never again try to make Lemon pie in the old way while I can get 'Ot'K-PIE' Preparation” Try it and you will say the same. At grocers. 10 cents. "Put up by D-Zerta Co., Rochester, N.Y.” Didn’t Want to Pay More. “You are fined ten dollars for con tempt of court.” “I'm glad, judge, that this is not a higher court.”—Harper’s Wtekly. It Cures While You Walk. Allen s Foot-Ease is a certain cure for hot, sweating, callous, and swollen, aching feet. Sold by all Druggists. Price 25c. Don't accept any substitute. Trial package FRftE. Address Allen S. Olmsted, Le Roy. N. Y. There is no evil that we cannot either face or fly from but the con sciousness cf duty disregarded.—Dan iel Webster. Lewis' Single Binder straight 5c. You pay 10c for cigars not so good. Your deal er or Lewis' Factory, Peoria, 111. Power, be It ever so great, has not half the might of gentleness.—Hunt. ODDITIES IN SHANGHAI When I first arrived in Shanghai it was something of a shock to hear our honorable consul general say to the boy when sending upstairs for a friend to come down to my room, “Boy, go topside, look-see can ketcbee Mr. M. Sposie have got, teilee come down I side.” to which the boy answered as ; seriously, "Can do," and disappeared. A story is told in Shanghai of a Rus ' sian diplomat who fell in love with a ! charming German lady. I'nfortunate ! ly neither could speak the other's lan guage and were a; a standstill as to ] how they were going to conduct the I love-making. They could both talk ! pigeon English, however, and fell back ! on that. When anyone in China makes I a contract they say "Can putee in book,” so the Russian, looking unutter ! able love at his fair lady, cooed soft I ly. "Mv likee you—sposee you likee | my. can putee in book?" To which she J shyly answered, "Can do," and they j were married. 1 found that in point of advancement j in the drama the Chinese could not be compared with the Japanese. The stage is merely a raised plat form with a row of gas lights across the front, each little jet blinking for lornly at the toi> of a piece of pipe that sticks bravely up for four or five inches. Another row of lights is over the stage, and at the back two cur tained doorways complete the entire stage arrangements. The play begins at seven, and short ly after that time the tables on the ground floor are fully occupied by Chi nese sipping the tea that is an inevi table part of every entertainment, so cial call or business meeting. One dollar. Mexican, pays the en trance fee. entitles one to a place at ! one of the tables, a program and tea all the evening. Extra refreshments, ; such as fruit, nuts, sweets and the enter, and painted and gorgeously) robed actors are shrieking (apparent ly out of the top of their heads) in falsetto voices. The. progress of the play is highly amusing to a foreigner, for. there be ing no curtain, the action is never in terrupted even though the stage hands are on the stage quite as much as the actors. This seems at first rather a useless performance, but after awhile one rea lizes that if an actor didn't give some idea of who he was, and what he in tended to do, it would be difficult to pick him out and follow his perform ance amid the confusion and bustle of stage hands arranging or removing properties and make-believe scenic effects. Though there is no scenery there are crude attempts at properties. For instance, a piece of muslin laid down . to represent a river; a curtain hung j from two bamboo poles held by i coolies is a temple gate; draped chairs and tables are rocks and mountains, and a boat is made of two chairs with a jiit of cloth stretched between. When an actor is supposed to enter on horseback lie prances in. curvet ting handsomely. The whole perform ance is singularly reminiscent of child ish days, when '‘let's pretend" turned everything to exciting realities. When the actor has informed the audience what he is going to do be. retires, and then makes his proper en trance, going through all the details as he has promised them. As he climbs , over the mountains, or gets out of his boat, the stage hands quickly remove them. or. should he enter the temple . gate, it immediately walks off. for its usefulness is over, and it must give way to the next scenic representation, i which will be arranged as the need for it arises. When an actor dies or is slain in i combat he has a most impressive death scene, wriggling aii over the stage. 1o the great delight of the audi ence, who do not seem to perceive any incongruity when lie gets up, after he is thoroughly dead, even to the last little shiver, and calmly walks off. The actors either wear masks of painted silk or gauze, or else paint their own faces with water colors and a brush until all semblance of a ku man face is obliterated. There are no actresses, men assum ing every part. When they make up for women they wear wigs and put blocks of wood under their feet to counterfeit the proper walk of ladies swaying along on their “Golden Lillies," as tht Chinese admiringly style the dreadful little hoof-like feet a Chinese womai spends years of torture in obtaining. There are numerous traveling theatrical companies in China, and ;these generally pitch their tents in the temple courts, thus affording the pea PEOPLE SIT BY THE RAILING WHICH IS BROADENED OUT INTO A SORT OF TABLE. ubiquitous melon seed, are charged at 1 the rate of 20 cents a bowl. The attendants who keep renewing the tea cups do so by adding hot wa ter, never more tea, but the pinch of tea leaves in the bottom of each cup seem to possess wonderful powers of endurance. In the balcony, that contains the best seats, for which extra charge is made, people sit by the railing, which is broadened out into a sort of table. On this they lean, and place their tea and refreshments. The waiters walk about on a narrow platform outside of the balcony rail, dispensing the hot water and eatables, occasionally passing around napkins scalding hot with steam, that are con sidered very refreshing for wiping the hands and face. . Chinamen and their wives attend the theater together, the only public I .. pie opportunity to kill two birds with one stone and combine amusement with religion. If one can endure a Chinese theater until the end of the performance, the deafening orchestra, and the falsetto voices, he will find that two ushers come to the front of the stage and an nounce that the play is finished. Chi nese plays never end in any culminat ing climax, indicating to the people I that all is ended, so this announce- S nient is really necessary. The plays generally abound in pre- i posterous heroes and characters, j though occasionally a scene of home life will be represented, giving a for eigner an insight into customs, abso- j lutely unattainable in any other way. But with their faces painted out of all human semblance: their exaggerat ed and unnatural voices, walk and manner, together with a constant jum- ; ble of properties and stage hands, with their feeble make-believes, com bine in producing a mo#: amusing and absurd ensemble. We were not altogether sorry that we had endured unto the end. though j the boredom was beyond anything I can remember. We kept our seats ! mentally classing ourselves with thd j caller who. with a winning smile, said ! to the little girl who occupied the j study while her father, an eminent lit erary man. was at dinner: "I suppose, my dear, that you assist your papa by entertaining the bores?” “Yes. sir." replied the little girl, gravely, “please be seated." I know of only one thing in China that is funnier, and that is a practice drill of soldiers, which may actually be seen within 200 miles of Shanghai. Here they use weapons of a pattern as ancient as the first Crusaders, spears with triple points and battle axes on long poles. A row of soldiers armed with these antique curios stand behind a row squatting on their heels and armed with rifles of the vintage of the American civil war. in front, of these a third row of men lie flat like sharpshooters, also armed with the same venerable firearms. When the word of command is given they “make ready” and “take aim," but at the word “fire!” not a trigger is pulled, each man says “boom!” with that sublime indiffer ence to the ridiculous and childlike faith in make-believe that distin guishes the theaters. When an officer was asked why such a performance was allowed he said it kept the men busy and under discipline and didn’t waste powder. To see a whole company of men go through this absurd performance again and again as soberly and con scientiously as if really shooting is the most, excruciatingly funny thing to be seen in China, compared to which the theater is a poor second. He Prances in Curvetting Handsomely. place where a man is seen with his wife. She is always spoken of by him as "my little stay-at-home." when he doesn't politely refer to her as “my dull thorn" or "my stupid one.” 1 saw one Chinese lady, richly dressed and thickly painted, sitting de murely beside her imposing looking husband. She was smoking a beauti ful gold water pipe that my Chinese friend assured me cost no less than $300 in gold, or nearly $600 Mexican. A strange distinction is made by serving with special cups women who are notorious. The attendants are supposed to know them all, and when they come in attended by their Chi nese gallants, instead of receiving their tea In the flowered cups that everyone else has. they are served in cups of plain green china. The clay is well under way when we PROPER POISES Refined, Healthful Manner of Walking. Bad Position for Walking. As a rule women do not enjoy walk ing, and in consequence they deny themselves exercise and fresh air. It is not always a lack of strength of the leg muscles, nor is it a luck of time that makes women shrink from long walks. In most cases the trouble can be traced to a lack of knowledge cf body carriage. In some cases it is ill-feting shoes. Get a shoe to St your foot. Don't fit your foot to the shoe! In selecting footwear for street, se cure that which will enable you to walk with comfort—no sloping heeis, nor thin soles. Neither must they be too large. The following exercises and sugges tions will aid in attaining a proper body poise for walking as well as strengthening the leg muscles. In illustration No. 1 we have the proper poise of the body for rapid walking for health exercise. Th‘ head should be held well erect, but the chin should not project. Th; nock should remain free tiom tension. To walk correctly the most impor tant point to observe is the elevation ef the chest. It is not necessary to pay especial attention to throwing the shoulders bael;—many carry this to extreme—simply lift jour chest and leave your shoulders alone; they will take care of themselves. In lifting the chest to the utmost the lungs ac quire their full capacity. In regard to the capacity of the lungs, a fi w suggestions concerning the manner of breathing would be timely. The breath should never be taken with a gasp, but should be full ami deep; in so doing the movements of the muscles can be felt just below the stomach, which demonstrates that when starting out for a walk the clothing should be loose, allowing free play of the abdominal and waist muscles. Many people use the upper part of the lungs only, which is the cause of many ills. In walking, the anps should swing easily from the shoulders, hanging lifeless at the sides, and not bending a; the elbow (see illustration No. 1): and. above all. net held tightly, with elbows pressed against the sides or thrust back of the body. Illustration No. 2 shows the posi tion many slow walkers assume, es pecially if deeply engrossed in thought. This is a wrong position at any time, for when the head is held forward so constantly it is almost impossible to straighten it. and a stoop-shouldered aj | earanee is the result, the breath ing is interfered with, and may result in other complications. Cine should remember that when wall.mg for exercise, all concentration of thought and care should be thrown aside and the head held erect to en joy the beauty of nature, for variety of thought is as necessary as variety of motion. DESIGNS IN PLACE CARDS. Decorative Effects for Luncheon and Dinner Parties. Decorative place cards for lunch eons and dinners have never been of fered in greater variety. Standing cards outnumber cards designed to lie flat upon the tablecloth. A new French device in metal comes for hold ing the cards erect. Among the most popular of the standing cards are those representing young women and men cut out in pa per doll fashion and tinted in water color. A Gibson girl holding a long flower box in her arms is one of the new cards. Watteau and colonial figures pre dominate. Dancing figures and young girls dressed as flowers make a favor ite theme. For a dinner to be followed by bridge there come kings and queens sketched from playing cards. Hand-painted Japanese place cards are a novelty. Sets of cards show Japanese landscapes. These scene cards arc comparatively inexpensive. Each one is a finished picture. Flour Sack Center Piece. Take a flour sack, large or snqall, and be careful in ripping so as not to tear it. Make one row of hemstitch ing an inch wide, allowing a hem two inches wide. If more rows of hem stitching are made the centerpiece will be more attractive. Go over this hemstitching and finish it with the three thread stitch. In the corner arc spaces left by the hem-stitching, and it is best to fill them, so they will not be so hare. In order to f.il them make a spider web in each one of these spaces. If wanted you can stitch some fancy work in the center. This makes a pretty and attractive center niece costing nothing but the work, it also launders nicely. A New Mascot. A new mascot ring has just been in troduced. It is a bar of gold in which is set the tooth of a wolf or that oT a badger, which, when highly polished, looks like a piece of ivory or white coral. It is a very old superstition that connects the wearing of an ani mal's tooth writh immunity from bad luck, and the newly revived talisman will take its place among the various other mascots already worn with a his torical reputation in its favor. Walking Dress in Brown and Checked Linen. FINE TUCKED MALINE NET. _ Material Is Largely Taking Piace of Lace and Chiffon. For yokes, collars and cuffs fine tucked maline net is now used to no small extent, and even threatens to temporarily take the place of silk lace 1 and chiffon in yokes and separate j guirapes. This net Is, of course, tin- ! usually fine and cheap, so that it is de- I lightfully cool to wear, besides from ; an economical standpoint being a great i advantage in that it can be replaced I whenever soiled at far less expense : than when a costly lace yoke must be , replenished. A lining of chiffon and ; mousseline de soie is necessary in this j thin net yoke and collar in order to i keep the soft net from pulling out of shape and tearing There is really an astonishingly small amount of lace employed on many of the waists and gowns that are now made up for morning and afternoon wear, although, of course. ; lace trimming is required in almost any evening model for dinner, hall or theater. A deep cape of lace, falling from the shoulder well dow'n over the I net sleeve, is often used on a gown that has no other lace trimming of any kind, and for this purpose a fairly heavy point de venise is most popular. Indeed, the lace that is altogether the most fashionable at the moment is this point de venise, even the long i»opu lar baby Irish being forced to waive its claims to first place. Of French Nainsook. Many attractive night dresses are modeled over empire and kimono lines. A pretty night dress designed by a bride-to-be is made from five yards of French nainsook. It is made with a deep yoke laid in fine handrun tucks through which zigzags of Ger man Valenciennes extended, forming double points in the center. Three lines of insertion are used. Trimming*. Soutache braid as a trimming is coming back to the greatest populari ty, while gold braid, so much used last fall, is still being used on the newest dresses. Ordinary lace, such as Valen ciennes, or mechlin, is now run with gold or silver threads or adorned with fancy stitches. THE CALL OF THE SOIL DAYS OF FINANCIAL STRESS MAKE FARM LANDS LOOK RICH. A staff contributor of a southern newspaper has taken up the question of the return to the farm of many who i had forsaken it for the glitter of the city. He says: "It is a weli known fact that the history of this Govern ment shows that those men who have been most successful in life and who have left their impress upon its peo ple and its institutions as statesmen, soldiers, financiers—have as a rule been those whose youth was spent on the farm, and it is to such as these that there conies with overmastering power THE CALL OF THE SOIL. More especially does it come with re doubled persuasiveness, greater pow er and sweeter pleading to the man of affairs when the clouds of financial unrest begin to darken the sky; when the cry of panic causes people to los* their wits and act like stampeded cat tle; when with reason or without reason there arises before him the specter of ruin, grinning in his face and waving its gaunt arms in threat ening gesticulation. The pitiable state into which some men were brought by the recent finan cial flurry, which happily is now passed, suggests these reflections. Some were ruined and a very few be came insane because of their losses. Two or three took their own lives. It is when such times come that the statesman, the great financier, and the man of affairs becomes tired of the struggle. He lays down his pen. turns from his desk and listens to the CALL OF THE SOIL. There are hundreds of cases throughout the Vnited States of those who have money in the hanks and are looking for investment in lands. Xo investment is better or safer. Take, for instance, the lands in Western Can ada that can be bought at from $10 to $15 per acre which yield a. revenue equal to and often greater than their original cost. Those lands make a certain investment. During the past two months large investments in these lands have been made, some in tending to use the lands for farming purposes of their own. Others to re sell to farmer friends. The agents of the Government of Canada located at different points throughout the t'nited States have in their possession par ticulars of districts in which there are free homestead grants of 1G0 acres each accessible to railways, markets, schools, churches, &c. These are val uable lands. These agents will be pleased to give information to any de sirous of securing, and wilt tell all about the railway rates, &c. Very True. The Best Friend—I hear her old husband shows her a dog-like devo tion. The Casual Gossip—Yes. they say he is always growling at her. Garfield Tea. the herb medicine, in sures a healthy action of liver, knincjs. stomach and bowels. Take it ior consti pation and sick-headache. Write Garfield Tea Co., Brooklyn. X. Y.. for tree samples. Political Mass Meetings Forbidden. China strictly prohibits the holding of mass meetings for political purposes in all parts of the empire. Lewis’ Single Binder Cigar has a rich taste. Your dealer or Lewis' Factory, Peoria, 111. Hope, without action, is a sad un doer.—Feltham. Mr*. 'Winslow's Soothing- 8jmp. For children teething, soften* the gurus. reduce* In flammation, allays pain, cares wind collu 25c a bottle. True valor is the basis of alL— Carlyle. This sign is permanently attached to the front of the main building of the Lydia E. Pinkham Medicine Company, Lynn. Mass. Wlmt Does This Sign 3Iean ? It means that public inspection of the Laboratory and methods of doing business is honestly desired. It means that there is nothing about the bus iness which is not “open and above board.” It means that a permanent invita tion is extended to anyone to come and verify any and all statements made in the advertisements of Lydia E. Iffnkkam's Vegetable Compound. Is it a purely vegetable compound made from roots and herbs — with out drugs ? Come and See. L>o the women of America continu ally use as much cf it as we are told 'i Come and See. Was there ever such a person as Lydia E. 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