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(Copyright 1908, by Byron Williams.) Intuitions. No woman can be expected to talk her best when she is undressing the baby and has her mouth full of safety pins. ☆ ☆ The small boy who was raised in the country and wore a flour-sack shirt with the brand “XXX" in the back, makes the silk-slflrted city fel low go some when they meet on the highway of life. i? <r ☆ Every man is somebody's boy and somebody, somewhere, loves him. It may be a mother, a father, a brother— or it may be only the grav-haired vet eran who used to go fishing with him when they were boys, but somewhere there is someone who has not forgot ten, who will never forget. © C O Hi. in Town. Hi Hinckley would not like to live Within the city's broad domain. He sez the restaurants they have Clive 1dm an awful Inward pain. They charged him 40 cents for beef And ten for coffee—pulled his leg— And kept the doggone knives so sharp He cut his mouth while eating egg! o o o Tickle Grass. A “cutaway” suit. ☆ ☆ ☆ Senator Platt should go 'to Kansas, where there are few woods and no May Wood. ☆ -fr ☆ Hone to the average man is what cake is to Willie on the night of sis ter's wedding. it tr it The man who has nothing to strive for will do little striving. Incentive makes the world’s progress. ☆ * -fr There is talk of a milliners' strike in Chicago. Mercy, no. no! Why, only nine-tenths of the feminine popu lation have their merry widow hats yet! ☆ ☆ ☆ An Iowa girl asked her beau if he heard their train coming. "I am a •freight' not.” he replied, and now she won't speak to him. She says a man that will get off a pun like that isn't, to be trusted. o o o Longing. A hoy and a dog—they are chums today— .And always, forever, no matter the way. The boy will remember the dog he had And wish for him back that he may be glad! In Jovial Mood. The discouraged man is not worth his salt in any field of labor. ☆ * ☆ A fireman's hose usually is white, hut it is seldom drop-stitched. ☆ * * Sin may pay as a one night engage ment, but in the long run it closes the theater. Though we have progressed in the science of light since Diogenes searched with his lantern for an hon est man. it is almost as hard to find this paragon now as the old philoso pher found it to he then.’ It is meet therefore, that when we find an hon est man, we should revere him. The world to-day is suffering for hottest men. The young man who builds his success upon honor and honesty, will find a useful and a busy career awaits him. O O © Opinions. His folks said he was too good To marry Miss Sophrina Pratt. Her folks gasped. "Ain’t tt a sham* To throw herself away like that?" Hut the people of the town They laugh* d and shook their heads "Ahem. 'Twouid he a crying shame, too bad. To spoil two families with them"’ o o o Not Always. A mother should remember, though the knowledge makes her sad. That sometimes it is not only the neigh bor’s boy that’s bad! \JL!UsxXai4 Why Men Refuse to Teach. The teacher may have a personality that commands respect in spite of his calling, but outside of his especial work he is regarded by business men slightingly as an improvident vision ary.—Educational Review. One Original Saxon Crypt. The only complete and unaltered Saxon crypt in Great Britain is that at Hexham abbey, it being built wholly of Roman stones, there being also many Saxon stones imbedded in the new walls of the building. Real Cross CouivrmRw REMARKABLE NEW'YOM - CHICAGO RELAY RACE BY YM.CA.BOY3. PA661NG THE MZ36AGX Si One of the most interesting and unique athletic events of the summer will he the 1.000-mile cross-country re lay race which is to be pulled off by the Y. M. C. A. boys between New York city in the east and Chicago in the west. Two thousand trained, fleet footed runners each in turn catching on the fly the message sent by Mayor McClellan of the eastern city and speeding it on its westward journey. The entrants for the race hate been carefully selected from the fleetest gymnasiums of t he Young Men's Chris tian associations of New York and Chicago, and by those of the numerous other branches of the association which line the 1.000-mile route. It will be a race against time, a con test between the flying feet of the young athletes and the fugitive hours. But although the race is against time there will be the zest of keen rivalry to spur the racers on. An automobile carrying official timekepers will follow the racers over the entire route, mak ing careful record of the speed of each relay. Besides this individual rivalry there is the rivalry of the numerous associations, each hoping that as a body its champions will show a higher average than the others. The direct mail route to Chicago is BOO miles. The more winding highways that the boys will traverse is estimated at 1 000 miles. There will be nearly 2.000 boys in the race, and it is expect ed that it will be run well within five days. The start will he made from the city hall of New York at nine o'clock on the morning of July 15. There the speediest runner of the Twenty-third street branch of the Young Men's Christian association will receive from Mayor McClellan a message addressed to Mayor Busse of Chicago. The mes sage will be inclosed in a silver tube The starter will give the signal, and the youth will sprint up Broadway, fol lowed by the automobile which is to accompany the racers to Chicago. The route will be up Broadway, and at a half-mile from the starting point the bearer of the silver tube will toss it to the fleet-footed youngster await ing him there, and he in turn will set a flying pace to the nest half-mile point where another eager youth will snatch the tube and after his half-mile race will pass it to the next in the re lay line. So it will go day and night until the tube, which by the time it has reached Chicago will have passed through nearly 2.000 hands, is deliv ered to the mayor of that city. “Owing to the continuous course of training which our boys undergo," said Mr. A. A. Jameson, boys' work director of the Twenty-third street branch of the Young Men's Christian association, New York city, "it would be quite pos sible for us to pull this race off in a week. We have extended the time of the start, however, because of neces sary road arrangments and the ap pointment of district superintendents. Our tryouts have revealed the fact that the boys' average speed is about 2.48 for every half mile. Making al lowances for possible bad weather and poor roads, it is expected that the av erage speed of the race of 1.000 miles or more will be about a mile in eight minutes. When you come to consider that the age limit of the contestants is 18 years, and as the majority of these will not be over 15 years old, the plan becomes a significant test in ath letics. The time I have mentioned will undoubtedly be improved, and by rough calculation we assume that the race w-ill be run in five days. The first part of the race will be from city hay. New York city, to city hall, Yonk ers. a boy being stationed at that dis lance for every half mile. We average a distance from New Y'ork to Yonkers at 18 miles, which will be covered by 25 or 30 of our New Y'ork city boys. "The schedule of our course from New Y'ork to Buffalo will be as fol lows: New Y'ork to Y’onkers. Ossining, Newburg, Poughkeepsie, Rhinebeck, Catskill. Hudson, Albany, Troy, Schen ectady, Johnstown, Little Falls. Utica, Rome. Syracuse. Auburn. Geneva, Ca nandaigua, Rochester, Batavia. Buffa lo. The western division of the race will be in charge of Mr. M. D. Crackel. director of the West Side Boys’ club of the Young Men's Christian association of Cleveland. O., who will direct the course trom his town to tne city hail in Chicago. Mr. Crackel deserve^ the credit of being the originator of this plan, as the outcome of the cross-coun try race he organized among his boys from Cleveland to Erie. Each boy will wear the athletic dress of the Young Men's Christian association, and will stand ready at his post to take the message from the hand of the boy who has just finished his half mile and dart off with it at full speed. An automobile will accompany each run ner with an official timekeeper, who will register his time. In this automo bile there will also be a relief runner, who in case of accident will jump out ONE OF THE TWO THOUSAND' and carry the message at top speed. We have tried to figure out all ob stacles tnat might prevent a complete success of this race as a test trial of speed against time. We choose the week of July 15 in the hope that we shall have moonlight nights to help the boys along on their night runs, and every boy's department of the Young Men's Christian association which is on the route of the relay race from New York to Chicago is training every day for the contest." Dr. George D. Fisher, the senior sec retary of the physical department of the international committee of the Young Men's Christian association, will be the official starter of the race. He said that nearly 2.000 boys would take part in it. Each of these, he explained, will be a representative American boy and a representative association mem ber—that is, he will not be selected be cause of physical fitness alone, but be cause he qualifies from a fourfold standpoint of fitness. In other words, he will be a representative boy in ; mental equipment, in moral attain ment. and in character; thus it will be" truly a race by representative ! American boys. "1 approve of this race for adoles cents." Mr. Fisher added, "because each boy will run only the distance of a half mile. Each will be subject ed to a physical examination, and to ! avoid undue exposure the boys will be | taken care of before and after the 1 i ace in automobiles. "The race represents a test of ; achievement. It is a scheme which requires co-operation; each boy will have to observe the rules to the let ter or the whole scheme is a failure. It will demand pluck; each boy will have to finish his own race, and will, have intrusted to him the responsibil ity of carrying a message noble in sentiment from a high oflicial of one | great city to another. It will create interest in wholesome, clean sport in which the only aim is noble achieve 1 inent, the eligibility rules like those of the Olympald, and the service void of j personal gain or individual prestige.” HEALTH FADS NOT NEW. Dietetic Vagaries Were Practiced by Our Grandfathers. What's the yse of trying to be origi nal? What man does to-day, his no I tions, his fads, were practiced yester i day. in the dim past, and if they vary [ a little, the same idea animates them ' all. For instance, the "new" fad. I Fletcherism and the one meal a day, ■ were preached centuries ago. Books j on hygiene were concocted in the j time of Shakespeare. Have you ever ! read ‘‘The Breviary of Health,” com j piled by "Andrewe Boorde, Doctor of j English Phifickcian English man,” printed at London, 1587? Because, in ! this quaint, black letter volume, are I found many of the ailments which still j afflict us, with the same advice that the specialist and the faddist bestow to-day upon a suffering world. This "one meal a day” is advised by Dr. Andrewe Boorde, but he calls it "ab stinence,” and also cautions the gentle readers to eat with slowness! He fails to mention, nevertheless, the advan tage of going without one's breakfast. ! and would never approve of the well known western lawyer, who goes to his important labors daily without breaking his fast and is, nevertheless, a model of physical and intellectual i vigor. "The Breviary of Health” must ! be numbered among the curiosities of literature, but it will not be found on the shelves of the Boston public li brary. This is the only copy in Amer | ica as far as known, and was the prop erty of a reverend country doctor in Plymouth county. It doubtless served to preserve the health of our pilgrim fathers, and to help the mothers bring up their families.—Boston Herald. Millions of Matches Used. The civilized nations of the world strike 3,000.000 matches every minute of the 24 hours. Americans use up 700.000.000,000 a year. Some of the match plants are very large, one on the Pacific coast covering 240 acres, with 32 miles of railroad which supply the match machines with 200,000 feet of sugar pine and yellow pine logs a day. How a Blind Student Works. Columbia university has some blind men students in which the public has taken great interest, but it is not gen erally known that Barnard has a blind student, too. Her name is Mar garet Hogan, and she attends lectures regularly in the company of her read er, Miss Ruth Carroll, a fellow-student. Miss Carroll takes the notes, and aft erwards reads them to Miss Hogan, who transcribes them on the typewrit er in the embossed type used by the blind and studies them at her leisure. Miss Carroll also reads to Miss Hogan such other things as are not to be obtained in the biind prints, and Miss Hogan writes them on the typewriter. Her themes and essays she prepares on an ordinary typewriter such as sighted people use. Turkey imported and used last year 5,356,760 pounds of ordinary soap and 51.130 pounds of toilet soap. HEALTH BRINGS HAPPINESS. Invalid Once, a Happy Woman Now. Mrs. C. R. Shelton, Pleasant Street, Covington, Tenn.. says: ‘Once I seemed a helpless in valid, but now I en joy the best of health. Kidney disease brought me down ter ribly. Rheumatic aches and pains made every move painful. The secretions were disordered and my head ached to dis traction. I was in a bad condition, but medicines failed to help. I lost ground daily until I began with Doan's Kidney Pills. They helped me at once and soon made me strong and well.” Sold by all dealers. 50 cents a box. Foster-Milburn Co., Buffalo, N. Y. SHE BAMBOOZLES HIM. Mrs. Caller—You surely don’t al ways give your husband a necktie on his birthday? Mrs. Athome—Yes, I do, and the poor dear doesn’t even know it's the same one each time! DOCTOR SAID “USE CUTICURA” In Bad Case of Eczema on Child— Disease Had Reached a Fearful State—His Order Resulted in Complete Cure. “When I was small I was troubled with eczema for about three months. It was all over my face and covered nearly all of my head. It reached such a state that it was just a large scab all over, and the pain and itching were terrible. I doctored with an able physician for some time and was then advised by him to use the Cuticura Remedies which 1 did and I was en tirely cured. I have not been bothered with it since. I used Cuticura Soap and Cuticura Ointment but do not know exactly how much was used to complete the cure. I can safely say that Cuticura did a lot for me. Miss Anabel Wilson, North Branch, Mich., Oct. 20. 1907.” The Word of Excuse. Ascum—I've often wondered what a diplomat really means when he speaks of expediency. Wise—Usually it means that his di plomacy has failed. Truth and Quality appeal to the Well-Informed in every walk of life and are essential to permanent success and creditable standing. Accor inglv, it is not claimed that Syrup of Figs and Elixir of Senna is the only remedy of known value, blit one of many reasons why it is the best of personal and family laxatives is the fact that it cleanses, sweetens and relieves the internal organs on which it acts without any debilitating after effects and without having to increase the quantity from time to time. It acts pleasantly and naturally anil truly as a laxative, and its component parts are known to and approved by physicians, as it is free from all objection aide substances. To get its beneficial effects always purchase ’ the genuine— manufactured by the California Fig Syrup Co., only, and for sale by all leading drug gists. A Cold Lunch. The pupils of a distinguished pro fessor of zoology, a man W'ell known for his eccentricities, noted one day two tidy parcels lying on their in structor's desk as they passed out at the noon hour. On their return to the laboratory for the afternoon lec ture they saw but one. This the pro fessor took carefully up in his hand as he opened his lecture. "In the study of vertebrata we have taken the frog as a type. Let us now examine the gastrocnemius muscle of this dessected specimen.” So saying the professor untied the string of his neat parcel and disclosed to view a ham sandwich and a boiled egg. “But I have eaten my lunch," said the learned man bewilderedly.—Lip pincotts. A Good Turn. 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