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'* BED’S FINAL TOUCH ADVICE AS TO THE SELECTION OF A COUNTERPANE. All-White Furnishings Mean Much Trouble ard Exper.se for Launder ing—“Color Scheme” Has Many Great Advantages. Every woman likes to have dainty, attractive locking beds, but for the woman who does her own work and the woman who must consider laun dry bills, a bit of discretion is neces sary when it comes to the choosing of a counterpane. Some of us still ciicg to the no Mon that a bed s furnishings must all r>e white. We hanker after the curi ously wadded affairs in intricate dotal designs that gave so many pours' enjoyment to our grandmoth t*rs' industrious fingers: or we cast povetous e>es upon the heavy hand some Marseilles counterpane dis H played in the shops. These, however, are not only costly n the beginning, but must go to an •xpecsive laundry or a professional Meaner when soiled: so if madam must have white—all white—and her purse is limited, she would l>est buy dimity or honeycomb counterpanes. which are light, dainty and almost as easily laundered as a sheet. If she is willing to introduce a “col- j or scheme" into her bedroom, how ever, her range of choice is very much wider. She can buy, ready for use, a colored counterpane in blue, brown or pink, which is lighter in weight and much cheaper than the Marseilles, but heavier than the dimity or honey comb. If she has a tas'e for novelties and time and talent for needlework she can make herself covers of flowered lawn or cretonne Two or three, ac cording to the size of the bed. strips of lawn sewed together and finished all around with a deep flounce make an attractive substitute for a regula tion counterpane. The lawn, even the cheapest grade, is apt to wash w^eii, and these covers are easily "done up.” even by an amateur. The cretonne covers are made in the same way. but since the material is so much heavier many women pre fer to leave off the flounce, simply making a deep hem at either end. The sides, of course, have the sel vedge of the material. Covers of this kind are usually tucked in after the manner of an orthodox counter pane. Cretonne has the knack of shedding dust and keeping clean for a long time. When the day of reck oning comes, as it must, it is well > to "set" the colors, by putting soma j salt into the water in which the j j cover is to be washed. WHEN WEATHER IS RAINY. New Models for Wear on Intermit tently Wet Days. Dressmakers are trooping home over the ocean with their Paris spoils and that peculiar sound that thrills the air is the last expiring gasp from papa's pocketbook. There are new designs in dresses for rainy weather. Wet days, one dressmaker says, may be di vided roughly into two classes, the hopeless and the intermittent, and each presents its separate problem to the woman who values tier appear ance. The hopeless day is easy to deal with, but the intermittently wet day requires more careful handling. Nevertheless, the dressmakers are bringing home charming new models in gowns and hats which will rob such a day of its terrors. The new umbrellas are in either dark green, dark mauve or brown shot silk, and are finished with floral borders har monizing with the silk. They are the prettiest novelty in umbrellas seen in years. New Styles in Veils. Among the new veils there is one in which the loosely woven net is of a double or a heavy thread and another in which it looks like a fine silk web. The last comes dotted or plain and is extra wide. Chinese embroidered bands are especially useful this sea son for small revers. vests, cuffs, etc. The long-handled sunshade is super seded by the very long-handled um brella. to aid in completing the direc toire turn of fashion. Girdle Like Man’s Tie. The newest girdle is made on the same principle as a man’s tie. It is offered in self colors and in stripes. The ends are finished off in dark tas sels in the darkest shade of the girdle. Another fetching belt is of moire silk edged and finished with soft kid or dull finished leather. Those in black with a buckle of gun metal are suitable with many kinds of attire. FOR AFTERNOONS AT HOME. Indoor Dress Becoming in Many Va rieties of Material. This would make up prettily in 1 voile, delaine, or any thin material. A strip of wide filet insertion forms a vest down center front, then, over each i 1 side other strips are carried to waist both back arid front; these are hound with silk of the color of the material, and on the front edges there are tabs each side, just below bust, that are fastened by a button. The sleeves are gathered into bands of insertion bound with silk; the col lar band is the same. Materials required: Two yards 44 inches wide 3 yards insertion, one half yard silk on cross, 1!* yards lining. EGG COSY IN CIRCULAR FORM. Best Shape in Which Table Con venience Can Be Made. Our sketch shows a much better shape in which an egg cosy can be made than that usually employed. Eggs and egg cups are round, and. therefore, a more convenient shape for an egg cosy is obviously one of a somewhat circular form. The cosy we illustrate is made in four pieces, and has four equal sides, sewn togeth er and edged with cord. It can, of course, be made in miniature for cov ering one egg, or in a larger size for keeping three or four warm. On each of the sides some pretty floral design can be painted or worked in silks, and the cording is caught up in four loops at the top. which serve as a handle by which the cosy can be lifted. Let Children Sleep Alone. A child should never sleep with its parents. The practice is bad at every age, having not one redeeming fea ture. Moreover, the child should not sleep .with other children, if it is at all possible for him to sleep alone. When children sleep together there are often chances of their being slight ly injured in a number of ways. They are often apt to kick each other out of bed and in many cases the child fall ing on the floor may break a shoulder or injure the arms, legs or head. Then j they often kick each other in their sleep, giving and receiving numerous bruises. Their limbs become w'ound around one another and in the irrita tion that results they kick off the ! clothes. And they are often apt to give each other diseases. LEARN TO BREATHE PROPERLY. Better Health and Greatly Improved Carriage Is Thus Acquired. One of the first things that the wom an who is earnestly endeavoring to obtain beauty must seek to learn is how to breathe properly. Have you ever noticed that women who are singers have a prettily developed bust, a rounded waist, firmly set shoulders, as well as an easy carriage and a well-poised head? Not only is this seen in professional singers, but notice your own friends who have gone in for vocal culture for their own pleasure and you will find that this is true in almost every case. A fine carriage is often mistaken for a fine figure. The woman who at tracts notice holds her head well up. her shoulders back, and she walks briskly and lightly. Another woman may have a much better figure, but she moves along with drooping head and sloping shoulders and a slow, heavy walk. You cannot breathe prop erly with stooped shoulders. 1 Begin your breathing lesson in the morning the minute you hop out of bed. Raise to the half all the windows in the room and walk slowly across the room three times, with your hands upon your hips and your chest held high. Breathe from the abdomen. This exercise should be taken before any clothes, with the exception of a warm cozy wrapper, have been put' on. After practicing this exercise, which should not take more than ten minutes, every morning for a short time you will find yourself in better, health generally and with a fuller! chest and bust and a smaller rounded waist. New Thing in Stripes. For two years the combination of self-toned stripes or those of solid, harmonizing colors has been a com monplace design. Now we have a new thing in stripes. Next to one of a solid color is another one of plaid. Each is about two inches wide. The material in which it is brought out most conspicuously is called plisse. It is quite soft, and the intro duction of this plaid stripe is not as jarring as it sounds. A SOW SHOWING. Practical Workings of Oklahoma Bank Deposit Guarantee Law Explained. I Reckless Banking and Speculative Methods Follow Passage of Law. The practical workings of the Okla hoinn law guaranteeing bank deposits were described l>y Mr. J. \V. Me Veal, one of the most substantial hankers of that state, and president of the Na tional Bank of t'onuueree. Guthrie, in a short public address at Denver, Oct. 1. l'.tOS. Mr. McNea! said: “To my mind it is the most vicious and pernicious law ever forced on a body of honorable men. it contains a provision for an unlimited mutual lia bi.ity for all the defalcations, lack of judgment, dishonest and incompetent bankers, without any recognition of the time-tried. Strong hanker, who may have spent a lifetime in building up his reputation. T'nder the provisions of this law. the State Banking Board is required to levy an assessment equal to one per cent, of the average deposits In each hank. and. in the future, to levy as often as may he required, a sum sufficient to maintain this fund, at one per cent of the average deposits of the state. Wild tat BauUa, “What has lieen some of the results of tlie actual operation of this law m Oklahoma? There have been seventy si ven new state bank charters issued since the adoption of this law. foriy two of these with a capital stock of only $111,000 each. There has been a regular hegira for starting new state batiks without regard to the necessities of the community or the character of the men starting the banks. “We have one instance of where a man failed in Kansas, under his own name, then started up in business under iiis wife's name and failed, lieat 'A; his creditors out of $70,000, not laying them a cent. inder the old ter ritorial law. he attempted, under the guise of relatives to start'a bank, but iu two years his business was so trifling that it forced him out of the business, lie now has already started three banks in Oklahoma and boasts that he will start twelve more. Within sixty days from starting one of his banks. I am informed, and his statement shows, that tie had a deposit account of over $109,000. His cashier is under indict ment for embezzlement. I hope and trust that he will be able to explain the matter without wrong to him. 1 only mention these facts to show that it is immaterial what character of m-n are at the head of banks, they get the business by claiming that the state is guaranteeing them and it makes no difference whatever as to the character or personality of the officers. A man may bet all his money on the races, may gamble on the Hoard of Trail-, may fight joint whisky, may lead a licentious life, and go out and soii- ir deposits, saying ‘What do you care what kind of a life I lead, the state is behind me?' Hanks Wit hunt Capita!. ‘ Two men recently started a bank of fi1.tH.Ht capital, in Oklahoma City, a town of forty or fifty thousand inhab itants. When asked how they expected to succeed with a bank of S21,ooo cap ital in a city of that size, one of them replied: "What do we care about cap ital. the state is in partnership with us?‘‘ The president of the First Na tional Hank of Ferry was also a mer chant and failed in business and was comjielled to go through bankruptcy. Naturally he had to resign his connec tion with tiie First National Hank. He new has taken out a charter and is president of a state bank in Oklahoma. One man. when prohibition closed his saloon, quit the saloon business and started up a bank and has thirty or forty thousand on deposit. ‘‘There can be but oue deduction from this enormous rush for starting new state banks. They are being start ed by irresponsible, inexperienced men. and, instead of indicating a solid growth for the state of Oklahoma, they indicate an era of Irresponsible and wild-cat work. ‘‘One of the dangerous evils of this Guaranty Law is that it guarantees credit deposits as well as cash depos its. Now. you all know that not more than one-tenth of a bank's daily de}K>s its are in actual cash. Nine-tenths are credit deposits, nre either checks and drafts or proceeds of loans. When these credit deposits, that are made as the proceeds of a loan, are guaranteed, the guaranty certainly reaches to the guaranteeing of the loan itself, for the reason that the deposit is merely the result of the loan. When Mr. Taft defends his own rec ord as a judge or his attitude toward labor or his policy in tlie Philippines or his administrative work iu the War Department, lie makes strong and vig orous speeches.—New York World (Dem.). What I am anxious to emphasize is that there is n wide economic and bus iness field in which the interests of the wealthiest capitalist and the humblest laborer are exactly the same.—Hon. Wm. H. Taft, at Cooper Union, New York City. TO KIDDLE WIST ADD FOCKY MOUOTAPI STATES' RLPilBLICIIS. You wii lit Mr. Taft and Mr. Sherman elected, and they cannot lie elected unless the Repuhiican National Committee has sutticient money to pay the legitimate expenses of the campaign. It costs money to maintain an organization. It requires money to pay for printing, |wist age. salaries of stenographers aDd clerks at headquarters, traveling ex penses of speakers and numerous oilier details that go to make the campaign end successfully. Congress, as you know. Las passed a law making it unlawful for us to solicit money from corporations. \Ye must dejiend upon the contributions of individual voters. If every Re publican in this Western Division would contribute one dollar to the campaign fund, we will lie able to do nil tlie tilings that the voters want done: we will lie aide to elect Taft and Sherman. Will you help': If so. please send one dollar to the chairman of your State Finance Committee, whose name appears in the list following, or send it direct to me and you will receive the official receipt of the Republican Na tional Committee. Respectfully. FRED W. IT’II.VM. Assistant Treasurer. Contributions may tie sent by check or money order to any of the following named chairmen of the various State finance committees: Colorado. Unit. Whitney Newton. Denver. Idaho. lion. Frank F. Johnson, Wallace. Illinois. Col. Frederick II. Smith. Peoria. Iowa. Hon. Lafayette Young. Des Moines. Kansas, lion. Frank E. Grimes, Topeka. Michigan. lion. John N. Bagley, Detroit. Missouri. Hon. O. L. Whitelaw. 4(»!* North Second street. St. Louis. Montana. Hon. Thomas A. Marlow, Helena. Nebraska. Hon. John C. Wharton. Omaha. * New Mexico. Han. J W. Reynolds. Santa Fe. North Dakota, lion. Janies A. Buchanan, Buchanan. Oregon. Dr. H. W. Coe. Portland. South Dakota. Hon. O. W. Thompson, Vermillion. Washington, Hon. James I». Huge, Seattle. Or to I- red \\ . i phum Assistant Treasurer, 11114 Michigan avenue, Chicago, Illinois' "I have heard it discussed, and I think it feasible for a dishonest man or set of men to organize a $10,000 bank, then create a lot of fictitious de posits ns the proceeds of a lot of dum my mitt's, then let tlie hank close its doors and call on tin- guaranty fund to pay these deposits. Naturally, the de posits will lie credited to men in no way identified with the note itself. "We hail one hank failure in my town for something like $1,000,000. This would have taken more thau five per cent assessment on tlie deposits of tfi" state banks of Oklahoma. Supi>osing a hank had $100,000 deposits on a capital stock of $10,000. Fifty per cent, or one half of its capital stock, would be con fiscated to make up tlie one loss. It is more dangerous to the honest, small hanker than to tlie large one. because the large one can prepare himself to weather the storm. ‘•Under guist* of this law an attempt is being made to put all hanks on an exact equality. The man who has siient a lifetime in building tip an honorable reputation is sacrificed for the sake of making some poor, incompetent. dis honest banker exactly equal to him. it is a mistake to suppose that sacrificing the assets of tlie solvent bank is going to prevent the rascal from failing. There is more money in it for him to fail, tinder this law, than there will he to run.” REMEDY WOULD KILL. Hard, Painstaking Work Necessary to Reforms—Not the Instantane ous Panaceas of Bryan. (Governor Hughes at Sioux City, la . Oct. ti.) If you look conditions squarely in the fact, you see that what labor wants first of all is work, and that is depend ent upon tlie country’s prosperity. It is hard to protect the prosperity of the country anil cut out abuses; hard to provide schemes that won’t hurt busi ness and will cure evils. It is hard to do tilings right, lmt we have got to take tlie time and labor to do them right. In answer to a question I put to him the other day Ilryan said that an ounce of remedy was worth a pound of cure. That is a fall icy; an ounce of his rem edy would kill tlie patient. What we need is tiie expression of the sound thought and good judgment of the peo ple u]urn which.we can dejieud. 1 have had a time for two years in New York fighting tlie fight and 1 know it is hard work. You can’t have a flash of genius and change it all in a twinkling. What you have to have is work—hard, con scientious work, intelligent and thought ful, as well as determined, to make remedies square with the exigencies of our life. When we consider everything, what we want is to perfect tlie upbuilding of our country and promote a steady, for ward movement in the middle of the road, as is tlie aim of the Republican party and our great future President, Taft. It is greatly in tlie interest of the workingman, therefore, that corporate capital should he fairly treated. Any injustice done to it acts directly upon the wage earners, who must look to eoc porate wealth for their employment.— lion. Wm. H. Taft, at Cooiier Union, New York City. “The so-called colonial imlicy of the United States has added to our trade, already, something over one hundred million dollars a year.”—Mr. Taft, at Cleveland, O. I—. . Political Snapshots. “The leader of the Republican party during the Civil War was Abraham Lincoln, and it has never lost the in spiration of his leadership."—Mr. Taft, at Kansas City, Mo. The tariff affects trusts only as it affects all other interests. It makes all these interests, large or small, profit able ; and its benefits can be taken from the large only under penalty of taking them from the small also.— President Roosevelt, at Minneapolis, Minn., April 7, 19015. LETS CAT OUT OE BAG. German Manufacturers to Flood America With Goods if Bryan Should bo Elected. The following cablegram to the New Fork Sun under date of Oct. 3 shows what German manufacturers expect to do should Iiryan he elected: "Berlin. Oct. 3.—The gladiatorial fight between President Roosevelt and Mr. Bryan has suddenly aroused Ger man interest in the American Presi dential campaign and columns arc now devoted to extracts from the mammoth campaign documents of the combatants. (ierman hopes of Democratic victory have been rerired and many merchants and manufacturers hare suddenly : yroirn optimistic about a revision of the ! tariff which will enable them to flood j America with their poods.” The German manufacturers evidently 1 are shrewd observers. If Mr. Bryan should lie elected and his “downward revision” doctrine with ultimate fret' trade !>e carried into effect we would soon l»e flooded with German-made goods of every description, and our fac tories could go out of business. Protective Tariff Theory. On the other hand, should Mr. Taft he elected our friends the German man ufacturers would not l>e able to break through the wall of protection which would l*e maintained for the. benefit of American labor. The protective-tariff theory as de fined in tiic Republican platform, and as adhered to by Mr. Taft, is that in order to maintain high wages in this country there must la* “the imposition of such duties as will equal the differ ence .between the cost of production at | home and abroad, together with a rea sonable profit to American industries.” Mr. Taft points out that the cost of pro duction is determined chiefly by these three elements: "The cost of material, the cost of labor and the interest on capital, or what is known as the manu facturer’s profit.” “The normal Alteration of protection, where competition has free scope.” Mr. Taft asserts, "is to lower the‘cost of producing and so to reduce prices to the public. As a consequence, after ten years’ operation of a particular sched ule. it ought to result that the cost of production in this country is made less, and therefore that the difference be tween the cost of production in this country and abroad is less, and there fore that the duty ought to he reduced.” OntieN of Nest AdminiKtratlon. Tlie function of tlie next administra tion is not to lie spectacular in the en actment of great statutes laying down new codes of morals or asserting a new standard of business integrity, but its work lies in tlie details of furnishing men and machinery to aid the hand of tlie executive in making the supervision of tlie transactions (of corporations) so close, so careful, so constant, that the business men engaged in it may know promptly when they are transgressing the line of lawful business limitations, and may be brought up standing when ever this occurs, and may t*e prosecuted when the violations of law are flagrant and defiant, and promptly restrained and penalized.—Judge Taft, at St. Charles. Mo. Rryan is developing into a real hu morist. lie has advanced so far along the line that he can now announce him self as "tlie advance agent of prosper ity" without cracking u smile.—Sioux City Journal. The Republican party is not only rich in men. but rich in practical and beneficient principles—it is rich. too. in its record, in promises i>erformed and pledges fulfilled, and so we are for party and party principles first, and will acquiesce in the choice of the ma jority, raiding around the standard bearer who will carry us again to vic tory.—lion. James S. Sherman. “The 11resent business system of the country rests on the protective tariff and any attempt to change it to a free trade basis will certainly lead to dis aster.”—Mr. Taft, at Columbus, O. WHAT HIGH PRICES ! MEAN IG THE FARMER | In 1895 Two Hundred Bushels ol Kansas Corn Bought 1,000 Feet of Lumber. Now One Hundred Bushels Buys 2,000 Feet—A Concrete Illustra tion Showing Why Land Values Havo Increased. Out in Kansas a great deal is being said just now about the lumber trust, the high prices of lumber and the ter rible expenses attached to the building of houses, cribs and other buildings, says tile Jewell County Bepublicau. The principal buildings being erected this fall on tlie farms are corn cribs in which to store away the immense crop which was raised throughout Cen tral Kansas, and is now matured and will be ready for the crib in a very short time. In a political discussion here t lie other day the old story of the high prices came up and it was as serted that a large amount of corn would necessarily lie placed on the ground this ytar because of the nigh price of lumber. One farmer who has no particular love for the trusts, but is inclined to look on the bright side of everything and who is well satis fied with present conditions, declared that in 1895. when lumber was very cheap, aud likewise corn, it took 20«» bushels of corn to buy 1JHK) feet of cribbing lumber. Now. when lumber is at the highest point it ever reached in ihe history of Jewell County. 100 bushels of corn will purchase 2.<KH> feet of cribbing lumlier. According to .T. W. Berry, of tiiis county, who is a good authority on the prices of farm prod ucts and lumlier. and makes this asser tion. using corn as a purchasing power, lumber is only one-fourth as high as it was thirteen years ago. Vow on Kaxy Street. Although this county is in the wheat belt of Kansas, many of the farmers have raised corn. Both crops were just like they had tieen made to order, and the prunes will plaee the tillers of the soil on Easy street for some years to come. In Jewell County there is a farm which lias been on the market for sale for the past year, and was held at $20 an acre. The farm consists of 120 acres. Fifty acres are planted to corn. The other day the entire crop was sold for $10 an acre, the purchaser to gath er the corn, leaving the fodder on the ground. A part of the field will be light and will not average more than twenty bushels to the acre, while the remainder of the field will give up from forty-five to sixty bushels. Fifty acres of the land was planted to wheat and the value of the crop was equally as great as the crop of corn, while the live-acre patch of alfalfa produced even more money in proportion than either of the other two crops. Values Increase*! Five Times. There are no improvements whatever on the farm, hut the price has lieen raised loo ]ier cent and the owner is not very anxious to sell at that. How ever. he says if he had the slightest idea that Bryan would Ik* elected on the third of November he would sell his land at $30 an acre, and in two years he could buy it back and make more money than by farming it. In this county there is another farm which was sold in 1804. There are SO acres in the farm, and the purchase price was $500, or 5.000 bushels of corn at the prevailing price at that time. In the meantime, the SO has been considerably improved. A part of the land has been put to tame grass, a fine orchard is now one of the assets, good buildings have been erected and the laud has grown more valuable be cause of the development of the coun try. This month the land was sold again, the purchase price being $2,500. or the price of 5.000 bushels of coru at the present price. Rrnxina Hint \ r» SHU t.ood. “I am sending Taft to the Philip pines." said President McKinley, "be cause he is the broadest and the most unselfishly brave man I know, and be cause he will carry the spirit of the con stitution of the United States in his very blood." These seem to be excellent reasons also for sending Taft to the White House. The American people will undoubtedly show on November 3 that they have come to that conclusion —Canton. O., Repository. “In his own personal experience Mr. Bryan furnished proof that the people do rule. His candidacy now is a pro test against the popular verdict twice officially recorded. He is arraying his soaring ambition against the related decisions of the millions of electors.” —lion. James S. Sherman. Republican Vice Presidential candidate. The effect of the organization of la bor, on the whole, has been highly beneficent principles—it is rich, too, employment for the whole laboring community. 1 have not the slightest doubt, and no one who knows anything about the subject can doubt, that the existence of labor unions steadies wages.—Hon. Win. H. Taft, at Cooper Union, New York City. A gift for appointing the wrong man would not be a desirable quality in a president. ODD NAMES OF BRITISH INNS Tourist Recorded Some That Were Especially Striking. The little inns which we passed go ing from London to Scotland, and even the wine shops, gloried in the pretentious names which were gen erally displayed in illustrated signs hanging on brackets. We had great fun in watching these old signs and writing down some of the most un j usual. "We passed ‘ The Red Bull," and in neighborly proximity “The Red Cow" and "The Dun Cow." Sir John Barleycorn" was near enough to hear "The Five Bells,” and just beyond this, as if not to be outdone in the bell line, the proprietor of one inn called his place “The Ring o’ Bells.” Later we passed "The Easy Chair” and "Wait for the Wagon." “The Nag’s Head,” “The Spread Eagle,” and down J near the end of the list we had re corded “The Black Boy” and “The Head, Hand and Stomach.”—Frank Presbrey, in Outing Magazine. Corroboration of Bible Story. Burgsch Bey, the Egyptologist, says that it is no longer difficult to under stand the origin of the “seven lean years” narrative in the book of Gene sis. The hieroglyphic inscriptions translated by him show that 1,700 years before the Christian era the Nile for seven consecutive years did not overflow and famine, pestilence and misery followed. “We know,” says he. “that the date of the seven years of fruitlessness memioneH Genesis was 1700 B. C. and thus what has been looked upon as a fancy has through these hieroglyphics become a matter of history. The failure of the Nile to overflow, the withering of the vegetation, the lands devoid of crops, famine and the consequent scourges are all depicted in the pictures which the student has been able to de cipher.” SEASIDE SILHOUETTE. A young couple who are very much taken with each other. Willing to Help Him. He had gone to the dry goods store with a bit of dress material which his wife had bidden him to match. “I am very sorry, sir," said the salesman, "but I have nothing exactly like this. The very last remnant was sold this morning.” “But I must have it!” exclaimed the husband. “Otherwise, how can I face my wife?" "If you will permit me, sir," said the salesman, “I would venture to sug gest that you invite a friend home to dinner with you" Making Sure. Our Freddy is fully endowed with the inquiring mind of youth. Recently he said: “Mamma, who puts the bottle of milk on our front porch every night when we are all asleep?” “Isn't that a rather foolish ques tion?" his mother answered. “Whom do you suppose?” "Well." said the small investigator, thoughtfully, “I suppose God does, but I’d like to know for sure!”—A. M. A. The extraordinary popularity of fine white goods this summer makes the choice of Starch a matter of great im portance. Defiance Starch, being free from all injurious chemicals, is the only one which is safe to use on fine fabrics. Its great strength as a stiffen er makes half the usual quantity of Starch necessary, with the result of perfect finish, equal to that when the goods were new. Work of Zambesi Missions. A pamphlet recently issued by An drew Murray gives a brief survey of missions south of the Zambesi. There are 31 different missionary organiza tions at work, ministering to over 10, 000,000 people. The student volunteer movement in South Africa has put 84 young missionaries in the field since 1806. Asthmatics, Read This. If you are afflicted with Asthma write me at once and learn of something for which you will l>e gmteful tiie rest of jour life. J. G. McBride, Stella, Nebr. Many a man's wife goes to church on Sundaj' without him because he can't persuade her to stay at home. Lewis' Single Binder straight 5c cigar. Made of extra quality tobacco. Your dealer or Lewis' Factorj-, Peoria, 111. It isn't necessary for a married man to know his mind. Mm. Winslow’s Soothing Ryrnp. 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