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WELL PLEASES WITH WESTERN CANADA. GOOD CROPS, SPLENDID CLIMATE AND WELL ENFORCED LAWS. Mr. George E. Hunter is a Maid stone, Saskatchewan (Central Can ada), farmer, who writes to a Cana dian Government Agent r.s follows: "It was the first week in November, 1007, when we arrived here. There wus very little snow or cold weather until after the holidays, then the anew and cold increase), but to r:o great extent. 1 think the coldcs- I heard of was 30 degrees below zero, but that degree of cold would not L'O felt here any mote than 10 degrees below zero would be back homo iu Michigan, owing to the beautiful d y atmosphere of this coun try. liters came a good thavy every month that settled the mow, the field., soon became bare, and on the 12th of April 1 commenced ploughing. The snow was (hen ail gone and summer at hand. This last season was some thing mere tin.a an average year around here, with fine crops gathered from a largo acreage. In parts the crops were less than average, but gen erally speaking they were above it. The price of wheat was quite good. Some fine yields sold at $1.10 per bush el, while some were marketed at much less, but hardly any went below about 00 cents a bushel. “Oats started on the market at 35 cents a bushel, barley about 50 cents, and flax from 00 cents to $T>00 a bushel. "As this was my first year in this country, it was a hard year for my horses, owing to their being eastern horses, and not used to the western climate, but they will soon get cli matized. ‘•The scil on ray farm is a black loam, about one foot in thickness, be low that wo find about six feet of clay, and b low that attain gravel and sand, with an abundance cf excellent water. This was the condition of the ground as I found it when I dug a well. 1 can say that the water is as sweet trad as free from alkali and im purities as I ever saw. “My opinion is that the man who conics here with a little means can do no better than invest $500 or $1,000 in cattle, after locating a homestead ad joining or near some hilly part of the country where it will not be taken up as soon. There is plenty of grass and nay to be found in the hilly country and small lakes and sloughs will afford sufficient water for any amount of cat tle. The bluffs with a few hay or straw sheds will make sufficient shel ter for them. There Is no need to worry about the market for cattle, as (here is already a great call for stock of all kinds to satisfy the continued demands of the. large packing house at Kdmonton, established by Swift and Company. “The dairy business should by no means be forgotten. It is one of the paying enterprises of this great west. The price of butter seldom goes below 25 cents and reaches as high as 10 cents a pound. Also the new cream eries that are fast being erected along •he lines of railroad are calling on the farmers for their cream. “These creameries are greatly wbl comed in all communities, because sell ing cream is better than making but ter, even at an average price of 25 cents a pound. For a new country the railroad transportation facilities are good; not yet, of course, what they are In older countries, but the new lines are swiftly gaining as the coun try gets more settled and supplies them with produce to ship. It is hard to say too much in favor of this coun try. All one needs Is a little money with grit and ambition. I have seen homesteads that were filed on a little over three years ago that the owners have refused $3,000 for. “There is much more that can be said in favor of Western Canada, but i think my letter has been long enough.' Architectural Note. Judge Baleom was talking to a crowd on the street a few days ago. telling them the proper way to put shingles on a house. He said: “The old rule was to allow six inches ol the shingle to ‘show to the weather,' but that is too much. You should al low not' more than four inches to show." Some wag remarked in a mat ter-of-fact tone to the judge: “How would it do not to let any show?" The judge replied, “I've seen roofs made that way; but it takes a great many shingles.” Then the judge wanted to get mad when the crowd laughed.— Twiggs County (Ga.) Citizen. GOVERNMENT LAND OPENING UNDER CAREY ACT: May 6, the State Land Commissioner of Wyoming will distribute 7,000 acres Irrigated land at Cooper Lake, near Laramie and Denver, on main line of Union Pacific; 50 cents per acre. Old est Reservoir and Direct Water Rights; $5 an acre cash and $3 an acre an nually for ten years. Free trip and two town lots to all who apply before May 1. Write for application and cir culars. Tallmadge-Buntin Land Co., Agents, 2nd floor. Railway Exchange, Chicago. Agents wanted. Margaret Was Logical. One afternoon I overheard my two children talking about the Sunday school lesson. Dick, who was much smaller than Margaret, believed all she said about it. So he asked her what God looked like, and she quickly answered: “God looks like a stalk of corn, because mamma said he had ears cn all sides, and a sialk of corn is the only thing I know that has ears on all sides.”— Delineator. 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 line fabrics. Its great strength as a stiffen er makes half the usual quantity of Starch necessary, with the result of perfect finish, equai to that when the goods were new. Hands Up! Winks—Were you ever in a railroad holdup? Blinks (seasoned traveler)—Yes; I always go standard Pullman. DIET AND HEALTH By DR. J. T. ALLEN Food Specialiftt A-tsthcr of ‘'Eating for a 'Purpose.'' “The J'feiv Gospel of Health." Etc. (.Copyright, by Joseph £3. Uovvlesj “THE DIET CURE” While I believe diet to be the most I important factor in life, after thought, and therefore the most important fac tor (after thought) in maintaining and restoring health, yet diet is not a cure-ail. As there is no single means by which life is maintained, so there is no single means of maintaining health or of restoring it when it has been lost. I often hear people say, "I have tried drugs, aud osteopathy, Christian Science (or suggestion) and electric ity, the movement cure and the water cure, and none of them has done me any good, and now I am going to see what there is in dieting.” Such a speech indicates a narrow view of the work of the physician anl a grave misunderstanding of the na ture of health and healing. I have a large acquaintance among physicians and l don't know one who prescribes drugs and ignores dieting, though I know some who do not agree with the old saw in Marcus Ward's copybook, 'Diet cures more than doctors.” I know physicians who practice sugges tion very skilfully, by intuition, but give the credit for their mental cures to their medicine, even when they pre scribe bread pills; and I am sorry to say 1 know some good physicians who have not yet recognized the good in osteopathy and mechanotherapy in general; but the average medieaJ doc tor believes in using a'.l means of cure, and especially diet, as supplemental to medicine. No sane, liberally educated physi cian who is successful in the practice cf a specialty, finds it necessary to overestimate the relative importance of his specialty. It is the Imperfectly informed person who claims for some one method of treatment, valuable in certain cases, the impossible virtue of a cure-all. The only way in which almost any therapeutic agent can cure almost any sickness is by becoming a means of suggestion. Hut let the men tal condition be perfect yet withhold the right food and the patient must ultimately die. And suggestion need not be made the basis of a cult to bo, a means of faith cure. Dr. Ycrke Davies of London, one of the few eminent physicians who have made a specialty of dietetics, said, after 30 years’ practice: “The devia tions from health are more correctly remedied by dietetic means than by medicines. Diet may be a permanent: cure, drugs are but palliatives. . . . Diet in the hands of an expert is more powerful than drugs. Medicine is seldom a remedy for constitutional ail ments, whereas a system of diet, air and other means that lead to sound health is of permanent benefit. I speak from a very large experience in both systems.“T'Diet and Condition," 1892.) The general practitioner knows that: he cannot give his patients the benefit: of an expert knowledge of a dozen specialties. He realizes this better than the specialist realizes the danger of being too ready to treat every case that comes to him by his special cure. The surgeon who is so devoted to hist science and his art that he “would rather operate than eat,” as one good man puts ft, is likely to be skillful: but there are patients who need to eat. more than they need to be operated on; and it might be well to take the advice of a faithful general practition er in conjunction with that of the spe cialist before acceding to the wish of the surgeon who glorifies his profes sion by crediting it with impossible powers. In no case is diet the only remedy to be considered; but unlike surgery, drugs, electricity, and other means of cure which are often of vital impor tance, diet (which includes fasting), like suggestion, is always “indicated.’’ And whatever danger there may be in misapplied surgery or drugs, food can do no harm when taken moderately, except in a few cases, as diabetes, where expert knowledge is required. Osteopathy, suggestion, massage, wa ter cure, applied with ordinary judg ment, can do no harm, except as they may exclude other necessary treat ment, as drug or surgical treatment may also fail to include other benefi cial treatment. Since the days of the prophet who prescribed washing in Jordan, there have been many cures, each more mys terious, if possible, than the other, but nature has continued to use the same means of restoring health, in spite of the cures or by their aid. A young man who has been reading these articles writes me about his in teresting case, which will serve to il lustrate the difficulty and the impor tance of distinguishing health from disease. At the age of 20 he quit the farm, late in the spring, and went to wcjk as a street car conductor in a large city. He was in excellent health, with a good appetite. A few months later he began to have dull headache and an almost constant sour stomach, with belching. Everybody knows that an alkali will neutralize an acid and a friend advised him to take a little com mon baking soda in hot water occasion ally. Perhaps some physicians would Have "cured" this case in the same way. The average person who goes to a physician does not go for his valua ble advice on the prevention of sick | ness, or even for a radical cure of his • aliment. What he wants is a quick ! cure, in the easiest way possible; hence the temptation to treat symp toms is strong. The acid condition of the stomach was, of course, neutralized by the al kali, but the cause remained rather worse. There was no cure. Should the acid condition in the stomach be corrected by an alkali, as carbonate of soda, or does nature know what she is about in producing the acid condi tion? Another gentleman who h'as been reading these articles writes me about his very interesting and peculiar case, also resulting in an extreme acid con dition. His work for years has been with chemicals. His system has be come poisoned, as in common cases of poisoning by mercury, arsenic, etc. The acid condition and an extreme lia bility to cold are incidents of nature's efforts to bring about conditions in which the system can expel these poi sons. The diet of meat, which this man has been living on exclusively for some time, an alkaline food, contains much waste to be excreted, thus ad ding to the burden of the system, and it works against, instead of with, na ture. He asks for specific advice, along the lines of a recent article. I am not prejudiced in favor of homeopathy nor against any other school of medicine, for they all have something good, and my own plan is to go back to nature, to first princi ples, no matter what the schools say, but aiming to take advantage of all known facts. My experiments in de termining the curative values of foods lead to a conclusion similar to that of the illustrious founder of homeopathy. "Similia similibus curantur” (Like cures like). I do not think that one disease can cure another, like or un like. But we should work to bring about the same result that nature is trying to produce, even when that seems to be irritating or destructive. Nature is producing the acid condi tion in the case of the worker in chemicals for the purpose of bringing about a change that will improve the conditions of nutrition. Instead of an tagonizing that effort by taking car bonate of soda or by taking only alka line food, let this man eat only acid fruits in the morning, an apple, an or ange, and a little pineapple, and drink plenty of lemonade without sugar, a little dry graham and corn bread at noon, never fresh, and at six all the buttermilk he can drink, slowly. He should take a spoonful of olive or pea nut oil, morning and evening. If he doesn't feel inclined to drink butter milk. let him take only a sip and in crease the amount gradually. With plenty of that alone on hand, he will not suffer. Every third day he should take nothing but hot lemonade, and be careful not to overeat the next day. He is unable to work, so he can in dulge the inclination to recline, which he mentions as a symptom in the case —a symptom which should not be sup pressed by a tonic: it is significant. Every morning, or evening, he should have a vigorous rubbing for five or ten minutes with a dry and then a wet Turkish towel, and at night bathe the feet in hot water. He should apply an electric vibrator, generally, and to the extremities after the morning bath, for a few minutes. For the gen eral treatment the vibrating chair is best, made by attaching an electric vi brator to a light rocking chair. But to return to the street car con ductor’s case, which has some points in common with this; he has been poi soned with superfluous food. This cannot be corrected by taking an al kali to neutralize the acid and a tonic to increase his appetite. A tonic is a whip. Exercise and air and water is a whip. Exercise and air and water and hope and sunshine are nature's tonics. The appetite they produce is normal, not in excess of the actual needs of the system. Excess of food is always a source of disease. Rheumatism would result from the suppression of these symptoms, in time, if the cause persisted. Uric acid would be deposited in the joints, prob ably. Examination of the urine in this case would show an excess of waste matter. That means an undue strain upon the kidneys, which, in time, would lead to rheumatism, diabetes or Bright's disease, if the cause is not removed. Examination of the excreta would also show an excess of waste and of bacteria, especially if much meat is eaten. (There should be little apparent odor from the excreta if the feeding is right.) This young man should eat very slowly, masticating thoroughly. Let him reduce his food, especially flesh meat, one-half, and eat twice as long and he will soon see an improvement. Let him be sure he is getting in his diet everything the system needs,, and without undue work in digestion. He should walk five miles daily. The young man read an advertisement of a well-known tonic, which he began using, hoping it would do as much for him as the soda had done. While he was taking the tonic he felt better and gained in weight, but when he stopped using it he soon was worse than be fore—of course. What shall he do? First, let him understand the cause of his trouble (as far as that is possi ble), then apply the remedies and look for a return of health with the same confidence that lie expects his car to move when the brake is raised and the current turned on. An electric car runs with no greater regularity than the human machine when properly cared for, but the body is a very delicate organism and it must not be abused. The relation between the mind and the body is just as intimate, just as important, as the relation between the current and the ca~. You have seen a car oil the track. No use to turn on Cannibalism is Still Alive _ .&»__ __ Evidently Work Remains for Mission aries in Africa. “You may be interested to know," says J. J. Heynard of the Cape-to-Cairo telegraph construction staff, “that can nibalism still survives and is, to my knowledge, practiced by the Chikanda dwelling along the Zambezi and Shire rivers. A case came to my notice last year. The body of a celebrated hunter, who had succumbed to fever, was ex humed and devoured1. At one impor tant center of the Shire the cemetery has to be guarded to prevent the na tives devouring the newly buried bodies. “As far as I know, cannibalism is not practiced openly by tribes in the country with which I am acquainted. The natives who devour our dead be the current then. To expect the mind to set right all abnormal conditions in the body without complying with the laws of its physical organization, is manifestly absurd. A farmer needs at least twice aa much muscular-energy-giving food as a street car cpnductor, varying with the physical work or exercise of each, but this young man continued to eat about the same amount and kinds of food that he had eaten in the country. Now the system manufactures gastric juice to digest as much food as the system requires, not always enough for the food eaten. Perhaps we can all re member a time when we were quite familiar with sour stomach. When we were younger and more vigorous, na ture responded more promptly, defend ing herself and warning us of abnor mal conditions, so that we should re move the cause. How much more qimckly a child or a dog will vomit if it eats the wrong food or too much of the right food than an adult. Is the sour stomach in the child or the readi ness to vomit an indication of health or of disease? Does not a farmer change a horse’s food as his work changes? I have quoted these two cases sub mitted by interested readers of these articles to exemplify an important fun damental principle—that it is often difficult to distinguish between health and disease. So important is this principle, and so fatal are the effects of ignorance of it, that I wish to make it still clearer, by examples. A few weeks ago I met on the street a minister with whose work in a small town, near Chicago, I was inti mately acquainted last year. He had a new charge now, a larger, more pros perous and more harmonious congre gation. “You are looking much better than when I saw you last,” 1 said (which happened to be true—it never helps a man to tell him he looks sick, even if it is true). “Well,” he said, “I am feeling bet ter in every way, except that I have one trouble that is really becoming serious; .for days I have had constant diarihyffb, and nothing seems to stop it.” Jr, < "Tafttfsj well,” I said, for I was fa milifhc.Ttt' his case preceding his chan ■.'npurroundings. and 1 took a hastjy* ntory of his condition. He hadniuch depressed the preced cnemial depression often in dices yr^ltlpaUo!! i and his nutritive powers* mental and physical, were ac cordingly reduced, and he had lost in hnt! accumulated waste in the tis si^i). hiow there was a revival; all the*tissues w$re expanding and waste wa<£be^fe Eliminated through the howVs^Sut /more than that, the sys tem wts^adjusting itself, rapidly, to more wholesome mental conditions, and there was, as the engineer says, some exhaust steam. Should he take a standard remedy to stop the diar hoea? • A woman who had suffered for years from dyspepsia, accompanied by con stipation, went to a large sanitarium where she had every opportunity for cure. For a while she improved, then she began to grow steadily worse. Sbs quit the place, dissatisfied, and went to a private sanitarium in Chicago. T*he physician there understood that painful healing efforts of nature are often mistaken for signs of disease. She grew “worse,” became very sick, and got well. What would have been the effect of "curing" that sickness? A gentleman past middle life was advised to make some material changes in his diet, which he did with decided benefit for several months. Then he "began to go steadily down hill,” as he thought. He consulted an other physician, who saw in his simple diet the cause of his entire trouble, gave him a tonic and advised him to return to his old “liberal" diet, includ ing meat, and now he feels better;—a result due, chiefly, to improved mental conditions induced by his friends, who rejoice with him In the return of his sanity! The best diet in the world, with continual worry, will kill any body, and the prison records of Poland show that a man can live for 50 years on bread and water. “How, then, shall I know whether I am sick or well?” asks the bewildered reader. You are always well, if you really think so. There is more truth in this statement than I have space to ex plain here, for I am dealing now with diet, not with suggestion. But let me briefly state the best course to follow under all circumstances; Follow nature. If nature is work ing in a certain direction to bring about normal conditions of health, co operate with her, especially in thought. Be careful that you do not misinterpret her efforts and antagonize her. Don't be in too great haste to stop pain by the quickest means, for you may stop the healing process. Better do nothing than do wrong. It is the business of the educated physician, one not merely skilled in dosage or in the use of the knife, to study your case and advise wisely, cautiously and honorably, and you should give him time to do it and pay him cheerfully and liberally, but ob serve that the thing of real value is his wise counsel, which comes only of long study and experience. To follow our inclinations would be the wisest course in all cases if we had always lived naturally, but even if we have, our ancestors did not. The most valuable knowledge the scientific physician possesses is his elaborate knowledge of the normal conditions of all the physical functions and the means by which these conditions are maintained or restored. Whatever the condition, hope is a prime factor in the cure; the will and fait.h are to be exercised. If these right mental conditions are supplied, with the right food and the proper care of the body, all is well. lieve that if they eat the body of a European they will acquire his intelli gence, just as they eat the heart of a lion because they believe they will gain the courage of the lion. “The Mambwe, of the Tanganyika, regard the lion as sacred, and believ ing implicitly in the transmigration of the soul, hold that the spirit of a dead chief enters into the body of a lion or python. Those animals are therefore taboo, unless they kill man. when the taboo is witlidt.. WaillMinigj Dresses THE first sketch shows a very stylish costume in Aubergine Amazon cloth, the long high-waisted skirt is perfectly plainand hangsvery gracefully. The directoire coat is handsomely braided In black, and has rovers of black velvet; the sleeves are long and perfectly tight, and are braided at the wrist. The coat fastens invisibly over the left side. Ilat of Aubergine stretched silk trimmed with feathers. Materials required: Eight and one-half yards cloth 48 inches wide, one third yard velvet. 5 yards coat lining. In the second a more simple costume is illustrated, it is in royal b'ue fine serge. The skirt is cut walking length, and has a box-plait arranged up the center of front, buttons are sewn as trimming to just below the waist line. The coat is semi-fitting and has the sleeves cut in one with the bodice part; the fronts are cut in steps and edged with braid of the same color, braid also edges the other parts of the coat. Hat of blue felt trimraed with flowers and ribbon. Materials required: Seven yards serge 46 inches wide, 6 yards braid, 4% yards coat lining. ROLLERS PROLONG LINEN LIFE. Hint for Care of Dainty Trifles Dear to Feminine Heart. All the pretty centerpieces, buffet, bureau and table covers can be kept so much mere perfectly in linen clos ets and sideboard drawers if rolled round a sufficiently long pasteboard roll. The regular mailing case or tube will fill the bill if it is of the length required. A dainty and wash able cover for it can be made, tube shaped, of white linen, into which the roll should be slipped. One end of it may be permanently drawn together and the open end arranged with a cas ing and tape, to close after the roll is replaced. On this should be rolled all of the embroidered and lace irimmed covers as soon as they come from the laundry, and before they have been folded. One matron tells of a roll on the wall of the butler’s pantry. This is i device for linen in daily use: but be cause of what Howells so aptly calls the “invasive, pervasive dust," the permanently arranged roll could not oe recommended for freshly laundered linens. I BLACK SHOE THREAD IS BEST. Excellent for Fastening Millinery Or naments in Place. When trimming a hat the great problem is how to fasten the orna ments in place. Pine thread and needles do not seem to be adequate for the purpose, and, in fact, they are not. The best thread to use is black shoe thread and the best needle is a so-called “glove needle"—one with a three-sided point that may be run easily through almost any substance. With these two allies at hand it is not so very difficult to sew whatever is required, but it is worth while to mention the different sorts of trim mings and how to sew each to the hat, says a writer who would encour age home millinery. Velvet bows should always be made with shoe thread, and it should be wrapped around the loop of the bow so it will be quite firm. It should then be sewn to the hat with the same thread and the needle just de scribed. Quitls and feathers may be attached to the hat in the same way, but when the tips of ostrich plumes must be caught and held at a required angle, it is better to use a very fine black thread and a No. 10 needle. The stitches are then practically invisible, and the result will be very satisfac tory. Bandanna Kimoncs. As thi3 is a season of vivid colors, even room robes and dressing sacques have taken on brilliancy. One sees less of the pale blues and f inks al wr-a used for these garments. One of the new ideas is to use the immense cotton handkerchief called a bandanna, or rather several of them, to make up a short kimono for room wear. Five of these are apt to make a good-looking garment. One should get them in yellow and red. with a wide selvedge, which does not need a hem or trimming. The edges are put to gether by ribbon run through button holes and tied in little flat bows on top. Toilets of Silken Tissues. All toilets of dress and of cere mony are of silken tissues. Silk, rather left in the background for sev eral years, is pursued now with a love ly ardor. In plain silks and satins, in ottoman with coarse and fine cords, crepes and meteors, to say nothing of the silk-faced satin cloth and silk cachemire, they present a wonderful variety from which to select a cos tume. The draping wrinkling folds of these soft, thick stuffs in their colors show changing lights like those of precious stones, or reflect the metallic glow of silver, gold and bronze.— From a Paris Letter to Vogue. Hats of Pearls. Paris has given its approval to the tiny little headgear made of imitation baroque pearls and finished with a bunch of flowers at the side. The managers of the theaters allow them to keep on these hats, though they will not permit any other kind. The pearls are strung on wire and made into a lattice work, something like a Juliet cap, and worn over the top of the head. Jet beads of varied sizes are also used for them, with a large bunch of gold ivy leaves at the side. Pretty waist of wine-colored cloth or cashmere, made with plaits and a scal loped yoke which furnishes the little plastrons. The edge and the buttons and but tonholes are of satin of the same shade, as are also the cravat and gir lie. The long, tight sleeves are trimmed to correspond. Floral Muff. Large muffs made entirely of flow ers are novel and artistic substitutes for the bridal bouquet. At one of the most fashionable weddings of the sea son the bride carried a huge muff of white orchids and tiny sprays of lily of the valley. The lily sprays were in clusters and hung on narrow satin rib bons from the lily and orchid muff. Violet muffs, each flower tied on with a lavender ribbon, are gorgeous rovelti^s shown this season. To Color Slippers. White slippers can be dyed if they are canvas or suede, and even the white kid can be painted. Many wom en bronze their old slippers and use them in the bedroom. It is very diffi cult to make a white slipper a good black. By the time it is evenly coat ed, it is stiff with paint or polish and is anything but attractive. White can vas shoes can be colored practically any color by painting them with dye Self-Sacrifice Necessary. The winner is .he who gives himself •o his work, body and soul.—Buxton. Fashion for Yellow. Little by little golden yellow is be coming one of the favorite colors of the year. It shows well under electric light, and is usually becoming. It is now dyed with a golden sheen that carries out the prevailing fashion for gold in everything. Silk Irish Lace. Paris is now’ using the shamrock and Limerick laces crocheted in coarse silk. They are quite good look ing and are dyed to m^tch the blouse, as most all laces have been tills win ter. HOME TONiC FOR OLD PEOPLE Wonderful results, eventually restor ing full physical vigor, are obtained from the following: To one-half pint good whiskey, add one ounce syrup sarsparllla and one ounce Toris com pound, which can be procured from any druggist. Take in teaspoonful doses before each meal and before retiring Musical Note.—Signor Harmonetti is at Present Engaged in Composing a New Heir. Starch, like everything else, is be ing constantly improved, the patent starches put on the market 25 years ago are very different and inferior to those of the present day. In the lat est discovery—Defiance Starch—all in jurious chemicals are omitted, while the addition of another ingredient, in vented by us, gives to the Starch a strength and smoothness never ap proached by other brands. Tenderness. It was in the hotel of a western min ing town that the New England guest, registering in the office, heard a suc cession of youd yells. "What in the world is that—a mur der going on upstairs?” he demanded. "No,” said the clerk, as he slammed ‘.he book and lounged toward the stairs. “It is the spring bed up in No. 5. That tenderfoot up there don’t get the hang of it, and every few days he gets one o’ the spiral springs screwed into him like a shirt stud. I guess I'll have to go up, if there ain't anything more I can do for you for a few min utes.”—Youth's Companion. Professor Munyon has just issued a most beautiful, useful and complete Al manac; it contains not only all thescien tiflc Information concerning the moon s phases, in all the latitudes, but has il lustrated articles on how to read char acter by phrenology, palmistry and birth month. It also tells all about card reading, birth stones and th meaning, and gives the interpretation of dreams. It teaches beauty culture, manicuring, gives weights and meas ures, and antidotes for poison. In fact, it is a Magazine Almanac, that not only gives valuable information, but will afford much amusement for every member of the family, especially for parties and evening entertainments Farmers and people in the rural dis tricts will find this Almanac almost invaluable. It will be sent to anyone absolutely free on application to the MUNYON REMEDY COMPANY, PHILADEL PHIA. Early Morning Poems. “Why, Hiram,'' began Mrs. Dusen bery, glancing up from her favorite newspaper at her husband on the op posite side of the table, “did you ever hear of such a thing? Here is a piece about a man who writes four magazine poems every morning before breakfast Must be quite a strain on him to do all that writing on an empty stomach Don't you think so, Hiram?” “Well, I dunno about that,” re sponded Hiram dryly. "I reckon a man wouldn't have such a terrible strain on him writin' the sort of magazine pomes we run across now’days with his stomach an’ head both empty!” Poor Pat. The surgeon of a large hospital wa? paying a visit to the patients when he come to a cot whereon lay an Irish man who was not bearing his pain very bravely, for he was groaning loudly. “Oh, come, my poor fellow.” remon strated the surgeon, “try and beai your pain like a man. It’s no use kicking against Fate.” "Shure, you’re roight, sorr,” groaned the Irishman, who had been severel> kicked by a mule, “ ’specially whir they’re the fate of a mule!’’—Ex change. A Republican Reliance. Three-year-old Norris is fond of the Twenty-third Psalm, sometimes repeat ing it instead of his regular evening prayer. Last autumn the name of the successful presidential candidate was often heard at the dinner table, and^ Norris unconsciously fell into the hab it of rendering one passage of the Psalm in this reassuring fashion: “Thy rod and thy Taft they comfort me.”— Lippincott's. PRIZE FOOD Palatable, Economical, Nourishing. A Nebr. woman has outlined the prize food in a few words, and that from personal experience. She writes: "After our long experience with Grape-Nuts, I cannot say enough in its favor. We have used this food almost continually for seven years. “We sometimes tried other adver tised breakfast foods but wre invariably returned to Grape-Nuts as the most pal atable, economical and nourishing of all. “When I quit tea and coffee and be gan to use Postum and Grape-Nuts I was a nervous wreck. I was so ir ritable I could not sleep nights, had no interest in life. “After using Grape-Nuts a short time I began to improve and all these ail ments have disappeared and now I am a well woman. My two children have been almost raised on Grape-Nuts, which they eat three times a day. "They are pictures of health and have never had the least symptom ot stomach trouble, even through the most severe siege of whooping cough, they could retain Grape-Nuts when all else failed. “Grape-Nuts food has saved doctor bills, and has been, therefore, a most eci lomical food for us.” Name given by Postum Co., Battle Creek, Mich. Read “The Road to Well ville,” In pkgs. “There’s a Reason.” Ever read the above letter? \ nevi one nppearM from time to time Thn tnfere»".UlUe’ tr“e’ ,uI1 '•»»*»«■
