JACOZ At UCICINSOM
<ZJZCKn.TAfiy |
i*SMe_-^p ’
Itcosaz m/
I ATTOMtY
I — 0£ a/£A srl_•
PKank. M /y/rcivcoc<*g
PofTyrASTi-K* —
<3£/V£^Ai_. 'faj
jS S£OXae L HLYM&
fl
+//LJ-JAA /V wrl
r/c*AK.~D » iSAstcj tv/ifa*/
\5MCK. £ TA/S. X <UECK.c.~r*fZy
^oy rjtS W7-/*;^_j!GK./cJji.7\ja_r -
Ci-*-K*—-£> [ svy*QJ-E—» «- 9
C» >» r;J£CK.£. Tyfc^r «? CCMMJlCe—.
--**-*o i.A.eo^_^
PRESIDENT TAFT'S
OFFICIAL FAMILY
SKETCHES OF THE NINE
EMINENT MEN FORM
ING HIS CABINET.
P. C. KNOX HEADS THE GROUP
Pennsylvanian Is Secretary of State—
Franklin MacVeagh, Chicago Mer
chant, Holds the Treasury Portfo
lio—Jacob M. Dickinson, Tennessee
Democrat, to Manage the Army—
Affairs of the Agricultural Depart
ment Left in James Wilson’s
Hands.
Philander Chase Knox of Pennsyl
vania, secretary of state in the cab
inet of President Taft, was born at
Brownsville, Pa., in 1853. He was
graduated from Mount Union college,
Ohio, in 1S72, and three years later
was admitted to the bar. During the
years 1876 and 1877 he served as as
sistant United States district attorney
for the western district of Pennsyl
vania. In the latter year he formed
a law partnership with James H. Reed
which still exists and which has rep
resented many large corporations, in
cluding the Carnegie Company. Mr.
Knox entered President McKinley's
cabinet as attorney general in April,
1901, serving until 1904, when he was
elected United States senator from
Pensylvania. The latter position he
resigned to become the head of Presi
dent Taft’s cabinet.
Wilson Retains His Place.
Only one member of the Roosevelt
cabinet retains hi3 po"tfolio under
Mr. Taft. That Is James Wilson of
Iowa, secretary of agriculture. So ex
cellent had been his work in that posi
tion that there was no serious talk of
making a change. Born in Scotland in
1835, Mr. Wilson came to the United
States in 1852 and three years later
settled in Iowa. In 1861 he engaged in
farming in Tama county. He was a
member of the Iowa assembly fcr
three sessions and speaker of the
house for one session, and also was a
member of the Iowa state railway
commission. In 1873 he was elected
to congress, serving two terms, and
was sent to the national legislature
again for one term in 1883. He was
regent of the State university of
Iowa In 1870-74. and in 1890 was
made director of the agricultural ex
periment station and professor of agri
culture at the Iowa Agricultural col
lege. Ames. Ia. In 1897 he became
secretary of agriculture.
MacVeagh for the Treasury.
Franklin MacVeagh, secretary of the
treasury, was born on a farm in
Chester county, Pennsylvania, gradu
ated from Yale in 1862 and from
Columbia Law school in 1864. He be
gan the practice of law in New York
■city but ill-health forced him to aban
don it and in 1865 he went to Chicago
and engaged in the wholesale grocery
business. In this and other commer
cial pursuits he has amassed a large
fortune. Before entering the cabinet
he disposed of his holdings in the big
grocery firm and resigned as director
of the Commercial National bank of
Chicago. Mr. MacVeagh has always
been interested in movements for the
public welfare, locally and nationally.
Dickinson Is War Secretary.
Jacob M. Dickinson of Tennessee
and Chicago, the new secretary of
war, was born In 1851 at Columbus,
Miss. He graduated from the Uni
versity of Nashville in 1872 and after
ward studied law at Columbia college,
at the University of Leipsiz and in
Paris. He served several times by
special commission on the supreme
bench of Tennessee and was assist
ant attorney general of the United
States in 18S5-S7.
Postmaster General Hitchcock.
The first cabinet officer selected by
Mr. Taft after his election was Frank
H. Hitchcock of Massachusetts, who
gave up his place as first assistant
postmaster general to manage success
fully the Taft presidential campaign.
He has been given the office of post
master general in the new cabinet.
Mr. Hitchcock was born at Amherst,
O., in 1867, and graduated from Har
vard in 1891 and from Columbia Law
school in 1894. Since 1891 he has
been a government official.
Nagel Has Commerce Portfolio.
Missouri has been rewarded for its
switch to the Republican column by
the appointment of Charles Nagel as
secretary of commerce and labor. Mr.
Nagel is a leading lawyer of St.
Louis and the west. He was born In
Texas in 1849, moved to St. Louis
when a child and graduated from the
St. Louis Law school in 1873. He has
been senior member of the law firm
of Nagel & Kirby, professor in the
St. Louis Law school and a trustee
of Washington university. In 1881-83
he was a member of the Missouri house
of representatives, and in 1893-97 was
president of the St. Louis city coun
cil. He Is a member of the Repub
lican national committee and for years
has been an intimate friend of Mr.
Taft. He was one of Mr. Roosevelt’s
most enthusiastic supporters. As an
attorney Mr. Nagel was identified with
several important cases dealing with
the numerous complications in the
affairs of the Five Civilized Tribes in
the then Indian territory.
Navy Under Meyers Charge.
President Taft's secretary of the
navy, George Von L. Meyer of Massa
chusetts, has had wide experience as
a business man, legislator, diplomat
and cabinet officer. He was born in
Boston in 1858 and graduated from
Harvard in 1879. He then entered
business and has been prominently
conected with a number of financial
and mercantile concerns. His career
as a public official began in 18S9, when
he was elected to the Boston common
council. He then served on the board
of aldermen, and in 1S92-96 he was &
member of the Massachusetts isgisla
ture, the last two years being speaker
of the house. In 1900 Mr. Meyer was
sent to Italy as American ambassador,
and in 1905 was transferred to Rus
sia. In January. 1907, President
Roosevelt called him home to enter
his cabinet as postmaster general.
This portfolio he has relinquished for
that of the navy. Mr. Meyer's home is
Hamilton, Mass.
Ballinger Secretary of Interior.
After about one year’s service ae
commissioner of the general land of
fice, Richard A. Ballinger of Seattle,
Wash., ha3 entered the cabinet as
secretary of the interior. He is a
native of Iowa, having been born In
Boonesboro in 1858. After attending
the University of Kansas and Wash
barn college at Topeka, he went to
Williams college, graduating in 1884
and afterward studying law and re
moving to Washington. He was
United States court commissioner in
1890-92 and later was judge of the
supreme court in JefTerson county,
Wash.
Attorney General Wickersham.
George VV. Wickersham, who be
comes President Taft’s attorney gen
eral. has had the reputation of being
one of the ablest lawyers In New
York city. Born in Pittsburg In 1858
he studied civil engineering in Lehigh
university and In 18S0 graduated from
the law school of the University of
Pennsylvania. For two years he prac
ticed law In Philadelphia. In 1884 he
became associated with the law firm
of Strong & Cadwalladare, to whict
Henry W. Taft, brother of the presi
dent, belongs.
Models’ Earnings.
Xowaiays all the leading firms of
modiste3 employ living models. A
good model can earn five to sis pounds
a week, the minimum wage for a
‘ show !ady” being two pounds a week.
There are some models in London who
are paid as much as £10 a week, and,
in Paris the salary of a good model in
some of the best establishments runs
to £ 12 a week. As long as a model is
young and attractive her position as
such is secure enough, and often very
well paid, but at 30, and sometimes be
fore, she is generally regarded as too
old for the particular work required
of her—that is, showing the effect of
dresses when made; but if she has ac
qu%ed a good knowledge of a modiste’s
business she is almost certain to ob
tain further and far more permanent
employment with her own firm or else
where—London Tit-Bits.
She—Have you seen the evening pa
per, John?
He—Yes, I read it through thia
morning.—Puck.
b Salmon T ’
4Ke).G.M!LLAi<§ r
A /VHC CA7TH:.<SS.& 13.
Campbell river empties into the
channel between Valdez island and
Vancouver island, and is the ideal
place for catching the great tyee. The
tides at Campbell river are a very se
-ious factor in the calculations of vis
iting anglers, for the channel between
Valdez island and Vancouver island, at
this point less than three miles wide,
has the whole flood of the Pacific pour
ing through. Much scheming has
therefore to be devised to cheat the
tides from the Willow hotel up to
Campbell river mouth, a wearisome
row of a mile and a half, should the
current be contrary. This piece of
water is nearly always good for a fish :
or two; but as a rule boats are in a
hurry to reach the best of the water
opposite the actual mouth of the river.
This cream of the fishing lies itnme- j
diately off the big sand bar that pro
jects seaward from Campbell River
point. There is plenty of room for
everybody and little fear of the sport
deteriorating, as long as the present
rules regarding the prohibition of net
fishing in the channel is rigidly en
forced. The sole danger to be feared
off Campbell river mouth is from the
masses of floating kelp or seaweed into
which these monster fish have every
inclination to burrow. This learthery
weed is of such a nature that when
fouled it is an even chance against a
fisherman recovering any part of his j
tackle. The first evening we left the |
hotel and rowed some hundred yards [
clear of the banks of seaweed in the I
main tideway. Here the line is let out |
for 20 yards, and you troll northward |
for half a mile to the Indian village
where the finest fishing ground is situ
ated. As the evening falls and the
time of feeding approaches .generally j
about the turn of the tide at low wa
ter, a little army of siwash canoes push
silently out from the village, and,
forming a line, row rapidly up and
down the stream from the village to a
beacon at the mouth of the river. Here
the tyee rest under the floating sea
ware, and if the lure is properly pre
sented to the fish at the moment of
feeding-time, the angler is sure to have
at least one run in the evening.
Two days of ill-luck convinced me
that something was w'rong with my
methods of fishing, so I took the oppor
tunity of visiting the Indian village
and extracting some information on
the subject of lures from the Indians.
In 1907 the chief attraction had been
a large lead spoon polished on one
side; but during 1908 none had been
successful with this artifice, the In
dians themselves using a small, bright
nickel spoon. I bought two of them
from a local store and got an Indian
to lash on with string a siw'ash-hook
of approved pattern. With this bait
confidence revived, and I resolved to
go and "buck the tide.” that is, rovr
against the heavy stream when others
were still ashore and waiting for the
evening run. Coming home on the
previous day at 3 p. m., I had seen
three or four big tyee leaping at a
point well out in mid-stream, opposite
the old Indian graveyard. Mac, my
guide, said he could work the boat
there for a short time, so under the
blazing afternoon sun we set out amid
the solemn warning of other more ex
AT THE FIVE O’CLOCK TEA.
Hoyle—If it were not for my wife I wouldn't be here.
Boyle—No, hang it! Neither would I if it were not for mine! I'm
the hostess' husband!
Retiring Aged Professors.
Regents of the University of Min
nesota have ordained that all contracts
with members of the faculty shall ex
pire when teachers reach their 65th
birthday. Next June, it is said, half '
a dozen old gentlemen will call the
class roll for the last time unless they
have before followed the example of
their president. Dr. Northrop, and sent
in their resignations.
96.S6. -97 POU/f0£AS .
perienced fishermen that we were giv
ing ourselves a lot of hard work for
nothing.
But the ways of the salmon are
strange, and you often take a fish
when all things look unpropitious.
With infinite toil Mac bucked the tide,
and after half an hour's labor against
a six-knot tide succeeded in reaching
the spot I had marked. We had scarce
ly arrived when my rod was almost
torn from my hand. No cohoe had
strength like this even in a tideway,
and one minute of strain, in which my
17-foot Hardy rod felt all too weak,
convinced me that I had hold of a ver
itable tyee and a big one.
With such strong tackle one could
take certain liberties with a fish, how
ever large; so. forcing his head to the
boat every time he attempted a sim
ilar cruise, I gained the mastery over
him before 20 minutes had passed. A
difficulty now presented itself in huge
masses of floating seaweed, into which
I feared the fish might run and break
me. So on Mac’s advice we forced
I the fish shorewards towards the
! shingly beach below the graveyard,
where absence of weed and gravelly
sand gave hopes of a safe termination
of the contest. The gallant tyee, how
| ever, showed every disinclination to
face the shallow water, as he seemed
to know by instinct that therein
danger lay. The nearer we got to the
land the stronger he seemed to get,
and it was only by using such strength
as would have been fatal in the case
of a river salmon and great care that
I at last forced him into such a posi
i tion that 1 could spring ashore. Now
each successive rush became fainter,
and the greatest back and tail I had
ever handled began to show up. For
one moment he heeled over on his side
and gave us our first view of the fish.
“He's 50 pounds if an ounce,” I cried,
trembling with excitement.
'All that," quoth the laconic Mac.
The end soon came. The gallant
fighter rolled into shallower and shal
lower water and found it harder and
harder to right his weakened body.
“Now go for him. Mac,” I cried. Xo
sooner said than done; the boatman
ran into the sea up to his knees, made
two shocking attempts with the gaff
and finally emerged dripping, but tri
umphant, with the struggling monster.
We speculated on his weight, which
the hotel scales, whose accuracy we
had proved, gave at 55 pounds.
Tyee-fishing with a spoon may not
be the highest class of sport, but the ]
act of playing the fish is, without j
doubt, great fun. I am not blase,
though I have caught plenty of salmon, j
[ so the joy of kiling a 55-pounder as
i one's first fish was unalloyed. I meant ,
to catch a bigger one and then stop;
but who ever does? There is always
a bigger one still.
Damning with Faint Praise.
Being eager to know how his off
spring, Haymow, Jr., was getting along
in the big metropolis. Haymow, Sr.,
one clay repaired thither from his rural
habitat and sought information of his
brother, long since established in the
city.
“Wal," said Haymow, Sr., “what do
you hear about Ebenezer?”
“Oh, I understand," remarked the
young hopeful’s uncle, “that he is in
valuable in his new job.”
“I swan!”
"Moreover, I understand that the
boss simply can't do without him.”
“How you talk!”
“And Ebenezer'll be a partner with
in a year or so, according to what I
hear from the same source.”
Haymow, Sr., stroked his beard,
highly satisfied.
“By the way, who told you all this
about Ebenezer?" he inquired.
“Ebenezer.”
“Oh!”
In all the civilized countries of the
world 60 per cent, of the persons over
ten years old have to work for a
living.
EFFECT OF FOOD UPON BREAKING
STRENGTH OF BONES
Interesting and Valuable Experiment with Hogs—By E» A.
Burnett, Director Nebraska Agricultural College.
Showing Bone Between the Anvils of Testing Machine After Breaking.
The purpose of the experiment was
to determine the effect of different
classes o£ food on the breaking
strength of bones in growing pigs, as
an indication of the food require
ments for hogs which are to be used
for breeding purposes.
A study of the breaking strength of
the leg bones in the pigs which were
lot . too PfcH curr oorji-meal ”=* *
HI No Liw *1 Fwnui Ttbk H»»wu Kao »« Avers** of
, \ L— sn« jlu.. sii bjoas
U11<* t<AR«k< UN R«u
1 X? S Afty-om 300 034 *10 .. ,
a im i m mu «o-wo ito-mjc :io-nu
2 :*4 • >’MtB #l~-0it) *48-1020 *10-410
4 213 • WUO 640- *70 990-4*
. 210 • «* M.* Ml 747 TO:
LOT i 7* PER <T*T TORN MEaL 23 PER CENT 8H02TS.
• ill 0 *90-fV> 390-414 11*0-1190 7*0-740
4 za 0 410-fQO «7(MM9 1*30-1210 7*0-770
*44 fl *-*40 47O-T00 135 > Ml* 9*>6J0
I WJ 4 279-7M fQO-tOO 1030-1170 930440
Av474P 21* 0 74# *77 iil* %C7
LUT l 23 PER CENT TORN REAL 79 PER CfXT I KIM. MUR
0 339 0 1090-1070 790- 794 l*4t» 149U ! 230-1219
*8 W9 0 «-11*0 1090-1040 TttKXiMC 144b-)4Ht
II 271 9 1110-11*0 Mu- too 1740-1*0 4*0-1 JUO
U 746 6 1*70-1220 9*0- IM 1CC-2L40 IJU0-I4J0
4-erm 7*9 0 CM 928 17*4 UM 127*
LOT A K P;1 CERT CORN ME.4L. 10 PER CERT T AN I .AGE
IS 744 4 14T0 147V n94-l030 1370 1900 1(00-1*8)
14 y» $ t- 470 780- 7*0 IMCMOeO 1270 l.40
j* 21*0 12RVI2*n Me IR 1900 1900 1200-1!«0 , .
19 23* I 1330-1040 1990- «T0 14*0-1*70 14JC-1930
*'«’»#» 723 0 1799 Mb 1719 1420 1*61
LOT i r PER CENT CORN-MEaI. tf> PER CEJPT RO*£41£a!.
17 2119 144u-l«R) 934- I3B11 ICJC 144., 1'14IVJD
14 2*1* 14M !M9 11*4-1170 11*0-1290 1400-1490
t* 24* « IRA-1390 MO-1640 *0*0-1:JO .930 .400
30 1« • 1430- 1Mb MO- *74 l«M-:M0 1*04-13*9
Iwwp **l 0 1*39 _MM*_1*44_1*74 , MQfl
NWM by u.
tttM|
Table 1—Breaking Strength of Bones.
Pigs Fed for Twenty-Two Weeks on
Different Foods. Initial Weight of
Pigs About Sixty-Two Pounds.
under the test brings out some inter
esting facts. An effort was made in the
selection of all the pigs in each lot to
secure animals of uniform character
! l
They were broken under the super
vision of the department of appliec
mechanics. Every effort was made te
secure a very accurate test. The point:
of contact in the machine were made
exactly the same for all bones cf the
same class, though for short bones
like the humerus the bearings were
necessarily closer than in the femurs
and the radiuses and ulnas. In two
instances bones which were found tc
have been previously cracked were re
jected. The results are shown :.n ta
ble 1.
Although this machine did not break
the bones with a blow, such as might
be expected when broken in the ani
mal, the\ were all broken under exact
ly the same conditions and hence their
relative strength could be carefully de
dermined.
It will be seen from this table that
there is a gradual increase in the
strength of these bones per hundred
weight of hog and that the greater
strength is not a matter simply of the
more rapid growth and heavier weight
of the pig resulting from these supple
mentary feeds.
The laboratory examination of these
bones also reveals a marked difference
in the thickness of the walls as shown
by the X-ray photographs.
The laboratory tests have also
shown that there is no apparent In
crease in the external measurements
of the bones resulting when protein oi
mineral matter is added to the food
nutrients, but that these additional nu
trients, so far as they are assimilated,
Skeleton of Hog Showing Bones Broken in Experiment. A, Femur: B, Tibia;
C, Humerus; D, Radius and Ulna. Fibulu Not Used.
and weight. All the pigs used were of
Dne breed. There is still considerable
difference in the breaking strength of
the bones in different individuals of
the same lot, which must be consid
ered as an individual difference and
which we have not been able to over
come by selection. As there were
eight leg bones broken in each hog, or
32 bones in each lot, the very marked
difference in the average breaking
strength can only be attributed to the
effect of difference in the food of the
animals while they were under experi
ment
The lot of 20 pigs put on experiment
August 2, 1907, were continued for 22
have greatly added to the thickness
of the bone walls by accretion on the
inner surface of these walls, thereby
reducing the marrow within the bone.
The thickness of the bone wall In
creased about 50 per cent, in those fed
bone meal over those fed only corn.
The per cent, of mineral matter and
the specific gravity in the green bones
increased in nearly the same propor
tion as the thickness of the wails.
This extreme difference in the break
ing strength of the bones of the differ
ent lots indicate that the skim-milk,
the tankage and the ground bone each
contained some substance in which the
corn was deficient that was available
Radius
Lot. Ration. Femur. Tibia. Humerus. and All bones
ulna.
1 ! Com. 276 252 434 341 325
2 ! Cora and shorts. 343 309 555 376 396
3 Cora and skim-milk... 462 360 685 529 609
4 Com and tankage. 559 409 740 611 580
5 Cora and ground bone 646 465 898 715 681
Table 2—Average Breaking Strength of Bones Per 100 Pounds Live Weight
of Hogs at Tim e of Slaughter.
weeks until January 3. 1908. They
were killed at South Omaha, January
8, 1908. The carcasses hung for 48
hours in the cooler and the humerus,
-adius and ulna were removed from
?ach fore leg, and the femu’ and tibia
'rom the hind leg. These were brought
it once to the experiment station and
cleaned so that they could be subjected
fo test.
for bone building purposes. Since the
increased mineral matter in the bones
is largely phosphate of lime, and since
the skim-milk, tankage and ground
bone are each rich in phosphate of
lime, it is fair to look upon the phos
phates in these foods as the determin
ing factor in the building up of the
bones in the pigs fed.
Warm the Water.
Whether to heat the drinking water
or not for chickens depends on the
chickens. Some flocks will drink as
beartilj’ of cold water as of warm,
others barely taste the cold water,
but drink greedily of the warm We
have noticed that egg production is
always best in the house where the
! water vessels are first emptied. If
! the birds won't drink water unless it
| is warmed it will pay to warm it if
| egg production is desired.
Try This.
The best exerciser for hens Is made
by suspending cabbage, roots, heads,
etc., by a coiled wire spring such as
tomes from old furniture. Hens are
human enough to want what is out of
'•each. Hang a head of cabbage on a
level with their heads and the chances
are they won’t pay much attention to
t. Suspend it about two feet from the
floor, and they will spend much of
their time jumping for it.
Farm Help.—The fact that work is
plenty makes the average hand inde
pendent. He takes little interest in
Ms present job.
Insist on Stable Cleanliness.—In the
production of commercial milk, the
dairyman must not only keep himself
and his cows clean, but he must not
draw the milk from the cow in a
stable filled with dust. He never
should feed hay before milking. He
should not feed grain nor disturb the
bedding before milking. I may get
into an argument in regard to this
statement, declares a writer in Orange
Judd Farmer, for there are those who
claim that the stable should be
cleaned before the milking is done. I
maintain not, for you know the more
you disturb some things the worse
they smell. The dairyman must not
feed silage before he milks, for if con
tamination of the air of the stable oc
curs with the acid odor of silage, the
milk will certainly be tainted. It may
not be detected at once, but the city
neighbor who attempts to use this
milk 48 hours old, will certainly detect
an unpleasant flavor.
Wife Will Appreciate It.—Clear a
path all around under the clothes line
for wash day. Make it wide enough
so the skirts do not get into the snow
A NURSE'S EXPERIENCE.
Backache, Paine in the Kidneys, Bloat
ing, Etc., Overcome.
A nurse is expected to know what
to do for common ailments, and worn
en who suffer back
ache, constant lan
guor, and other com
mon symptoms of
kidney complaint,
should be grateful
to Mrs. Minnie
Turner, of E. B.
Ft.. Ana^arko. Okla..
for pointing out the way to tind quick
relief. Mrs. Turner used Doan's Kid
ney Pills for a run-down condition,
backache, pains in the sides and kid
neys, bloated limbs, etc. "The way
they have built me up is simply mar
velous," says Mrs. Turner, who is a
nurse. “My health improved rapid
ly. Five hoses did so much for me I
am telling everybody about it."
Sold by all dealers. 50 cents a box.
Foster-Milburn Co.. Buffalo, N. V.
MADE HIM SIT UP.
Wifie—I’ll make you sorry you ever
quarreled with me!
Hubby—What will you do? Go home
to your mother. I smpose?
Wifie—No; I’ll bring mother here!
BABY HORRIBLY BURNED
By Boiling Grease—Skin All Came Off
One Side of Face and Head—
Thought Her Disfigured for Life.
Used Ctrticura: No Scar Left.
“My baby was sitting beside the
fender and we were preparing the
breakfast when the frying-pan full ol
boiling grease was upset and it went all
over one side of her face and head.
Some one wiped the scald with a
towel, pulling the entire skin off. We
took her to a doctor. He tended her
a week and gave me some stuff to put
on. But it all festered and I thought
the baby was disfigured for life. I
used about three boxes of Cuticura
Ointment and it was wonderful how
it healed. In about five weeks it was
better and there hasn’t a mark to tell
where the scald had been. Her skin
is just like velvet. Mrs. Hare, 1,
Henry St., South Shields. Durham,
England. March 22, 1908.”
Potter Dmi 4 Chem. Ccrp.. Sole ProDe.. Boson.
Why There Was a Funeral.
“That looks like a newly made grave
—that little hummock over there on
the desert," said the traveler from the
sast.
“That’s just what it is. neighbor,”
answered Arizona Al. “The editor of
the Weekly Cactus Spine was buried
over there last week.”
“What was his complaint?”
“He didn't have none. It was Coyote
Cal that had the complaint. You see.
there was a baby born up to Cal’s
house a spell ago, and the editor wrote
an item about it, savin’ a tow-headed
little girl hed come to make Cal and
his woman happy, but It ’pears that
the printer got the letters mixed some
how. Leastways it said in the paper
when Cal read it that it was a two
headed baby, and him bein’ an im
pulsive cuss, there wan’t nothin’ to do
but hold the funeral the next day but
one.”
Lese Majeste.
A teacher in one of the schools of
Berlin has given to the papers of that
city a composition written by one of
the pupils in his school on the sub
ject, “The Kaiser,” in the course of
which the young author says: “Prince
Wilhelm was born on the kaiser's
birthday. From the dome of the cas
tle 101 salute shots were fired. The
old grandfather and old Wrangel
hopped into a cab and went to the
schloss, and old Wrangel said: ‘The
boy is all right,' and the father made
a bow from the balcony, and it was
awful cold. And when the boy was
baptized his father held his watch in
front of the litle fellow’s nose, and he
grabbed it and never let go again, be
cause he is a Hohenzollern.”
CONGENIAL WORK
And Strength to Perform It.
—
A person in good health is likely
to have a genial disposition, ambition,
and enjoy work.
On the other hand, if the digestive
organs have been upset by wrong
food, work becomes drudgery.
“Until recently,” writes a Washing
ton girl, “I was a railroad stenog
rapher, which means full work every'
day.
“Like many other girls alone in a
large city, I lived at a boarding house.
For breakfast it was mush, greasy
meat, soggy cakes, black coffee, etc.
“After a few months of this diet I
used to feel sleepy and heavy in the
mornings. My work seemed a ter
rible effort, and I thought the work was
to blame—too arduous.
“At home I had heard mv father
speak of a young fellow who went
long distances in the cold on Grape
Nuts and cream and nothing more for
breakfast.
“I concluded if it would tide him
over a morning's heavy work. It might
help me, so on my way home one
night I bought a package and next
morning I had Grape-Nuts and milk
for breakfast.
“I stuck to Grape-Nuts, and in less
than two weeks I noticed improve
ment. I can't just tell how well I
felt, but I remember I used to walk
the 12 blocks to business and knew
how good it was simply to live.
“As to my work—well, did you ever
feel the delight of having congenial
work and the strength to perforin it?
That’s how I felt. I truly believe
there’s life and vigor in every grain of
Grape-Nuts.”
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? A new
one appear*! from time to time. They
are genuine, true, ucd full of bumaa
Interest.
