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MINISTER TO CHINA |
Charles R. Crane of Chicago, who has accepted
the post of minister to China, offered him by the
president, is a business man and a Democrat. He
first came into the diplomatic field last Novem
ber and until that time never voted anything but
the straight Democratic ticket. Although unac
quainted with the technicalities of diplomacy, the
newr minister to China will go to his post with
qualifications of an unusual character.
One of his rare achievements is familiarity with
the Chinese language. The far east is a broken
road to him through years of travel both in fre
quented and unfrequented parts; and his acquaint
ance with men of the yellow races whose names
are powers in their respective countries of tfc.e
orient.
He has made three extended trips in Central
Asia and 18 into Russia, with the result that many Russian as well as Chinese
statesmen know him personally. Two years were spent by him in exploring
the Asiatic coast.
Mr. Crane is a native Chicagoan, having been born in that city on August
7. 1858. He is a son of R. T. Crane, founder of the Crane Company, and Mary
Prentiss Crane. He was educated in the public schools of Chicago, and in
compliance with his father’s well-known ideas as to collegiate education, Mr.
Crane entered the employ of the Crane Company as soon as his school days
were over. In 1881, when he was 28 years oid, he was married to Miss Cor
nelia Smith of Paterson, N. J.
He served the Crane Company in various capacities, learning the manu
facturing business step by step, until in 1S94 he became first vice-president.
With his advancement Mr. Crane found time to take up civic duties and to
branch out into other commercial enterprises. He served as president of the
Municipal Voters' league for a time and became a director of the National
Rank of the Republic, a position which he holds at the present time.
Then he took charge of the foreign business of the Crane Company, and
in this capacity he devoted several years to traveling in all parts of the world.
He spent much of his time in Russia and China studying commercial condi
tions and making himself familiar with the languages. He was received at
the Russian court and is regarded as an authority on Russian affairs.
In F bniary, 1901, lie gave $10,000 to the "young empress" fund for Rus
sian soldiers and sailor*? through Count Rostofisoff, chancellor of the empire,
and was the recipient of the empress' grateful thanks.
Mr. Crane also spent much of his time in China. The interests of his
company took him into almost every province and brought him mto close con
tact wdth all classes. This experience and his ability to read the Chinese
language were factors in bringing him to the favorable notice of President
1 aft lor the appointment of United States ambassador to China. He is a con
noisseur of old and rare books and paintings.
NEW GERMAN CHANCELLOR
Dr. von Bethmann-Hollweg, successor to Prince
von Buelow as chancellor of the German Empire,
Is a college friend of the emperor. They were
fraternity brothers in the Borussia corps at Bonn,
and during the entire reign of William, Dr. von
Bethmann-Hoilweg often has advised his majesty.
He had, how'ever, shown a disinclination to accept
high office. He Is a man of reserved and thought
ful habits, and sometimes has been called the
“philosopher statesman." Even at his own recep
tions he sometimes wears an air of preoccupation.
He is a tall man and wears a dark, pointed beard.
Emperor William often has found rest and com
fort in Dr. von Bethmann-Hollweg's repose of
manner and his agreeable conversation, and the
latter is one of the few frequenters of the ccurt
whose bearing toward his majesty is natural and
simple.^ Dr. von Bethmann-Hollweg Is of Jewish origin. The Bethmann fam
ily left Holland two centuries ago o”h account of its religion and settled in
Frankfort, where the men entered the banking business. His great-grand
mother married John James Hollweg, who added his wife's name to his own.
His grandfather was the first member of the family to enter public service.
This ancestor became a professor of jurisprudence at the Bonn university and
received a patent of nobility for his learning. Later he was made a member
of the Prussian Diet and became active in the constitutional agitation of the
'40s, and ten years later was appointed to the liberal cabinet as minister of
education.
The new chancellor is now 53 years old. In his youth he studied law and
was appointed assistant judge. Before he was 30 years old he had been made
district governor of Ober-Barnim, and later he became provincial president of
Potsdam, where the suburban palace of Emperor William is located. During
his three years at Potsdam he saw much of the emperor and the two men
took long walks and rides in the environs.
It wa3 the doctor's custom on these rides to wear an old tweed suit oi
sober cut and he always selected a quiet horse.
Following his sojourn at Potsdam. Dr. von Bethmann-Hollweg’s promotion
was rapid. He became president of the government of Bromberg and later
president of the province of Brandenburg, from which post he took up the
portfolio of Prussian minister of the interior.
In so much as Dr. von Bethmann-Hollweg has had no experience in for
eign affairs, it is presumed that he will rely on the foreign secretary in this
branch to a greater extent than has Prince von Buelow.
STORY-TELLING PASTOR I
Rev. Dr. J. H. String, pastor of the Maple Ave
nue Reformed church of St. Louis, Mo., has won
a reputation In the Missouri city as "the story
telling pastor.” Rev. String has abandoned the
time-honored method of preaching a sermon from
a text. Instead, he teaches his congregation the
Bible by means of stories, which are pure fiction.
“In doing this.” said Rev. String, “I am only im
itating Christ when he told the parables."
One of the pastor’s fictional stories which was
right up to the minute, concerned the temptations
of a country boy who came to the city and found
that while chances for success might be brighter,
temptations were multiplied. The country boy
became a patron of cheap picture shows, dice
games for cigars, beer halls, etc., but was re
claimed from his bad habits through a chance at
tc-mpt to nlrt with a young lady Sunday scnooi teacner.
The themes that Ur. String uses for his stories are all of this homely na
ture and generally have some relation to love and marriage.
Rev. String's story-sermons are liked so well, particularly by the young
people of his congregation, that the trustees of the church are considering the
building of an addition to accommodate the crowds. Frequently the "Stand
ing Room Only" sign has been out, figuratively speaking, after Rev. String an
nouneed his subject.
ADVICE OF MILLIONAIRE I
Benjamin Guggenheim, millionaire silver, gold
and lead mine owner and official of the American
Smelting and Refining Company, now says:
"Young man; go west ” On the eve of his depart
ure for a business trip in Europe a curious re
porter asked Mr. Guggenheim what his advice to
the young man was That was his answer, but he
added: “Let the young man who is thinking ol
going to Alaska first have himself examined by u
doctor to ascertain whether he i3 in good health.
Good health is absolutely necessary to stand the
rigors of the near-Arctic circle.”
"Alaska offers opportunities for a small fortune
—and by that 1 mean from $15,000 to $50,000 for
almost any industrious young man and millions
to the lucky few,” continued Mr. Guggenheim.
“The gold fields are just beginning to be de;
veloped. nenjamin Guggenheim was Dorn in Philadelphia in 1865, but his
life history is connected with that of the western states, particularly Colo'
rado. His father, Meyer Guggenheim, with his seven sons, organized the
Guggenheim Exploration Company and later the sons organized the American
Smelting and Refining Company, which is popularly known as the "smelt
er trust.” M. Guggenheim Sons, as the trust was formerly known, had min
ing interests in Alaska, Africa, Mexico and all the mineral states of America
and were the world's most extensive smelters and metallurgists. Their “A.'
S. & R.” stock is valued at many millions.
Partisan Definition.
"Father,” said little Sollo, "what is
a political trickster?” “I can't give
you a definition that will cover all
varieties. But, in general terms, he
is a member of the opposition who
succeeds in having his own way.”
Another Vindication.
The public has some rights, at least.
Ac Illinois judge says a woman who
has just eaten garlic may be ejected
from a theater. However, It is im
plied that she may not be killed.—
Rochester Herald.
NEBRASKA IN BRIEF
NEWS NOTES OF INTEREST FROM
VARIOUS SECTIONS.
ALL SUBJECTS TOUCHED UPON
Religious, Social, Agricultural, Polit
ical and Other Matters Given
Due Consideration.
Judge Thomas H. Saunders, one of
the pioneers of Nebraska, died at Co
lumbus after an illness of nearly three
months following a fall down the steps
of the Masonic temple.
Frank Burgess, manager of the Bos
ton Ideal Opera company, playing an
engagement in Beatrice, is suffering
from a spider bite on the lower lip
which may prove serious. He is re
ceiving treatment at a local hospital,
having been forced to give up his work
on the stage for the present.
Corn is king and cooks are queens
is the announcement made by York
County Boys’ Agricultural and Girls’
Domestic Science assoc.ations, who
will hold an exhibition at York, com
mencing Tuesday. November 23 and
ending November 27. The best of the
exhibits will be taken to the Omaha
Corn show.
A large amount of new wheat is be
ing handled in the locality of Beatrice
at present. In two days 10,000 bushels
of this year's crop have been deliv
ered at the elevators at Pickrell, the
grain bringing the top price, $1.02 pel
bushel. No less than eight threshing
outfits have been suppllying the eleva
tors at Pickrell.
Building operations in Beatrice are
being pushed. Local carpenters, plas
terers and masons are all busy.
Among the buildings now in progress
of construction are the new Kilpatrick
office building, the Beatrice Automo
bile company’s garage, and John L.
Schiek livery barn, firemen’s head
quarters and Dole Floral company’s
block.
The plans and specifications for a
new brick court house to be built at
Bridgeport are now being advertised
for. The court house will cost $25,
000. A bond issue of $15,000 has just
been voted for this purpose and this
with the $10,000 cash donation of the
Lincoln Land company, will secure
one of the finest court houses in the
west for Nebraska's youngest county.
The 7-year-old son of Otto Stark,
who lives five miles wrest of Martins
burg, was gored by a bull. The boy
was badly bruised with a rent five
inches long on the right side which
penetrated the intestines and another
in the back, besides being trampled
all over. No place as large as a hand
on his entire body escaped. It is
thought he will recover.
Certain members of the Nebraska
State Historical society have protest
ed to State Auditor Barton to prevent
the payment by him to C. S Paine
salary as secretary of the society at
the rate of $1,500 a year. As a result
Mr. Barton will pay no more salary
vouchers for Mr. Paine until the mat
ter has been passed on by the legal
department of state.
After ten days of activity, the 1.200
Nebraska national guardsmen, con
stituting the First brigade, left Ash
land for their homes, leaving jn camp
only a little guard in charge of Major
E. H. Phelps, who remained over to
conduct the target practice of the
team that goes to compete in the na
tional rifle tournament at Camp Perry,
O., the middle of August. The camp
wras said by everyone to be the best
ever held in the state.
The early apple crop, says a Ne
braska City dispatch, is exceptionally
good and several cars have been ship
ped out. The crop will be a heavy
one and it is found that those orch
ards which have been sprayed and
properly looked after have borne fruit
that will bear shipping, while those
that have not been cared for are not
fit to ship, being very defective. The
late crop will be very light and only
in sprayed orchards will it amount to
anything.
riurvesung in mis section, says an
Arlington dispatch, is about finished
and some threstiing is being done. It
is claimed that wheat will make be
tween twenty and thirty-five bushels
per acre and the test will be from
sixty to sixty-two. Oats are rather a
light crop as a whole, owing to the
late freeze, but some fields will make
a good yield. The elevators are
offering to contract wheat at $1 per
bushel, and many of the farmers will
sell direct from the treshing machine.
The last report of the weather bur
eau for Nebraska, for .June, indicates
that that month hau rather more than
the usual amount of rain. The precipi
tation was 4.26 inches, which is more
than a quarter of an inch greater than
the average for the month during the
past thirty-four years. West Point
was favored with 9.94 inches. The
temperature was rather greater than
normal for the month, standing as
an average at 69 degrees. The high
est temperature at any time during
the month was 108 degrees at Beaver
City.
The attorney for Mrs. Maud Moran
of Nebraska City, wife of Attorney W.
F. Moran, who after a hearing cover
ing five weeks before the commis
sioners of insanity was declared in
sane. has gone before Judge H. D.
Travis and secured a writ of habeas
corpus. The hearing it set for Aug. 1.
Two boys ran away from the indus
trial school at Kearney last week.
They were helpers in the kitchen and
were sent in the kitchen ahead of one
of the officers to do some work. When
the officer arrived the boys had disap
peared and, although the country was
scoured, they are still missing.
A record yield of wheat in both
quantity and quality, an oats crop
that will be the best for the last five
years and a corn crop that will be up
to or above normal are predicted by
E. A. Twidale, a Hastings grain man,
who bases his estimates on personal
Investigation throughout the central
and south central parts of Nebraska.
An "orderly mob" was organized at
Bridgeport and, armed with a rope,
sought out a young negro who had be
come altogether too fresh and in
formed him that he could chose be
tween leaving town and being strung
up to a telegraph pole. He left town.
OLD DFA WALL AW WATCH TOWffi OF
THfJ'LTY Of FAHA CIA
I swung up into the cab of the loco
motive at Colon and cuddled down on
the warm leather seat with a nod or
recognition and a handful of Pana
manian money to the engineer. It is
not every evening that one gets the
chance of riding from the Atlantic to
the Pacific in the cab of a locomotive.
The distance from sea to sea at Pana
ma is 44 miles. The Panama railroad
curves some and in one or two places
I was reminded of a railroad down in
West Virginia where the curves are
so sharp that the fireman often throws
coal into the headlight of his own en
gine.
The track from Colon. Panama, is
what railroad men call a red-hot
track; that is, it is jammed all day
long with passenger trains, ten cars
to a train, and trains of fiat cars load
ed with dirt from the Culebra excava
tion. At night the freight goes
through from the big ships raitir.^ on
one side to vessels at the wharves on
the other. It takes two hours and a
half to cross the isthmus and the fare
is $2.40. Our special train whirled
through station after station—about a
mile apart—and the buzzards hopped
off the track and the other regular
traffic stood aside to let us pass. To
right and left the rank vegetation
crowded right up to the rails—cocoa
nut palms and banana trees, bejucca
vines and ceiba trees. As you leave
Colon it’s hard to tell where the green
scum leaves ofT and the solid land be
gins. Everything is green—a poison
ous. verdigris green.
So we rocked and reeled onward
through the soft flooding moonlight,
and at all the stations near to Pana
ma the platforms were crowded with
Americans in evening dress and their
partners in white muslin and chiffon,
waiting to take the regular train to
Panama, to attend the new year*s
dance of the Culebra club. So when
we got to Panama and I had clam
bered down out of the cab and said
my grimy and perspiring adieu to
their satanic majesties of the hrottle
and the firebox—there was the Tivoli
hotel, where the dance was to be held,
ablaze with light and festooned with
bunting and vines and all manner of
creeping things, all ready for the
fiesta
I ran upstairs and put on a boiled
shirt and a black coat, with two tall3
to it, and the usual evening regalia ot
one who i3 ’•condemned” to live in the
midst of a clean and shaven race ”
When I got down stairs a band over
in the corner was vigorously going It.
There was no piano, but they had
about 1% trombones, a violoncello, a
flute and the parts of several violins
It really made very tolerable music.
At a few minutes before 12 o'clock,
when I turned in, the dancers were
still hopping and gliding about. Sud
denly the whistle of the ice plant and
the bells of the cathedral found out
that the new year was born and then
the whole town at once was in an up
lonr. The Chinese were setting off
long strings of firecrackers; the buil
bide drums and tambours, the tin cans
lull of stones, the barking dogs and
the yelling urchins, the locomotives
at the roundhouse and above all the
whistle of the ice plant, drove sleep
OOVSRmtNr PALACE, C/ryOPPA/fAMA
far from one's pillow. And I was par
ticularly anxious to get to sleep, be
cause at 3 a. m. the chief of police
was coming round to take our party
on an alligator hunt.
I wfas just dozing off when there
came a loud rapping at the door and
a boy thrust in his head: “Was you
de gemman dat ordahed de ice-watah?'
“No,” I said, “next room," and com
posed myself to rest. About two
o’clock I was meeting with some de
gree of success when the same boy
rapped again. “Did you wish for
ice-watah, suh?”
At three o’clock he came a third
time and said the chief of police was
waiting downstairs. I had not slept
I at all, but neither had the chief ot
I police.
We drove, with day breaking above
the royal palms and the ceiba trees,
past the Chinese cemetery and around
Ancon hill to the wharf of La Boca.
I the Pacific terminus of the canal
Here there was a 50-foot launch wait
ing for us; the American engineers
found the launch on the top of the
hills at Culebra and put it together.
With two Jamaica natives shoveling
coal in the cockpit and a Spaniard at
the engine, we went up the coast 25
miles through water alive with sharks
chasing the mullet clean out of the
sea and the pelicans solemnly fishing
from the reefs. At the mouth of the
Chowera river we turned in. Opposite
a stone dock built by a British trading
company we anchored the launch and
took to four small boats, each boat
rowed by two policemen from the
Panama constabulary. It was hard
fighting up that river. The tide was
rushing out nine miles an hour and
after passing a native village of mis
erable shacks thatched with palm, we
came to a reef that spanned the river
except at one or two points, where
the water rushed boiling through.
Again and again the oarsmen, yelling,
bent to the paddles and forced the
boats right into the teeth of the rap
ids, but the water played with us “as
a kitten pats a cork,” and drove us
back with our gunwales dipping un
der.
Capt. Shanton, our chief of police,
was getting a -little discouraged, for
he bad not seen anything much to
shoot at except a couple of water
dogs, or soras, that ventured too near
the bank, and the captain had given
us to expect a happy hunting ground
with a whole herd of alligators. As we
rounded the corner just above the
rapids, I nearly fell out of the boat
l Here they were on the bank, at least
15 of them—not 200, as the champion
liar of the party subsequently stated.
The biggest was not less than 25 feet
long. They shambled very rapidly on
their fat legs to the water’s edge and
plopped in. The minute their noses
came to the surface 12 Marlin 44’s
gave them a volley, but Capt. Shan
ton’s elephant gun was probably the
only weapon that did any damage.
A great hunter was telling me the
other night how you proceed with a
whale. He said:
"First you get the whale interested
and then you kick him in the face."
But you can’t do that with an alliga
tor. We probably shouldn’t have
landed a single one if it hadn't been
for the fact that a lady 'gator was
taking a nap in a thicket far above
the water line and. hearing the tu
mult and the shouting, came down the
bank in a burry toward Capt. Shan
tou’s boat, clapping her under Jaw
like the bottom of a steam shovel
bucaet at Culebra. The captain was
ready and let her have both barrels
of the elephant gun. which would
have wrecked the shoulder of an ordi
narily strong man. A congressman
from California was peeping between
Capt. Shanton’s legs with a Brownie
camera, but he pressed the button a
great many times and forgot to turn
the film, so that the result was decid
ly composite. The ’gator keeled over
lust before she got to the water and
when we were sure she was sufficient
ly dead we cut off her claws for sou
venirs.
Duty of the Biographer.
A life that is worth writing at all is
worth writing minutely and truthfully.
HOW DIAMONDS ARE HANDLED
Sont in Bulk to Antwerp or Amster
dam for Cutting, and Distributed
From London.
To those who are at all familiar
with the manner in which the dia
mond business is conducted in Eu
rope, the assertion of small dealers
in this country that they have their
own cutters in Amsterdam and Lon
don is ridiculous. There are few peo
ple who do not know that most of the
rough diamonds which are now found
in Africa are brought to London,
where they are sold in lots, the great
est part being taken to Amsterdam
and Antwerp, where the largest cut
ting works are located. There they
are cut into various sizes. Those cut
in Amsterdam are for the greater
part sold in the diamond exchange in :
Tulpstraat, where dealers from all I
over the world meet and make their j
pip-chases. The most of these dia- j
monds are taken to London, where:
they) are examined and assorted ac
cording to size and quality. Then
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those purchased by American jobbers
are shipped to New York, this being
the only port of entry in the United
States where the government has ap
praisers who are especially educated
and appointed to the position of ex
amining and passing upon the quality
and value of precious stones in order
that the proper duty may be assessed
upon them. So when any American
retailer boasts that he has his own
cutters of diamonds in Europe the as
sertion may be taken for what it is
worth.
Treatment of Japanese Convicts.
In Japan a convict may earn enough
money while in jail to maintain his
family. He has the best of food and 1
lodging, is taught a trade, and if he
wishes pursues the study of foreign
languages.
Restriction on Organ-Grinders.
The organ-grinder.- Vienna play
only between noeu and sunset.
1EUGS0FEMPRESS
Objects Associated with Jose
phine in New French Museum.
Malmaison, Home Purchased by Napo
leon for His Beautiful Wife.
I
Thrown Open to Public by
the Government.
Paris.—Josephine, who was the star
of Napoleon's destiny, has at last a
monument that all who go to Paris
may visit.
It is Josephine's museum, erected
by the French government in the
country house associated with the
joys and struggles of her life before
she met the conqueror; with her few
married years of splendor and love;
and with the sorrows of her divorce
and lonely death. It is Malmaison.
The museum is made up of a thou
sand familiar objects which surround
ed her; and on June 1 opened the
loan exhibition of things not yet gath
ered permanently together.
There is the harp that Josephine
never learned to play—type of the
broken music of her life; the silver
gilt dinner service offered her by the
city of Paris; her bed, her bath, her
toilet table, her beauty utensils.
There are 500 samples of damask,
satin and tapestry furniture covers
which Napoleon had brought to select
from in imperial housekeeping. It is
raw material of the imperial stage
setting never before exhibited. It
shows Napoleon and Josephine as pal
ace furnishers and makers of the em
pire style.
Every school girl in America knows
the story of Josephine; hut how her
destiny was bound up in this country
house of the old regime is new his
tory from documents and letters. Out
the avenue of the Champs Elysees, be
yond the Arc de Triomphe and the
river, runs the ancient royal road to
St. Germain. Six miles from Paris
is Croissy village. Almost at its edge
begin the wooded grounds of Mal
maison.
From Croissy village, in the days
before Napoleon, a young mother took
her two small children for their airing
to the shade of empty Mahmaison.
The place was uninhabited. The
young mother was glad. There was
Newly-Opened Museum of Empress
Josephine.
no one to warn her off. She read her
book while the kids played. She had
$1,000 a year income, in her legal
separation from a flirting old husband
who had not appreciated her. She was
at peace. It never came into her
head to wish Malmaison her3.
Yet it was Josephine.
She had been married to de Reau
harnais at Croissy church when but
an awkward girl. She had fled to
Croissy when she found herself alone
again.
When she met Napoleon it was love
at first sight, in a few months they
were married. On his return from
Italy, Josephine knew how great a
man she had. He wras looking for a
country place to buy! "What kind?”
she asked. “A chateau,” said Na
poleon. Stately Malmaison. flashed
across her mind. "I know a place,”
said Josephine, “Malmaison, close to
Croissy!”
“Malmaison will be our home,” he
said. The nation had put St. Cloud
and Fontainebleau at his disposition.
He preferred Malmaison. “It is our
own place,” he said to Josephine.
France is a saving old land. Through
revolutions of the utmost violence, the
French civil service departments,
treasuring all things confided to them,
kept the raw material of that stage
setting.
Josephine reigned over the "home ”
an English word to which Napoleon
had taken a sentimental fancy, she
covered the park with flower beds,
planted fancy trees, built hothouses
and stocked the wood with thousands
of gay birds that come flying In clouds
to eat from silver-gilt trays perched
on acajou poles.
These were the happy day3 of Jo
sephine. Only too soon, she was to
live alone again.
After her divorce—declared a state
necessity—the senatus-cons alto main
tained her in the rank of a crowned
empress, attributed 2,000,000 francs a
year to her, with the chateaux of Na
varre and Malmaison. To Malmaison
she retired, to be near to Napoleon—
although she should never see him.
Again Malmaison became a silent
park. As suddenly as it had bloomed
into imperial activity, it faded to its
former quiet. Again a mother walked
with her two children in its shade—
the children Eugene ana Hortense,
now grown up.
Going through the grounds on a
cold, damp day with Czar Alexander.
Josephine took a chill—and died in
the great silk-hung bed, now a part
of the museum exhibits.
After his return from Elba, Napo
leon revisited Malmaison. In spite of
the giant work of gathering his
armies together once again, he spent
two days in dreaming over the chateau
and gardens.
International Manners.
A German lady, we perceive, has
started a school wherein the art of
eating is taught. Not the art of ac
quiring food, but the art of dealing
with it when it is on the table. An
international school of table manners
would do as much as The Hague con
ference to reconcile animosities.
There is really nothing, for example,
in which we could not agree with the
American if he would only come over
to the British notion of eating an egg.
Possibly the Rhodes scholars will
think the matter out at Oxford.—West
minster Gazette.
A SURE SIGN.
When It Appears Act at Once.
Trouble with the kidney secretions
's a certain sign that your kidneys are
deranged and that you should use
Doan's Kidney Pills. They cure all ir
regularities and annoyances, remove
backache and side pains and restore
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Charles Cole, 204 N.
Buckeye St., lola,
Kans., says: “The
kidney secretions
were irregular,
scanty and painful
and contained sedi
ment. My back was
stiff and lame and
my limbs swelled. I grew weak and
discouraged. Doan’s Kidney Pills re
moved these troubles entirely. I have
been well for two years.”
Remember the name—Doan’s. Sold
by all dealers. 50 cents a box. Fos
ter-ililburn Co.. Buffalo, N. Y.
A LONG WAY BACK.
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George—There's Miss Passay. She
claims she's never been kissed.
Harry—Why, I've kissed her myself,
years ago. She means not since she
can remember.
And the Old Man Grinned.
“Duke,” said the heiress, eagerly,
"did you see father?”
“Yes.”
“Well?”
“We talked about the weather.”
“What? Lose your nerve again?
Why don’t you brace up and talk like
a man?—a subject of a king on whose
domain the sun never sets!”
“Can’t,” moaned the duke. “All the
time I was in your father’s office he
kept grinning at a big painting.”
“What painting?”
"The battle of Bunker Hill.”
Crop Growing on Small Scale.
A small bolder in East Lexham is
making an interesting experiment in
barley growing upon his land to test
the possibility of raising corn on a
small scale. In 1907 he sowed 78 spe
cially selected grains of barley, which
yielded 400 ears The resulting ker
nels be sowed In 1908 and harvested
in 14 weeks, with the result that he
got a bushel of threshed barley, which
he has sown this year, .his object be
ing to show what can be done In ce
real cultivation from very small be
ginnings.—London Standard.
But Not tn.
Evelyn—I saw you in bathing this
morning, George. It’s funny you didn’t
see me.
George—I didn’t expect to.
Evelyn—I was sure you saw me at
one time. I was standing close by
you on the beach.
George—Oh, yes. 1 saw you in your
bathing suit,
Mothers’ Day in England.
Provincial England is smiling in a
superior way at America's belated dis
covery that the country ought to cele
brate mother’s day. In the villages
of Cornwall, Devonshire and Lan
cashire mothers' day has been a rec
ognized institution for generations. It
Is celebrated on mid-Lent Sunday.
A Hot Prescription.
"I want you to prescribe for ms,
doctor,” said the sallow-complexioned
man. “I have cold feet; what would
you suggest?"
"A ton of coal, promptly replied
the witty physician. “Five dollars,
please."
Not Her Fault.
“It is the duty of every man and
woman to be married at the age of
32," said the lecturer.
“Well,” said a woman of 30. with
some asperity, “you needn’t tell me
that. Talk to the man.”
THE NEW WOMAN
Made Over by Quitting Coffee.
Coffee probably wrecks a greater
percentage of Southerners than of
Northern people for Southerners use
it more freely.
The work it does is distressing
enough in some instances; as an illus
tration. a woman of Richmond, Va.,
writes:
"I was a coffee drinker for years
and for about six years my health was
completely shattered. I suffered fear
fully with headache and nervousness,
also palpitation of the heart and loss
of appetite.
“My sight gradually began to fail
and finally I lost the sight of one
eye altogether The eye was op
erated upon and the sight partially
restored, then I became totally blind
in the other eye.
“My doctor used to urge me to
give up coffee, but I was willful and
continued to drink it until finally in a.
case of severe illness the doctor in
sisted that I must give up the coffee,
so I began using Postum, and in a
month I felt like a new creature.
“I steadily gained in health and
strength. About a month ago I be
gan using Grape-Nuts food and the
effect has been wonderful. I really
feel like a new woman and have
gained about 25 pounds.
“I am quite an elderly lady and be
fore using Postum and Grape-nuts I
could not walk a square without ex
ceeding fatigue, now I walk ten or
twelve without feeling it. Formerly
in reading I could remember but little
but now my memory holds fast what
1 read
Several friends who have seen the
remarkable effects of Postum and
Srape-Nuts on me have urged that 1
give the facts to the public for the
sake of suffering humanity, so, al
though I dislike publicity, you can
publish this letter if you like.”
Read “The Road to Wellvilie,” in
pkgs. “There' a Reason.”
Ever read the above letter} A new
[>ne appear* from time to time. They
ire KniDlne, time, and (all of hunuuk
interest.