The Loop City Northwestern
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THE CHESTNUT BLIGHT.
TLe chestnut tree t light li to lx
ttMeoghl; larcitisateil Pensojl j
>u.u Ui crested a comm! -aion foi
±u purpose, and tte legislature ta.
appropriated tzUiO* to fight tbit
aew disease. which threatens to de
•troy every chestnut tree is the »tate
ft us !ar so remedy has been discos j
reed, bet somethin* of its nature bat
bees learned It is a bark blight. *
’uagua. asd its timres are eery light
tad are carried by tbe sizd. by bird*
asd by infects to great distances, stay*
tbe New York Xe»s. It first attack*
the *tsai: branches asd young trees
Sot later settles upon tbe studicst and
'ardeti ot tbe chestnut grove* Anc
so tree that has been attacked sine*
tbe c‘»rasr «ai first noticed ia Forest
f ark. Brooklyn several >ears ago. ha*
bees saved No lesv than I'.WKt chest
sst tr.e* have been killed in that on*
park. So rajid La* been tie spread o
be disease that the government is ma
kmg isve*•:gatina*. is the Lo;-e of find
mg a remedy to prevent ita Jurthe:
eaten*ice Great quantities of these
beast:**, and useful trees have al
ready been destroyed in New Jersey
tat no energetic measures have beer
takes to cheek its progress, tbcugi
ioeaJ and state forester* are giving !•
their most careful and intelligent
«edy It sis involve many million*
s# dollars' north of lumber, to sa;
MLi( of ornamental tnd shade tree*
If bo cere is found lor the « be* mu'
tree fungus.
In a recent lira* of the N'nioca
‘j«Cnt'Uc MipiiB* Mr Wells Coo*
af the I State* Biological survey
ho* presented as interesting rtudy o
Wr< migration. la fall art:tie be tell*
as tut ;U cMS ivtUoei which nes'
la Nows Scotia leave the Gulf Coas<
sf VrtKi about March 10 and arrlv*
«* their dett.&atioti two mouths later
aa May 10. Most of the b.rds tha
•pend the winter Is Central or Soatl
Am> rUa he aa;.•. take the direct rout*
wra*» the Gulf Instead of coins vli
Texas or hy way of Florida. Cuba 01
Yucatan. a&d this aerial Joumej
»*»*-* a uncle fllsht of frcm «00 U
'** mile* with so alighting place.
Sales of stock os the New Tork ex
chance danse the past half yeai
amounted to U.hXMMh share*, wfctcl
to ceiir about oae-half the volume o
tracaa* tmas daring the same time ii
the three previous years, and duel
leas than half that of the same months
ta JM7. 1M* acd IMS To had ai
icil a period for speculation we tnus
I* back to 1XM Sales of bonds, how
ever, were exoei'so&iliy large Tbt-r*
was thus plenty of capital seeklnf
so.id or debt lstrsimcsl; and very lit
tie capital disposed to speculate or as
*«&e the n.tn of ownership invest
•*** It has bees a time of escep
(tonal even es'raordicary. timidity or
the part of eajdtal.
Of 11J1 cities answering question:
H the subject of child hygiene pro
powaded by the Russell Page Fou&da
(ton el retort that thetr school rootr
Boors are never washed, and sever
that ao provision to made for th<
was! .14 of school room windows Tb«
a*d saying that cleanliness is next tc
fod..be>» would seem to (UUS«I th«
MCK« that schools « here the window*
sre newer washed might deserve classl
Bcatloa as "godless schools "
Bfe-al-lcg of the grant of a :«ensiot
of kite so Joseph Conrad, the Eng
lteh author, the New York Kvenini
bmmt says "that he should stand It
need of a government subsidy wouh
he Stood incred ble if it were not fot
(he Striking diflereace between th*
psnsat of literature 1b this oonatrj
and that in England. With us a mat
makes his asark a&d grows wealthy. 01
taUs and stops writing hooks" T<
**** of as It seemed the other way;
tost of those Americans who do not
make their mark keep on wriu&y
A New Yorker write* to U* favoriu
eewsi -;»r to oar tfcat tor rears h*
t-M hod all soiled bills that came ir.tr
bis iMMsita suhnl before plaHnt
them ta tU par** I ripple* them It
as {At ha or ssooliee he ur> ail
cleanse the* perfectly. atMl abet
Ukra* arc not coctenkntly at land
•oop ar.£ water will do the work satis
lortortir What a Dice mao be mut>
ko!
Here Is s rtaars tor those who bar*
mnsri rations »r copies asalhst accept
Itf tainted tsotrt Tl.e fOTcmmeot
Is (MSI to la trader dirt* bills, so DC
H»w» bowerer clean Bay hesitate
Id toot k then
A rountry «lrl, rweasttar expert
rocee tm city Jobs, says men bare their
sails teed as os to bold bands wit!
the mart re re Perhaps Hut the mac
who is shared by a woman dans Into
■on n*B dispatches say that a bird
m fitch: fett a speedief chsnffeur in
the hood sod knocked him out. It '
mm Late been a roc
A man and o woman who were
j fought tocetber by a beat collision
ante been momed and bate forsworn
wflMaa*
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Hooey M scarce this year which la
UBtortooate since mother nil! makes
tboae toothsome ilcht hie* wti
INDIAN MAID
PUT CURSE
ON SWOPE
MILLIONS?
ANSAS CITY, MO—If it
wasn't an Indian maiden’s
curse, in the name of
goodness what was it that
iaid a withering blight on
the house of Swope and
made it a house of death, of misfor
tune. of tragedy?
In the east the name of Swope
means not so much; in the west ;t has
a ring such as the name of Astor or
Goelet has in New York, for Col.
Thomas H. Swope, either through cal
culating shrewdness or ignorant luck,
sat himself down on cheap-bought
acres upon which Kansas City was to
rise.
The story of money-getting is al
ways more real than romantic. People
came and lifted Colonel Swope out of
his cowhide boots and stood him in
ratent leathers; they touched his
hard-grubbed two-bit piece and it be
came gold. There's a talisman in
gravel as well as in other things.
If you ask a grizzled pioneer of the
Sni Hills—river bluffs where Kansas
City rises—to tell the story of the j
curse, he works back to it, noting the
incidents on knotted fingers. And it
runs this way;
Roil of Death and Disaster.
Logan O. Swope, only brother of the '
millionaire, died in Independence, Mo.,
in the prime of life.
Moss Hunton. confidential agent and
adviser of Colonel Swope, died mys
teriously two years ago.
Col. Thomas H. Swope, head of the
bouse, alleged to have been poisoned
with cyanide of potassium adminis
tered by Dr. Bennett Clark Hyde, died I
two weeks after Hunton's death.
Cbnsman Swope, nephew, died of
typhoid fever contracted from germs
slieged to nave been administered
hypodermically bv Dr. Hyde.
Lucy Lee Swope, niece, was barely
saved from death by typhoid contract
ed. it is charged, while journeying
from New York to Kansas City with
Dr. Hyde. Hyde was accused of ad
ministering germs in drinking water
on the train.
Thomas Swope, nephew, arm blown
ofl by accidental discharge of shotgun
while bunting.
Mrs Margaret O. Swope, widow of
Logan O. Swope and sister-in-law of j
Colonel Swope, now suffering from
nervous prostration and general break
down.
Dt. Bennett Clarke Hyde, husband
of Frances Swope, niece cf dead mil
lionaire. indicted on eleven counts for
the murder of Moss Hunton. Col.
Thomas H. Swope and Christuas
Swope and for administering typhoid
germs to Lucy Lee Swope and other
members of the Swope family; once
found guilty and sentenced to life Im
prisonment on tbe Colonel Swope in
dictment; In jail for one year; ver
dict reversed and case remanded for
new trial; now out or, $50,000 bail.
Frances Swope, wife of Dr. Hyde,
estranged from her family because she
has stood steadfast for her husband
and has spent much of her share of
the Swope millions In trying to prove
bis innocence.
Son of Dr. and Mrs. Hyde and grand
nephew of Colonel Swope died a few
hours after bfnh while Hyde was In
jaiL Tbe doctor was permitted to
visit bis wife during her sickness,
but arrived some time after the child
had died.
Foundation of Swope Fortunes.
Elmtr Swope of Virginia, who
fJairns to be a sen of Col. Thomas H.
Swop? by a marriage contracted while
the millionaire was in east in 1861, !
is suing for the bulk of what is left 1
of the Swope fortune. The case goes
to trial in a few weeks.
In the fifties Tom Swope came to
Kansas City, then a dot on the Mis
souri river known as Westport Land
ing Reared on a farm in the east,
he soon, for a few dollars, acquired
one of his own in (he new country.
He bought with no eye to the future
great city. He planned only for a
farm, but he wanted a big one. Hav
ing laid out a homestead he began
looking about for multiples of his orig
lnml 160 acres. Ready money w'as
scarce in that country to all save
Swope. \\ aist-high prairie grass
stretched for miles and no one knew
the real value of the land. This gave
Swope the opportunity he wanted. He
bought on ail sides until It was half
an hour’s gallop across his holdings.
Between bis farm and a tract he had
purchased lay many acres to which
an Indian girl held title, which had
descended to her from ancestors.
Young Swopi coveted this ground and
finally ; ecur -d it. Whether a few
beads am k iankets and gawdy shawls
were the purchase price or whether
the maid was Induced by honeyed
words spoken while the loveiight
■ — i ■ . i
Home of Col. Thomas H. Swope at Independence, Mo.
blinded her eyes to sign away her
rights Is not so important. They did
business both ways half a century
ago. Anyway, he got it, and a bar
gain is a bargain.
The Outraged Indian Maiden.
Thus, according to the story which
is made authentic by many confirma
tory nods of heads, Tom Swope made
the one real mistake of hts life. Red
skins were as numerous as palefaces
in the border country when he set
tled there, and it would have been to
his advantage to have steered clear
of any transaction which did not car
ry with it a puff of the pipe of peace.
By and by the girl set up the plea
that she had been duped and asked
that the land of her fathers be re
turned to her. But as he laughed she
cursed him and all his house:
"May fortune smile upon him only
to blight him and his. Hear the prayer
of an Indian maid who has lost to this
man the land of her fathers."
Swope's neighbors knew the anger
of the girl. They knew of the curse.
But if he ever heard it he never by
any act betrayed the knowledge.
Millionaire Without Effort.
The years rolled by, the people
came, they built a great city around
the Swope farms. His pastures were
cut into streets, hi6 wheat fields into
building lots. His homestead became
a business center. A bank rose on
the site of his cowshed. He became
a millionaire almost without the turn
of a hand.
Landless, farmless, the result of a
city's growth, he seemed scarcely to
know what to do with his vast for
tune. Almost in sadness he walked
the streets where once he had
ploughed and sown and reaped.
Wealth appeared to bring him no hap
piness. Always a hard working man,
he found little Joy in a life of idle
ness. Apparently be longed for the
strenuous years of his youth. What
few times he came downtown in his
later years he found himself in a city
of strangers. Old friends were gone;
he made few new ones. His was a
solitary figure that not many recog
nized.
Kindly of heart, he gave thousands
away, but without much system or
reason. He had too much money. It
worried him. It was a burden. Thir
teen hundred acres, lying along the
Blue river and adjacent to Kansas
City, he gave to the people for a
park, which bears his name. He
gave to charities and to all public
funds. Yet he kept in the back
ground and appeared to gain no hap
piness even from philanthropy.
He was a sombre man, gloomy,
alone The curse had begun to work.
His brother was dead. leaving a
large family in a beautiful borne on
Pleasant 6treet in Independence, nine
miles as the crow flies and the trolley
car runs from Kansas City.
Thither went Colonel Swope to
live, and thither he took Moss Hun
ton, his friend and counsellor.
It was In Independence that trou
bles began to crowd upon the gen
erous old colonel. One day in turn
ing the calendar he came to a sum
mer month illuminated with the draw
ing of an Indian girl's head. The
colonel looked at it from different
angles and then tore it from its
place.
Enter Dr. Hyde.
Dr. Bennett Clark Hyde, well-known
physician of Kansas City, had wooed
and won Frances Swope, niece of the
millionaire, against the wishes of the
girl’s family. This estrangement was
patched up and Hyde was the family
physician of the Swopes when Hun
ton died suddenly and under circum
stances later termed "suspicious and
mysterious.” A few weeks later
Colonel Swope, apparently overcome
by the death of his companion, passed
away. And then Chrisxan Swope, the
nephew.
These three deaths, followed by an
epidemic of typhoid that threatened to
wipe out the entire Swope family, re
sulted in a rigid investigation. Dr.
i Hyde’s name was dragged into the in
; quiry and he promptly sued the ex
, ecutors of the Swope estate for $100.
j 000 damages.
While the damage suit was pend
| ing and while small fortunes were
, going for attorneys’ fees Hyde was
indicted on the charge of poisoning
Moss Hunton and Colonel Swope,
Lucy Lee Swope and others with
| typhoid germs.
m i riai ana counter i rial.
Hyde dropped his damage suit for
: the more important labor of saving
himself from the gallows or the peni
i tentiary. The dollars began to pour
| out. The executors employed the best
' legal talent in two states to assist the
: prosecution. Mrs. Margaret Swope
turned loose many of her thousands in
an effort to punish the man she
thought had murdered her son and
brother-in-law, even though that man
was the husband of her daughter and
I the father of her expected grandchild, j
Frances Swope dug deep into her
thousands to defend her husband.
The trial was long-drawn and bit
ter. The one-armed son, whose injury
added but another to the list of tragic
events, sat by his mother’s side,
flanked by the sisters who had been
victims of the typhoid epidemic. At
another table sat Dr. Hyde and his
wife, the woman this time estranged
forever from her mother, brother and
; sisters.
A conviction was the result, but the
case went to the highest court, which
promptly reversed the decision and
remanded the case for new trial.
Now it must all be done over again; j
more thousands must be spent; there
will be more bitterness; the gulf of
estrangement will only be widened.
The grandson, whose baby hands
and baby smile might have smoothed
everything, lived but a few hours. His
father was in jail, his mother prac
tically alone, except for physicians
and nurses. One more tragedy to
write into the growing record.
And so the tragic story rounds itself
out. The graybeards shake their
heads and say Tom might better not
have done it—meaning, of course
drive the sharp bargain with the red
skinned daughter cf the prairies and
thereafter give no heed to her plead
ing.
Back in the hills visitors have
pointed out to them a few grass-cov- ,
ered mounds where the bones of the
Indian lie. In one of these graves are
the remains of the girl from whom
Swope pieced out his acres and turned
her first to grief and then to anger.
Believe it or not, as you may, it's
better not to have a curse on your
head, and an Indian’s curse is as bad
as any.—New York World.
Brooding Had Turned Brain.
An express on its way to Lyons,
France, was stopped the other morn
ing by a lunatic, who stood on the
line waving a red flag. Subsequent
investigation showed that the man had
gone mad through reading about rail
way strikes and acts of wreckage by
strikers.
made the donation good
Young Millionaire Couldn’t Afford to
Let Small Sum 8et Against
His Name.
Ttomss Warden ia a young million
aire of Macon. Mo., who la as highly
gifted with the grace of generosity
aa any man that walka. He haa never
been known to refuae a request for
cbarity, no matter whether presented
by a white or a black person. Among
Mr. Warden’s friends ia “Cap" Aus
tin. an old-time darky from the south
land. People of slanderous inclina
tions in days gone by associated “Cap"
with every getatable chicken coop in
town. A few years ago “Cap" Austin
Joined the Baptist church, and almost
Immediately became a pillar—dark,
bnt substantial. When luck was
against him. “Cap" told Mr. Wardell
Ms troubles, who invariably produced
the five or ten cents necessary "to
save his life." and no questions asked.
One day “Cap" met Mr. Wardell and
started to pull a paper out of bis
pocket. Mr. Wardell was in a bit of
a hurry, and thinking "Cap” merely
wanted a glass of beer, handed him
a nickel and went on. The Monday
following. Mr. Warden's "man”—Bud
Brooks—was driving him out in the
country. What happened Mr. Wardell
related as follows:
“Bud was unusually non-communl
cative, and finally I asked him what
he was thinking about.
“ 'Well, Ah sorter hate to tell, Mr
Wardell,' he said, ‘ ’cause hit war
awful 'barrassln' ter me, who knowed
yer so well, an' worked so long for
yer.’
“Of course after he’d got that out
I was dead anxious to know the bal
ance.
'"Yer know Ah’s a Babdist.’ said
Bud, 'an' Ah hopes a good one. We’s
tryln’ ter build er new chu’ch. Last
night dar was a business meetln’, an’
de chairman called on the sacratary
ter read de report of de donations.
Ole Sistah Viney wbat takes In wash
in’ was down fer ten dollahs. Mark
Davis, de left-handed fiddler, gibs five
dollahs, an’ he’s ole an’ rheumaticky.
Pat Rutherford, who saws wod. put
i up fifteen dollahs. Ah was down fer
twenty dollahs. An’ dat’s de way It
went. A11 dem hard-workln’ culled
persona shelled out from three to
twenty-five dollahs. Den de sacratary
read: "Mr. Thomas Wardell, 5 cents.’"
"I laughed out loud, hut It was no
joke to Bud. He was hurt
“'What happened next, Budf 1
asked.
” ‘De chairman got up an’ tole de
sacratary ter stop right where he was
at Den he says: ‘Breddern, let us
pray.’" • \
"1 handed Bud $5 and told him to
convince the ’sacratary' that he had
misread the figures.”—Dos Angeles
Times.
Simple Law of Nature.
The Phrenological Journal says tbs
organs or the brain conform to the
pressure of the spirit mind or opln
ions we may entertain. The organs
grow by what we feed upon. Let s
person be kept in anger much of the
time, and more blood will be sent tc
combativeness, destructiveness, etc
Tbus It is that our opinions or state
ot mind ■ fleet our bodies, brains and
features.
AL’GH and tile vorlu ia.ishs
with vmi
and you weep alone.
This *rave old earth has need of your
mirth.
It has troubles enough of Its own.
-E. W. Wilcox.
People and dowers just naturally turn
to the sunshine.
MAKING WORK EFFECTIVE.
In this day of specialists and spe
cializing we hear so much of making
everything count. There is no work,
profession or business where this is
more important than in home-making.
How necessary it is that the house
keeper should be trained to make
every move count in order to save
strength and temper. "To make her
head save her heels,” as our grand
mothers would say.
The trained woman, one who loves
aer work, does her task as perfectly
as she knows how to do. There is no
slipshod work; things sometimes must
te left undone because of circum
stances. but the machinery of her
home moves noiselessly because it is
oiled with brains. A great painter
was once asked "with what do you
mix your colors?” He replied: “With
brains."
The woman with trained mind be
gins w»ih her appearance, wearing
garments suitable to her station and
work, knowing that she must be neat
5rst and always. Because a dress is
made for a work dress does not mean
that it need be unattractive, for tne
simple little one-piece gowns with
cuffs and turnover collar of contrast
ing material are most becoming. If
□ne bas work to do that will soil a
gown, have the big-sleeved apror to
slip on. and when called away it may
be quickly slipped off. and one need
never be ashamed of one's appear
ance.
The trained woman wastes no time.
She rises early, "while it is yet night
(for many), and giveth the meat to
her household and a portion to her
maidens."
It is wonderful what may be accom
plished by systematic regular applica
tion. Have a book or paper at hand
when resting: read the article or joke
pr lecture that will refresh the mind
and improve it.
The workbasket with the piece of
work always ready to pick up sees
much work done in odd moments.
Last, but most important, she fills
aer mind and heart so full of the
many beautiful and wonderful things
about her that she has no time to
:hink the disagreeable, gossipy things
which mar so many otherwise beauti
ful lives.
O HAVE what we want is
HpKac- knt »,■> Q kio in (in
without, is power.
—George McDonald.
IDEAS ON SALAD MAKING.
The seasoning of a salad with the
dressing with which it is served are
very important. A potato salad is
often tasteless and unpalatable be
cause it is not properly seasoned. Po
tato needs a dressing to stand over it,
to season well, much longer than any
other vegetable. Taste the salad while
preparing it. measurements are not al
ways accurate tests for good sea
soning. Much tasting means less
wasting. A salad that may be pre
pared the day before is one most wel
come as it saves the time for other
things. The following is a good one:
Soak one-half a box of gelatine in
one-half cup of cold water; add two
cupfuls and a half of boiling water,
then three teaspoonfuls of beef ex
tract. a teaspoon of onion juice and a
dash of salt. When cool, add a cup
ful of minced chicken, a dozen olives
chopped fine, e. half cup of pecan
meats and half a cup of strained to
mato. Pour into a mold and serve cut
In cubes on lettuce leaves with may
onnaise dressing.
Pear Salad.—For a simple salad
this is delicious. Wipe pears and cut
Into eighths, lengthwise; remove
seeds. Arrange on lettuce leaves,
pour over French dressing and gar
nish with strips of red pepper. The J
canned red peppers are those used in
the recipe, if the fresh ones are not
in the market
The addition of a little sour apple
jo a potato salad adds to its paya
bility.
Do not put French dressing on let
tuce until ready to serve, as it soon
loses its crispness, after the oil and
vinegar are added.
Lettuce may be kept for days in the
ice chest if wrapped in a cloth and
then in a paper to exclude the air.
If an ear of com is left from dinner
save it and add it to the vegetable
salad for the next day. Cora Is espe
cially good In a potato salad.
Cottage cheese seasoned with
chopped chives and served on lettuce
leaves with a French or a boiled dress
ing. is a most wholesome salad. IT a
more elaborate one is desired, a tea
spoonful of bar le due currants will
make it quite elegant.
*..me Is Ji?
Time to live better.
Give up that grudge.
Answer that letter.
PRESERVES AND PICKLES.
One of the finest of preserves arO
those made from the yellow pear to
mato. Wipe the tomatoes, cover with
boiling water and let stand until the
skins are easily removed. Measure
pound for pound of sugar and truit;
cover and let stand over night. In the
morning pour off the sirup and boil
until quite thick; skim, then add tne
tomatoes, two ounces of preserved
ginger and two lemons which have
been sliced with the seeds removed.
Cook until the tomatoes have a trans
i parent appearance.
Damson Preserves.—Wipe the plums
| with a cloth wrung out of cold water,
I and prick each one five or sis times
with a darning needle; then weigh,
i Make a sirup by boiling three-fourths
| their weight in sugar with water, al
; lowing a cup to each pound of sugar.'
Cook until soft. A good plan is to us<^
i two kettles that the work may be*
j more quickly done, and the sirup need
i not cook too long. Put into stone or
glass jars.
Sweet Pickled Peaches.—Boll to-'
gether a pint of vinegar, two pounds'
j of brown sugar and an ounce of stick
| cinnamon for twenty minutes. Dip
a half peck of peaches into boiling
water, then rub off the fuzz with a
towel. Stick four cloves in each
peach and drop them into the hot
sirup, using a few at a time. W'hen
i soft and well scalded, put into the far
| and pour over the boiling hot sirup.
| Cover and put in a cool place. This
| sirup is a great improvement to mince
pies If a little is added to each pie,
or to mincemeat when making It-.
Pears, apples and other fruits are,
pickled. usiEg the above proportions..
Quince Honey.—Pare and core
quinces, chop fine; allow an equal
measure of sugar to the fruit; add a,
half cup of water to a pound of the
sugar, and cook until thick and honey'
i like. Put into glasses and cover, as1
for jelly.
riAii is my friend, yet from my
foe as from my friend
My trtend shows what I can do. and ray.
foe. what I should. —Schiller.
Oh for a book and a shady nook.
PUNCHES FOR PARTIES.
When serving a drink for a large
company, it is always wise to use
1 small bottles of effervescing water.
I adding a pint at a time rather than a
j quart bottle, as it soon loses its
! sparkle unless often renewed,
i Singer Punch.—From a quart Jar
of canton ginger take three-quarters
of a pound of the ginger, chop fine,
add a quart of cold water and a cup
of sugar; boil twenty minutes, then
add three-fourths of a cup of orange
juice, half a cup of lemon juice and
three tablespoonfuls of ginger sirup.
Strain and pour over large pieces of
cracked ice in the punch bowl. Add
a pint of Apollinaris water when be
ginning to serve and later add more
as it loses its sparkle. This amount
will serve forty people.
Fruit Punch.—Boll together a quart
of water and two cups of sugar until
clear; add a cup of tea infusion and
cool, then add two cups of raspberry
sirup, the juice of five oranges and
five lemons, a can of pineapple and a
cup of maraschino cherries. Pour
over cracked ice in a punch bowl, add
a pint of Apollinaris and later another
pint or two. This serves fifty people.
German Punch.—Mix together and
cook a cup and three-fourths of toma
toes. three chopped apples, a small
piece of ginger root, two cups of water
and a cup of sugar. After thirty min
utes’ cooking rub through a sieve and
add three tablespoonfuls each of or
ange juice, lemon and grape juice.
Freeze to a mush.
Delicious little cakes to serve with
punches are made by using any rich
white cooky dough: roll out and cut
in small cubes, and on each place a
half teaspoonful of almond paste be
fore putting into the oven. This paste
may be bought in cans, but as it is
rather expensive, when using a small
quantity it is best to buy it of the con
fectioner.
A Motive Indorsed.
“I don’t blame that cook of ours for
wanting more salary," remarked Mr.
Growcher.
“But you always are complaining of
the food she prepares.”
“Certainly. She undoubtedly wants
a larger income so that she can af
ford to eat at a restaurant.”
Consulted.
"Does your boss ever consult you on
matters of business?”
“Yes. he consulted me on a matter
of business only today.”
“That’s fine! What was it?”
“He asked me what in thunder I
thought he was paying me for?”
Unfair at Times.
She admitted being jealous of her
hut band. Consequently they quxrreiec
frequently, and. womanlike, shy; con
fided in her best friend. “You are un
fair at times to George." said the best
friend one day, as the two sat on the
veranda of the suburban home. "1
saw George in the city yesterday and
be didn’t see me. So I kept watching
him. He had a seat in a crowded
subway car. At least two score wom
en. most of them pretty as a picture,
came in and passed by him or stood
in front of him. And George never
looked at one of them; he was deeply
interested in his paper.”
Didn't Want Much.
Youngster—Will you let mtivver
have a quartern of butter and a pen
n’orth of cheese? And she’ll send a
shilling in when father comes home.
Shopman—All right, mlssie!
Youngster—An’ she wants to know
if you’ll send the change now. *co6 she
wants to put a penny in the gas
meter!—Comic Cuts.
THAT
AWFUL
BACKACHE
Cured by Lydia E. Pinknam'g
Vegetable Compound
Morton’s Gap, Kentucky.—"I suf
fered two years with female disorder-.
my health was very
bad and I had a
continual backache
which was simply
awful. I could not
stand on my feet
long enough to cook
a meal's victuals
without my Lack
nearly killing me,
and I would Lav)
such dragging sc.
sations I coul 1
hardlv hear it I
had soreness in each side, could r;
stand tight clothing, and was irregular.
I was completely run down. On a
vice I took Lydia E. Pinkham’s Vegr
table Compound and Liver Pills and
am enjoying good health. It is now
more than two years and I have not
hau an ache or pain since I do all my
own work, washing and everything,
and never have the backache an v more.
I think your medicine is grand and I
praise it to all my neighbors. If you
think my testimony will help others
1 you may publish it.”—Mrs. Ollif
yVoodall, Morton’s Gap, Kentucky.
Backache is a symptom of organic
! weakness or derangement. If you
j have backache don’t neglect it. 'To
get permanent relielf you must reach
the root of the trouble. Nothing we
know of will do this so surely as Lydia
E. Pinkham’s Compound.
"Writ© to Mrs. Pinkham, at
Lynn, Mass., for special advice.
Yonr letter will be absolutely
confidential, and the advice free'.
Classifying Member of Inferior Sex.
Stella—Is her husband a stick?
Bella—No, a buttonhook.
Crafty.
"What does the veterinary surgeon
next door advise for your pet lap
dog's sickness?”
"He forbids my playing the piano “
—Fliegende Blaetter.
An Anomaious Parent.
"Father!”
“Yes, Wilfred.”
“What is reciprocity?”
“Reciprocity. Wilfred—”
But pause. Father never told. He
slipped over no epigram. He knew
not what was reciprocity. No. He
was totally different from the average
father figuring in this sort of short
squib. He just told Wilfred to run
along and play, and resumed his read
ing of the evening paper.
Truly, a refreshing personality—not
BO?
The Wreck.
Mrs. Ronald H. Barlow, the eastern
golf champion, was talking at the
Cape May Golf club about the benefits
of sea air. "To look at the cottagers
and natives of Cape May,” she said,
"speaks of these benefits more elo
quently than I could do. How pale
and wan seem city people beside these
brown, supple, vigorous men and
women! An excursionist from the
city said to a fisherman on the beach
the other morning:
" ‘Do you have many wrecks here?"
“The fisherman looked contemptu
ously at the city man, who was in
bathing dress. He looked contempt
uously at his hollow chest and white,
thin legs and arms, and then he re
plied: ‘You're the fust I’ve saw this
season.’ ”
AS A RULE.
“What is an income tax, pa?”
“A wife, my son.”
AT THE PARSONAGE.
Coffee Runs Riot No Longer.
"Wife and I had a serious time of It
while we were coffee drinkers.
"She had gastritis, headaches, belch
ing and would have periods of sick
ness, while I secured a daily headache
that became chronic.
“We naturally sought relief by drugs
without avail, for it is now plain
enough th^t no drug will cure the dis
eases another drug (coffee) sets up,
particularly, so long as the drug
which causes the trouble is continued.
"Finally we thought we would try
leaving off coffee and using Postum. I
noticed that my headaches disappeared
like magic, and my old Trembly’ nerv
ousness left. One day wife said, ‘Do
you know my gastritis has gone?’
“One can hardly realise what Post
um has done for us.
"Then we began to talk to others.
ife s father and mother were both
coffee drinkers and sufferers. Their
headaches left entirely a short time
after they changed from coffee to
Postum.
I began to enquire among my par
ishioners and found to my astonish
ment that numbers of them use Post
um In place of coffee. Many of the
ministers who have visited our par
sonage have become enthusiastic cham
pions of Postum.” Name given b7
Postum Co., Battle Creek, Mich.
Read the little book. “The Road to
Wellville,” In pkgs. “There’s a reason.”
Ever read the above letterr A new
•■e appears treat tiara to time. Thrv
■re aeeai.es tree, sad fall of bamll
lateresl.