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A* TO HEROISM. Rroeaos—A maa is never a hero to kl> I SiM Woodson—So, tat considering the chance* I As ire teamed to take with «-.• Atikiat, i ought to be o’.e to my rtltfug. “E*d Eft' Based on Fact. Most hate beard of the “Evil Eye." and now we are informed by « ha lies I. Stni h a noted New York retrae-iot .*!. that the superstition •nw because everyone, without know ing B has one eye that is different In power iBd activity from the Other. He draamateo it the “don!!.ant eye." and a* cording to whether i* is the left or lb< right c hildren will grow up left handed or rirhl handed. It is sheer erweit. sad may <-nt-ii! life-long mis •-ry to force a child to become am iadesircv.> Much a course may result la nrre.-i.is* the nervous system, and can only be ured by a reversal of the so that ti.o 'dominant eye" ■nay regain r.at urn! and undisputed sway Men who are ambidextrous had A**.ter keep a Strict guard over their action* lest they should be credited with the “evil eye ” important to Motive rw Examine caret uUy every bottle of «' i*-"1 wltlA a sal- and sure rt medy for a*lafc'-s wiiU chilcren. and see that it Bears the Signatured la t'ne For 1 fa.Uitvn I’tj for FJrtfkef’i Castori* Ft*/s cal Sympathy Wanted. dr* F.<■> How can you look so iffictaceigrc) when you know 1 am *1 :>cnt:g with the cold* Hr ) tYhat can 1 do? Mrs Fl-.it You might at least shiv er too Horton Transcript. C 'rckttsuntta’ Evtdenee. ‘ -tote* «2* mi (iri^j of h.i boy ard • tit In- «i* *otas to 61 Bat the >«wr»’-r kill sever make a cuts* la lie ooeM " *4 4m.'t know about that. He'* just Vtnod a bran baud " tHimixt i vast it •.»«..• i n kMi» '>■11111 U* *« * .. *» 4 rw*T I***, und hMN>f. U *m (* W* '«** 44 «w?lte44r at te.a»r H.,« W nuk< - t nCl • * 0r - 1 • •*. )»'«-««.Tr t «T •• J far S-or iowa.ffce-1. (kart «.«% Mb »*•*•% Willi |NM» **•>• w «%l» acuf iMkii. Sufi «•! eff* ■B^P «m **■» Z ■ r*fc #• —r1v -» v:fe» . Jug ri^rtr^r* ^ * U*T 1 fci.£ « L IfeU KK. kaiiNt . M«||lf A i—•*- «"'»m#«aMnr. mV# «4lr>'k Tt« Meanest Man. Ks- k»f - Why Lo Stank set up a vitWHIl Itx i»t—To trt'l the cuv c2 hi* • ik onto hi j srifUnr a '"mV* Cart. : MaliLly r'd^vra and ctar*”• V*w»i.«.e ji h-i a-.4 ter4 arms skin «L«^«*r» It .! »* .titir lb*- |u:n of W.r»* r-.twm »m*«t vin. 3e and K hr 4ra*»-.«ta Fur »r • vrt- t» a *. C -v «k C«, tl. k Kirtr Falla. «4:< ka ■•'■<! ht '.i*1-tor «i'! stay out till I a ci ti fc • lit» to. but he miasea the Iks o try its to sneak upstairs with fell short ciS CREAM OF RYE For health and energy eat it for breakfast. Reduces cost of living. Free Silver Spoon in every package. Ask your grocer for a package. Write it on your heart that every day is the last day in the year. Xo man has learned anything rightly, un j til he knows that every day is dooms ! day—Emerson. IV Fierce» Plei nt Fe'leis regulate -el invigorate stomach, l.ver and bowels, j Sugar-coated, tiny granules, easy to. take as candy. We are often admonished to “take i the bull by the horns," but the trou i ble is to find a bull that will stand j for it ru.i s crr.Kii ix a Tin i days Y-'**' !»l hi . r .un-l iu<>ri«») ii I’A/AJ UlNT MfcNT I* x t tir** tiiiv c.v ..f Itching. blind, b « n* ur l‘a*iruUn*i I* 1-x in G tu 14 <U>3. 60c. If a woman is a clever actress the chances are that 1 r husband w ill find the chorus more interesting. Sr*. trimlcwT Booth I "e Syrup for ChiMren eoftewa 1 Uc i: .-n -. r.-.lia-vs inrtamma ■ .On. *•«*>» 1-all. cur -•> » m J colic, 2&c a bottle. A good conscience makes an easy couch.—Jackson Wray. If there is a ke'eton in your clos et. lock the door and lose the key. No. Alonzo, it isn't difficult for a aoman to keep a secret—going. FOR SICK COWS H-althy cows £ *e more n. k. make richer fc-t-ct. a* 4 rc.ju.-e irst care. ROW KURE is a cow toed.. • c, n t a food. It regulates the t ic»'.»-e and generative organs ard tones up the er.:.re * • • -a. A pcs iivc cure and preven ter lor LOST APPETITE. BARRENNESS. ABORTION. SCOURS. MILK FEVER, and all other a*..-sects i hat tap . he strength of (silking coat. Thaa*«- ds of printable herds owe their health to KOW KURE Be sure to aend for our valuable free bock, * More Money From Your Cows.” OAKY ASSOCIATION CO. MFRS. L>adooville, Vt, L'. S. A. ' '•Ra*iaxa raMA— Send for our T*12 rat&ioirue »*«>ntain fulidracript.cnof ocrumut, r land* mills, oiAia*. soil. m-irketa, n bo.il* and other inferma l*oa. Am A Niawior, Traveler’s BM«., RirLw«.s<l, fa. THESE SIX LETTERS From New England Women Prove that Lydia E. Pinkham’s Vegetable Com pound Does Restore the health of Ailing Women. h Mi—-| *U passing through the Change of Life and suffered &»■ Waanfiy i (witift lasting for weeks), and could get nothing to • ■* n- I began taking Ljuia 11 P.nkham’s Vegetable Compound * " 1 -rt f. n :) on 1 V.ay. and the f<i.lowing Saturday morning the* hom c r»*i«fi ■ at uppent 1 bait tatel them regularly ever since and am steadily fa.n ~.z.f • 1 certainly tblak that every one who is troubled as I was should give ’ ‘ -r ‘ > ■ -nd Tab a faithful tr hand they will find relief.”—Mrs. towu Jot. *12 Fifth Street, South Boston, Mass. Letter from Mrs. Julia King, Phoenix, R.I. Phnnl*. X-L—“I worked steady in the mill from the time I was 12 years o'j£ said I had kuu married a year, and I think that caused my bad feel W|a I had wwimcii in toy side near my left hip that went around to my hack, aad aartiaa I weald hare to :m in bed for two or three days. I was wot able to do mr b—arwiirk. * Lydia & l*iakhsm« Vegetable Compound has helped me wonderfully in •eery way. Von may o-< my letter for the good of others. I am only'too afad to do awythiag within my power to recommend your medicine."—Mrs. Jills Kim. But 2s2, PoeniL ILL Letter from Mrs. Etta Donovan,Willimantic, Conn. XT. iimantir. Conn.—" For fire years I suffered untold agony from female tNshiwwadsf ksdnebe, irregularities, dizziness, and nervous prostra t«a It was impossible f>.r me to walk up stairs without stopping on the way. 1 was mil run d vn in every way. *" I ir<ad three doctors and earn told me something different. I received ■■ hewrtt from any of them hwt seemed to suffer more. The last doctor said it was we was far as to take anything as nothin? would restore me to health again. So I began taking Lydia K. Pinkham’s Vegetable Compound to m what it would do, aad by taking seven bottles of the Compound and BlftNr Uewtmrat joe advised. I am rt- torrd to tnj natural health.”—Mrs. Ena Donors*. TuJ M un »lre<Willi mantle, Conn. Letter from Mrs. Winfield Dana, Augusta, Me. Avgesta *•!. —v* Lydia E. Pinkham’s Vegetable Compound has cured the backache, headache, and the bad pain 1 had in my right side, end 1 am perfectly wriL’—Mrs. IVuruxu Dili, K.K.I). No. 2, Augusta, Me. Letter from Mrs. J. A. Thompson, Newport, Vt. w-. <r\ Vl— “ I t . ,nk y< u for the great benefit Lydia II Pinkham’s Vigvlsi i- Compound has dome me. I took eight bottles and i: did winders far ar, as 1 was a am iss snri when 1 tiegan taking it. I shall always a** : word for It to my friends. "—Mrs. Jons A. Thompson, Box 3, he ' purl Cctier. VermooL Letter from Miss Grace Dodds, Bethlehem, N.H. Bethlehem. Jt.H.—By working very hard, sweeping carpets, washing, baaisr. Irfliwff her.,V basket* of ciothea, etc., I got all run down. I was ack m bed tuiy aostti. “Thm -♦ my mother got Lydia E. Pinkham’s Vegetable Com paa -i m i fai I like another girl I am maaiiar and do wot have Use pains that I did. and do not have to go to bed. I will tell all my friawds what the«anpomd is doing for me.”—Miss CitAcix B. Dodds, Bus 1X1. ifathlrhem. X. U. G For 90 I.vdla E. Pinkham’s Vegetable ha* been tli<- standard remedy forfe Noon*- -.irk with woman’* ailments JMetier to herself « bo will not try this fa* medicine, made from roots and herbs, it ■o man) suffering women to health. Write toLTDU E. PI 5 K HIM MEDICI 5 ECO. MinUCSnUi LTXH, liMk, for advice. will be read and iwered Fancy Dress Photo. Copyright, by Underwood & Underwood. N. Y. This elegant creation was designed for a fashionable fancy dress function this winter. NEWEST IDEAS IN NECKWEAR White Net in Combination With Other Materials Is a Touch Sent Over Here from Paris. White net is most favored of the materials in a display of newly im ported neckwear from Paris. Plain, plaited or embroidered, it looks dainty and fresh and it is combined with any and all of the other materials. A favored device is an edging of perfect ly plain lawn around a collar, a fichu or jabot of the net. while more pre tentious articles edge the plain net with figured net or lace of a fine and neat pattern. One real novelty is a combination collar and Jabot. The collar is the regulation soft turned dpwn affair of I imbroidered linen handkerchief linen, and from each side of it hangs half a jabot—not a side frill but a real jabot shape. The two halves differ in fab ric and design, one being of the hand kerchief linen with solid embroidery and the other consisting largely of lace insertions. These just meet down the center of the front of the bodice. I A large fichu of white net has its i fronts delicately embroidered in a sprawling flower design and has a nar row edging of figured net. WITH THE SLEEVELESS WAIST Contrasting Fabrics Frequently Em ployed—One of the Newest Ideas Is the Close-Fitting. A good many sleeveless waists of more or less jacket appearance are be ing used with sleeves which contrast In fabric. Lace sleeves with satin and wool gowns are more usual than anything else, and if the lace sleeves are long they are close-fitting and ex tend well on to the back of the hand. If they are short, they often have a slight flare, which has occasionally ; been helped out by a fine wire. Dou ble and triple sleeves, in which all the abrics introduced into the costume tave a part, are numerous. One of the newest sleeves is long ud very close-fitting, with a slash rom the shoulder to deep cuff depth, vhere a row of buttons makes a tln sh to the band. The slash is tilled in with soft, scanty lace frills, or with one long lace puff of scanty fulness. Sometimes, when a touch of bright color is used with a dark tone, the deep color appears under this slash. There is no end to the possible varia tions. DURBAR CAP This Durbar cap is copied from the ones worn by the Indian princes. It is of dull red velvet interlaced with jeweled gold ribbon and has a gold motif in front, holding a white os prey. Caesar—Better first in the village than second in Rome. AKING CARE OF JEWELRY! _ ! r.ould Always Be Cleaned at Regular Intervals—Best Methods cf Proceeding. Provide yourself with an o!d tooth ..rush and a soft brush such as jewel rj use, a bottle of grain alcohol and j a box of jewelers' sawduct. You will j also need a soft cloth, a piece of plain chamois thoroughly impregnat ed with rouge powder. A few addi tional small bits of chamois are also necessary for polishing. Then pro vide two dishes of lukewarm suds, made with fine white soap, and your outfit is complete. First work on your plain, bright gold jewelry, or other material, which requires a high polish. Rub gently but thoroughly with the rouge cham ois until you bring It up to a brilliant polish. Next select the gold articles, which look most difficult to you, put them in the suds and scour thorough ly with the toothbrush. Practically all the dirt should come off in this process. When completed, rinse in a second suds to clean still better. Then dip in alcohol and give a further brush ing. Then dry carefully on a soft cloth and drop Into the sawdust and rub about until they show a bright luster. With the jeweler's brush re move every particle of sawdust and give the articles the degree of pol ish they ought to have, using the soft brush and the plain chamois for this purpose. The rouge chamois is the highest polisher, but it can be used only before an article has been washed, because it leaves rouge pow der on the jewelry. All precious stones, except the pearl, will be beautiful after such a cleaning, nor will It dim the bril liancy of semi-precious stones, or even of common glass imitations. It will enhance their brilliance. Silver jewelry that looks black will come out of this process with a fine white luster and gold will be returned to Its original richness. Sterling sil ver jewelry can also be cleaned with remarkable ease by boiling In sal soda watar. TAUGHT IN PULPIT AND ON STAGE Strange Dual Personality Was That of Wright Lorimer, Pas tor and Actor, Who Believed He Had a Message to Deliver, and After What He Considered Failure Died by His Own Hand. EW YORK—Wright Lori mer, actor, lived a dual personality. He died a mystery. Upon the man shape mound which marks his new-made grave in God's Acre, a lit tle way out from the sleepy drone of Dana. Mass., two offerings of flowers rest side by side—one the remem brance cf a friend of Lorimer. the star of the drama, the other the token of a friend of Lowell, the pastor of a flock. Lorimer was both. He lived his life along parallel lines. He believed be was called to deliver a message to mankind. But. while knowing in which direction his life work lay. he was not so certain how he should play his part. And so he told his story, now to a congregation in a lit tle church with helpful voices in the organ loft, and now to an audience in a theater, with orchestra in front of the footlights. He was dramatic In the pulpit, he preached from the stage. And at thirty-seven, believing that he had failed in his mission, he fixed a day on which it should end, and died tragically. One may not write the full story of this actor-preacher’s mysterious life. There are gaps in it which are hard to bridge, as there are things in it which are hard to explain. May Be Story cf His Life. It may be that in the novel "Against | the Tide.” which he himself penned j during his early ministry, and which 1 strangely turns up just after his ; death, the story is told. Rev Dr. i Baldwin, a Baptist clergyman of Troy, who prepared the preface to it. says that it is. While he. whom theater goers knew as Lorimer. was still a slip of a boy in Athol, Mass., he was left an or phan. A family of the name of Low- | ell. at Cape Elizabeth, up the bieak Maine coast near Portland, adopted him and gave him the name—Walter M. S. Lowell—by which, in turn, he was known. A fund was forthcoming to educate him—a fund large enough to see him through Colgate university and per mit him to enjoy the broadening ad vantages of Oxford university, Eng land. As a student he became an idealist He took a step to the seri ous. Returning to this country he enter ed the ministry, believing, as he said, that one whom kindly fortune had favored with an education should use his talents in a field wherein there was an opportunity to uplift others. His first pastorate, as the story now is told, was in the arsenal town of Watervllet, a suburb of Troy, in 1902. where he was admired alike for the fervor of his oratory and his earnest ness and enthusiasm in the service of his flock. Ability Manifest. At the start he gave evidence of ability to fill all the requirements of a leader among his people, but later on, whether from inexperience—he was scarcely more than a youth—or a failure to realize that a struggling church organization requires careful financing, he became Involved in money difficulties. They were simply the ordinary embarrassments that any young minister is apt to meet, and which some knowledge of business would have adjusted without serious friction. To young Lowell they were as a millstone about his neck. Suddenly, and scarcely without no tice, the young minister announced his Intention of resigning his charge Soon he went away. It is unimportant to set down in order the list of the other pulpits which he filled. The interesting fact is that his failure to achieve a real success at the start did not discourage him or turn him to other things. He preached to the people of the coal mining community of Honesdale and later ministered to the congregation of the Baptist church of North Scran ton. In the latter town his sermons shot wide of the Raptist doctrine and there was a severance of relations be tween church and pastor. Turns to the Stage. From this time on until he finally transferred his work from the pulpit to the stage, a struggle w-as going on within him as to how he might best live according to his ideals. The pulpit still continued to call him. but j he began to have doubts as to his own j ability to accomplish in his chosen field the good that he felt should come from his efforts. He wanted to in spire men to well-dcing in a way that was new. While he was still a minister in Groton, Mass., whither he went from Pennsylvania, and in Richmond Hill, the Brooklyn suburb, he began work ing on a play. All through his life he had a fond ness for Biblical art. It inspired him. He became convinced that the subject and the spirit of a great painting could be given a dramatic setting and made to do the work he, with indiffer ent success, had sought to do in the pulpit He saw a picture one day in which was a figure of a young shepherd and some sheep. It was entitled “David Watching His Father’s Flocks on the Hills of Hebron ” The story of young David was familiar to him. He had read it and preached from it He set about to make a stage character of it —and succeeded. He called the play “The Shepherd King.” Others aided him. but it was his thought Considered Play Taught Lesson. "I do not know if the dramatic pos sibilities of the character of David have ever occurred to a playwright or an author before,” he confided to friends who knew of his ambitions, "but to me the story from a dramatic point of view is intensely interesting. There is every known passion that can enter into a stage portrayal— love, envy, hatred, malice, jealousy, joy and courage are all set forth In the story of David. It teaches a les son such as I have tried to teach.” For three seasons he played David in "The Shepherd King." It was profitable in a money way, and to him a satisfaction, for he felt that he could so interpret the Bible character as to make it a portrayal worthy of one who had started out In life to preach the gospel. In the booking of the play he had the opportunity of appearing more than once In cities where, under other conditions, he had appealed to the people. On the occasion of his professional appearance in the opera house at Troy he was warmly received by members of his former congregation. In Scranton old parishioners came by his invitation to the stage and dined with him amid scenes showing the country of David. He told them he had transferred his ministry to the stage. Defended His Course. “I beg of you not to upbraid me for doing this,” he said, “for the inspira tion which came to me when I stood alone in my pulpit and preached to you is still my inspiration in the drama, and I am quite certain that my success, which is now of larger meas ure than it used to be. is productive of even greater good than it used to be.” When he was at the height of his tage success and his purse was well filled. Lorimer lived in fine hotel apartments, in which his taste for the artistic in furniture, art and draperies was seen in many rare examples His library was valued at that time at not less that $10,000, and no volume on his shelves was prized so highly as the Bible, book-marked at the text of his last sermon, which he kept for daily reading. The dark days came to Lorimer the second time in his life when he got into a legal controversy over the rights of the play in which he had successfully starred. The play was withdrawn from the stage and. not withstanding his best efforts, he could not again secure employment in a role such as he had come to believe he was fitted by nature to interpret. Planned Return to Pulpit. Then, for a time, reduced in cir cumstances and forced to withdraw from the society of those who enjoy ed his fair weather companionship. Lorimer thought he again heard the call of the pulpit. He spoke to one or two of his friends about It and they discouraged him, saying that having abandoned the pulpit for the stage the church folk would not be likely to accept him again. With that he abandoned the idea and set about looking for another play in which the religious theme was dominant. Still holding to the idea of teach ing a moral lesson from the stage, Lorimer’s final effort was with a play let called "The Crucifix.” It did not succeed, and in his despondency the young enthusiast ended his life. The discovery of the novel came as a strange coincidence on the day that the actor-preacher’s body was borne to its final resting place. OPPOSED USE OF THE FORK For Many Years After Its Introduc tion It Was Considered an Ab surd Affectation. The Italians, with their delicate good taste, were responsible tor the substitution of forks for fingers, but it is difficult to trace their use there further back than the time corre sponding to the reign of Queen Eliza beth, and then they were not widely known. In some parts of Europe forks were considered a useless luxury and sinful indulgence and were for a long time under a ban of the clerics, though these latter eventually had to give way and tolerate their use by those who wished to keep their fingers clean. In Germany the ordinary people re garded the innovation an absurd af fectation, while the clerics considered them an insult to Providence, who had given man wholesome food which he ought not to be ashamed to touch with his fingers. In courtly France, however, forks were a welcome addi tion and speedily became popular. The custom in England was of very slow growth. In the reign of James l. and Charles I. the fork was only par tially used, according to the writers of those periods, and even under the commonwealth honors were equally divided between them and fingers Later on, at the Restoration, their use became more general, but people were by no means agreed on the best method of handling them, and rules were soon formulated for guidance, so that genteel persons could pride them selves on the nice conduct of the font after the manner observed at court. Yet it is difficult to overcome the prejudices of old customs, and the satirists of the day often amused themselves describing the awkward ness of their country cousins who. on visiting town and using the instru ment for the first time, thrust the morsel they had transfixed over the shoulder, while their linger^ from force of habit, found their way into their mouths. SOME VIRTUE IN MADSTONE Its Possibilities Sometimes Exagger ated. but Scientists Acknowl edge Its Efficacy. Most persons, especialy those who have lived in rural districts, have seen the so-called “mad stones.” Frequent ly physicians are asked whether there is actually any virtue in these stones. At least one medico has gone on rec ord with the opinion that they do pos sess some value, but that they should be of still more value were their lim itations understood. There is no particular variety of stone or substance that may be desig nated exclusively as the madstone. The authority referred to has seen many of them, so called, and no two were of exactly the same composi tion, geologically considered. Madstones, it appears, act on the same principle that blotting paper does when absorbing ink. and there is nothing that makes a better one than baked pipe clay. A new clay pipe, costing a cent, cannot be excelled by any madstone, no matter bow much 1i may be "cracked up.” The action can be clearly demon strated by placing a common dry red brick in contact with the margin of a puddle of water and observing what capillary attraction will accomplish. In order to be efficient, therefore, the prime requisite is that the stone shall be porous and show strong adhesive and absorbent qualities. There is nothing mysterious whatever about your true madstone. There have been those that appeared to be connections, either vesical, renal or biliary, that were found in the bladder, kidney or liver of some animal—those taken from the deer are popularly supposed to be the best. When a person is bitten by a rep tile or a dog supposed to be mad. and the porous stone applied to the wound, the blotting paper action,begins, and the blood saliva from the mouth of the animal and whatever poison these fluids contain will naturally, by cap illary attraction, be absorbed by and Into the substance applied, whether 'the madstone be the madstone of the superstititious or not. There is absolutely no truth In the statement that If a stone sticks, the wound is poisonous, and that if it does not take hold, there is no venom pres ent If the stone be clean and dry It will adhere when moisture is within reach until the stone becomes satur ated. For example, a new brick will absorb one pint of water. After the venom has been taken into the circu lation the madstone is worthless- but as the victim usually is filled 'with whisky at the time the stone is ap plied. the spirits may counteract the effects of the poison. Collapsible Water Towers. Collapsible water towers adopted by the Berlin fire department are but five feet long when closed, yet can be extended to throw a level stream of water into a window on the eiehth floor of a building. Cause of Appendicitis. One of England's most eminent phy. stcians has advanced the theory that the increase in the number of »snca of appendicitis in recent yearn is due to modern methods Of sriadin* wheat.