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MSTBRlk For Infants and Children. The Kind You Have Always Bough! Bears the Signature of For Over _Exact Copy of Wrapper_,«, C..T,U. OOMMBV, „„ vo» .,tt. Could See the Joke. Sir George Reid, the former premier of New Zealand, is a very big man. On one occasion he delivered a long speech. In addition to being very long it was very dull. He spoke of his de clining years, and said, emphatically: “In a short time I shall have passed away, and will be no more.” “Then the fat will be in the fire,” yelled a voice from the gallery, and the big orator himself laughed heartily at the humorous sally. Found It. “What became of that "“friend of yours who was always looking for a soft thing?" “He's in a padded cell, poor cUap.” Red Cross Rail t>!ue gives double value for your money, goes twice as far as any other. Ask your grocer. Adv. The girl who knows she has shape- . ly ankles thinks she has some figure, j Backache Warns You Backache is one of Nature's warnings of kidney weakness. 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SLOAN'S Kills Pain For Neuralgia "1 would not be without your Lini ment and praise it to all who euffer with neuralgia or rheumatism or pain of any kind."— Mr*. Henry Bwhap. lleJena, Missouri. Pain All Geau “ I suffered with quite a severe neu ralgic headache for 4 months Without any relief. I used your Liniment for two or three nights and 1 haven'tsuf fered with rov head since-"—Hr. J. ft Swinger, Louisville, Xv. Treatments for Cold and Croup ‘My little girl, twelve years old. caught a severe cold, and 1 gave her three drops of Sloan 's Liniment on sugar on going to bed, and ehe got up in the morning with no signs of a cold. A lit tle boy next door had croup and I gave the mother the Liniment. Shegave him three drops on going to bed, and he got up without the croup in the morning.'* — Mr. W. H. Strange. Chicago. HL At all Dealers. Prios 25c., Me. aed tLM Sloan'. Book oa Home eeut free. BR. EARL S. SIMM, fa, fata, fas. MADE A VICTORY FOR “SENCE” Farmer Most Cleverly Outwitted, and Then Insult Was Added to Injury. ' Two large orchards, side by side, brought much profit to Farmer Tur mut, and much trouble. For the or chards were considered fair game by the youth of the village, and two orchards are harder to watch than one. One day. looking from one orchard to the other, Turmut saw a small boy shin down a tree, and uttering a word of warning to another imp still up among the apples, ran off. Turmut reached that tree in record time. “Got yer this time!” he roared to the boy almost hidden among the leaves. “Come down!” Getting no answer, and not being in a hurry, he sat down and waited. Time passed, and still he waited, until a servant brought him a note that had just been dropped through the letterbox. He did not wait after he had read it. as follows: "Some peeple as apples, some as sence. You bin watchin a pare of trowsis stuffed with straw, and we bin gettin' your apples from the other orchard. Grate victory for sence!" He’d Called Seventeen. Jim was a new- porter in the hotel, and he was putting in his first night at his new and responsible position. It was five in the morning, and so far Jim had done all he was told and was getting on splendidly. “Call 17 and 4,” commanded the night clerk, as he looked over his call sheet. Jim obeyed. After he had been goine for a considerable time, the clerk went up to see if he had called the rooms designated. "Well,” sighed the new porter whom he found on the third floor, “I've got seventeen of 'em up, but I haven't started on the other four yet."—Na tional Food Magazine. Hot Air. “It is said that a bottle of liquid gas will drive an aeroplane 500 miles." 'Maybe so. A great many birdmen have been kept above ground by the gas emanating from press agents." Quite Evident. “1 wonder why gossips are so much listened to?" “Because whatever they say, goes." WIFE WON Husband Finally Convinced. Seme people are wise enough to try new foods and beverages and then generous enough to give others the benefit of their experience. A wife writes: “No slave in chains, it seemed to me, was more helpless than I, a coffee captive. Yet there were innumerable warnings—waking from a troubled sleep with a feeling of suffocation, at times dizzy and out of breath, attacks of palpitation of the heart that fright ened me. (Tea is just as injurious as coffee because it contains caffeine, the same drug found in coffee.) “At last my nervous system was so disarranged that my physician ordered 'no more coffee.’ X capitulated. “Determined to give Postum a fair trial, I prepared it according to direc tions on the pkg., obtaining a dark brown liquid with a rich snappy fla vour similar to coffee. When cream and sugar were added, it was not only good but delicious. ■* “Noting its beneficial effects in me the rest of the family adopted it—all except my husband, who would not ad mit that coffee hurt him. Several weeks elapsed during which I dr^pk Postum two or three times a day, when, to my surprise, my husband said: ‘I have decided to drink Postum. Your improvement is so apparent— you have such fine color—that I pro pose to give credit where credit is due.’ And now we are coffee-slaves no longer.’’ Name given by Postum Co., Battle Creek, Mich. Read “The Road to Well ville,” in pkgs. Postum now comes in two forms: Regular Postum—must be boiled. Instant Postum is a soluble powder. A teaspoonful dissolves quickly in a cup of hot water and, with cream an<) sugar, makes a delicious beverage : Instantly. Grocers sell both kinds. “There’s a Reason” for Postum. DIRTY PLAYING HURTS GAME Football Facing Its Doom Because of Unnecessary and Unfair Rough ness, Says George Hoff. “The existence of football will be threatened, sooner or later, unless a (growing tendency to forget the lesson of some years back and return to the practices which put the sport on trial for its life is checked.” This is the recent declaration of Athletic Director George Hoff of Illi nois university, and one of the best known men in the athletic world. In explanation he says: “I refer to unnecessary and unfair roughness. I do not criticize hard play ing. and football as a matter of fact is rough. Rut I have noticed a grad ual introduction of the same tactics which nearly cost the colleges their favorite game. “This year I have seen neck wring ing.' I have seen players drag their feet over the head of an opponent. 'Piling up,' even when easily Been to be unnecessary, goes unrebuked. “The blame for the existence of this tendency is to be placed on the heads of unscrupulous coaches and compla cent gridiron officials. It is a matter of common report in the football camps of the middle west institutions that certain coaches make no bones of encouraging their men to lame and to slug if they can get away with it. Their linesmen threaten and curse their opponents, hoping to lead them into a display of honest and almost justifiable physical retaliation. “For the most part western officials have ceased to pay any attention to unnecessary roughness. ‘bet 'em fight it out' seems to be the implied attitude of many officials, especially the younger ones. And the team that attempts to be square gets the worst of it. I am a believer in football as a square, manly sport, if properly super vised. I would regret to se« it lost, but I firmly believe that after success W'ith the new style of game all will go for naught unless coaches and officials see that the practices 1 mention are eliminated." GILE OF PRINCETON. Gile of Princeton practicing toe work on the pigskin. This young player is bending every effort for the job of one of Princeton’s gridiron warriors. Princeton coaches have been working every youngster on the team in the hopes of developing a “find” and to get the understudies for the older players in trim, ready for any occa sion. FOOTBALL AN ANCIENT GAME Played at Derby as Early as Third Century in Commemoration of Victory Over Roman Legion. Football is probably the oldest of our national games. At Derby a game of football was played as early as the third century, in commemoration of a victory over the Roman Legion at Chester, says the London Chronicle. The first football used in the annual game—still played each Easter—is said to have been the head of a Dan ish invader. In the isle of Purbeck, too, the free quarrymen from time immemorial have perpetuated their claim to a grant of land by kicking a football across it. In the fourteenth century the game was so popular as to call forth an edict forbidding it, on the ground that it interfered with the practice of more martial exercises. In later times Shakespeare referred contemptuously to the game, but per haps few would be able to turn up readily the passage in “King Lear” describing “a base football player.” Pitching Marvel. Bob Scott, a youngster, who lives in Philadelphia, must be the real thing in the pitching line. He holds a job is Philadelphia, and couldn’t get off to travel with a ball club. Yet, during the last season, merely slipping away cn Saturdays and Sun days, he pitched 24 games for the Allentown team of the Tri-State league, winning 19, losing five and leading the hurlers. If he could do things that way, what would he do If he had a regular position on a big league club and could devote his time to the game? * New Class “AA” League. In an effort to curb outlaw baseball, the organized elements are planning to put Class AA clubs in eight differ ent cities next year. Cincinnati, Pitts burgh, Cleveland, Detroit, Chicago, Indianapolis, Grand Rapids and Peoria are the cities now suggested. This move is a bad one for the Class A clubs, as it will cut down the high class talent there to mediocrity. DARTMOUTH HAS MOST BRILLIANT ATTACK Right-End Loudon, Dartmouth's Human Battering Ram. For the second successive year, Princeton fell before the onslaught of Dartmouth's fighting football squad and for the second time. Loudon, Dart mouth's human battering ram in his position at right end, helped to put a crimp in Princeton's aspirations of downing Dartsmouth. Dartmouth, aside from its C to 0 victory over Princeton, has demonstrated that it has a most powerful and brilliant attack, and every one of the New England college teams which have attempted to check the march of the Han over players have been forced to defeat by scores running into double figures. English Woman Wins $8,250 on Two Races The Cambridgeshire handicap, the last big race of the year, was marked not only by the queen's visit to Newmarket, but by one of those lucky shots which fire the ambitions of the punters. Mrs. Clayton, wife of Major Clay ton, who has the reputation of be ing one of the handsomest women in English society, invested a sov ereign on Fizyarfia a rank outsid er, which won the Czarewitch at 50 to 1. She placed her winnings on another outsider. Cantilever, for the Cambridgeshire, and Cantilever romped home. His starting price was 33 to 1, so Mrs. Clayton pock eted $8,250. The British racing public recent ly has been hard hit by a weary succession of outsiders’ wins. AMATEURS NOT TO COMPETE Secretary Sullivan Refuses to Consider Proposition Made by President Gustavus T. Kirby. Secretary James E. Sullivan of the Amateur Athletic union and other of ficials of that organization, including Supreme Court Justice Bartow S. Weeks and Frederick W. Rubien of i the Metropolitan association, refuse to consider seriously the proposition made by their president, Gustavus T., Kirby, that amateurs be allowed to compete against professionals in track and field sports. Pointing to the fact that the ancient Olympic games were killed by pro fessionalism and that modern profes sional field and track sports had lost prestige through betting and kindred evils, Sullivan said flatly that he would never give his consent to the plan. He further stated that he would se^er connections with the A. A. U if the scheme should be attempted. TORBET OF MICHIGAN. One of Coach Yost’s most reliable and dependable players. Yale Football Reunion. A famous Yale football team held a reunion at New Haven recently. It was the eleven of 25 years ago, which rolled up a total of 698 points to none for Its opponents. Pa Corbin was the captain of the aggregation. The team lined up as follows: Left end, Alonzo Stggg; left tackle, W. C. Rhodes; left guard, George Woodruff; center, Pa Corbin; right guard. Pudge HefTelflnger; right tackle, Charley GUI; right end, Kid Wallace; quar terback, W. C. Wurtembnrg; half backs, Lee McClung and Billy Bull; fullback, W. P. Graves. Will Spend $50,000 for Tracks. The University of California Is to have a new cinder track. Work is to commence within the next few months, and by 1915 the new athletic field will be completed. Present plans inclnde the construction of bleachers seating 10,000 people, and a quarter mile oval with a 220-yard straight away. The cost of the track com i plete is estimated at $50,000. MAHAN OF HARVARD Few players on the big eastern teams have shown better qualities at punting than this young player. Tennis Cracks Leave for Trip to Far East William M. Johnston and Elia Fottrell, California tennis cracks, departed for a tour of the far east November 22. Johnston is the Pa cific coast champion and also holds the Longwood and New Tork state titles. With Fotrell he will play in Man ila. Tokio, Hong Kong and Shang hai. y TRACERY IS TO BE RETIRED Announcement Made That August Bel mont's Famous Colt Has Run Last Race—Won Many Stakes. The famous racing colt* Tracery, be longing to August Belmont of New York, has has run his last race, ac cording to an announcement made re cently. The colt, for which $200,000 was refused by his owner on Septem ber 30 last, is to retire immediately to the stud. He was restricted to walking exercise when he was scratched from his next week's en- i gagement. Tracery is regarded by racing men ! as one of the best colts ever bred He is a four-year-old son of Rock 1 Sand, the English stallion, by Topiary, and was first brought out for the Eng lish Derby in 1912, when he ran third. In the St. Leger stakes of $32,500 at Doncaster he was victorious at 8 to 1. and he won the Sussex stakes at Good wood iu the same year. While Tracery was running for the Ascot gold cup in June this year he was thrown by a suffragette, Madman Hewitt, who sprang on to the course and tried to stop him while he was running at full gallop. In July this year Tracery won the Eclipse stakes at Sandown and later in the season was placed second in the Jockey clnb stakes at Newmarket. Sullivan to Lecture on Baseball. Ted Sullivan, the veteran baseball player and .scout, who is making the round-the-world trip with the Giants and White Sox this winter, will deliv er an illustrated lecture on the na tional sport of the United States to the students of Waseda university, at Tokio, when the nines reach Japan. Defunct Ball Cities. Sioux City, Topeka and Wichita will all lose their Western league baseball franchises if reports to that are to be believed. None of these cities has made money during the past sea son and will consequently be supplant ed by live towns. Real Surprising. Surprising won the juvenile $2,000 stake a) Laurel, Md., when he decis ively defeated the best field of young sters lined up this year. Surprising conceded weight to all the starters. TERMS OFTHE ILL By GEORGE MUNSON. The news of Uncle Will's death was a great shock to me. I read it in the morning papers. He was among the killed in the accident on the Pacific South-Central railway. The train had left the tracks while traveling along the bank of the Juby river in Colo- j rado, and five cars had plunged be neath the swirling torrent. There was no possibility of rescuing any one; the death of all the occupants had been immediate. Uncle Will must have had a pre sentiment of his death, because, an hour before leaving his office on the way west, where he had to attend a conference on some one of those na tional movements in which he was always interested. He had dictated , a new will to his stenographer. Miss Clarke. Miss Clarke had typewritten j it and two of the clerks had witnessed his signature. The relatives were summoned to 1 meet at the house of Mr. Brewster, the family lawyer. Brewster smiled when he saw me and Marjorie enter. "I wish you luck, my dear fellow," he whispered, before the formalities | began. I had always been a prime favorite of Unde Will. He had left me a good j round sum, 1 was sure. If he had died the year before I should not have been so sure, because he was deeply mortified when Anne Claridge and 1 broke our engagement. It was Anne who wanted to be free, but of course Uncle Will, in his pig-headed way, had thought I was to blame. He had always been fond of Anne. Even after Anne married Jim Thornton, a month later—which ought to have shown Uncle Will where the blame lay—he was suspicious of me. "A man who breaks an engagement to a girl wants a lot of justification,” j he said to me. I couldn't persuade him that I had wanted to marry Anne. I believe he , cut me out of his will about then, j However, after I had discovered that Marjorie was the only girl I could ever love, and had introduced her to Uncle Will, I got back into his good graces. He was still a little dubious p Began to Drone Out the Term* of the Will. about my constancy, but be confided to be that Marjorie had Anne “'skin ned.” "And, my dear boy, if you break i that girl's heart I’ll not leave you a stiver," he said to me, over the wal nuts. How that amused Marjorie and my- j self! We were to be married the week after Uncle Will's return, and j nothing could have separated us. Mr. Brewster began to drone out the terms of the will, and you can be j sure everybody pricked up his ears Uncle Will had left some good round legacies, but I knew there was plenty left. At last 1 heard my name. “To my dear nephew, Oliver Cur tis,” the lawyer read, “I leave the sum of forty thousand dollars, on condi tion that”—he hesitated and then read with loud emphasis—“on condi tion that he leaves Marjorie Field for the period of one year immediately following upon his marriage to her, and to be paid to him upon the ex pirancy of one year after the cele bration of such marriage.” Marjorie and I looked at each other in amazement. Leave Marjorie! The room was in confusion. Mar jorie had fainted! As for Mr. Brewster, he was as much upset as anybody. its positively innuman, ne ex claimed. “It's contrary to public morals! You can have the will an nulled, Mr. Curtis. Why, he—he—did j you ever know your uncle to drink, Oliver?” “Not so that you could notice it,” I ! answered. “Then he must have been mad,” he said. “My boy, you can have the will annulled.” “I’m with you there!” exclaimed Penton Jones, another nephew of the old man's, though, I am happy to say, no cousin of mine. “I’ll back you, my boy. It’s barbarous, monstrous!” I felt a kindly feeling for Penton Jones for the first time. It was not until the next day that it occurred to me that, if the will was broken, Jones and I would inherit an equal sum as next of kin, together with several other nephews and nieces. That meant that instead of his own paltry thousand dollars Jones would re ceive nine thousand seven hundred and five. No wonder Jones was sym pathetic! “The old wretch!” said Marjorie to me as we talked the situation over that night. “What are you going to do about it, Oliver?” “Why, I—I’m going to marry you, of course, Marjorie," 1 answered. “And leave-me?” questioned Mar jorie quickly. “Not on Uncle Will’s life,” I an f swered. "Marjy. dear, let’s get mar ried anyway, and we'll let the will stand, for our part, and turn the ta ales on Jones.” It was hard to sacrifice the nine thousand odd that would have come to us, but we felt that after the way the old wretch had behaved we didn't want to touch a penny of his money. ‘ Let’s get married nest week,” I said. “All right,” said Marjorie. “How would Monday suit you?” I continued. “All—all right, Oliver dear,” Bhe inswered. And Monday it was. You know, however much a man may love a girl, forty thousand dollars lo&ks large, and while I knew I wouldn’t yield, I wanted to get our honeymoon started, so that the legacy could be irretrievably lost. And when we came aut of the church together, man and wife, with Mr. Brewster and Miss Clarke smiling at us and wishing us luck. I felt that I didn’t care a snap lor I'ncle Will's legacy. And Unrte Will met us at the ' church door, and he was more agi tated than I had ever seen him in his life. “It's all a mistake, Oliver,” he shouted. “I wasn't in those cars. I had gone back to the observation car. It was another man they thought was I. I—I—” I couldn't help congratulating him, but my face was as sour as Mr. Brew ster's, even if 1 had just got mar ried. "What's the matter, Oliver?” he cried. “You're not sorry your old uncle's alive and cheated you out of your legacy for a year or two, are you ?" “Uncle Will,” I answered, "did you suppose I would touch a penny of your rotten money? Not even if I could have got it by breaking the will.” "It was inhuman!” cried Marjorie. "It was not professional!” said Mr. Brewster severely. “To make it con ditional that he should leave his bride for a year—” "Leave her!” shouted Uncle Will. “What do you mean? I said ‘love her.’ Didn't you take it down in your notes as ‘love,’ Miss Clarke?” Miss Clarke clapped her hands to her head and went down in a dead faint upon the sidewalk. (Copyright, 1913. by W. G. Chapman.) PERFUMED AIR IN A HOTEL About the Limit Even in This Age That Is Unrivaled In Its Luxury. The "ultra” of scientific hotel ac commodations has reached Los An geles. Soon guests of the Hotel Alex andria will not breathe the ordinary air which circulates the highways and byways. No, indeed, monsieur and madams must be made comfortable; therefore, the dining salons and foyers of this hotel will be equipped with perfumed air. And to make this innovation in the hotel business even more complete the ordors which reach the nostrils of Alexandria guests will vary with the seasons. For instance, according to Managei S. J. Whitmore, spring will announce itself to the city dweller who never visits the byways by a delicate aroma of violet; a little later the scent will change, and the delicate parfqm” of the orange blossom will be de riguer. With autumn will come the Indian summery fragrance of pine needles— the virgin forest, t^ith winter, be cause this is southern California, roses. Exhaust fans which pump in cool air through a rainstorm of scented waters will make this possible. All grill and the banquet hall invisible supply fans will constantly keep a new current of perfumed air in circu lation among the dinerB and loungers. Should monsieur wish to give a lit tle dinner in a private dining-room and have a fancy for the scent of lav ender, then it will be supplied to him throughout the meal. “It is our object,” said Mr. Whit more, "to give our guests the most attractive environment. After care ful consideration we find that the per fumed air for our dining-rooms will be a pleasing touch for all those who wish to enjoy it. The only danger, of course, would be in overdoing the thing. None would want to take a meal in a salon saturated with the odor of orange blossoms, for exam ple. Our tinctures are to be delicate, however. The perfumes will. give a natural aroma; no more.”—Los An geles Examiner. Ortolans as Food. The ortolan, a bird smaller than our quail, an inhabitant of southern Eu rope in summer and Africa in winter, is highly prized, especially among French epicures, for the delicate flavor of its flesh. These birds are netted alive, kept in a dark place and fed on millet, oats and other seeds until they become enormously fat, when they are killed for the table. This artificial fat tening of the ortolan dates back to ancient days of Rome. A Parisian pa per tells of a financier who invited four friends to a dinner at his country place and sent to Paris to a famous restaurateur to provide a feast for six persons. When the account was pre sented it footed up 1,200 francs; that is, 2240. “Outrageous!” said the finan cier. “Monsieur,” said the restaura teur, “you have had twenty ortolans at 25 francs each; that alone would be 500 france.” This would be much like paying 25 each for well-fattened English sparrows.—Indianapolis News. Must Be Simple. In a registration booth in San Fran cisco an old negro woman had just fin ished registering for the first time. "Am you shore,” Bhe asked the clerk, “dat Ise done all I has to do?*' “Quite sure,” replied the clerk, “you see. it’s very simple.” ‘Td ought to knowed it,” said the old woman. "If those fool men folks been doing it all dese years, I might a knowed it was a powerful simple pro cess.”—Life. Coal exports, from the United States in the current fiscal year will approximate in value 290,000,00#* against 260,000,000 in 1909.