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»NCUE SAM has gone into a new business. Not sat isfied with coining nonei. raising chickens, acting as messenger boy, do ing a real estate business and at tending to a thou sand and one other jobs which he lias selected for himself, he has decided to become a professor of literature in the University cf the Common People. To this end he lias just instituted one of the most novel schemes ever inaugu rated—a course in literature for the benefit of all the people of the United States and its insular possessions. The bureau of education is at the head of this university of lit erature, a university where the sole cost of tuition is to evince interest in the lessons, a univer sity which confers certificates of merit in lieu of degrees and guar antees that all students will re ceive benefits in direct ratio to their application. Dr. P. P. Ciaxton, commission er of educate a, is the man who is at the hec.j of the literature movement, and from all indica tions the course will be an excep tionally popular one. We are receiving scores of ap plications every day from persons who desire to share in the bene fits of our reading courses." Doc tor Ciaxton told me when 1 in quired as to the response which the movement was meeting with. "If the applications continue to come in at their present rate_ —io uaiui\ a aay tnat rtoes not show an increase over the day before—we shall be hard put to handle all the correspondence at tached to the courses, and congress j will have to make additional appro priations for the better meut of the lit- j ei ary taste of the people. It was in order to bring about this ! betterment in the state of the reading public," continued Doctor Claxton. j that the bureau of education decid- i ed to institute this series of courses | in literature. At present we have ten divisions of the main course mapped out. These are: "The great Kterary Bibles. "Masterpieces of the world's litera ture. A reading course for parents. "Miscellaneous reading for boys. Miscellaneous reading for girls. "Thirty books of great fiction. "Some of the world’s heroes. “American literature. “Biography. “History. "Seven of these courses have been completed, and we are engaged in an swering hundreds of queries concern ing them The other three will be fin ished in a short time, and then the government will be in a position to do a most humane thing—to tell persons I of every age what they ought to read ! if they desire to improve thefr minds, i That, of course, is the primary ob- ! ject of this literary course, and we j firmly believe that if only a fraction of the persons who have already evinced interest in this movement apply them selves to the work which we have mapped out, the improvement in the literary taste of the country at large will be marked.” m discussing the first of these courses Doctor Claxton said: “Among ail the books of the world a few are so pre-eminent for content and style that they deserve the right to be called the great literary bibies.’ the ' foundation stones upon which rests I the entire literature of the world, of whatever language or age. There arc the Iliad' and Odyssey’ of Homer, the ‘Divine Comedy' of Dante, and the great dramas of Shake speare— The Merchant of Venice,' ‘Macbeth,’ Hamlet’ and Othello'—and Goethe's ‘Faust.’ "These books should be read by all who would know the world's best lit erature and life. The bureau of educa tion therefore has chosen them for its first course in reading, and we have been very pleasantly surprised to note that the majority of persons who have evinced interest in this movement have inquired particularly about the bibles' and their supplements, the ‘lit erary masterpieces.' We have been of the opinion that the majority of people would find these selections a little heavy for their reading and would prefer the works listed under the fiction heading. But nearly every inquiry which has reached us from adults has specified tha' the writer de sired particularly to familiarize him self with the'firs- two courses. "To everyone who inquires concern ing the course we send a blank, to be filled out and kept as a record in Washington and a list of the books of the special courses designated. We advise that the reading begin as soon as possible and that, when possible, the books be taken in the order named. But th:‘. is not essential 'o the obtaining of the certificate of merit given by the government in lieu of the usual college or university diploma or degree when the student completes the entire course and sub mits satisfactory evidence of having read all the books on the first two lists within three years from the time of joining the reading circle. “The second course is intended as a supplement to the first and includes nine books: Job. Isaiah, Deuteronomy, •Prometheus Bound' of Aeschylus. Virgil's ‘Aeneid.- ‘The Xibelungenlied,’ Cervantes’ ‘Don Quixote,’ a number of plays by Moliere and Milton's Para dise Dost.’ BOOKS RECOMMENDED BY THE GOVERNMENT * __ The Great Literary Bibles. The “Iliad" and “Odyssey’' "The Divine Comedy" “The Merchant of Venice" “Macbeth” "Hamlet" “Othello” "Faust” (Goethe) Masterpieces of Literature “Anna Karenina” “With Fire and Sword" “The Three Musketeers" “Pere Goriot" "Clarissa Harlowe” “David Copperfield" "Guy Mannering" “Henry Esmond" "Ivanhoe" “Lorna Doone" “The Ordeal of Richard Feverei” “Pride and Prejudice" "Robinson Crusoe” "Tale of Two Cities” “Cloister and Hearth” “Vanity Fair” “Vicar of Wakefield" “Romola" “The Luck of Roaring Camp” “The Last of the Mohicans” “The Scarlet Letter” “The Pilot” "Treasure Island” American Literature “The Autocrat of the Breakfast Ta ble" “Two Years Before the Mast” Emprson’s Essays Poe s "Gold Bug” Henry James’ "The American” O. Henry's “Four Million” "Ben-H ur" "Tom Sawyer' "Huckleberry Finn” “The Man Without a Country” "The Marble Faun” “Reign of Law” "Completion of these two courses will firmly ground the student in what are usually known as the ‘classics' and will enable him the better to appre ciate the oth^r and lighter reading to be found in the other lists, "The reading course for parents, which is under the direct supervision of Miss Ellen C. Lombard, secretary of the home educational division, in cludes a number of books dealing with problems of everyday life in the home. The volumes on this list in clude books on practical motherhood, marriage, development of children, care of babies, domestic economy, shelter and clothing, domestic science and a number of pamphlets and bul letins issued by the department of agriculture and dealing with the can ning and preserving of fruits and vegetables. "The boys' course includes a few of the more exciting books upon the lists of American literature and world's fiction, ,ind in addition such books as 'Hans Brinkcr.' The Jungle Book,’ 'Westward Ho!’ biographies of Lincoln. Lee and Franklin, addresses by Lincoln and Washington. Cleveland Moffett's 'Careers of Dangers and Dar ing’ and Bulfinch's ‘Age of Chivalry. The careful perusal of these books will, tve feel, pay large dividends not only upon the moral character of the boy himself but upon the future wel fare of the country at large. "The girls’ course includes only one or two of the books recommended for boys, but it parallels the other course in that it advocates the reading of a selected few of the world’s master pieces of fiction and the more Ju venile of the American authors' works 'Alice in Wonderland,’ ‘Little Women.’ ‘The Mill on the Floss,’ ’Evangeline.' Helen Keller's story of her life and the four books dealing with house fur nishing. the preparation of food and the physical side of girlhood and wom anhood are among the other books rec ommended.” Sulphur Mining in Texas. Near Freeport, Tex., sulphur is pro duced from beds approximately 1,000 feet below the surface. The sulphur is melted in place and can then be raised to the surface by means of an air lift. Superheated water at a tem perature of'336 degrees Fahrenheit, and under high pressure is forced into the sulphur-bearing formation The water penetrates the deposit and melts the sulphur I whose melting point is 239 degrees Fahrenheit), which then flows to a pipe from which it issues at the surface and runs into bins. These bins are constructed of boards which are raised as the mass increases, the bins finally reaching a height of thirty to thirty-five feet. The sulphur prompt ly congeals on exposure and after a few hours assumes the true sulphur yellow. Testimony From One Who Knows. Dorothy Dix says girls ought to know what their beaux make. Don't they? Unless times have changed the girls get three-fourths of it during the courtship and make a clean sweep after the wedding.—Houston Post. TAKEN FROM EXCHANGES Damage to American crop* by in sects yearly amounts to $580,000,000 Standard clocks in the Paris ob servatory are kept 90 feet under ground. where the variation in tem perature has been less than ono de gree for several years. Members of the Chicago Craftsmen Chapter of Operative Masons are Ma sons in two senses of the word. They are bricklayers and stonemasons and are members of the Masonic order. About 900 colors are known to dyers, of which only about 100 are made in the United States. The latest figures compiled show this country to be equal in steel prod ucts to both Germany and the United Kingdom. “In His Steps,’ the booklet tv Rev. Charles M. Sheldon, has sold more than 20.000,000 copies. An error in the copyright has kept the author from making more than a trifle out of it. Tulips came from the Levant; they grow wild in European Turkey. Lady Holland brought them to England in 1804. It is estimated that 50 pgr cent of the 1,750,000 automobiles in use in the United States are owned by farm ers and the percentage is increasing each year, it is estimated that 00 per cent of the 1915 output will go to the farming communities. A meteor which fell recently in front o. the home of Charles Solmon. who lives near Prescott, Mich., went to an unknown depth and water came up to the surface in the hole it made, although Solmon had been unable to strike water at a depth of 80 feet Knitting is a Scotch invention of the fifteenth century. Soon after its invention a guild of stocking knitters was formed, with St. Fiacre as its patron saint Hand knitting was sup plemented by machinery as early as 1589, when William Lee invented the knitting frame. In the superior court of Thomas county. Georgia, three Juries were de liberating at the same time over three different charges against the same man. Before one Jury he was charged with hog-stealing, before another with r sting and before a third with selling liquor illegally. Hick Colgan. the famous wolf catcher, who lives near Atchison. Kan., has captured a total of 729 wolves. He receives a bounty of five dollars for gray wolves and one dol lar for coyotes. Since the first of the year he has captured 39. A Cairo correspondent writes tc. the Manchester Guardian that, owing to the falling of the Nile. Egypt will have to import nearly all her rice this year. The Nile has not been as low for near ly 100 years, and the facilities for wa ter storage have been Insufficient Jarrah trees in the Australian for ests grow to a height of 120 feet, kari trees to 200 feet The famous timeball at Greenwich is to be replaced by a new aluminum ball, and its mechanisih overhauled and reconstructed. An electrical cur rent from the clock was first used to drop it at one o’clock each day in 1852. Out of 57.000.000 animals inspected in the last year 533,000 were found to be infected with tuberculosis, and hog cholera and cattle tick have cost the producers of this country anywhere from $100,000,000 to $150,000,000 in a single year. THE EUROPEAN WAR A YEAR AGO THIS WEEK Oct. 18, 1914. Severe fighting near Nieuport and in Alsace. Germans repulsed by Belgians at River Yser and by French at St. Die. Germans evacuated Courtrai. Austrians repulsed at River San. Serbians routed Austrians on the Save and the Drina. Anti-German riots in London. President Poincare’s country house destroyed by Germans. Oct. 19, 1914. Allies, aided by British war ships. repelled German advance between Nieuport and Dixmude. Germans attacked allied line from Ostend to Lille. Fierce fighting near Warsaw and Przemysl. Serbians captured Sarajevo forts. British battleship Triumph dam aged at Tsingtau. Japanese cruiser Takachiho sunk by German submarine in Kiaochow bay Austrian submarine sunk by French cruiser in Adriatic. Fifty thousand Belgian refugees returned from Holland. Irish nationalists in London took pledge to avenge Belgium. Italian fleet mobilized. Oct. 20, 1914. Germans gained near Lille. Battles along banks of the Yser, on the Arras-Roye line and on the Meuse. Allies reported recapture of Bruges. Przemysl forts badly damaged. Austrians advanced in Stryj and Stica valleys. Serbians won at Prekiet. British submarine E-3 sunk. Japanese fleet took islands of Marianne group. Two German ships sunk at Ja luit. Oct. 21. 1914. British monitors bombarded Ger man right wing on Belgian coast. Allies repulsed German attacks at Nieuport, Dixmude and La Bas see. Heavy fighting on the Yser. Russians defeated German-Aus trians in northern Poland and halted Austrians at the San. Serbians repelled Austrian at tacks in Bosnia. Cattaro again bombarded. German cruiser Emden sank five British steamships in Indian Ocean. All unnaturalized German and Austrian residents in England of military age ordered put in deten tion camps. Oct. 22. 1914. French retook Altkirch. General Helmuth von Moltke, chief of German general staff, re tired on account of health. Russians defeated Germans near Warsaw. Russians captured many Austri ans and some guns in Galicia. French and British warships bombarded German positions on Belgian coast. British cruiser Carmania dam aged. American relief committee cabled $50.00 to Belgians. Oct. 23, 1914. German right wing, re-enforced, gained ground at La Bassee. Heavy fighting between the Ghent-Bruges line and Roulers. Russians won battle along the Vistula and pursued the Austrians in Poland. Germans moved fortified posi tions to River Warthe. Austrians reoccupied Czerno witz and announced capture of fort* near Sambor. German aviators dropped bombs on Warsaw. Woman spies executed in Ger many. They Always Do. “Docs anyone think your son has a future?" “Yes; the life insurance companies.”—Life. The Desired Consummation. “I'm .troubled with a sense of full ness after eating," said the dyspep tic. "Good heavens!" exclaimed the healthy gourmand. “Isn't that what you eat for?" The Main Thing. "Seems strange to me how many various sorts of inquiries the news papers have about coins.” “Why so?” “In my circle all a man wants to know about a coin is if it’s good.” Too Much Sunshine. “Your boy Josh says he is the sun shine of the household.” “Yep,” replied Farmer Comtossel. “But there’s such a thing as too much Bunshine. Josh’s perpetual cuttin’ up around the place gets to be about as cheerful as a drought" A Domestic Tragedy. .“There goes the woman who caused a great breaking up in my home.” “Who is she?” "The cook we’ve just fired far smashing our best dinner set” Small Chance. "Do you ever expect to be married?" “Well, that depends. If I can find a girl w*th a million or two who doesn't want to be married for herself alone." SAVED MINISTER'S LIFE. Rev. W. H. Warner, Frederick. Md., writes: “My trouble was Sciatica. My back was affected and took the form of Lumbago. 1 also had Neu ralgia. cramps in my muscles pres sure or sharp pain on the top of my head and nervous dizzy spells. 1 had other symptoms showing that my » ~ ” ' tuaneys were at fault, so 1 took Dodd’s Kidney Pills. They were the means of saving my life.” Dodd's Kidney Pills, 50c per box at your dealer, or Dodd's Medicine Co., Buffalo, N. Y. Dodd's Dyspepsia Tab lets for Indigestion have been proved, 50c per box. Write for Household Hints, also music of National Anthem (English and German words I and recipes for dainty dishes All 3 sent free.—Adv. Waited for Orders. A drill foreman in Culebra cut sent a negro to the top of the mast on one of his drills to straighten out a rope which had slipped off the sheave Just after the man went up the general foreman came along and talked about the job for half an hour. In the mean time the man on top of the drill was forgotten and after the general fore man left he was discovered still roost ing on top of the mast. The foreman called to him: "Aren't you through up there yet?" "Oh. yes, sir. boss." "Well, why don't you come down, then?" "You don't tell me to, sir." Getting Even. “There's a church near.” said the country farmer to his paying guest; "not that 1 ever puts my nose in it.” "Anything the matter with the vicar?” "Well, it's this way. 1 sold the old vicar milk and eggs and butter and cheese, and seeing as he patronized me I patronized ’im. But this new chap keeps 'is own cow and ’ens! 'If that's your game, 1 thought, we'll 'ave 'ome-grown religion, too.' ”—Tit Bits. Some One Responsible. An angry man entered the w-ater of fice of an eastern city the other day and fiercely announced to the clerk: "Sir. you can send up and take your old gas meter out of my house.” "This is not the gas office.” “It isn’t?" “No, sir; this is the water office.” "Oh, it is! Well, then, send a man up to my house at once and turn the water off! I’m not going to walk a mile and a half for nothing!” A Giveaway. “You seem to have a deep-rooted aversion to Wrist watches'" “You bet 1 have. Just suppose they should become so fashionable that we had to wear ’em. Every time a fellow pawned his watch the whole town would know it.” Paw’s Little Joke. Little Lemuel—Say, paw, what is a stratagem? Paw—The diamond, my son, is one kind of a strata-gem. Fitting Reception. “How do your women audiences take to your candy-making lectures?" "Oh, they just eat ’em up.” Their Use. “What are diplomatic posts for?” “They seem at present to be chiefly for international hitches!.” I Couldn’t Blame It. Tlie hotel was not a very good one, and the traveling men knew it. Nev erthele's they were obliged to go there when they came late at night to the little tiwn. In the middle of the night one of them was dimly conscious that something was wrong. Suddenly he realized that the trouble came from a leaking gas jet. "Wake up. Bill!" he shouted, shak ing his friend violently. “The gas is escaping!” “Well.” growled Bill, “can you blame it?”—Ladies' Home Journal. The Reason. “There is a great deal of snap about that marching.” “No wonder; it’s a crack corps " The only blusterer from which a brave man will take a blow is the wind. The War Spirit. A fat "colored mammy” of the "old school" was hauled into court for throwing her washing board at her neighbor's husband, a "Georgia Crack er” of the “poor white trash" va riety. "Did you strike this man with a washboard?" Judge Broyles asked. "I spec' 1 did, yo honah." “What was the provocation’” "We wuz discussin wall, jedge.” "Well—go on." "We wuz talkin' 'beut dem Ger mings an' Johns Bulls and dem Frenchmens, and he done said 1 was nutral, yo honah I ain’t gwine ter let no low-down white trash call me dat.” —Case and Comment. A Shining Mark. Hazel—Is he as stupid es he looks? | Aimee—Oh. dear, no. He is the only heir of a millionaire uncle. a The Kind You Have Always Bought. THIS is the caution applied to the public announcement of Castoria that has been manufactured under the supervision of Chaa. H. Fletcher for over 30 years—the genuine Castoria. We respectfully call the attention of fathers and mothers when purchasing Castoria to see that the wrapper bears his signature in black. When the wrapper is removed the same signature ap pears on both sides of the bottle in red. Parents who have used Castoria for their little ones in the past years need no warning against counterfeits and imitations, but our present duty is to call the attention of the younger gener ation to the great danger of introducing into their families spurious medicines. It is to be regretted that there are people who are now engaged in the nefarious business of putting up and selling all sorts of substitutes, or what should mere properly be termed counterfeits, for medicinal preparations not only for adults, but worse yet, for children’s medicines. It therefore devolves on the mother to scrutinize closely what she gives her child. Adults can do that for themselves, but the child has to rely on /f the Anther’s watchfulness. /i* . S/ y /7. sl. Genuine Castoria always bears the signature of WHY HE PASSED UNNOTICED Fairy Had Discovered Sure Way of Making Himself Invisible—Any one Can Try It. Once upon a t ime there was a good | little girl. And this good little girl asked her mother if she canid go and play in the woods, and her mother said yes. So she went to play in the woods. And she was walking along and walking along, and what do you think she met? A fairy! And she was aw fully surprised to meet a fairy, so she said to the fairy: "Where do you come from?” And the fairy said: "This is where I live.” And the little girl said: “I never heard nbout any fairies liv ing in these woods.” And the fairy saii: “No. because nnbadv ever saw me here before. But you are a good little girl, so I let you see me.” And the good littla girl said: "How do you manage to be seen by nobody, even though they walk right past you every day?” “I lend them money.”—London An swers. Case of Must. "YouTe not smoking as much as you used to. Did your doctor order you to stop?” “No. I'm a martyr to fashion.” “What's fashion got to do with smoking?" “If you saw my wife's dressmaker and milliner bills you wouldn't ask such a foolish question.” Reminded. “When the autumnal frosts touch the foliage with tints of red and yel low against the gray sky, doesn't that inspire you to thought?" "It certainly does. The reds and yellows make me think of the job ahead of me tending tile furnace, and the grays make me th'nk of the dust when I sift the ashes.” Those Dear tSIrls. Hazel—Harold tells me all he knows. Aimee—Indeed! Isn’t the silence dreadfully oppressive at tlmeB? Don’t Persecute Your Bowels Cut out cathartics and purgatives. They are brutal, harsh, unnecessary. CARTER’S LITTLE i t nrrn nvi v c 1 X Purely vegetable. Act gently on the liver, eliminate bile, and^ soothe the delicate^ membrane of thej bowel. Corei Constipation, Biliousness. (Carter’s kVITTLE IVER PILLS. ache and Indigestion, aa mdliona know, SMALL PILL, SMALL DOSE, SMALL PRICE. Genuine must be-m Signature Has His Own Cage Now. • Squabbling and fighting — there's another very frequent cause of di vorce." said Prof. L. Watts Ingersoll in an address before the Cleveland Antidivorce league. "A man had been haled before a Cleveland magistrate for nonsupport or some such fault. “ ‘But let me see,' the Justice said, aren't you the man who was married in a cage of wild, man-eating tigers and leopards?' “ ‘Yes. your honor, I'm the man,' was the reply. “‘Exciting, wasn't itW said the Jus tice. “Well, your honor," said the man. 'it seemed so then. It wouldn’t now!' ’ Lost and Found. “My husband lost his temper yester day." "Well, from the way my husband acted this morning I think it’s very likely he found it. I wish you’d send over and get it. We don’t need it." Quite True. “Do you know that girls often think more of a dog than they do of a man before they are married?” "Yes. and I've noticed that they of ten do afterward.” Hard to Damage. "Alpine scenery is very grand." “Very durable, too. I imagine it will pull through the war all right.”—Kan sas City Journal. Surgeon General Rupert Blue of the U. S. Public Health “I WANT TO WARN YOU AGAINST THE CRAZE PEOPLE IN THIS COUNTRY HAVE FOR WHITE FLOUR. THE WHITEST FLOUR IS NOT THE BEST; IT IS NOT THE PUREST; IT IS ONLY THE DEAREST, AND WHEN YOU BUY IT YOU BUY LOOKS AND NOT NOURISHMENT. IN ORDER TO MAKE IT WHITE, SOME OF THF. MOST NOUR ISHING AND ESSENTIAL COMPONENTS OF THE NATURAL WHEAT HAVE BEEN TAKEN AWAY.” These nourishing and essential components" are the priceless mineral phosphates of the grain, known as the “tissue salts," indispensable for perfect health of body, brain and nerves. Everywhere food scientists and physicians are sounding a like note of warning, for a host of Mis is following the pernicious practise of casting out these elements in the milling process, and that, simply to make the flour look white and pretty. Neurasthenia, anemia, Bright's disease, constipation, rickets, and a lowered resistance against disease in general, are some of these ills. More and more thinking people are waking up to this evil. There’s a way out \ Grape-Nuts made of whole wheat and barley, retains all "the nutriment of the grains and those "essential components the mineral elements. This splendid food was devised years ago to supply this very lack in ordinary food and fortify the system against the onslaughts of disease. It does it wonderfully well. Grape-Nuts comes ready to eat, convenient, economical and nourishing, and has become a household word in thousands of homes for its sterling food values and delicious flavor. “There’s a Reason” for Grape-Nuts —sold by Grocers everywhere.