1 WESTERN CANADA
“He Who Will and Does Work Will
* Not Want.”
Br As in the United States it is said,
that the Mennonites in Canada are
js Very much oppressed, and have to suf
fer from a great deal (on account of
the War in Europe* and I have been I
requested to write something about
this. I will do so.
I came with my parents A. D. 1874. j
... —--— from Southern Rus
Does not sia to America,
Fear South Dakota, and ;
Oppressions. A. D. 1907 I came
.- with my family
here to Western Canada, here we have
P found a healthy climate; the acre
\ yields on an average more and wheat
is better than in South Dakota. What
concerns the Government, up to now
we have had a good one. have been
able to live according to our creed and
It have not been oppressed in any way,
I and I believe: All Mennonites. who
l live according to the fundamental be
i liefs of the Mennonites and to God's
f word, as their guide, will agree with
me.
He. who, here in Canada, will and
does work, will not want. So much as
an answer.
Remain your friend,
(Sgd.) DIEDRICH GOOSSEX.
s —
"ery few farmers cultivate the habit
of keeping careful accounts of their
receipts and expenditures, showing at
the end of the year a balance, either
or against. The farmer of Western
llft-'iada is no exception to this. It is
felt if more careful book-keeping were
resorted to there that much better re
I suits would be ob
Statistical State- rained and shown,
ment Shows a Divl- There is the case
dend of 58% in of the Crowfoot
1915 Farming Co., of
■ -J Crowfoot, Alberta.
It has just issued a certified statement
of its operations for the years 1912,
ft 1913, 1914 and 1915. This Company
has had for the past few years about
1300 acres in wheat and between 200
and 250 in oats. The total operating
and general expenses for 1912, includ
ing interest at 6% and depreciation at
15%, were $12,587. for 1913 $17,506. for
1914 $18,729, and for 1915, $29,804.43.
Expense per acre of lard in crop was
$7.80 in 1912, $11.57 in 1913, $11.70 in
I 1914, and $17.87 in 1915. Total re
ceipts were $15,531 in 1912. $30,661 in
1913. $31,589.87 in 1914. and $62,520.26
in 1915. The percentage earned upon
capita! invested was in 1912,
30% in 1913. 23 1-3 in 1914, and 50% in
1915, in which year it paid a cash divi
dend of 58%.
The Company’s statement shows
that the average dates of finishing
seeding was April 20th; the average
date commenced cutting was August
18th.—Advertisement.
g One-half of the world is kept busy
xrying to find out how the other half
lives.
LADIES CAN WEAR SHOES
One size smaller after using Allen's Foot
1 Ease, the antiseptic- powder for the feet.
9 Shaken Into shoes and used In foot-bath.
Allen's Foot-Ease makes 'ight shoes feel
easy, and gives instant relief to corns and
bunions. Try it today. Sold everywhere.
25r. For FREE trial package. Address,
Allen S Olmsted, L- Roy, N T. Adv.
You can t reform a man by suggest
ing that he ought to be as good as
you arc.
TENDER SKINNED BASIES
With Rashes and Irritations Fmo
Comfort in Cuticura. Trial Free.
Baby s tender skin requires mild
soothing properties such as are found
in the Cuticura Soap and Ointment
Cuticura Soap i3 so sweet, pure aud
cleansing and Cuticura Ointment sc
soothing and healing, especially when
baby's skin is irritated and rashy.
Free sample each by maU with Book
Address postcard. Cuticura, Dept. L,
Boston. Sold everywhere.—Adv.
A Circus Union.
"Married above him, you say?"
"Yes. He's a ringmaster. She per
forms on the flying trapeze.''
SALTS IF BACKACHY OR
KIDNEYS TROUBLE YOU
Eat Less Meat If Your Kidneys Aren’t
Acting Right or If Back Kurts or
Bladder Bothers Yoa.
"When you wake up with oackache
and dull misery in the kidney region
T it generally means you have been eat
ing too much meat. say6 a well-known
9 authority. Meat forms uric aoid which
overworks the kidneys in their effort
to filter it from the blood and they be
come sort of paralyzed and loggy.
When your kidneys get sluggish and
clog you must relieve them like you
relieve your bowels; removing all the
oody's urinous waste, else you have
backache, sick headache, dizzy spells;
your stomach sour^ tongue is coated
and when the weather is bad you have
rheumatic twinges. The urine is
cloudy, full of sediment, channels oft
en get sore, water scalds and you are
obliged to seek relief two or three
times during the night.
Either consult a good, reliable physi
cian at once or get from your pharma
cist about four ounces of Jad Salts;
take a tablespoonful in a glass of
water before breakfast for a few days
and your kidneys will then act fine.
This famous salts is made from the
acid of grapeB and lemon juice, com
bined with lithia, and has been used
for generations to clean and stimulate
tluggish kidneys, also to neutralize
acids ia the urine so it no longer irri
tates. thus ending bladder weakness
Jad Salts is a life saver for regular
meat eaters. It is inexpensive, cannot
injure and makes a delightful, effer
vescent lithia-water drink.—Adv.
As It Occurred to Him.
^ q “Advertising," remarked the thought
ful thinker, “is a good deal like mak
P ing love to a widow."
"What's the answer?" queried the
party of the dense part.
“It's ifupossible to overdo it," replied
the t. L
• BY THE UNITED STATES FORESTRY BUREAU)
ARBOR day has now become as
sociated ail over the United
States with patriotic and es
thetic as well as economic j
ideas. It is at once a means of doing |
practical good to the community and !
an'incentive to civic betterment. The j
planting of trees by school children is
accompanied in every case by cere- j
monies intended both to impress upon
those present the beauty of trees and
their effect in improving the appear
ance of school grounds, streets, parks
and homes.
As a patriotic festival it partakes of j
the nature of Fourth of July celebra- |
tions or the observance of Washing
ton's birthday, and in the South, where
the season is propitious, it is in some
states observed on February 22.
The originator of Arbor day certain
ly had all these aspects of the day in
mind. But it was chiefly as a means
of inducing the people to co-operate
in an attempt to supply the state of
Nebraska with the trees necessary for
shade, farm protection, and fuel and
timber for neighborhood use that the
plan of setting aside a certain day of
the year for tree planting was adopted.
Arbor day has been celebrated in
Nebraska with enthusiasm from its
very beginning in January. 1872, to the
present day. Tree planting was no
new- thing there when the Arbor day
plan was originated by Mr. Morton, for
the first settlers in that territory soon
found that the lack of trees was a
serious drawback to farmers and they
had already made some attempt to sup
ply the deficiency.
Every farmer needs wood and fence
posts, neither of which he can afford
to import from a distance. Just as
imperative is the need of protection
for orchards, field crops, and build
ings from the winds that sweep un
hindered over that flat country.
Before 1872, however, planting nad
been haphazard: and only those farm
ers who were willing to take a good
deal of trouble to find out ways and
means of improving their farms by
windbreaks and groves did any plant
ing. The adoption of the Arbor day
plan meant the organization of the
work in the state. As a result near
ly a billion trees have been planted in
the state since the plan was first adopt
ed. It is estimated that more than
700.000 acres have been planted in
trees in Nebraska.
Nebraska Needed Trees.
Kansas and Tennessee followed the
I lead of Nebraska in 1S75, and the next
| year Minnesota fell into line. In Kan
sas the same conditions as in Nebraska
made the plan of immediate economic
and do better. A slovenly town is apt ;
to mean slovenly inhabitants. The j
celebration of Arbor day may very
well be the turning point in the atti
tude of a community toward its civic
duties and by consequences toward its
social life and its manner of conduct- j
ing business. Nothing so helps tc 1
beautify a city or town as trees, and !
nothing so educates the people in pub- j
lie spirit and foresight as the care of
trees.
Tne celebration of Arbor day hv the •
planting of trees is the assumption of
an all-the-year-round responsibility.
The planting and care of trees will ;
inculcate in school children patience j
and foresight and will impress upon
them the desirability of making the :
best use of the resources of nature j
both economically and esthetically.
In the past the planting of trees on \
Arbor day has usually been in school
grounds or parks. Recently it has be
gun to be used as a means of stirring
up interest in roadside planting, first
in cities and then in rural communi
ties. The city of Newark. N. J.. is do
ing model work in this line. There is
a special shade tree commission, which
issues a map of the city on which are ;
shown the streets that are in their ;
care and the variety of trees planted
on each, a leaflet giving directions for
the planting and care of trees along
the streets and a general Arbor day
pamphlet. In one year nearly 3,177
trees were planted on 46 streets. Many
other cities are now organizing the
work of tree planting on the streets,
and in every ce.se Arbor day is used
as a means of arousing public inter
est.
In 1913 the United Stales bureau of
education issued a bulletin entitled
“Good Roads Arbor Day,” in which
were set forth the advantages of plant
ing trees along the highways Not
only should we build good roads, we
should also make them attractive ar.d
comfortable to travel over. In many
European countries this is done by
planting the roadside with rows of
trees. This tree planting by the road
side has not yet become common in
this country, as it should.
Observing Arbor Day.
Some objection has been made to
trees along the roadside on the ground
that they hinder drying out after wet
weather. This holds good if the road
is poorly built; but trees are actually
an aid in keeping a well-built road dry
if they are not planted too close. The
roots by constantly taking in water
assist in drainage, and the tops by
breaking the force of driving rains
prevent washes in the roadway. The
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Shady Street in Washington, D. C.
I
j importance. In Minnesota the white j
i pine forests were being destroyed ■
' with alarming rapidity and no provi-j
| sion was being made for replacing'
| them. After 1875 there was for some
i years a check in the spread of the
! Arbor day idea, and it was not until
| 1882 that two more states began to
j celebrate the day. North Dakota and
I Ohio.
Two new elements were introduced
Into the Arbor day plan when Ohio
took it up: the way was made a school
festival and the practice of planting
memorial trees and groves was inau
gurated. These new developments
were largely responsible for the ex
’ tension of Arbor day over the rest of
the United States. Tree planting be
came a festival combining pleasure,
utility, and instruction, and one of the
greatest benefits of the observance of
Arbor day has been its effect in im
pressing upon the minds of the young i
j people the value cf trees and the
necessity of conserving all the nat
| ural resources of the country.
As a school festival the observance
it Arbor day has spread not only
throughout the whole United States
| but far beyond its borders. In 18S7 j
the education department of Ontario
set aside the first Friday in May as a
! tree and flower-planting day. In 1896
; the plan was adopted officially in
j Spain. It reached Hawaii in 1905. and
! is now in vogue in all the dependen- 1
j cies of the United States and in Great
j Britain. Australia, the English West |
j Indies, South Africa. New Zealand, |
France, Norway, Russia and Japan
They Know the Value.
The time of the observance of Arbor
day varies greatly in different states
and countries, being determined some
what by climatic conditions. In gen
aral the date is early in the year in
the South and is set further along to
ward summer in the more northern
states, beginning in February and end
ing in May.
A clean and beautiful town is a
source of pride to its citizens and a
constant incentive to them to go on
most important use of trees by the
roadside, however, is the prevention !
of dust. Dust is the cementing ma
terial in macadam roads, and if it is
loosened and blown away the breaking
up of the road is hastened.
What the trees do for the roads they
also do for the forested hillsides.
Wherever there are no forests on the
hills and mountains the rain and melt
ed snow rushes off in a torrent, dig
ging out great gullies and carrying
away the fertile soil.
Where there is a forest, the trees
protect the soil from the beating of the
rain. The roots lead the water deep
into the ground to be stored up there
and gradually fed out by springs all
the year round. The leaf litter absorbe
and holds the water like a sponge.
The trunks and roots prevent the
rapid runoff of the water and bind the
soil together. The forest is of tre
mendous benefit in preventing both
floods and drought. It is in reality a
natural gatherer and storer of water,
it is imperative, therefore, that the
watersheds of navigable streams and
those upon which towns, cities, irriga- j
tion projects and water-power plants i
depend for their supply should be for- :
ested.
The greatest value of Arbor day lies j
in its effect upon our attitude toward !
the trees that are already growing, for |
manifestly there are thousands of j
trees of natural origin to every one
planted by man. The average citizen
is only now beginning to care for these
trees, having never before considered
that they needed any care. Farmers
have been in the habit of turning their
cattle in to graze on their woodlands,
where they break off and destroy the
young growth, trample and injure the
roots of the larger trees and pack the
ground hard, thus not only destroying
the future forest but shortening the
life of the trees that are already grow
ing The Arbor day student who has
been taught to plant and care for trees
will, in after years, no more think ol
turning cattle into his woodlot than
into his cornfield.
Message of the Lilies
7 I LIES bear a message at the Eastertide,
Bow ro;/r heads and listen what their petals may confide.
Heads a-nodding, all a-throbbing wish a peav strong,
iS/mj a-quiver, yj/rfif susceptive to the bursting song;
Just forgetting for a moment everything beside,
Listen to their challenge at the Eastertide.
HAS INSPIRED
GREAT ARTISTS
Subject of the Resurrection Al
ways One That Has Called
Forth Their Best
Efforts.
THE Christian artist, about the
fourth century, when he made
his first hesitating attempts to
treat the subject of Easter, |
carefully refrained from showing
the risen Lord at the moment of
resuscitation. With a proper rever
ence for the Scriptures, he refused to
show what they did not reveal. He de
picted an empty tomb, watched by the
Roman guard, or visited by the holy
women. A sarcophagus in the Lateran
museum simply shows a labarum. or
Roman standard, under which the
keepers are fast asleep. Even the tomb
is only suggested. The Louvre has a
bas-relief in silver-gilt which formerlv
belonged to the Abbey of St. Denis. I
where we see an angel showing the .
Savior's empty tomb to the two Marys, i
A more realistic representation is j
Thomas touching the Savior's wounds,
which may he seen upon an early sar
cophagus, preserved in the church of
St. Celso at Milan.
i ms cnasie reserve, wnnn was con
tent to depict only what was described j
by the Gospel narrative, was main !
tained by Gliristian art until the thir- :
teenth century, when, under the influ j
ence of the Renaissance, men began to
paint the actual resurrection itself
with a conscious striving for dramatic j
effect. There is an early representa
tion which shows the upper half of the j
Savior's body appearing above the j
grave, and also a representation of his
appearance to Mary Magdalene, by
Duccio of Siena (1255-lol9), who.
with Giotto of Florence, first attempt- j
ed to find a new artistic formula in i
the observation of life. It is to Giotto '
that we owe our first representation ;
of the resurrection. In a small picture, j
which formed one of a series of panel !
decorations upon a press for sacred
vessels, in the sacristy of St. Croce,
Florence, now in the Florence acad
emy, he shows us the risen Christ,
lightly standing with the cross and
banner of victory in his right hand,
upon the heavy slab which covers the
still closed tomb. The angel does not
appear, but the Roman guards are
sleeping beside the tomb. The Savior’s
feet barely touch the tomb and the
whole impression is that of an ethereal
body, no longer subject to the physical
laws which attach us to this earth.
This nowr becomes the characteristic
feature of all resurrection pictures.
Taddeo Gaddi adheres to this in his
magnificent fresco, and so does Peru
gino.
Among the many disciples of Giotto
there was but one great artist, the
painter-monk. Fra Angelico of Fiesole.
There is an indescribable sweetness in
his virgins and angels, enhanced by
his exquisite drawing and delicate, lu
minous color, but his very sweetness
often palls upon our modern taste. As
Reinach says: “We long for a few
wolves in this impeccable sheepfold.”
|
A RED NOSE
L J
“Say, Uncle Dick, papa says you use
nose paint and i want to borrow aoma
to color my Easter eggs.”
Fra Angelico treated the resurrection
subject several times. In one of his
pictures he still has the pre-renaissance
reserve. He shows us the wondering
women and the angels at the sepul
cher. In another he combines the old
version with the new. In the third
picture he shows the actual resurrec
tion scene.
Fra Bartolomeo, the teacher of An
drea del Sarto, though not a master of
the first rank, treated this subject with
great success in his picture, which is
now in the Pitti palace. Florence. Ra
fael also painted it. In his picture the
keepers are not sleeping, but they are
witnesses of the resurrection. Anni
bale Carraci goes a step further. He
was not satisfied to prove by a wit
ness that Christ really arose from the
dead. He sets out to show that he
arose in a miraculous manner. He not
only paints a closed tomb, which is
scripturally correct, for the Gospels
describe the great earthquake and the
rolling away of the stone as taking
pla-<3 after the act of resurrection, but
Carraci places a sleeping guard, lying
full length across the top of the altar
like tomb. There can thus be no doubt
that the Savior who soars above must
have miraculously passed this double
barrier.
It is a relief to turn from the con
templation of such ridiculous puerili
ties to the strength of Martin Schoen
gauer's engraving. Albrecht Duerer's
resurrection in his Smaller Passion
series of wood cuts is rather empty:
his Larger Passion shows us a much
more worthy and noble composition
Rembrandt also treated this subject.
As usual with him the great problem
was the treatment of light. He does
not show the Savior, but he selects the
moment of the great earthquake and
the appearance of the angel as the sub
ject for a most wonderful etching,
wherein he again, as Couture says,
“with black and white makes color.”
Whenever the risen Lord is shown
in these resurrection pictures, he ap
pears as the victorious conqueror of
death and the grave. This conception
has also passed into hymnology, for
the Lutheran hymn writer, Paul Ger
hard, sings:
They in a grave did sink him.
The foe held jubilee;
Before he can bethink him.
Lo. Christ again is free.
And "Victory!" he cries.
And waveth toward the skies
His banner, for the field
Is by the hero held.
Perhaps the most natural and. there
fore. the most common representation
of the resurrection is the picture of the
women at the empty sepulcher. Like
the kings who came to adore the infant
Savior, their number is always three
We find them in the very earliest res
urrection pictures and carvings, as
well as in the richly illuminated Gos
pels of the tenth and eleventh cen
turies: Duccio's treatment of this sub
ject is fine, especially the expression
of awe in the women, and the action of
the angel, who points to the empty
tomb.—Christian Herald.
Sharing in Easier.
To have lost no Joy, buried no hope,
known no suffering is to come to
Easter day with little sense of its
meaning and fellowship. Only those
who have deeply suffered can enter
deeply into its glorious message.
Easter is the symbol of life triumph
ant. life more abundant, life rejoicing
over death. It is the birthday of im
mortality. to be celebrated by all men
with gladness. Whatever hope has
been defeated in our lives. Easter of
fers us victory. The dead we loved
are not dead: they live forever in new
ness of life, awaiting our entrance into
immortality. The things we have
hoped to do. the things we have longed
to reach, are only anticipation, after
all. of what the soul shall possess in
the larger life that Easter foreshad
ows.
In our modern living, of the day
and for the day, the thought of im
mortality is often pushed aside.
Easter bodies it out afresh—immortal
love, immortal life. endlesB Joy, ever
lasting hope, a clarion-call of power—
Harper's Bazaar.
Easter lilies softly swinging,
In the breezes gently singing,
Echoes sweet their bells are ringing,
At Eastertide.
THE EUROPEAN WAR A
YEAR AGO THIS WEEK
April 17. 1915.
French made progress in the
Vosges, in Champagne, and at
Notre Dame de Lorette.
Germans defeated French at
Fiirey.
Russians repulsed attacks in di
rection of the Stryj.
Czar of Russia left for the front.
Turkish torpedo boat attacked
British transport in the Aegean,
100 being lost, and Turkish beat
was destroyed by two warships.
Greek steamer Ellispontis torpe
doed in North sea.
French airship bombarded Strass
burg and German aeroplanes at
tacked Amiens.
April 18. 1915.
Germans repulsed English attack
near Ypres and took position in
the Vosges.
French had successes at several
points in France and Alsace.
Russians made gains on the
heights of Teiepotch.
British submarine E-15 ran
ashore in the Dardanelles, and
was destroyed by British picket
boats.
Bread riots occurred in Vienna
and Bohemia.
April 19. 1915.
British took Hill 60 and pushed
their line south of Ypres forward
three miles.
French made gains along Fecht
river and took summit of Burgkorp
feld.
Germans repulsed French at
Combres.
British and French forces landed
on Lemnos.
Von der Goltz made commander
of Turks.
Russian squadron shelled Turk
ish coast and sank many vessels.
French airmen raided Rhine
towns and Germans bombed Bel
fort.
Garros, famous French aviator,
captured by Germans.
April 20, 1915.
Heavy artillery fighting in Cham
pagne and the Argonne.
Germans stormed and retook
Embermenil.
Russians repulsed heavy German
attacks east of Teiepotch.
Severe fighting for possession of
the heights near Oravozil.
Two Turkish torpedo boats blown
up by Russian mines at Bosporus
entrance.
German aeroplane squadron bom
barded Bialystok, Russian Poland.
Great air battle over the Rhine
won by allied airmen.
April 21, 1915.
German attacks on Hill 60 and
Hartmannsweilerkopf repulsed.
French lost ground at Flirey
and in Forest of Le Pretre.
Russian advance in Carpathians
stopped.
Twenty^ thousand French ana
3ritish landed near Enos, on Gulf
of Saros.
Germans in the Kameruns and
Central A,frica forced back.
British aviators bombarded Ger
man aviation harbor at Ghent.
Bulgarian irregulars invaded
Serbia.
American government informed
Germany it would nut prohibit
shipment of arms.
I
April 22, 1915.
Great battle near Ypres, Ger
mans forcing way across the canai
and capturing several villages.
French made gains farther
south.
Russians defeated Austrians in
Bukowina but lost heavily at
Uzsok pass.
Allied fleet bombarded Darda
nelles forts.
General Joffre retired 29 gen
erals.
April 23, 1915.
French made progress at For
mat and near St. Mihiei.
Russian cavalry invaded East
Prussia near Memel.
Severe fighting in Uzsok pass
region.
Blockade of Kanterun, German
West Africa, d^dlered Dy Great
Britain.
Russian aeroplanes bombarded
Mlawa and Plotsk.
TAKEN FROM EXCHANGES
A farm in England is devoted exclu
sively to raising butterflies, of which
upward of 30,000 a.e sold each year.
The total value of fish caught in
(.anadian \vatet3 in 1!U4 was $32,
207,748.
The bottling trade of the British
isles requires 70,000 tons of cork an
nually.
China has established a double
standard of weights and measures that
includes the metric system and a na
tive one.
Most of the world's sources of tin
ore are either stationary or receding
in output. Bolivia, of all countries,
alone gives promise o! permanence
and future growth.
Virtues Attributed to Stone.
Many virtues are attributed to car
buncles. It is related that those who
wear them can resist poisons and are
preserved from the pest. They dissi
pate sadness, control incontinence,
avert evil thoughts and dreams, ex
hilarate the soul and foretell misfor
tune to man by losing their native
splendor
I Glass of Hot Water
Before Breakfast
a Splendid Habit
Open sluices of the system each
morning and wash away the
poisonous, stagnant matter.
! 1!
Those of us who are accustomed to
feel dull and heavy when we arise;
splitting headache, stuffy from a cold,
foul tongue, nasty breath, acid stom
ach, lame back, can, instead, both
look and feel as fresh as a daisy always
by washing the poisons and toxins
from the body with phosphated hot
, water each morning.
We should drink, before breakfast,
a glass of real hot water with a tea
spoonful of limestone phosphate in
it to flush from the stomach, liver,
kidneys and ten yards of bowels the
previous day's indigestible waste, sour
bile and poisonous toxins ; thus cleans
ing. sweetening and purifying the en
! tire alimentary canal before putting
more food into the stomach.
The action of limestone phosphate
and hot water on an empty stomach
is wonderfully invigorating. It cleans
out ail the sour fermentations, gases,
waste and acidity and gives one a
splendid appetite for breakfast and it
is said to be but a little while until
the roses begin to appear in the
i cheeks. A quarter pound of lime
stone phosphate will cost very little at
your druggist or from the store, but
is sufficient to make anyone who is
; bothered with biliousness, constipa
tion. stomach trouble or rheumatism
a real enthusiast on the subject of in
ternal sanitation. Try it and you are
assured that you will look better and
feel better in every way shortly.—
Adv.
Cautious Calculation.
“Can you afford a motor car?”
“Yes. I’ve figured that out. But
I'm not so sure about the gasoline."
SAVED MINISTER'S LIFE.
Rev. W. H. Warner, Route 2, Myers
ville, Md., writes: My trouble was
sciatica. My back was affected and
took the form of lumbago. I also had
neuralgia, cramps
in my muscles,
pressure or sharp
pain on the top of
my head, and nerv
ous dizzy spells. I
had other symp
I Rev.W. H. Warner kidneys were at
j fault, so I took Dodd's Kidney Pills.
They were the means of saving my life.
On Feb. 16th, 3916,1 write to say that
j undoubtedly your medicine restored
me to perfect health,
j Dodd's Kidney Pills, 50c per box at
your dealer or Dodds Medicine Co..
Buffalo, N. T. Dodd's Dyspepsia Tab
j lets for indigestion have been proved
] jOc per box.—Adv.
Victor Hugo’s Prophecy.
A correspondent of the New York
i Times sends to that paper the trans
lation of a few lines copied from a
j sheet of paper on which Victor Hugo
j wrote them, presumably just before
j his death. They read as follows: ’’I
represent a party which does not as
j yet exist, the party of r-volution, of
civilization. This party will mold the
twentieth century. There will come
j forth from it, tirst. the United States
! of Europe, and then the United States
| of the World." In fact. Victor Hugo
i might have written these words long
i before his death. They represent seu
i timent rather than conviction after all.
' for Hugo was more prophet than logi
cian. and his dreams or hopes con
fused themselves easily with facts.—
Hartford (Conn.t Times.
Women for Police Duty.
Spokane’s civil service commission.
! after debating the type of woman that
would make the best police officer,
seems to have reached no very narrow
definitions, the requirements being
between fiv6 feet and five feet ten
inches in height, between twenty-five
and thirty-five years in age, and be
tween 115 and 200 pounds in weight,
timber line having been boosted to
the latter figure so satisfy Commis
sioner J. M. Corbett, who admits a
preference for women officers of the
“large, queenly type.”
If the phoenix of common sense
rises from the ashes of a fool s money
the conflagration has not been in vain.
There is nothing quite so monoto
nous as the smile that won’t come off.
HANDY HUSBAND
Knew How to Get Part of the Break
fast.
*’ ’I know one dish I can prepare for
j breakfast as well as any cook an
j earth,’ said my husband one morning
j when the cook was ill and he had vol
| unteered to help get breakfast. He
\ appeared with his dish and I discov
| ered it was Grape-Nuts which, of
j course, was easy to prepare for it was
j perfectly cooked at the factory, but it
| was a good illustration of the conven
j ience of having Grape-Nuts about.
“We took up Grape-Nuts immedi
ately after returning from a five years'
sojourn in a hot country. Our stom
| achs were in bad condition and we
were in poor health generally.
"In a day or two we liked Grape
Nuts better than any other kind oi
food on the table. We both gained
steadily in health and strength, and
this was caused by Grape-Nuts and
Postum.
"A friend of ours had a similar ex
perience. She was seriously ill with
indigestion and could find nothing to
eat that would not give her heartburn
and palpitation, especially at night.
"She found that a small dish of
Grape-Nuts with cream made her a
satisfactory supper and gave her a
comfortable night's rest. In a short
time she gained several pounds in
weight.”
“There’s a Reason.” Name given by
Postum Co., Battle Creek, Mich.
Cver read the above letter f A »m
one appear* from time to time. They
are genuine. true, and full of hnm*D
latere* t.