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The Commoner. Oct 3, 190a 9 . oao pat sufficient soap jelly to mako tho -water feel soft and soapy. It Bhould have the appearance of a creamy lather. Rain water should ho usnd. Take the cleanest garments first, each one taken singly, shako well, and plungo into the lather. It must be lightly rubbed all over; but collars and waistbands of shirts will need extra rubbing. It is the water which docs the work, and which it is required should be rubbed into tho goods. Then the flannels must bo imme diately plunged into the socond water, rubbed through just the same way, and turned, so that every part may re ceive its full share of rinsing. When clear of soap, it should be wrung lightly with the hands, or passed through tho wringer. Shake the flan nel well, then hang it immediately in the garden to dry. In cold weather it may be hung before the fire to dry. It should dry quickly, being pulled into shape while drying. The flannel, when nearly dry, should be pressed with a warm iron. Bright colored flannels must not be dried in tho sun. If not too badly soiled washing in one water and quick ly passing them through tho hot rinse water, will be sufficient In washing little ones' flannels, do not soak in either hot or cold water, as either will thicken the goods. Wash the soiled parts in a little heated soapy water; then immerse the flan nels in fresh water as hot and soapy as before, lightly and quickly rubbing them all over; wring carefully from this water, and souse up and down in a clear one always being careful to keep both waters as hot as the hands run hf-nr without discomfort Squeeze out with the hands, or through tbeJ wringer. Shako it wen, pull into snapc and dry quickly. Press with a warm iron, with thin cloth laid over the flannel: written as a true paean of joy out of almost inexpressible human happiness. Itst author, Robert Burns, wrote it from a hint he received out of an old doggerel rhyme upon one Anderson, t-o town piper of ancient Kelso, pre served in Bishop Jfercy's old manu script of about the year 1560. Tho two first lines of the rhyme were: "John Anderson, my Jo, John, cum in as ze gao by, And ze shal get a sheep's hold weel baken in a pye;" but its matchless picture and lesson of changeless connubial affection and loyalty was the legitimate outgrowth of his own contented life withj'bon nie Jean" on the Ellisland farm, short ly after Burns' removal from Ayr shire, beside tho river Nith, about eight miles above the city of Dum fries. Tno few years passed hero by the bard and his "family were years of unalloyed happiness and content, and this poem, written in 1789, is tho clear est, sweetest note to reach us out of that brief, idyllic time. In volumes of his poems but two verses appear; oth ers possessing great beauty have been added by later poets. "John Anderson, my Jo, John." This is one of the most fadeless songs of human affection, and was Eugenie, ex-empress-of tho French, is busy on her memoirs, which she be gan in 1870. Three octavo volumes have been completed. Three experts are kept sorting papers and making ex tracts from secret official documents in Paris. Two secretaries are con stantly working under tho empress' personal direction in order to finish the two other volumes which will complete tho work. The memoirs will not bo published until Eugenie is dead. WANDKIUIt8 Travel Thousand! of Miles and FJnd It at Homo We go about 'from one place to an other in search of something-we desire, without success, and finally find it right at home awaiting us. A mining engineer out in Mansfield, Mo., tells of hi3 experience with coffee. He says, "Up to the year 1898 I had always been accustomed to drinking toffee with my breakfast each morn ing. In the summer of that year I de veloped a severe case of nervous pros tration and I took several courses of treatment for it in Toronto, Buffalo and New York City without obtaining any permanent benefit. One- of the most trying manifesta tions of the malady was a condition of nervous excitement in which I found myself every day during the fore-noon. It never occurred to me to attribute this to coffee until I read an advertisement of yours last Fall de scribing a case similar to my own which had received benefit from the use of Postum Cereal Food Coffee. I at onco changed my breakfast bever age from Java and Mocha to Postum and the effect was nothing short of marvelous. After using it less than a week I was free from morning attacks and in six months all my nervous symptoms had disappeared. I have demonstrated tho fact that by following your directions in mak ing Postum lood Coffee any one can obtain as rich a cup of coffee from Postum as from any of the "imported brands, and may rest assured that they will escape the injurious effects of cof fee and experience much benefit from the uso'Of Postum." Name given by Fosium Co.. Battle Creek, Mich. Harried Ladles' Names. It is becoming customary among married ladies to keep their maiden name, in addition to that of their hus band, joining the two with a hyphen. This practice has long been in vogue with ladies who have made a reputa tion for themselves before marriage, the benefit of which they aro unwill ing to lose; but, until recently, tho fashion has been confined to those to whom a loss through a change of names would have been a pecuniary, as well as a social one. Now, however, ladies in private life have begun to realize tho fact that their own loss, through changing their names and thus their identity, i. quite as real, and quite, as important to themselves, as the public woman's would be to her, although it may have no monetary value. The loss of many old friends, as well as possible bonds of sympathy be tween herself and new acquaintances, if the common result, to a bride, of the total suppression of the name by which she has been hitherto known. H. W. MoV. A Sermon and a Suicide. A good many men are worth more dead than living. In a New York hotel the other day a young man made his will and then committed suicide. Here is the will: "I leave to society a ruined charac ter. I leave to my father and mother as much misery as, in their feeble state, they can bear. I leave to my brothers and sisters the memory of my misspent life. I leave to my wife a broken heart, and to my children the memory that their father fills a drunkard's grave and has gone to a drunkard's hell." In a way it is a good will. It Is a sermon written on a coffin, and it ought to reach a good many men who are fools, who know they are fools and who would rather drift than pull It is a good idea, once in p. while, for a man to interview himself and ask, "What kind of a legacy am I leaving to my wife and children?" That doesn't refer to money alone. In these days of business prudenco ov ory man tries to bo arrange his af fairs that when ho passes away tho burdens ho leaves behind will rest lightly on his loved ones. But thero aro morals. Why, a man owes to his children health, and if ho is a drunkard and a rounder, how can ho hopo for robust offspring. Ho wants his little ones to live in an atmosphere of respectability and peaco and decency. If ho makes his llfo ono long do bauch, Is ho strong enough to drop his burden of immorality and sin at tho door as ho enters his homo and seem to bo a gentleman in the presence of his family? So many men refuse to think. Thoy are selfish in their business, solflsh in their pleasures, sol fish in their thoughts. Evory man has somo influ ence. No man can livo wholly in him self. He leaves a legacy to somo one. It may be a memory of kind words, of tender lovo and thoughtful devo tion, loving that has made a wifo and children happy; it may bo sorrow and shame, littlo ones with twlsled limbs and unhealthy bodies; a woman with misery written in her eyes; parents who weep when a name is mentioned. Pity tho man who so blasts tho life that God gave him that the world Is glad when six feet of earth covers his coffin! Yes, there Is a sermon in that Now York suicide. Cincinnati Post Please Tell Me Who Needs My Book I ask you for tho namo of a friend who needs holp that is all. Just send mo a postal to tell mo tho book ho needs. No money la wanted. Do that much and I will do this: I will send him tho book, and with it an order on his druggist for six bottles Dr. Shoop's Restorative. I will .authorize that druggist to lot tho sick ono test It for a month at my risk. If it succeeds, tho cost is $5.50. If it fails, I will pay tho druggist myself. There was never a sick ono who could refuso such an offer and I am very glad to fulfill it. My records show that 39 out of each 40 pay for tho medlcino gladly. I pay just as will--ingly when ono says that I have failed. Tho reason is this: After a life time's experience I have perfected tho only icmedy that strengthens tho in side nerves. Those nerves alone oper ato every vital organ; and no weak organ can bo well again until its nerve power is restored. I want those who need help to know it. For his sako, please tell mo somo sick ono whom common remedies don't cure. A Lecture and a Laugh. With a gravity that does not entirely conceal tho amused relish of tho sit uation which prompts its comment tho Baltimore Sun in a recent issue re bukes northern people for a prejudice against tho negro which amounts to proscriptivo drawing of tho color line. Tho Baltimore newspaper is im pelled to this action by several recent instances of northern unwillingness to associate with those who havo even the slightest taint of African blood. In Boston, it says, tho doors of a trades union have just been closed to all black-faced workmen. At the Northwestern university in Chicago a young colored woman who had entered tho school was turned out into the street When it was definitely ascer tained that she had negro blood she was expelled. At Evansvillo, Ind., all the children of a certain public school left the room when a very dark-complexioned-girl came in as a pupil. They returned, content, when it was satis factorily proved that she was of French descent and free of any taint of negro blood. "It isreally painful," says the Sun, "to note' the existence of such preju dice in the minds of our northern brethren. It will be well for brunette girls, when they enter the public schools in the north, to use somo kind of complexion powder." And so, in this vein, tho Maryland newspaper pro ceeds to get its fun out of the Incidents mentioned. It must bo confessed that tin provocation for joking is some what exceptional.- Tho south has been compelled to listen to so much lectur ing of the same sort from the north that a turning of the tables is refresh ing indeed. St Louis Republic fllssed. Spealdng of Roosevelt as a dead shot, it must not be forgotten that he has done wonderfully well in seeing how near he could come to the trusts without hitting them. Johnston (Pa.) Democrat. Simply state which book you want, and address Dr. Bhoop, Box SIS, Raclno, Wis. MIM fi ttthtnt,ttnrm cotvilij mtitlU. At til dmttiiU. tooz no. 1 oit nrsrtnik. book no. t ox me hkast. BOOK ftO.aOHTnKKItiNETa. BOOK NO. 4 ton WOMEN. BOOK NO.trORMKN. (mM.) BOOK NO. ON BHIUKATIIH. blng and thrashing away at it with a nine-foot pole. You see tho polo bend and you hear it whizz, but it fans tho empty air. Ho never touches tho per simmons. So long as tho president continues his assault upon tho trust persimmon with tho nine-foot polo of a constitutional' amendment tho own ers of all tho persimmons on tho treo will continue to regard his operations with amused indifference. But if ho should take up the long and effectual pole of tariff revision you would seo them all begin to jump up and howl and holler". New York Times. To be Not Seem. All are' not just because they do no wrong;. But ho, who will not wrong me when he may, He only is tho truly just, I praise not them Who In their petty dealings pilfer not, But him whose conscience spurns a secret fraud When ho might plunder and defy sur- prlso His be tho praise, who, looking down with scorn Upon tho false judgment of tho par tial herd Consults his own clear head and bold ly dares To be not to be thought an honest man. Anonymous. Let Folk Beware. How to Get the Persimmon. The lowest trust persimmon hangs about fifteen feet high. President Roosevelt stands under the tree jab-1 expanse." Louisville (Ky.) Times. City Attorney Folk, of St Louis, may now expect to hear himself de nounced as a populist, an anarchist or. any other old sort of "enemy to pros perity" and such like special preroga tive of corporate wealth. "I hopey" says he, "when I shall havo finished,, this crusade that the directors of wealthy corporations who devote largo sums of money to buy legislation will realize that they have committed a, penal offense. I havo several of this" class under indictment now, and a few of them in stripes will be a most beneficial example to the many re spectable gentlemen who sit on boards of directors and deliberately vote to furnish money to debauch public offi cials for corporate gain at the people's i