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outlaw,, n land oi peril nliiinit prohlU
llv (o the penceiul ihlndod settler That
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wlnt country can point the Pharisaical
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:main. and with them and of them are ordered
J and orderly living
If the story of how this came about la thu story
of the Royal Northwest Mounted Police.
The mounted police! Don't you remember
when you were a little chap, how you looked after
tho uniformed man on the glossy bay as ho can
tered through the park, and how you had no
dearer dream of glory than to be like him? Even
now. don't you feel tho old, boyish thrill at tho
sight of n blue-coated, erect figure In the saddle
at a crowded city crossing? If you do not. you
arc n "grown up" saddest of labels and will
journey no more to the Never Novcr-Never Land
Hut for us "Incurable children." tho sight of
tho mounted policeman still catches at those old
lieartstiings.
And If all this for tho blue-coated, brass-buttoned
horfeman of the parks and boulevards
what of that other horseman tho onewho rides
atone wlih the stretch of endless prairies for his
beat, with tho criminal who holds a life at less
than naught, his quarry1? Sifrely evdn your dulled
Imagination, poor, to-be-pltled .grown-ups, enn
catch II ro faintly fiom the gleam of his scarlet
coat.
Recruited chiefly from the yotingennbns of well
to do. and even titled, English families? tho North
wof.t Mounted Police has long becnrfitin Institu
tion where an English university man can work
off the bubbling froth of a drop .of gypsy blood
liofoio cettllng down ns head of a county family
and warden of his church, In tho main a collec
lion of young men for whom the Red (Sods call
too wildly, men with n dare-devil dash In their
make-up. who leave England becnuFO they are Im
pecunious, or because of a row with their faml
lies, or for sheer love of adventure Come with
mo ,to Reglna or Edmonton and you will hear
stones of men who. gavo the recruiting ofTlcor tho
name of plain John Smith with something of a
cynical smile and It was bad form for the re
ci ultlng officer to notice this smile men who had
:i habit of reaching for n monocle that wasn't
there, of talking with the correct London pronun
elation, and thrashing tho fellow-trooper who
called attention to this fact
And any story you ever heard of the heir-pro-sumptlve
to an English marqulsate patrollng a
r.OO-mllo' bcatnlong the Arctic circle can be out
inatchrdron the written records of th,e force, and
In the memory of any offlcor Fifteen years ago
EngllFhtnqn of Kipling's "gentleman, ranker" typo
made up fully half of the force, and the other half
was yompoacdrqfywlld;lrlshn3cnltb all their
country's love' of n ffght.'olif pfirlrismen hnd Indian
lighters, the sllont,. steadyeyqd. linrd-rldlng men
who gather on the frontier were the savage fall3
awayvhef6re the ragged vanguard or civilization
And they have dono their work so well that thoy
fast driving away their own excuse for lie
thing of the past ns
well Commissioner
Perry's report states
that the present ar
rangement cuds on
March 31. 1911 What
nfter that?
Their work Is done
The spirit of advetnuro
which brought tho men of 1874 to Red River Set
tlement willliirc the hardiest on to still more dis
tant fields The scarlet tunic will be seen no
longer, except In the pages of some historical
sourco book; but the work of these sllpnt. sternly
oyed men will live forever, a record of tireless
ness, fearlessness, unflinching courage and pa
tlunce the making of a new and great empire
Change has alivadv como to the mounted Tho
dnvB when a scant '0 men were magistrates, doc
tors, coi oners, explorers, surveyors, mining ro
corders, crown-timber agents, revenue and cus
toms olllcors. telegraphers, scouts, riders, drivers,
boatmen, cnnoeinen, marines and sal'orr. dng-drl-vers,
mall carriers couriers, public health ami 'inl-mal-quarantlne
officers, prairie and forest-lire
guardians, constables nnd soldiers for one third
of the Urltlsh Empire aro pausing with every
new mile of rnllioad The border "wolfer." Hie
cattle "riiBtlor."' the whUky trader, the fighting
Indian, the whole band of swaggering rufllnns who
used to give zest to life In the "Territory" has
largely passed away or'bepn crowded northward
and westward toward the mining camps of Alas
ka nnd the Yukon. The reckless daring, the ro
bust hardihood nnd plcturesnueness of the force
nccoesaiily have somewhat changed In the do-
vc'opment of tho thoroughly civilized new north
west Now the young lellows are getting th'ir
breaking In nmong the settled districts, while the
old stagers nre stationed to the north and wist
whore- tlu-re Is still the "frontier" on the edge of
untravcrsed wilderness
For the purposes of the new order of thlugs.
It Is a thoroughly competent nnd efficient force,
n3 It-was in the days oi the Territory The mem
bers must pass n physical nnd mental examination
which guarantees that I came upon one of them
In a moment of leisure studying n text-book on tho
common law, nnd he showed me some examina
tion questions which Implied thnt he must know
how to conduct a cross-examination In open court
so as to nvold what nre known In the law as
"loading questions." And any lawyer will bo Im
pressed when 1 say that every mounted policeman
must know now to take a murdered man's dying
declaration In such a manner that It can be pre
sented as evidence In court The reason for this
Is that ho combines tho functions of a policeman
with those of a petty magistrate.
And this arrangement, whereby the samo man
'could anesf you. nnd then try you himself, and
finally put you In prison and be your keeper, waB
nn Ideal nnangcmnnt In the days when justice
was a justice or thu saddle, and all the more do
sfrable for being summary Although there aro
regular civil court In the southern portion of
Canada now, In tho far north the duties of tho
mounted policeman are still as varied as those of
Gilbert' and Sullivan's PoohHnh Primarily ho
are mm UIIVIUS J """ - "- " - ,,., .,, Af..l,nl l, ,!. nvm-uthlnn. thnt
Inc The present northwest Is no more what It "w'ra "'7 n.w. ,...., ... " ' " , ,
'"K ... '...V .i.:J ,... wLnin... nf tn..inv I. .h ought to be done, and that It Isn't any one olso'8
duty to do And when some one elso leaves his
was In 1871 than busy Winnipeg of to-day Is the
old Fort Garry to which the first troop of the
"mounted" camo 40 years ago Thev have made
western Canada what it Is out or the lawless "tor
iltory" an almost preposterous undertaking
ono-qunrter of tho number of policemen In Now
York to govern n country 250.000 square mllos
larger than tho United Stntea! , ,
In vhort, the mounted police have brought
RrltlFh law Into western Canada, and firmly es
tablished It The homesteader can go Into -any
of the provinces nnd tako out his claim, secure In
the assurance that ho can work his land undis
turbed nnd harvest his crop unuijured The homd-.-Header
Is doing It by thousands, nnd tho Lnst
West Is vanishing. Tho frontier the last fron
tier of America Is, being prosaically plowed by
tho practical man In blue ovoralls, wjio doesn't
carrf even k hunllng knlfo. except tocut ofr.hls
chcw""oT Granger Twist. ' w '
Tho Indian has boon reduced to his lowest
terms When men of tho United Stnten were
building the Union Pacific across the plains, they
worp obliged to' employv Uncle -Sam's troops to
guard Ulo builders. If tho ghosts of tho dead who
dlod violently in that, first live-years' fight fpr tho
west were to lino up along the right of way thero
would bo almost enough of them to mark tho
On a 30-mlle ride from tho North Saskatcho
wan last fall. 1 met dozens of teams driven almost
wholly bv Indians and hnlf-breeds Thoy were
hanlli'g the long logs that were to bo drlvon
twenty to thirty feet into tho sando of the Sas
katchewan 10 carry tho falso work or tho Grund
Trunk Pacific's stool bridge.
Whnt a contrnst! Instead of hlndorlng. as was
onco the case, the northern Indians are helping to
build the rnllrood In tho construction of tho
now government transcontinental line, the In
dlnns aro employed wherever they can be used,
tor the road is being rushed with nil possible
necd consistent with good work The Indians
are usoful, also, to the pathfinders ns guides;
thoy know the forests of new Canada; they know
the mountain fastnesses of the Peace river, and
thev know nil the crooka and canyons or thu
Coast Range In short, thu red man of today Is
tho trusted guide and faithful survant of the path
tinder He hunts lor the white man still, hut quite
differently .Tom the way he uertl to hunt for tho
'''Enfato0 the Royal NorthwuBt Mounted Po
lice rivllUnliqn's house Is n order. Todny tho
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escort
"Are you ready
American olllcer
"Yob. sir," responded the policeman.
"They're n bad lot Where 1b your
Honed?"
The trooper smiled faintly under his mustache.
"Why, Scott's having his horse Mind, and I gurns
Murray'o over getting a drink They'll be along In
a minute "
And when presently Scott nnd Murray ramo
placidly on tho set tie that troop ol envalry sat on
their horses and wntelud the band of Indians thev
hnd ko cnrefullv guarded depart over the ellow
praMe under the charge of three men
The American oll'eer watched them dwindle to
n dot acro'R the level Then his feelings found
speech. "Well I'm dnmned'" he hiild And I he
troop rode nwnv
Again, old Plenpot nnd several hundred of nls
tribe were making serious trouble u'ong the rail
road tilt 11 under construction, ami the mounted po
lice promptly rode out lo the Indian village with an
ordet for tho tribe to brenk p-p and take the trail
to the iiorlh. awav from the lino
When the nnlleoinnn evnlnlneil (he order to film.
Plc-ti-pot laughed nnd tinned away The other In
dians jeered and tllfcliitrcfd their guns In the sir
The two policemen sal sllll "
"I will give you just 1T minutes to comply with
the order," said the sergeant quietly. -
When the 15 minutes were up. lie dismounted,'
walked over 10 the chief's tepee, and with calm de
liberation kicked out the key pole of the lodge,
bilnglng the wiiolo structure down poles, war tmn
nets, drying skins, kettles and all III nmlHcHnne
our heap
Plc-a-pot did tome deep and. rapid ,thlnklng A
gesture to his young men would have sent 11 nun
died bul'ets Into eaih of the quiet, unrullled men
who were RyMcmntlcaiiy going tnroiigii tne camp.
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Ex-htinator Allen will' make (lie ad
dress ut tho soldiers' memorial exer
cise In Om.ilia, May 50th.
At the lucent election In Lincoln
the iinti-sa'ioon foicos wore success
ful, mid thus tho town will remain
diy.
O. Petterson of Humboldt is In Jail
at lteatiico awaiting trial on tho
ehaiv' of xotlng Illegally at tho city
election at Humboldt.
Hliorlfr John L. Behlek arrived In
Deatrlco fiom Marys vlll'u, kua, hav
ing In custody Albert Craig, wanted
there for alleged lino! legging.
The Hi enian on Missouri Pacific
freight train No. 1(11 In coming down
Frcellng hill Just nbovu Uentrlco was
taking a drink of water but of thu
lion), when the rolling motion o.f the
engine cuusod lilm to loso bin foot
ing nnd ho fell off thu engine. His
Injuries wero not serious.
The supremo court him ufllrmod tho
decision of tho district court of Doug-
Ins county In favor of Maria Gugler
against tho Omaha & Council Uluffu
Street Railway company. Tho plain
tiff wnR Injured by a fail from a street
car which wns caused, hIio alleged, by
the car starting us shu attempted to
alight.
Tho state board of agriculture will
hold another boys' licro corn contest
thlo year, offering prizes for thoso
who giow the most' corn on n Blnglo
acre of ground. A similar contest was
held last year. Thero were over ninety
entries nnd there wero eighteen ro-turnc.'-
"., ' rl"? ""-.
Tho dwelling houso occupied by
William Losoy In tho eastorii4pnrt of
ilurchard was btirncd to the ground
with most of ItB contents. Flio firo
originated from tlniup In the jjnnds
of two small children, who were 'look
ing for .some duUiIngJn.a..cloBot,m.
Uffi"uMfo'rtbYy"or Uib inilldlrTgr'
A Servian named Jncob Uceck runic,
complaint In thd county court nt Hast-
wym wrrw Ywy wrmf nmi vtiiiiiiwhwhmmj
confronting nnye6 lSTnbcd of n. taxsv-
slngla no-
cntly bono-
follow proper
efforta to llvo In u hoilthful way, with
hcvlHgt3thncif5 of rica and
Elixir of Senna, whenever It Is re
quired, i lt cloatif.23 tUc nystcm
gently yet promptly, without Irritation
undill tlioieforojualwayii I.avo tho
preference or'all'wlnvwlsh tho beat of
family laxatlvca
Itjvo la not ft,qucnuon oLa
Itjpn only, Uutjrpr peravfln
'llcial effcctfi, whlchiwlll
The combination 1;an tho approval
of pliyaiclano becauno It la known lo
bo truly beneficial, and bocauno It lion
given cntlsfnctiou to tho millions of
well-informed families who havo uccd
It for many years past
To got Its bcnoficlnl effects, alwnys
buy tho genulno manufactured by tlio
California Fig Syrup Co. only.
Treatment for Lump Jaw.
Lump jaw Is due to n fungus which
In Usually taken into tho animal's sys
tem In feed consumed. Lump jinv Is
llnblo to affect tho glands of tho
throat or thu bones of tho hood, writes f ;
Doctor David Roberto In American
Cultivator. It Is not advisable to keep
an un'mul thus nflUctod llngnilng In
n herd. On tho other hand tt Is ad
visable to either treat such an animal
or kill It, as such animals Invito dis
eases Into tho herd, owing to tho fnct
thiit thoy arc so reduced In vltnllt'y
that thoy havo no resisting power.
A icinnrknbly largo per cent, of bucIi
ensca can bo successfully troated Jf-
taken in tlmo by opening up the en
largement and wanhlng It. out with n " '
strong antiseptic solution, like flvo of
carbolic acid In water, nnd putting' Iho i'
aulmulR on., a tonic. In this, way the .
ndltctcd anlmnl Is not only snve'l, but
tho entire herd Is protected ugainst. .
disease.
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Enforced.
Good Law That Should Do
Antl-splttlng ordlnnncos"r-liivvu-;irn(I--.
regulations In more than llvo-ulghtha ,,
of; tUo. 'cities nnd.towns'olhp-wHmtrytj, W
id'e not 'enforced as they ohoald 'be,
alleges tho National Association for
tho Study of Tuberculosa In u recent
report. While most of tho turgor cities
of tho United, Statoa. havo auclu.lawa..
op their books, In lli"6'g?trftm0ritj
In gO!(inat.riene6ay.
kicking out the key-pole' of each tepuo ,-llut the- In- ?,-'00 i" Gphl coin, sowed in his gar-
illnno nf llio nnrt liwokt hn.l lonrni.il Hint isnniuir nr . montS nild ClnllllCll tlint BOttlC OOO Or
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duty undone, tho mounted policeman takes It up
and finishes It. When the mnll-carrler, who cov
ers tho North Country on dog sledges, reaches tho
most northern limit of his route, the mounted po
liceman takes over the bags, , and goes GOO miles
rnrt?:er north with them Not long ago a letter
cajmo to rayihunds from tho Lefilngwoll polar ex
pedition, in which the writer stated that he would
tflkp.five dogs and a companion and travel 300
miles over tho Ice to moll the letter. When tho
letter 'reached ltd destination, the envelope boro
the stamp of the Roynl Northwest Mounted Po
lice, 'who evidently nad received It nt one of their
postB In tUo ftrctlc. and then had carried It by dog
train from Ih'e Ice fields to railway connection
It is nil In the day's work to them. Thoy will
undeitnku anything,, trom minding tho baby to
hnnglhgin rnhn, -wlfh equal placidity, and put It
through without nicking an eyelash. Thoy havo
dqno" their part to demonstrate that tho ono
thing on this earth longcV than the equator Is tho
arm of English Justlcet Lesa than three years
ago a mounted policeman tracked a Yukon mur
deror over 0,000 miles, caught up with htm In
Mexico, brougnt hjm back by way of Jamaica
and Hulirnx, nvoldlng Unjtcd Stntes soil to pro
vent extradition complications, und hanged him
within sight oi the scene or his crime.
Thero has neVur been a lynching In Cannda. Put
that down to the crodlt of the mounted police, who
administered justice so successfully thnt there
was never tiny tomptntlon lor tho work to bo ta
ken up by prlvato enterprise. There wns never
any parallel for the oxpertenco of Hl3iiiarck, North
Dakota, where tt Is said the first 24 graves wore
thoso of men who had died by vlolenco, 'Howard
the Indians, the mounted police maintained a tra
dition of Btorn vigilance which prevented anything
like the costly Indian wars which thu United
States waged up to u few years ago. Thero was
never In tho history of Canadn n train robbery
such ns still feature the headlines of United
States newspaper! 'from tlmo to tlmo. Tho dos
porado of every type hatj a healthy respect for
the mounted iiollceinan and preferred to conduct
his little enterprises touth or the bordur
Canadians nre particularly lond of telling the
newly arrived American about the troop of Amer
ican cavalry a whole troop, mind yoit who ten
derly utcorted a band of "bad Indians" bent on
crossing the border, to tho Canadian boundary
line Thoy wero mot by a single mounted pollco
later Justice wns done by the mounted police, and
Ple-n-pot never made that gesture He gave In.
and in sullen silence the camp collected Its scrum
bled effects nnd turned their ponies' heads north
Not fo fortunate was thu attempt of Seigt Colo
brook to arrest a fugitive Cree Indian named Al
mighty Voice
'Almighty Voice had stolen n steer, and Seigt
Colebrrok, with a half-breed companion, rode across
tho prairie to an est him The policeman In
structed the half breed to tell the Indian that they
had come to arrest him, and that lie must go with
them. The Cree replied: "Tell htm thnt If he ad
vanccs I will kill him "
Instantly the half-breed covered the Indian with
his rifle, but Colubrook promptly ordered htm to do
slst, for Almighty Voice must be tnken alive Then
he rode deliberately forward upon tho muzzle or
vu ,.. .. ..u, Buu. .., num.... , v.u Nebraska City und taken beioro
Minnie of nrrM. A inlchtv Voice fired A venr In f .. . . - . . .
ter, however, the Indian was surrounded in n pit
where he bqd taken refuge. The police brought up
their field guns and shelled the pit, killing Almlgnty 1
Voice and thus avenging Sergt Colubrook's death. I
Tho outcome of this Incident rerved lo prevent se
rious trouble with the Indians, who were all In a
more or less sulky nod unsettled mood nt the time
How grently the Indlnns have come to respeci tho
Just nnd impartial administration of the law by tho
mognted police was showu when one of Mecnsto'a
band escaped fiom the guardroom at Macleod after
having been tried by the police 011 n charge of theft
nnd convicted When he returned to Mecusto's
camp, the chief who hnd attended the trial at which
U16 fugitive was convicted had been so deeply m
pressed by the Impartial nature of the proceedings
nnd by the fair administration of Justice thnt he
promptly delivered him up ugnln nt the fort gate to
tho officer In command
Perhaps the greatest achievement which tho po
lice ever undertook wns accomplished whqn thoy
persuaded Sitting Pull and his bnnd of between
five and six thousand hostile Sioux to return and
surrender t'o the United Stntes authorities when
they hud taken refuge. In Canudn nftor the memor
able massacre of Gun, Custet nnd hta command
Commissioners from the United States had visited
Sitting Pull nnd had negotiated with the chief for
his return and surrender, to no nvnlt. The pollco
however, by Infinite tact and diplomacy, and be
cause In their previous transactions they hnd won
tho confidence ol the Indians of the northwest at
length succeeded In Inducing Sitting null nnd his
hostile braves to return peaceably to the United
Stntes, an exploit or which nny body or men might
be proud.
When tho Hour war broke out, Englnnd callea for
tho mounted police to help hur there. One-third of
tlioiu, practically the pick ol tho rorce, went out
Very few of them ever came back. Many were of
fered commissions, and some accepted Wheruver
there Is trouble, there the mounted police are tho
answer to the problem, as they have been In west
ern Canada ror 3D years, from tho tlmo or tho Rlul
rebellion up to today
The story of the mounted tins Its ehudows Men
grew tired of tho loneliness nnd deserted nt times;
men who had lost all -lovu, hope, ambition quietly
went away Into the wilderness nnd blew out their
brains. Thu life wns unsutlllng, men could not
lenvo It and tako up clerical work or farming, bo
causo adventurers nre not built that way.
Hut, shadows and all. the story ol thu Cunadl'in
mounted pollco Is one of the most, gorgeous talo-j
blncu tho dnyB or the Spanish Muln And the rplr
It of tho force Is bust embodied 'in thnt mussago
found scrawled on thu oidera of n policeman Who
perished tn n bll-uard while making his wny with
dispatches to a distant post In his last momenta
with numbed hand he bad written: "Lost, horse
dead. Am trying to pubb ahead. Have done my
best," 1 ) 1
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1 . . ' ' ' t ,i;
of casus, thoy aro Ignored qr rPyei,
looked'. Tho report 'covers in lo(aU
lugR thnt lie had been robbed of $1,500 the enforcement of the nntl-splttlng
-- a m rt iinii niiniir 1-- . 11 t rn . . &...
jiu. mm uuuiik oiuinauceu 111 hu 01 tne mrgosi cuius
In tbccauntryi During tho year 190j
In tlicso S0cllles, 3,421 arre'bTs vveftT
tnade for violation of tho laws regard
ing Bplttlng-ln public places. Over
2.900. convictions wero secured nnd
$4,100.87 wnB collected In lines.
1
moro persons In Kenesnw helped
tliomRclvcB to part of It white search
ing through his effects for a watch
which ho wnB accused of having
stolen. Deputy Sheriff Nollls recov
ered $1,016 of tho missing coin. Tho
persons who delivered It to him 'said
they round it whoro It hnd evidently
fnllon out of tho Servian's wngon.
Probably tho hlghcBt price over paid
In Johnson county for nn unpedlgreed
hog, bought for market, was one day
last week when L. A. Hanks, buyer nt
Cook, paid Sam WIlBon, fnrmor and
Btockman, $G9 for n singlo porker. Tho
hoog weighed 090 pounds. Mr. Wilson
sold Mr. Ilnnka four hogs that day
that brought him $205.
Luko Kirk of Syracuse wnB brought
the commissioners of Insanity and do-
clarcd lnsnno. Ho wna ordered to bo
taken to the asylum.
Postmaster W. J. Cook of Dlnlr' Is
in receipt or a letter ndvlRlng him that
ho had been recommended to the post
master general for reappointment,
Senator Hurkett concurring In tho
recommendation.
Over 500 teachers wore In attend
ance at the Southwestern Nebraska
Teachers' association, In soBston at
Alma three days. Governor Shnlten-
borger, J. L. MeDrlen nnd other promi
nent men of tho Btate wero on tho pro
gram. At a meeting of members of Com
pnny F nt Madison it was decided to
make format request or Adjutant Gen
eral Hnrtlgnn to permit the company
to disband, and in ncdordnnce with
such decision Mayor Charles Frnser
notified tho department at Lincoln of
the action.
Tho Mercy Slsto'rs of Omnha rormnt
ly opened the Alliance hospital nt Alli
ance under tho nnmo or Mercy hos
pital, rlt will now bo In full chnrgo
of these slstera with a compotcnt Btnff
or physicians nnd surgeons nnd wilj
supply the hospital demand or west
ern Nebraska and tho eastern part of
Wyoming and noutlicrn South Dnkota.
In two weckB the fino new depot
which tho Union Pacific httB built at
Central City will bo ready for occu
pancy. The new depot Is of brick,
with a large center structure fronted
by four massive stono columns, and
has an nmplo wing nt cither end.
A'l present Indications point to the
building of a new alfalfa meal mill In
Plnttsmouth.
Fire destroyed four stacks of wheat
and part of tho threshing oti'flt of
Frank W. Unreal, near LInwoood.
Tho Nebraska Stock Growers' asso
ciation convention, which is held
yenrly In Alllnnco In Juno, has been
deferred until July 5, 0 and 7. and tho
citizens' committee have secured $1,
000, with moro promised, to mnko tho
thrco days a continuous celebration
of such kind thnt It will bo the main
event In northwest Nobrrfskn.
A faro of 1V4 cents n mile, or .1
rents the round trip, will bo In ef
fect from all points cast of the Mis
rourl river to Omaha during the
Northwestern Sncngerfest, which wlt
be held thero for four days, begin-
nlng July 20. ,
.
Where She Scored.
Sheldon Kcrrulsh tells this ntory on
his cstcomed father:
"Ono day a long tlmo ago, a number
of children In our neighborhood' worn
talking nbout tho bad habits 6f their
parents.
"'My father smokos 15 cigars, a, day
said a little girl, boastfully tike.
"'My father Bvvcarp something aw
ful when supper is Into,' Bald another.
"'My papa camo homo tight tho
other night,' remarked a third.
"It wub my Httlt Bister's turn next.
'"You just ought to sco my papa
read Cicero,' sho Bald, nm ,all tho
other little girls retired In confusion,1!
gladly admitting that Elstor,'hail ,won
the prize." Cleveland Loader, ,
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The Flippancy of Uohn., ,
Mrs. Molt What la a sympathetic
strike. John?
Mott A Bypmathctlc strlko, my
dear,, Is being touchy. for n quarter
by a ueggui with n h'ard-ltick'Btory.'
LL.il.: Ltp 1,
Don't try to mold another to your
Ideal, but remold your idoal accord
Ing to whnt ho Is.
MISCHIEF MAKER . .',,,
A Surprise In Brooklyn.
An adult's fcod that can snvo a
baby provcB ltsolf to bo nourishing and
easily digested and good for big nud
ltttto folks. A Drooktyn man Bays:
"When baby waB about eleven
months old ho began to grow thin and
pale. This was, at first, attributed o
tho heat and tho fact that hl3,i tooth
wero coming, but, In roaltty, tho poor
llttlo thing was starving, his mother's
milk not being sufficient nourishment.
"Ono day after ho had cried littlorly
for an hour, I Buggcstcd that myt wlfo
try him on Grape-Nuta. Sho so'akcd
two tenspoonfuls In a saucer with a
llttlo BUgar and warm milk. This oaby
ato bo ravenously that she fixed a sec
ond which ho llkowlso finished.
"It was not many days before ho for
got all about being nursed, and has
slnco lived almost excluslvo!y on
Grape-Nuts. Today tho boy Is strong
and robust, and as cute a mischief
maker as a thirteen months old baby
is expected to be.
"Wo havo put beforo him other
foods, but ho will have nono of them,
ovldcntly preferring to Btlck to that
which did him so much good hlo old
friend Grape-Nuts.
"Uso this lettor any way you wish,
for my wife and I can never prnlso
Grnpc-Nuts enough after tho bright
ness It has brought to our household."
Grape-Nuts Is not mnlo for n baby
food, but cxperlonco with thousands of
bnblce shows It to bo at.'.ong tho best.
If not entirely tho best In uso. Being
a scientific preparation of Naturo'a
grains, It Ib equnPy effocflvo hb a body
and brain but'der for grown-ups.
Rend tho little book, "Tho Road to
Wollvtllo," In pkgs. "Thero's a Roneon."
Evr rmd the ntiove letter A new
one niinenrn from tlnie tn time. They
nrp genuine, (ijutr, 11 nil full of Uuniiut
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