OLD BIRO. BELONGED TO THE UNION. IS, ED xCcAy Mr. Just wed I want a chicken that I ean fry. roast, stew or fix up djt way I want. Dealer Here's one, lady, you can to 'anything you like with and sot hurt It. NO HEALTHY SKIN LEFT My little son. a boy ot fire, hroko out witli aa Itching rash. Three doc tors proscribed for him, but ho kept getting worse until we could not dress him any more. They finally advised me to try a certain medical college, but its treatment did no good. At the time I was induced to try Cuti cura, he was so bad that I had to cut bis hair oft and put tho Cuticura Oint ment on him on bandages, as it was Impossible to touch him with the bare hand. There was not one square inch ot akin on his whole body that was not affected, lie was cue mass of ores. The bandages used to stick to his skin and in removing them it used to take the skin oft with them, and the screams from the poor child were heartbreaking. I began to think that he wouM never get well, but after the second application of Cuticura Oint ment I began to see signs of improve ment, and with the third and fourth applications tho sores commenced to dry up. His skin peeled off twenty times, but it finally yielded to the treatment. Now I can say that he is entirely cured, and a stronger and healthier boy you never saw than he ta to-day, twelve years or more since the cure was effected. Robert Wattam, 1148 Forty-oighth St., Chicago. Ill, Oct . 1S09." Unpublished Utterances. Herein is sot down a hitherto un published utterance of Emerson. There Is no doubt of its authenticity: "An a boodoly boodoly booclely boo, dood ly doodely doo!" It was his favorite way of addressing babies. Carly'.e in variably addressed babies thus: "Hookey kooltey kookey koo, kookcy kookey koo!" Occasionally he varied that with: "Keekey keekey keuUey kee. keekey. koekoy kee!" Shake Bpearc'B conversation with babies was this: "Too r-o-sey! Too r-o-sey!" Sir Francis Bacon's was simply: "Klklk." David Humo said: "Boo!" Charles Dickens used to say: "Heao, tain't oo yaph a iUy bit?" Sir Isaac Newton used to say: "Howdydoogums!" George Eliot used to say: "Cunnin' In! Burdie!" Puck. How's This? W attar Cm Hvmdrod Dollari Rewud lor an? sea. of lUvil that cannot be cured by Hall's Ckitftt) Cum. 9. 3. CHENEY CO., Toledo. O. We, tan MncW&tvtMd. have known F. J. cueney nr the laat k& yenra, and believe liim perfectly hon. rmble In aa business transactions and financially Me carry out any oblleatioiia made by hla arm. Waumnq. Kinnan or Marvin, Wholesale DruK.Tista. Toledo, O. Hall Catarrh Cora la taken Internally, aotlng enrectly inxin the blood and mucoi:a aiirracra or the Ijmm. Tvettmonlaia aent tree. Price 76 cents pec kettle. pVMd by all Druorlata, Taka Uaira amuy puis tor const Ipattoo. The innocent Victim. "I believe," said the blunt individual, "In speaking my mind and calling a spade a spade." "Yes," replied Miss Cayenne. "Many re that way. The tendency is what corrupts the vocabularies of so many parrots." Important to Mothers. Examine carefully every bottle ot CASTOKIA, a safe and sure remedy tor Infants and children, and seo that It Hears the Signature of (z&M,y. In Use For Over SO Years. The Kind You Have Always Bought Sometimes. Miss Illithely (Interested in science) Can one get a shock from a tele phone? The Professor That depends, my dear young lady, on who is talking at the other end. M. A. P. Satisfactory to Her, "Woman," observed the epigram niatlc boarder, "is a puzzle Without an answer." "Huh!" snorted old Grumpley. " never saw a woman without one yet.' Stray Stories. Distemper la all ita forma, among all agrs of horses and dap, cured and others in the name table prevented from having the disease with tipohn's Distemper Cure, kvery bot tle guaranteed. Over 5UO.0UO bottles sold last year. $.50 and $1.00. Good druggists, or arad to manufacturers. Agents wanted. Write for free book. Spolin Merl. Co., 6pec Contagious Diseases, (Johcn, lnd. An Ungentlemanly Reply. "Once you called me the light of your existence." "Yea, I know it That was before I had any idea you were going to be come the dead weight of it." DOfTT NEG1.F.CT THAT COTJGTI It eerUilnly mckM your nyatt-iu unit may run Into eoiuetb nit arloiia. AHi' ,fin' ItttlKatu will eh vk lta,ulaif and puriaauenLlv. r'or sale ul ell drugg-Uls Vanity is due to a leak in one's wis dom tank.. No, Cordelia, It isn't called "com ob sense" because it Is so common. OWEVER many diamonds the lady of wealth may possess to deck her fingers, ears and neck. jr she is always roused to covet I I ousness by tho 01 The s C i n l n g anuring in the sight of a rope or a collar of pearls around a white neck, and they are to most women the most desirable Jewel of all. But they must be large or in quantity and they are, if good, costly in the extreme. The small pearls one sees seed pearls are cheap, but still set about a large diamond in a ring they seem to improve the diamond, and at the same time to derive some of its virtue from their neighborhood. The pearl is all the more sought after because, unlike other pre cious stones, no amount of artifi cial treatment, such as cutting or polishing, can enhance its beau ties. Nature's workmanship must be perfect and untouched and the pearl conies to you exactly as it emerges from the oyster. On the other band, it has this . disadvan tage. It is liable to discoloration and the only way is to give it a rest from too much contact with the skin. Still that is not the only stone which suffers discoloration. Was it not the famous necklace of Marie Antoinette, preserved in a guarded case in a museum, which after years of nonuse began to lose color and had to be worn at Intervals in order to give it its pristine beauty? The value of the pearl is com parable with that of the most cost ly gems. Its price varies with its size, form and general beauty of appearance. A pearl of the first water must have symmetrical form, a smooth surface, be free from all blemishes or fractures, bo translucent, and have a One white color and a perfect luster; and it so nappens that it is rare to get this combination. The shape is spherical, egg shaped or pear shaped. The perfect color is a silvery milk white, but there are yellowish pearls much es teemed in India and China. It is not generally known, however rhnt thorn are pearls which in color are red-brown, bronze. garnet red, rose red, pale blue, greenish white, violet and purple. But most curious of all is the black pearl, which on account of its hardness is much sought after. When it is of a beautiful and uniform color and of a perfect form, it is worth almost as much as pearls of the purest white. The price of a string of perfectly matched pearls is much more in proportion than that of a single pearl, for it may take years to get to gether a collection of pearls which are alike in size, shape and quality. A string of yellowish In dian pearls costs $20,000, of white $25,000, of black Pacific pearls $30,000, and even then you could not think that your string was anyway unique. To seek a unique pearl one must go to the Hope collection, where there is one almost as large as a hen's egg, almost but not quite faultless, which Is valued at $75,000 a pear of 454 carats. Again, there Is a much smaller one of 27 5-16 carats among the French crown jewels which is valued at $40,000. There are other pearls, however, of distorted shape, called baroque pearls, and of these the most famous is the great Southern Cross, which Is formed of nine beautiful pure white lustrous pearls, naturally formed in the shape of a cross, one Inch in length, for which your offer would start at $50,000 if you wished to buy it. To supply the world of women with pearls, the Ceylon government administration yearly pro claims a "fishery," determining whether or not it should be held by examination and a sample catch from the government banks. Then if the marine biologist who is in charge declares that the number of oysters warrants a fishery, the news dies like lightning through the east and the army of pearl divers, coolies, merchants, pearl buyers and speculators move as fast as they can to the Gulf of Manar the ornate and oriental "Sea Abounding in Pearls." Almost as if by magic a town of 40,000 inhabitants arises out of the sand. There ris no magic about it, for the houses of the town are easily built. A rough framework of tree branches is formed and over it as roof and walls are put the mats known as cadjan formed of the woven leaves of the cocoa nut or date palm. But there are also more pre tentious buildings erected for the use of the gov ernment oflicials, residency, postoffice, hospital, court house, while there are streets, lanes, street lamps, all the convenience's of a proper town. The aristocrats of the town, outside of the officials, are the divers, and they disdain to do anything but dive, having their own servants, who attend to the ropes and keep an eye on the oysters brought up. Each morning the fishing fleet sets out, some 300 odd vessels, some of them carrying as many as 30 divers, their servants, sailors and hangers on. When the fishing ground is reached the diver takes his basket, draws a long breath, steps ou to the heavy stone hung by a rope, and ta plunged 1 phenson, gives some interesting fig ures about the number of nurses and doctors in the Orient. "There are probably," he says, "not more than 100 nurses in the entire missionary world and there 80,000,000 people in non-Christian lands who have no med ical aid except missionary psysicians. All Christendom has sent out only 689 medical missionaries, male or fe male, and this body maintains 348 hospitals, 97 leper asylums and 21 classes for native women. "One physician who had no nurse to help him treated 18,000 cases in a year. So you see that the supply of trained medical assistance is wofully inadequate. "In Calcutta, which has the best facilities in the Orient, three-fifths of the population die without any doctor or other trained medical assistance in their final illness. In China there U V aa I "l-". II II SkaiaSi22aia3S&i , Maaa r by his attendant to the bottom, seven or eight fathoms below. Filling his basket rapidly, he is drawn up and repeats the operation as often as he can. About two in the afternoon the government gunboat fires a gun and the fleet sets sail back. As there are no wharves, the oysters are carried on shore and deposited in the "kottu" by the strong porters. As soon as the shells are depos ited they are counted, two-thirds going to the government as their share, the other one-third going to the boat which brings them in. At sun set the shells are auctioned by the thousand, and there is fierce competition, for who knows what the lottery of chance may bring them in pearls. The oysters brought are then removed apart by each buyer and placed in his compound, where they are carefully guarded till the sun beats upon them, putrefaction sets in and the oyster begins to disgorge its treasure. Then the malodorous contents of the shell are washed in vats and the residue yields my lady's pearls. WOE OF HINDOO WOMEN iSUJLPJJUUULSl When a Buddhist prays he implores his god that when he dies he shall not be cursed by be ing born again as a woman or as vermin. That is the attitude of the native men of India toward women and against which the missionaries in the Orient are directing all their energy. Dr. Eleanor Stephenson, a Brooklyn woman who has been practicing medicine in India for three years and who will return to her work there soon, makes an appeal to American women to go out there, the New York Evening Telegram says. "I want the women here to realize what it means to be born in America," she said recently. "To be born where a woman is the backbone of the man, his strength and help in every way! Why, out in Ahmednagar, where my work is, a woman is no more than an animal. She is for the purpose of raising children and that is all. A man thinks more of his cow if he is lucky enough to have one than he does of his wife. "A Hindoo husband will let his wife die before he will call in a man to give her medical or sur gical treatment. That shows the need for women physicians in the Orient." In Ahmednagar, which is an inland plateau about a hundred miles . from Bombay, there are two physicians. Dr. Ruth Hume and Dr. Stephen son, and one American trained nurse, Miss John son. Under Miss Johnson there are 14 native women who have had some slight training and these help with the nursing. In the mission hos pital which this handful ot women run 15,000 people were treated last year, an average of 41 a day. These folk have come from a radius of about 50 miles, though some special cases have come as far as 300 miles. The Rev. Alden H. Clark, who is an educa ' tional missionary at tikt eatne place as Dr. Ste- is probably one American or European trained doc tor to every million and a half of people. In the United States there are 160,000 physicians and 22, 000 nurses, an average of one physician to every 550 people." "Of course we do a great deal of actual nurs ing and that is most important," Dr. Stephenson says, "but another thing, which is even bigger, is' this: We show women who have thought them selves wholly unloved that some one cares for them. They know that there is a very small money consideration (given us and that what we do is done for love. So they love us. "When I see woman physicians struggling for a living here and know what a field there is in India, I feel as though they must be told. "The kind of work I have been doing is a ter rific appeal to the sympathies. We have to respect caste, which makes nearly all of our cases long standing. One woman whom I treated came to me with her entire arm in a gangrenous condition. She had pricked her finger seven months before. at the time of her husband's death. On account of her caste she could not so much as leave the house for the seven months, during which time septicemia set in and went up as far as her shoul der. I told her that her arm would have to be am putated. She refused absolutely to part with it, and died as a result. "Another woman burned her knee and turned up at the hospital five months later with that part of her leg in terrible condition. The leg was cut off and the woman made a perfect recovery. "I went many miles into the interior to see an injured woman. She had fallen down a well and was fearfully bruised all over. I found her lying on the floor grinding corn, every turn of her arm causing the most, intense agony. She couldn bear to have me even touch her, she was suffering so. 1 told her husband she had to be taken to the hospital or she would die and he asked who would cook the bread if she were gone. He refused to allow her to go. All I could do was to leave little medicine." y Dr. Stephenson finds that the natives invariably prefer using ointments to clean dressings. Women come in large numbers to get ointments for raw sores where their husbands have beaten and cut them and they are full of gratitude to the doctor. She finds that those of high class sre just as bru , tally treated and just as grateful a the lowest. "Transmigration is one of the strongest beliefs in India," she says, "and on that account the people will not kill any animal, not even a flea. As a result the poor homes are overrun with bedbugs and other vermin, which spread all sorts of fevers and diseases. "And another of their ideas is that we don' know anything about raising babies. Hindoo mothers, without exception, give opium to their babies to make them sleep While they work in the fields. As a result a large proportion of the little Hindoo babies die before they are a year old. 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