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6usplclous
President of the Vegetarian Associa
tion to candldatqfor membership
Before you are admitted as a mem
ber to our society I must ask you one
Bcrious question What Is the cause
of that large grease spot on your nock--tie
Twenty-Four-Hour Man
Antonio Cuez of Paflrella Portugal
has -not Blept for three month3 No
doctors can euro him and the most
powerful opiates have no effect He
drives mules In the daytime and acts
as a watchman at night
Egyptians Used Fine Tools
When the pyramids wero built the
laborers did not work under such dis
advantages as have long been attri
buted lolhcm Researches show that
they had solid and tubular drills and
lathe tools The drills were set with
Jewels and cut into the rocks with
keenness and accuracy
Discovered It for Himself
I meant to have told you of that
hole said tho kindly host to his
friend who had suddenly disappeared
in the course of a stroll through the
grounds into a pit full of water The
friend climbed out and shook himself
It doesnt matter ho said cheerily
I found it
Indenture in Ancient Egypt
Recent excavations In Egypt have
revealed a bond dated A D 100 ap
prenticing a slave for two years to
the somiograph to be taught to read
and write shorthand or tho signs
that your son Bionysios knows the
teacher receiving in all 120 drachmas
about 23
To Plant Forest
The University of California at
Berkeley faces a magnificent view of
bay island and shore but the high
hills behind it are bare They are to
be covered with redwoods firs man
zenitas tan and white oaks and ma
dronos
Not until we know all that God
nows can we estimate to the full the
power and the sacredness of some one
iife which may seem the humblest in
Ike world John Ruskiu
Discharging a sixteen inch gun If
I here Is such a thing doesnt make
nearly so great a racket as discharg
ing a cook
Common sense is the knack of see
wg things as they are and doing
things as they ought to be done C
B Stowo
The chaste mind like a polished
plane may admit foul thoughts with
out receiving their tincture Sterne
The people who wear second hand
clothes haye some difficulty in believ
ing in the eternal fitness of things
I have no patience with a man who
would rather have a lot of ancestors
than make a name for himself
A friend of mine who has the grip
nforms me that a frieze on the wall
is worth two colds in the head
The longest way round may be the
shortest way home because there are
no saloons on the longest way
The devil never worries over the
who saves all his smiles for the
stranger Rams Horn
The man who insists that business
te only business is apt to prove that
religion is only humbug
The Siomes of a nation are the bul
warks of personal and national safety
and thrift J G Holland
The most agreeable people in the
tforld are those who never have any
opinions of their own
The lowly place of service may be
the mountain top of communion
The rich man cannot have a better
bank than the poor mans cellar
There is no Thanksgiving without
gratitude and giving
HABITS CHAIN
Certain Habits Unconsciously Formed
and Hard to Break
Ah ingenious philosopher estimates
that the amount of will power neces
sary is break a life long habit would
If it could be transformed lift -a
weight of many tons
It sometimes requires a higher de
gree of heroism to break the chains
of a pernicious habit than to lead a
forlorn hope in a bloody battle A
lady writes from an Indiana town
-From my earliest childhood I was
a lover of coffee Before I was out
of my teens I was a miserable dys
peptic suffering terribly at times with
my stomach
I was convinced that it was coffee
that was causing the trouble and yet
I could not deny myself a cup for
breakfart At the age of 3G I was
n very poor health indeed My sis
ter told me I was in danger of becom
ing a coffee drunkard
But I never could give up drink
ing coffee for breakfast although it
Kept ire constantly ill until I tried
Postunu I learned to make It prop
erly according to directions and now
we can hardly do without Postun for
breakfast and care nothing at all for
coifce
V T am no longer troubled with dys
pepsa co not have spells of suffering
with my stomach that used to trouble
me so when I drank coffee Name
given by Postum Co Battle Creek
Mich
Look in each pkg for the famous
little book The Road to Wellvllle 1
NEW YORK RAILROAD DEPOT TO
BE LARGEST IN THE WORLD
The New York Centrals new Grand
Central station which is in course of
building in New York city and which
with accompanying improvements is
to cost fully 50000000 will be the
largest passenger station in the world
It is to occupy nineteen city blocks
It will have a frontage of GS0 feet on
Vanderbilt avenue 625 feet on Forty-
FUTURE OF THE CHESTNUT
Probability It Soon Will Become a
Staple Food
Tho potato long ago conquered the
larders of many parts of the world
The chestnut is on the contrary an
almost undiscovered food at least in
England and the United States Yet
scientists tell us that the chestnut is
a more nutritious food than the pota
to
They are very much aliko in their
constituents these two foods only the
chestnut has more of the nutritive ele
ments for its weight than has the po
tato The potato is 7G per cent wa
ter and the chestnut only 53 per cent
The chestnut has three times as much
proteid almost twice as much starch
four times as much sugar and gum
twenty limes as much fat and about
the same percentage of mineral mat
ter as has the potato
The potatos lack of fat makes it
necessary to put butter on it to make
it palatable The chestnut is butter
ed by nature Yet as compared with
most other nuts the chestnut is supe
rior because the others contain such
an excess of fat often 50 to 60 per
cent that they are indigestible The
chestnut has little over 2 per cent
Bake or roast your chestnuts and you
have as good food as anyone could
want
If the chestnut had an unpleasant
flavor or if ic was hard to raise it
there would be no cause for wonder
in the failure to utilize it as food on
a large scale But as a matter of
fact it is said that a given area of
land will produce the maximum
amount of food possible when planted
with chestnut trees
However the neglect of the chest
nut may not be all a misfortune In
the days to come when the hen the
potato vine the apple tree and the
stock range are all working industri
ously arid exclusively in the service
of the cold storage company it may
be a comfort to have the chestnut
tree to fall back upon which can cater
to us without cold storage intermedia
tion
Growth of the Churches
Despite the clatter about outworn
creeds and the anxious look on the
faces of amateur diagnosticians as
they sit up with the church and feel
its pulse the statistics are still on the
side of the church They show it
vital not moribund The figures for
practically every denomination show a
perccntago of growth during 1904
larger than the increase in popula
tion There is not such a drift away
from traditional theology as many
would have the world believe The
average person is not as determined
to break away from the faith of the
fathers as is currently represented
Tho truth is the pulpit always has
taken far more interest in theological
puzzles than the pews and there can
be a mighty churning of the doctrinal
waters without the ckurcj rank and
file becoming disturbed New York
Globe
Cost of Rural Free Delivery
In 3897 when the rural service was
started on probation 40000 was
deemed sufficient for its trial Dur
ing the fiscal year that ended June
30 1904 nearly 13000000 was ex
pended for rural free delivery For
the fiscal year upon which we have
now entered 20816600 has been ap
propriated for the continuance and ex
tension of the rural mail service
There were 24506 rural routes in ex
istence at the end of the fiscal year
on June 30 last 9446 ne wroutes hav
ing been put into operation during the
fiscal year On Oct 1 1904 there
weie 27135 routes established and
the service was being extended at the
rate of about 800 routes a month
Worlds Work
Mark Twain Taken Literally
The librarian of the United Service
Oiub of Calcutta is a native Indian
His catalogue of the library contains
somo remarkable classifications
among which is an amusing one in
connection with a book of Mark
Twains his Extracts From Adams
Diary The native librarian evidently
didnt know whether Adams diary
comes under religion or philosophy
So to make it sure he put it under
both headings gravely adding Mark
Twains own words Translated From
the Original MS
fifth street 4C0 feet on Lexington
avenue 275 feet on Forty fourth
street 260 feet on Depew place and
300 feet on Forty second street In
the construction especial attention is
to be paid to suburban traffic Sub
urban trains are to enter and leave the
depot at a lower level than the
through trains The baggage room
occupies 47000 square feet of space
WAITED LONG FOR REWARD
Heroic Sailors Get Tardy Recognition
From Congress
Unless it be for the material things
which directly concern its members
Congress evidently believes in virtue
being its own reward -writes Caspar
Whitney in Outing Lucky is the man
who lacking that paramount endow
ment of modern America a pull
escapes the slanders of the envious or
ieceives federal recognition for a val
iant deed he has been indiscreet
enough to perform
Recently the Secretary of the Navy
presented gold medals to Lieut E P
Bertholf Lieut D H Jarvis and Sur
geon S J Call for their teroic rescue
in 1897 of 275 imperiled sailors At
the risk and very nearly at the cost
of their lives these three men made
a 1600 mile overland trip to Point
Barrow in midwinter to carry relief to
sailors starving there on the ice
Nearly eight years later they each re
ceive from this great and expanding
nation a gold medal valued at 210
HOTEL SOLELY FOR CHILDREN
Unique Hostelry Recently Established
at London
Now that the Countess Paulett has
given her patronage to the Childrens
hotel in London many of Englands
fashionable babies will become the
proud tenants of select suites in this
new and extraordinary institution
The new London hotel is under the
control of the Nordland Institute of
Nurses and is furnished throughout
to suit the peculiar needs of its fastid
ious little inmates whose parents
finding it necessary to run down to
shooting preserves or across to the
continent prefer a select place of this
kind to the doubtful care of their home
servants Each baby or child has its
own student nurse in its own suite
and tho prices run from 12 a week
upward No children over 8 years of
age are accepted but babies in the
feeding bottle stage may become hon
ored guests and have suites as high
as 100 a week The furniture suits
the age of the guest
Faithful in Arduous Task
Miss Alice M Robertson -who has
just been appointed postmistress at
Muskogee the most important town
in the Indian territory is the grand
daughter of Rev Dr Worcester a pio
neer missionary among the Cherokees
before their removal from Georgia to
the Indian territory For several years
she has been supervisor of Creek
schools a position which the circum
stances of her early life peculiarly fit
ted her Many of the schools are in
remote and almost inaccessible por
tions of the Creek nation reached
only by long drives over roads so bad
that she has several times been
thrown out of her buggy She has had
to ford dangerous streams sometimes
getting into swimming water and has
had to depend upon the most primi
tive accommodations for food and
shelter
Woman Long Mariners Friend
The Santa Barbara lighthouse on
the Pacific coast has been kept by a
woman for thirty eight years In 1856
a lighthouse was erected two miles
south of Santa Barbara and President
Franklin Pierce appointed Albert J
Williams to be the keeper In 1865
near the close of the civil war Mrs
Julia F Williams was appointed keep
er to succeed her husband who had
died She has had the longest serv
ice of any keeper on the coast She
has been away from her post only two
nights in twenty seven years and
rarely leaves the lighthouse except on
Sundays when she drives to Santa
Barbara to attend church The tower
rises 178 feet above the sea level and
the solid white light can be seen sev
enteen miles at sea
Mrs Peary Not Going North
Mrs Peary will not accompany her
husband on his next trip to the arctic
Not that she does not wish to go for
she is a hardy traveler but because
Lieut Peary is going to take such
chances this lime as he never took
before and he does not wish his wife
to share the peril Mrs Peary was a
most valuable member of the expedi
tion in which she took part Strong
courageous and determined she was
willing to take her share of privation
and danger refusing to accept any
odds because of her sex
BUNKO MANS LONG CAREER
Death of Tom OBrien Recalls Stories
of His Success
News of the death of Tom
OBrien the notorious confidence man
and originator of the gold briclc in a
rench penal settlement at Cayenne
ecalis the story of attempts made
ive or six years ago by his Chicago
nd New York friends to rescue him
nnie Gray OBriens New York
sweetheart who had been devoted to
im all through his trial for murder
ind imprisonment was author of the
dot
A syndicate said to have been com
osed of eight confidence men in the
wo cities laised the money and char
ered a swift steam yacht which lay
cor days off the island of Cayenne
vailing for a chance to pick up the
convict
OBrien had been furnished money
o bribe the guards and every precau
tion had been taken to insure his
scape but the authorities learned of
the plan and redoubled their vigilance
When the steam yacht appeared off
the coast of the penal settlement it
was watched by a warship At last
the plan was abandoned
When OBrien was sentenced to
Cayenne for life for the murder of
Kid Waddell a fellow confidence
man in a Paris hotel he closed a ca
reer of crime that for years had baf
fled the efforts of the best detectives
on two continents
He organized the confidence busi
ness thirty years ago and reduced it
to such a system that he became
known over the world as the king of
bunko men OBrien not only
worked confidence games himself but
directed dozens of other crooks in
nearly all the large cities Ho dressed
like a prosperous business man and
wore long whiskers He was in close
touch with politicians in every city
where he operated
But OBriens political pull finally
failed him He sold a gold brick to
an Albany real estate man for 10000
and was arrested He got a man to
go on his bond for 10000 and sailed
J
2UT OSBSS3V
for Europe At Liverpool he was ar
rested returned to this country and
sentenced to ten years in prison He
secured temporary release on habeas
corpus and escaped to France
OBrien went broke in Paris and
it was when he was refused a loan
that he shot his old pal Waddell
Getting Rich Slowly
Ordinarily a great fortune is built
up like a stone wall a stone at a
time The young man who declines
to lay the first stone because it comes
so far short of a wall will never make
progress in financial masonry An im
mense proportion of the people of this
country live up to their incomes lay
ing aside nothing for the traditional
rainy day Because they can not save
1000 in a bunch they save nothing
The greatest financial kings of the
world have not been above taking
care of the pennies even The great
financial institutions look after even
the fractions of pennies Troy Press
Will Climb Mount Rainier
F Augustus Moorehouse an aristo
cratic citizen of London England has
arrived in Tacoma for the purpose of
climbing Mount Rainier The fact that
the mountain has never been ascend
ed in the winter time does not daunt
him and he will leave this week for
Paradise valley on the mountains
south slope Moorehouse says he has
plenty of leisure and will remain at
the task until it is finished He has
been through the Alps repeatedly and
believes that a 15000 foot mountain
like Rainier can be easily ascended
despite its system of fourteen glaciers
Laboucheres Christmas Gifts
Henry Labouchere editor of London
Truth recently held his twenty fifth
annual doll show About 28000 dolls
and toys were provided by readers of
tho paper for distribution at Christ
mas among the children in the hospit
als workhouses workhouse infirma
ries and poor law schools of the me
tropolis There was a separate gift
for every child as well as large toys
and dolls for general use by the
youngsters in the different institu
tions As in many previous years an
anonymous donor has sent 11000 new
sixpences for the children
Getting Over a Difficulty
In the north there lives a farmer
whose sense of humor failed him on
his wedding day He lived at some
distance from his bride elect and on
the eventful morning he set off for the
station in good time but he met one
friend after another with the result
that he missed his train
Naturally he was very much upset
but bethought himself of the tele
graph This was the message he sent
Dont marry till I come William
Liverpool Eng Mercury
YOUNG AND SHORT SENATORS
Old Men No Longer Monopolize Seats
in Upper House
Although the senate is supposed to
bo composed largely of old men young
men are rapidly gaining the seats
Mr Hemenway who will be the new
senator from Indiana is 44 He and
his colleague Senator Beveridge who
is 42 will be among the youngest men
in the senate But Senator Dick of
Ohio -who succeeded Senator Hannah
an old man is only 46 Senator Knox
after several years as attorney gen
eral is young as men are accounted
nowadays being 51 which happens
also to be the age of Senator Crane of
Massachusetts who entered the sen
ate with him The prospective sen
ator from Nevada Mr George S Nix
on will probably be the shortest in
stature of all that branch of congress
He is described as nearly a head
shorter than Senator Knox although
like nearly all the short men of the
senate possessed of much ability
Washington Post
TELLS OF SAMAR DISASTER
Gen Corbin Sends Details of the Re
cent Massacre
Gen Corbins report of the uprising
in the island of Samar and of the bat
tle in which Lieut Stephen K Hayt
and thirty seven of his command of
scouts were killed has been received
by the war department The report
says
The Pulajanes are on the warpath
in Samar in considerable numbers as
may be judged from the following
On Nov 10 about 400 Pulajanes and
several hundred volunteers joined in
an attack on a detachment of twenty
Philippine scouts at Oras Samar
Killed one hospital corps man wound
feijSlJZOl
ed twelve Philippine scouts missing
five said to have been boloed while in
the river
And again on Dec 16 Second
Lieut Stephen K Hayt and thirty
seven enlisted men Thirty eighth
company Philippine scouts were kill
ed by Pulajanes at Dolores Saniar
First Lieut George F Abbott requests
help from the military authorities
Town is threatened by 1000 Pulajanes
Situation critical in both instances I
offered the Philippine government all
the assistance desired As yet none
has been accepted
Joke on Archbishop Ireland
Archbishop Ireland doesnt mind
telling a joke on himself The arch
bishop always dresses so unostenta
tiously that no one could guess hi3
episcopal rank from his street garb
Traveling one day in a rural district
he met a good natured woman in the
car who after some general conversa
tion asked him Youre a priest
father arent you In a bantering
mood the archbishop thought hed try
a quibble to put her at her ease so he
answered No my good woman Im
no longer a priest The woman gave
him a pitying glance Then she said
soothingly Oh the Lord help us
father It wasnt the drink I hope
Belated Receipt for a Slave
In looking over his morning mail
this morning J R Ratekin a Shenan
doah la seedsman received a letter
from a man at Wabbenska Ark con
taining as an enclosure a receipt dat
ed back sixty six years ago for a slave
girl The receipt was also a warranty
and read as follows
Received Sept 3 1832 of John
Roberts 576 in full for the purchase
of a negro girl named Charlotte Said
girl is about 14 or 15 years of age and
I warrant her to be sound in body and
mind and a slave for life I will also
defend all claims against said girl
Jostph W Hill New York World
Buffalo Bill Going to France
It is said that William F Cody
Buffalo Bill intends to expatriate
himself and become a citizen of
France Cody is well along in years
and his family troubles have worn him
down considerably For this reason
he is desirous of turning over his
Wild West show to younger hands
He is going to Europe with the show
in February and it is said that if he
can settle his wifes suit for divorce
and dispose of some other matters he
will never return to America but will
spend the remainder of his days in
France
Tribute to Oklahoma
S M McHarg a Grant county far
mer found his wheat so short that he
cut it with a header Wishing to con
serve the soil moisture for wheat sow
ing in the fall he planted the land to
corn To his surprise the corn ma
tured and yielded about thirty five
bushels to an acre His wheat averag
ed about 1825 an acre and his corn
1050 a total of 2875 an acre or
915 for his thirty acre field This is
a convincing example of the resources
of Oklahomas soil and climate Kan
sas City Times
To Preserve Cider
Whore cider Is used from the cask
to prevent spoiling In the partly empty
cask pour upon tho cider a quart of
somo tasteless oil such as olive or
peanut oil The oil will form a thin
film on tho surfaco of tho elder and
prevent access of the acetic and putre
factive ferments always present in tho
air Southern Farm Magazine
Shocking
Daughter Dont invito my rural
uncle in tho reception room any more
Mother Did he mako any baif
breaks before the company dear
Daughter I should say so When 1
showed him a Louis XIV chair htf
asked if Louis was a good chairuiaker
A New Longest Word
What is believed to be the longest
word In tho English language has just
been discovered by an enterprising
druggist It is
and is
tho correct scientific name for a well
known proprietary medicine
Steel Fishing Rods
Steel fishing rods have been brought
to such a state of perfection that they
are now being sold extensively in tho
place of those of bamboo It Is said
that they are handier to carry and
are better balanced
Shouting Their Praises
KIrkland 111 Jan 2nd Special
Cured of tho terrible Rheumatic
pains that made him a cripple for
years Mr Richard R Greenhon an
old and respected resident of this
place Is shouting the praises of tho
remedy that cured him Dodds Kid
ney Pills
I had tho rheumatism in my left
limb so that I could not walk over ten
to fifteen rods at a time and that by
the use of two canes Mr Greenhon
says I would have to sit or lie
down on the ground when I was out
trying to walk and the sweat would
run down my face with so much pain
I could not sleep at night for about
five or six weeks
I tried different doctors medicines
but they were all no good Then I
pent for Dodds Kidney Pills and
almost from the first they brought
relief By the time I had taken four
teen boxes of them my rheumatism
was all gone and I can truly say I
feel better than I have in the last
twenty five years
Chemistry on Railroads
The operation of a modern railway
Is a place where chemistry would
hardly seem likely to be much in evi
dence but every large railway system
maintains expert chemists in whose
laboratories questions of vital import
ance to railroad economies are con
stantly undergoing minute chemicaJ
study
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chafings and many sanative antisep
tic purposes which readily suggest
themselves to women especially
mothers as well as for all the pur
poses of the toilet bath and nursery
Origin of Petroleum
Until recently it was almost univer
sally believed that petroleum like
coal tas derived from fossil vegeta
tion or possibly from animals or fishe3
of some long past age Now it is as
serted by many scientific men that it
may not be of any organic origin but
may be due to subterranean chemical
action
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Mankinds Many Languages
There are no fewer than five thou
sand distinct languages spoken by
mankind The number of separate di
alects is enormous There are more
than sixty distinct vocabularies in
Brazil and in Mexico the Nahua lan
guage has been broken up Into seven
hundred dialects There are hnndreda
in Borneo
A GUARATEKI CURK FOR PELES
Itchlnir Blind Bleeding or Protruding 1ile v Your
drucslat will refund money If PAZO OICTMEXT
falls to care you In 6 to 14 days 00c
To admtre a virtue without seeking
to muhite it is to enervate the soul
I do not believe Pisos Cure for Consumption
has an equal for coughs and colds Jony P
BorEii Trinity Springs Ind Feb 15 1904
Some men will miss heaven because
they sit so long by the wayside dis
secting their guide books
When a man is too old to be made
a fool of by a pretty woman hes cer
tainly in the centenarian class
If the public could sue for breach of
promise most political officeholders
would be bankrupt
When one starts out to do tho great
est good to the greatest number No
1 is usually it
Many a society woman isnt in the
swim deep enough to get her bathing
suit wet
K
ft