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The Backbone
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Mighty Nation
is good food food for brain lood for Drawn food that is
strengthening that gives energy and courage Without a proper
appreciation of this great fundamental truth no nation can rise
to greatness
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more every day as is attested by the sale of nearly 400000000
packages of Uneoda Biscuit which have come to be recog
nized as the most perfect soda cracker the world has ever known
And so Uneeda Biscuit will soon be on every table at
every meal giving life health and strength to the American people
thus in very truth becoming the backbone of the nation
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Is a powerful invigorating tonic impart
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diseases of the delicate womanly organs
are cured the whole body gains in health
and strength For weak and sickly
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or debilitated especially for women who
work in store oflice or schoolroom who
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Dr Pierces medicines are made from
harmless but efficient medical roots
found growing in our American forests
The Indians knew of the marvelous cura
tive value of some of these roots and im
parted that knowledge to some of the
friendlier whites and gradually some of
the more progressive physicians came to
test and use them and ever since they
have grown in favor by reason of their
superior curative virtues and their safe
and harmless qualities
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to Dr Pierce about your case He is an
experienced physician and will treat your
case as confidential and without charge
lor correspondence Address him at the
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Buffalo N Y of which he is chief con
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THE PARLOR
It Is Iiapltlly Becoming an Apartment
of the Past
The American parlor is a thing of tha
past according to architects says the
Cleveland Plain Dealer No more will
there be a room reserved for state oc
casions such as the receiving of form
al calls the visit of the minister and
for weddings and for funerals
We never take the parlor Into con
sideration any more said a Cleveland
architect recently The parlor is
merged into the living room The good
old fashioned parlor which was held
In so much reverence in the old days
has no place in modern architecture
The demand is for a large living
room in a small house together with a
dining room and kitchen In a larger
house there is usually a large living
room library den dining room and
kitchen
I had a client yesterday who desired
to have a reception room or parlor not
connected with the living room He
decided later to have a sort of recep
tion room In connection with the hall
way
When the parlor idea began to lose
ground we did not make a radical
change but reduced the parlor to a
small reception room Isolated from the
others where formal calls could be re
ceived Now we make no provision
for the parlor
In these days the reception rooms
do not have to be closed only to be
opened on the occasion of the visit of
the family minister or the physician
There may be many who will regret
the passing of the old fashioned coun
try parlor with all Its memories of vis
itors courtship and occasions which
left impressions which have not been
eradicated by the strenuous age of to
day
The Sardinians
Sardinia was a wild place In the mid
dle of the last century A traveler
says The men are clothed in goat
skins one before and another behind
without breeches shoes or stockings
and a woolen or skin cap on the head
The women have no other habiliments
than a long woolen gown and a woolen
cap The peasants always go armed
to defend themselves from one another
so that traveling in the interior Is ex
tremely unsafe without an escort and
it is even dangerous for ships to send
their people on shore for water unless
they are well armed In short the
Sardes are the Malays of the Mediter
ranean
A Taste For Dors
Mark Twain was once talking of war
and of the hardships and privations of
sieges
A Frenchman he said called one
day on a woman who had two dogs
They were ugly little brutes and when
they came near him the man pushed
them out of the way with his foot
I perceive sir said tha woman
coldly that you are not very fond of
dogs
The man started in surprise
I not fond of dogs he exclaimed
Why madam I ate more than twenty
of them during the siege of Paris
A Patient Man
The endurance of the music lover who
sits out one of Wagners long Ring
operas has often been commented
npon but perhaps not more forcibly
than In London Well up above the
stage was a burly figure In homespun
evidently a Scottish farmer who had
come to London to see the sights and
hear the sounds After sitting through
three long acts he murmured audibly
Twas a patient mon that wrote all
this
A Iiake of Acid
In the center of Sulphur Island off
f7ew Zealand Is a lake of sulphuric
acid fifty acres in extent The water
contains vast quantities of hydrochloric
acid and sulphuric acids hissing and
bubbling at a temperature of 110 de
grees F and great care has to be
taken In approaching It to avoid suf
focation
Man carries under his hat a private
theater wherein a greater drama is
acted than Is ever performed on the
mimic stage beginning and ending in
eternity Carlyle
THE LONDON COSTER
3 Is the Kine of the Curb In the
British Metropolis
Londons outdoor man Is the coster
He is the Ishmael of the gutters A
very jolly Ishmael it is true who is
more than content to acknowledge the
line of demarcation between himself
and the true cockney But neverthe
less in a modified twentieth century
way he is still the wild man whose
hand is against every mans and every
mans against his He is probably the
last remnant of the worlds old race of
wanderers the last suggestion of the
primitive man left to the cities He is
to us town dwellers what the gypsy is
to the countryside His descent seems
to spring from the same roving stock
And he is regarded from a safe dis
tance with the same contempt by
those who dont know him His habits
and his Impulses still savor strongly of
the days when tribe warred against
tribe and every mans arm was for
himself and his clan And although
his pitch Is below the curb his caravan
a barrow and his beast of burden a
Russian pony a donkey or himself he
Is as free and exclusive as any other
lusty scion of the people who live under
the skies Ishmael he Is and Ishmael
he chooses to remain And the chances
are ten to one that whoever goes
for information among the barrows
will come back with an empty creel or
a fine show of fishermens tales for
vour coster knows both how to keep
silence and how to use his tongue pic
turesquely in defense of his jealously
guarded traditions and the internal
economies of his existence Outing
THE ELEPHANT
He Is Good Xatured Docile Obedient
and Long Suffering
The elephant is the best natured
beast in all wild creation said a cir
cus man Most people have an idea
that the big beast is apt to go wrong
any time and make all kinds of trouble
for everybody Now as a matter of
fact I have never but once seen a
freak of this kind Then the result
was directly due to the intolerable
abuse of flat headed grooms It seems
to me that if some one was putting a
steel point or hook into a soft joint of
yours or mine many times a day and
without any good reason for It wo
would show temper and tear up things
too The only difference is the ele
phant has more patience He is docile
obedient and long suffering When
an elephant gets a little out of sorts
there is always some lightweight at
tendant it seems to fly off and say he
Is daffy Ninety nine times out of a
hundred the poor elephant has been
badly treated and as he cannot talk
he does about the only thing he can do
and trumpets his disgust or possibly
goes a step further and eases his feel
ings by taking a crack with his trunk
at something within reach Elephants
are as kind hearted and tender as wo
men and respond to little attentions
the same way and in the same way
just like a woman when they get sour
ed it takes a long while to sweeten
them again if it can be done at all
Chicago Chronicle
The Bengali
The Bengali has the best brains of
all the peoples in India and the readi
est tongue His memory is prodigious
and his fertility in talk Inexhaustible
He i3 something of an Irishman some
thing of an Italian something of a
jewif one can conceive an Irishman
who would run away from a fight in
stead of running into it an Italian
without a sense of beauty and a Jew
who would not risk 5 on the chance
of making 500 He is very clever but
his cleverness does not lead him far on
the road to achievement for when it
comes to doing rather than talking
he is easily passed by people of far
Inferior ability London Standard
Where the Rub Comes
Well said the good natured board
er theres one thing about our board
ing house you can eat all you like
there
Of course same as ours replied
the grouchy one You can eat all you
like but theres never anything you
could possibly like Philadelphia
l Press
Fearless Firemen
flirty Thousand of Them Fighting Flames
In the United States Daring Rescues
on Dizzy Ladders New
Yorks Army
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INCE fire fighting has become a
regularly recognized and well
compensated employment in the
large cities of this country n
great change has taken place in the
discipline in vogue among the forces
of fire fighters and in the methods em
ployed in extinguishing fires In the
old days of volunteer firemen there
may have been more glory In assisting
at putting out flames when they had
burst Into action unbidden and unex
pected but there was much less sci
ence about it then Making lire fight
ing a paid service under a regularly or
ganized branch of the municipality has
cost the large cities of the United
States a great deal of money but it Is
a change which has paid for Itself
many times over In the reduced amount
of the losses due to outbreaks of fire
Credit should be given the volunteer
companies however for the work
which they did and which many are
still doing in the smaller towns or In
larger cities as forces auxiliary to the
paid departments For Instance In the
city of New York which has 3G00
paid firemen the largest number em
ployed by any city In the United States
there are also volunteer companies
with a membership of 2300 These
companies exist mostly In the suburbs
In parts of New York to which the
service of the regular city department
has not yet been extended
Although Are fighting is necessarily
a dangerous occupation and requires
qualities akin to those of a soldier in
men who would enter It the perils
have been much reduced by the perfec
tion attained in many cities in methods
of discipline and by the improvements
In apparatus On the other hand the
study given to the subject has resulted
in such high efficiency of service that
the proportion of disastrous fires Is
small compared with the number of
outbreaks of flames In such cities as
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FIBEMEN AT RESCUE WORK OK THE EX
TENSION IiADDEB
New York Chicago Philadelphia Bos
ton and St Louis the uniformed and
paid firemen are seen so often rushing
to fires that their approach and the
ringing of the gong for the clearing of
the street cause scarcely more than a
momentary flurry Usually the fire is
extinguished before it has a chance to
do much damage or furnish a spectacle
that is worth crossing the street to
view But when a fire does get under
headway and firemen find hard work
cut out for them they show that their
nerve is equal to the occasion Then
Is seen the value of such improvements
in fire fighting apparatus as the exten
sion ladder by which members of the
force can climb into the windows of a
burning building with the least possible
delay It requires courage to mount
such a ladder extended in midair
as it were but the men are trained to
this by frequent emergency drills and
as the ladder unfolds itself they are
quick to spring upon the extended
rnngs and mount into the imperiled
structure perhaps to rescue those Im
prisoned within burning walls
The scaling ladder Is another great
aid to quick attack on a burning build
ing or to timely rescue of those shut
off from escape by the flames The
expert climber mounts from story to
story by placing Its hooks in the win
dow above him climbing to the sill
and then lifting his ladder to another
window until he has gained a dizzy
height His nerve does not desert him
In crossing from ledge to ledge or
crawling along narrow copings because
his drill has accustomed him to work
at a great height without fear
Over 30000 persons are employed In
the United States in protecting the
public against danger from fire and
nearly two thirds of these are mem
bers of paid departments In the days
of the volunteer companies In big cities
there was plenty of excitement in run
ning with the hose cart in response to
the wild alarms rung on the fire bell
Now when the noiseless electric cur
rent Is used to call the department out
the men go to their business without
any flurry or bluster In the good old
times the volunteers were sometimes
wont to demolish more property than
they saved Under up to date methods
there is no recklessness of this kind
GOG AND MAGOG
Vnrloua Tradition Ilelatlnsr to
These Two Faraou Giants
Who were Gog and Magog English
tradition says that they were the last
of a race of giants who Infested Eng
land until they were destroyed by
some of the Trojans who went to the
British Isles after the destruction of
Troy Gog and Magog it Is said were
taken captive to London where they
were chained at the door of the palace
of the king When they died wooden
images of the two giants were put in
their places In the course of time a
great lire destroyed these but now If
you go to London you will see In tho
great hall of one of the famous build
ings the Guildhall two immense
wooden eiligies of men called Gog and
Magog
But there are other traditions of the
two giants One Is to the effect that
when Alexander the Great overran
Asia he chased Into the mountains of
the north an Impure wicked and man
eating people who were twenty two na
tions In number and who were shut up
with a rampurt in which were gates of
brass One of these nations was Goth
and another Magoth from which we
readily get the names of the mythical
giants It is supposed however that
the Turks were meant by Gog and the
Mongols were the children of Magog
We shall find mention made of Gog
and Magog In many books including
the Bible ut there are the gre wall
and the rampart of Gog and Magog
whatever may have been the fact that
gave the names of the two giants to
that portion of the structure
FEES IN ENGLAND
The Treasury Han Many Schemes
Thnt Swell Its Income
When a young man determines to
become a barrister and enters his name
at one of the Inns of court in London
or Dublin lie has to pay to the govern
ment a fee of 23 And when he is a
full fledged English or Irish barrister
or a Scotch advocate he has to fork out
a further sum of 50
Should he desire to become a solicitor
he is fined even more heavily When
he becomes an apprentice his fee to
the government is S0 and his yearly
duty when he begins to practice is for
the first three years 3 in the country
and 4 10s in London or Dublin and
after the third year G and 9 respec
tively So that a solicitor practicing
forty years in London will have paid
the government over 400
A law agent Scotland pays 00 at
commencement of study and 53 or 83
on beginning practice in the sheriffs
court or court of session
If you want to change your surname
of your own free will the government
charges you only 10 but if you do it
under the direction of some deceased
benefactor it costs you 30
Bishops pay 30 for permission to be
elected and 30 more for the royal as
sent to their election and the fees paid
on receiving letters patent are By a
baronet 100 a baron 130 a viscount
200 an earl 230 a marquis 300
and a duke 330 London Express
The Ashen of the Dead
James Russell Lowell was a great
favorite in the literary circles of Lon
don On one occasion at a large ban
quet the peculiarities of American
speech were discussed with English
bluntness Lord S called to Mr Lowell
loudly so as to silence all other speak
ers
There is one new expression Invent
ed by your countrymen so foolish and
vulgar as to be unpardonable They
talk of tho ashes of the dead We
dont burn corpses No Englishman
would use a phrase so absurd
And yet said Mr Lowell gently
your poet Gray says speaking of tho
dead
Eer In our ashes Hvo their -wonted flre3
And in the burial services of the
church of England it is said Dust to
dust and ashes to ashes We sin Id
good company A cordial burst of ap
plause greeted this prompt rejoinder
The Severest Test
The severest test of manhood is never
found in good times but only In hard
times It is not the man who has suc
cess when others are doing well but
it is the man who keeps up his courage
and struggles on when everybody else
Is wavering or going down who Is the
hero In the sight of God and men It Is
an easy matter to make good time
when both wind and tide are In ones
favor or when one Is moving with the
current but It requires character and
skill and daring to make head In spite
of opposing forces or to work success
fully against the current Exchange
Dlstln jJTQlnlied
Visitor in penitentiary Who is that
distinguished looking convict Ward
en He Is known here as No 1147
Visitor He seems to hold himself aloof
from his fellows Warden Yes you
can hardly expect him to associate with
the common herd His trial cost the
state 200000
The Only Way
A person of little tact once remarked
to the octogenarian Auber What a
sad thing it Is this old business
Yes agreed the old musician It
is sad but he added wltn witty
philosophy up to the present time no
surer way has been discovered to live
a long time
A Cautions Dtimnel
Dearest with you by my side I
would willingly give up all I possess
wealth position parents everything
I know George but In that case
what would there be left for me
Milwaukee Sentinel
Its a queer fact that the higher a
man rises the less chance he has of be
ing above suspicion Puck
YOU WOULD DO WELL TO SEE
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ANCHOR BRAND FLOUR
crowns the pyramid of all
modern milled brands Of
selected wheat milled by a
patent process it is the
Flour Par Excellence
of the down-up-to-date mil
lers art It bakes more
bread to the barrel than any
other and contains more
wholesome nutriment and
is consequently cheaper At
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