It Was a Record Breaker.
Three fellow travelers in the smok
ing room of a fast train were discuss
inff'the speed of trains.
"I was in a train once , " said the first
man , "that beat everything I ever rode
in for speed. Why , it went so fast that
the telegraph poles at the side of the
track looked like an immense fine-
toothed comb. "
"That's nothing , " said the second
traveler ; "I remember riding in an ex
press on the and that went
at such a gait that the telegraph poles
looked lik a solid board fence. '
The third man made an exclamation
of impatience.
"Ah , you fellows don't know what
high speed on a railroad is. Why , I
'traveled west from Chicago last month
in a train that went at such a pace that
when we passed some alternate fields
of corn and beans they looked like suc
cotash ! " Harper's Weekly.
Shout : ng Their Praise * .
Friaxpoint , Miss. , Aug. 22. Special. )
Cured of Bladder and Kidney Trou
ble after 26 years of suffering , Rev. H.
H. Hatch , of this place , is telling the
public the good news and shouting the
praises of the remedy that cured him
Dodd's Kidney Pills. Rev. Mr. Hatch
says :
"I have been suffering from Bladder
and Kidney Trouble for 26 years and I
have tried everything that people said
would do me good. But nothing did
me any good except Dodd's Kidney
Pills.
"I haven't felt a pain since I took
Dodd's Kidney Pills. They gave me
health and I feel like a new man alto
gether. Dodd's Kidney PUls are the
best I ever had. "
All Uriuary and Bladder Troubles I
are caused by diseased kidneys. The |
natural way to cure them is to cure the i
kidneys. Dodd's Kidney Pills never
fail to cnre diseased kidneys in any
stage or place. They always cure
Backache and they are the only remedy
that ever cured Bright's Disease.
SHE HAD THE WRONG POCKET.
A\vfnl Mistake of llie Pretty Girl in
the Automobile Coat.
A pretty girl wearing an automobile
coat that reached to her heels stepped
aboard an Indiana avenue electric car
at Thirtj'-fij t street the other day and
took the only remaining seat , which
was next to a man bundled in a great
ulster. The atmosphere in the car was
rather frigid , and the young woman
felt about her coat pockets , and finally
shoved her hands deep down into the
folds of the garment.
An instant later khe felt a large
gloved hand steal inside the pocket It
closed upon her own hand and gently
pressed it. The pretty girl was enraged ,
and turned upon the man at her side.
The car was crowded with passen
gers , and she did not wish to create a
scene. She bit her lip , straightened up ,
and looked directly ahead. Again the
hand closed gentlj' upon her own. She
gave her arm a quick jerk and with
drew her hand from the pocket. TJie
man , net the least abashed , also with
drew his hand.
Her fingers soon began tingling with
cold and she slipped her hand into the
pocket again. While she sat shivering
she again felt a large gloved hand steal
into the pocket. For a moment she sat
quietly , and then the hand once more
X pressed her own. She would endure
such a flirtation no longer. She thrust
her hand deeper into the pocket and
Pi
faced the man.
"Take your hand out of my pocket ,
sir , " she said , in a fierce voice.
"Pardon me , miss , " said the man ,
"but will j uu be so kind as to take your
hand out of my pocket ? "
The young woman looked surprised ,
and with a jerk withdrew her hand.
When she saw she had confused the
folds of the two coats she blushed , sig
naled'the conductor to stop the car , and
fled toward the door. When the car
stopped she stepped to the street , with
out even turning to give the man an
apologetic glance. Chicago Inter
Ocean.
AS EASY
Needs Only a Little Thinking : .
The food of childhood often decides
whether one is to grow up well nour
ished and healthy orweak and sickly
froin improper food.
It's just as easy to be one as the
ot-her , provided we get a proper start.
A wise physician like the Denver
doctor who knew about food can ac
complish wonders , provided the patient
is willing to help and will eat only
proper food.
Speaking of this case , the mother
said her little four-year-old boy was
suffering from a peculiar derangement
of the stomach , liver and kidneys , and
his feet became so swolllen he couldn't
take a step. "We called a doctor , wfio
said at once we must be very care
ful as to his diet , as improper food was
the only cause of his sickness. Sugar ,
especially , he forbid.
"So the doctor made up a diet , and
the principal food he prescribed was
Grnpe-Xuts , and the boy , who was
very fond of sweet things , took the
Grape-Nuts readily , without adding
any sugar. ( Doctor explained that the
sweet in Grape-Nuts is not at all like
cane or beet sugar , but is the natural
sweet of the grains. )
"We saw big improvement inside a
few days , and now Grape-Nuts are
almost his only food , and he is once
more a healthy , happy , rosy-cheeked
youngster , with every prospect to grow
up into a strong , healthy man. " Name
" -given by Postum Cereal -Co. , Battle
iCreek , Mich.
The sweet in Grape-Nuts is the
Nature-sweet known as Post Sugar ,
not digested in the liver like ordinary
sugar , but predigested. Feed the
youngsters a handful of Grape-Nuts
w.hen Nature demands sweet and
prompts them to call for sugar.
There's a reason.
Get the little book"The Road to
.Wellville" in each oackace.
Opinions of Great Papers on Important
The Ministry.
F the 20,006 men and women who graduated
from our universities and colleges last month
only 1,500 aspire to preach the gospel. As
there are some 74,000 engaged in preaching in
the United States this contribution is insuffi
cient to keep up the supply. Here and there
are men and women who have never had a col
lege or theological training who are discharging the duties
> f the pulpit , but they are few compared to those who have
had these advantages , so that virtually the number of as
pirants is a correct measure of the extent of the minis
terial ambition.
The principal reasons why the number of candidates
tor the clergy is growing less relatively year by year are
lhat congregations are getting more exacting , that the pay
Is small and the occupation the least attractive of the pro
fessions. This is the selfish point of view. Then , the con-
iclentious student who may be religiously inclined and who
lees great opportunities for doing good in the calling , some-
ames is deterred because he cannot satisfy his conscience
> f the truth of some of the doctrines of Christianity. Soon
er than preach something which he cannot believe in he
hzros hjs talents to another calling.
Another hindrance is that the religious unrest , so palpa-
Me in the world , is much more pronounced in the higher
I halls of learning. Here agnosticism , materialism , indiffer-
intism , are at work sapping the early religious training
ind turning the mind in its formtitive stage against the
pulpit Much 'harm is wrought here by the scoffer and the
tmbellever who are never so .happy as when reviling
Christianity and 'everything pertaining to its missional
i&vancemenL ,
SUe world was never so generous in its support of
Christian churches and charities as it is to-day and no
where else is this extended with the generosity of that of
She United States. Yet the disposition to preach is not
keeping abreast of this'sentiment. If it were , the candi
dates for the priesthood this year would number 4-.000 or
i.OOO instead of 1,500. Utica Globe.
The Profit of Good Roads.
O"W that the country is measurably well sup
plied with railroads which haul the farmer's
products to market at an average rate of a half
a cent a ton per mile , it begins to be of prime
importance that the average cost of hauling
from the farm to the railway station , which
is about twenty-live cents per ton per mile ,
thould be reduced. The Department of Agriculture claims
that this cost could be reduced two-thirds by the simple
lubstitution of good macadamized roads for the ordinary
dirt highways now in use.
Pennsylvania's new road law. which divides the cost of
making permanent roads between the State , county and
township , was inspired by a desire to begin the solution
Df this problem in a way that would prove least burden
some to the farmers themselves. So far , however , its pro-
risions have not been taken advantage of as widely as
tvas anticipated. It seems worth while to call attention to
the fact that practically similar laws ate already in opera
tion , with excellent results , in New York , New Jersey ,
Massachusetts , California and elsewhere. In the State like
Kew Jersey , where the law has been in operation longest ,
the benefits are marked.
It is the first step that costs , 'however ' , in road-making
as in everything else. When a few experimental sections
Df really good highways have been provided as object les
sons , it is to be hoped that Pennsylvania farmers will fall
In line with those' of other States , where permanent road
laws have been longer in force. Philadelphia Bulletin.
Our Illiterate Citizens.
HERE is food for thought in the figures of the
* TT * United States census report dealing with edu
cation. Thus'we learn that in 1900 ther'- were
2,320,000 men of the age of 21 or over who
were unable to read or write. This great
army of illiterates constituted 11 per cent of
the voting strength of the nation an electorate
In itself sufficiently strong , if suitably distributed , to de
termine national principles and policies.
Of the total 977,000 were negroes and 1,254,000 whites ,
a percentage which when" compared with that of thirty
WOODS INDIANS.
The Woods Indians , as Stewart Ed
ward White calls the 0 jib-ways and
Woods Orees north of Lake Superior ,
are distinctly nomadic. They search
out new trapping grounds and new
fisheries , they pay visits , and seem
even to enjoy travel for the sake of
exploration. This life , says the author
of "The Forest , " inevitably develops
and fosters an expertness of woodcraft
almost beyond belief.
Another phase of this almost perfect
correspondence to environment is the
readiness with which an Indian will
meet an emergency. . We are aocus-
torned to rely first of all on the skilled
labor of some one we can hire ; second ,
if we undertake the job ourselves , on
the tools made for us by skilled labor ;
and third , on the shops to supply us
with the materials we neod. Hardly
once in a lifetime are we thrown en
tirely on our own resources. Then we
bunglingly improvise a makeshift
The Woods Indian possesses his
knife and his light ax. He never im
provises makeshifts. No matter what
the exigency or how complicated the
demand , his experience answers with
accuracy. Utensils and tools he knows
exactly where to find. His job is neat
and workmanlike , whether it is the
construction of a bark receptacle , watertight
ter-tight or not ; the making of a pair
of snow shoes , the repairing of a badly
smashed canoe , the building of a shel
ter , or the fashioning of a paddle.
About noon one day Tawabinisay
broke hi * ax-helve square off. This to
us would hare been a serious -affair.
Probably if left to ourselves , we should
have stuck in } some sort of a rough
handle made of a straight sapling ,
whi h would have answered well
enough until wis could have bought an
other. By the. time we had cooked
years before shows up to the manifest disadvantage of
the dominant race. Thus in 1870 the excess of illiterate
negroes over illiterate whites was 90,000 , while now , thirty
years later , the latter outnumber the former by 277,000.
Nor can we justly retort that these Illiterate whites are
aliens dumped upon our shores through the agency of Im
migration. Of the total nnrnber of white illiterates only
565,000 are f eign born , while the native born number
688,000 , or an- excess of 113,000. Nor is this the worst of it
The report shows that the percentage of illiterates among
the native born sons of American parents is nearly three
Stlmes as great as among the native born sons of foreign
parents. Evidently our foreign born citizens have a higher
appreciation of the advantages of education than many of
the native stock.
At no time in our history has the percentage of illit
erates been as great as to-day. During the past sixty
years the percentage of this class of citizens has increased
from 6.15 to 6.60 , despite our free scix > ol system and the
earnest efforts to popularize education. The State having
the largest number of illiterates is Georgia , as might be
expected , with its great negro population and its large
number of struggling whites. Pennsylvania is next , having
139,982 illiterates , as compared with 158,247 for Georgia.
The percentage of illiterates among the native born voters
of New Mexico is 25. Utica Globe.
The Disappearance of the Male Teacher.
O one will deny that many of the best school
teachers in the country are women. There are
parts of the delicate and highly 'Important
task of training the young which can best be
done by tactful and gentle women. But it is
also the serious opinion of experts that growing -
" ing boys should very largely be under the care
of men. There is a certain Inspiration of manly leader
ship which a boy greatly needs , and which he can only get
from a manly man. The influence of a thoroughly robust'
school teacher upon his class of boys cannot be calculated.1
He puts before them constantly a model of manliness , and
high honor , and attractive industry , and clean courage ,
which lea'ves its stamp upon their forming minds through
all the rest of their lives.
The generation of boys which must always go to
school to women , and to no one else , will lose something
very valuable out of their school-day training. They may
get as much arithmetic and grammar and history and the
rest of it from the women as from the men , but they can
no more get the quality of manliness from women than
they can get the quality of refinement from men. Our
schools should be "manned" with men as well as women ,
and if we have permitted the financial attractions of the
profession to fall so far behind the increasing attractions
of competitive callings as to allow all the young men to be
drawn away from this profession , we have been guilty
of a serious bstrayal of trust to the generation which is
now growing up. Our fathers did not so misuse us.
Montreal Star.
Wireless Telegraphy in War.
HE question of the value of wireless telegra
phy in war has already been considered. Now
, it is supplemented by that of its legality. The
Russian Government has practically served no-
kice that it regards it as illegaL At any rate ,
I the use of such a device at the seat of war will
be treated as a breach of neutrality. Corre
spondents telegraphing without wires will be shot as spies ,
and vessels equipped with wireless telegraphic apparatus
venturing near the scene of war will , if caught , be con
fiscated as contraband of war. So far as correspondents
accompanying the Russian army are concerned , we may
unhesitatingly concede the Russian the right of censorship.
That is a matter of course. A belligerent power has the
undoubted right to decide whether it will permit corre
spondents to accompany its army at all and if it does let
them do so it can , of course , prescribe what matter they
may send through the lines , and how. Similarly , it may
exercise a censorship over news vessels entering its terri
torial waters , or the waters implicated in the sphere of
belligerent action. But a general outlawing of wireless
telegraphy in that part of the world would be a much
more extreme matter New York Tribune.
dinner that Indian had fashioned an
other belve. We compared it with a
manufactured helve. It was as well
shaped , as smooth , as nicely balanced.
In fact , as we laid the new and the
old side by side , we could not have
selected , from any evidence of the
workmanship , which had been made
by machine and which by hand.
Tawabinisay then burned out the
wood from the ax , retempered the
steel , set the new helve , and wedged
it neatly with ironwood wedges. The
whole affair , including the cutting of
the timber , consumed perhaps half an
hour.
To travel with a Woods Indian Is a
constant source of delight on this ac
count. The Indian rarely needs to hunt
for the materials he requires. He
knows exactly where they grow , and
he turns as directly to them as a clerk
would turn to his shelves. No prob
lem of the living of physical life is too
obscure to have escaped his varied ex
perience. You may travel with Indians
for years , and learn every summer
something new and delightful about
how to take care of yourself.
COSSACKS ARE A BUGABOO.
Facts the Japanese learned Before
Opening Hostilities.
The care taken by the Japanese to
make sure that they were right before
going ahead is shown by the fact that ,
previous to the war with Russia , they
took the greatest pains to ascertain
the actual value as a fighting force of
the much vaunted Cossack cavalry ,
says the array and navy register. The
conclusion was , to use the language
of the Japanese official from whom we
obtain this information , that they
were "a mere bugaboo. " It was found
that the custom of the Russian gov
ernment was to furnish each Cossack
in Manchuria with a fixed sum for the
purchase of a horse. One-half of this
sum he put into his pocket and pur
chased the best horse he could with
the remainder. The money given for
the purchase of fodder was treated in ,
the same way and the horse left to pick
up a living as best he could.
The result was shown in a serious
deterioration in the efficiency of the
Cossacks. Similar dishonesty was
prevalent in the other departments of
Russian army administration , an illus
tration of which is found in the story
of the Russian officers found guilty
of selling powder to the Chinese and
putting sand in its place.
The Japanese even assert that the
number of troops under the command
of Kouropatkin was misrepresented ,
so that money might be made by draw
ing supplies for fictitious warriors. To
make full allowance for contingencies
the Japanese estimated the number of
Russians they would encounter on the
Yalu as 40,000 in all and sent 60,000
troops against them. It was found in
the end that the Russians had only
20.000 men to oppose the crossing of
the river. Brooklyn Eagle.
Some Amusement Schemes.
The railway companies of the country - '
try are engaged in all kinds of amuse
ment schemes , with the idea of attract
ing patronage , and the latest innova
tion of tills character has taken place
in Cleveland , where the manager of a
street railway company has organized
a baseball league. Each of the towns
along the linp has a nine , and a reg
ular schedule has been arranged. The
railway company has supplied the uni
forms and offered other substantial as
sistance besides undertaking to carry
the players free to and from the games.
The company , however , does not par
ticipate in the profits of the team , but
is repaid merely by tb4 increased busi
ness resulting from the games.
If you go around exploiting a fool
belief , people will notice it and talk
about it People who have fool beliefs
are not accorded as much charity as
formerly.
GREAT LUMP OF IRON ORE.
Weighs OOOfOOOOOO Tons and In
Worth an Iruinenoe Fortune.
One of the greatest natural curiosi
ties in Mexico is a big hill consisting
of a solid mass of iron ore. It stands
beside the railroad track , near the sta
tion , in the city of Durango , in the cen
tral part of the republic.
Nothing just like it Is known else
where except In North Sweden , where
there is another hill of iron ore , which
the miners are beginning to tear down
to feed the smelters that have just
been built around it.
The Durango hill Is simply a tremendous
deus lump of Iron ore about a mile
in length , nearly 2,000 feet wide and
rising above the rock-strewn plain
around it from 400 to G50 feet
When Humboldt visited Mexico in
19-03 he did not see the hill , but sam
ples of the iron mass were shown to
him , and from them he deducted the
erroneous conclusion that the pieces
came from a colossal aerolite , the larg
est on record.
Geologists say that some time or oth
er a big opening was made In the
earth's crust and that this enormous
mass of ore was thrust up through the
rift and piled high above the surround
ing plain. That is to say , the iron hill
Is one of the dikes that are supposed
to be the result of earthquake action.
Cracks or fissures have opened from
the surface deep into the earth , and
through these fissures molten matter
has been forced to the outer air , where
it has been hardened into rock.
So the Durango hill was formed by
the same process that made the Pali
sades along the Hudson. The ore is
hematite and one of the richest iron
ores in the world. The best ores in
England contain 57 per cent iron , Lake
Superior ores contain from 59 to 05 per
cent iron and the Durango hill is from
GO to G7 per cent pure iron , more than
three-fifths of this mass , which is cal
culated to weigh over 000,000,000 tons ,
being iron of the best steel-making
quality.
This is the only part of the mass
that appears above the surface. No
one knows how deep It may penetrate
Into the earth. New York Sun.
TORTURING PAIN.
Half This Man's Sufferin.'js Would Have
Killed Many a Person , but Doan's
Cured Him.
A. C. Sprague , stock dealer , of Nor
mal , III. , writes : "For two whole years
I was doing
nothing but
buying medi
cines to cure my
kidneys. I do
not think that
any man ever
suffered as I did
and lived. The
pain in my back
was so bad that
I could not
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horse , and sometimes was unable even
to ride in a car. My condition was
critical when I sent for Doan's Kidney
Pills. I used three boxes and they
cured me. Now I can go anywhere
and do as much as anybody. I sleep
well and feel no discomfort at all. "
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An Errand Dog.
In a town in Cumberland , England ,
a dog is in the habit of going to the
co-operative store for groceries. It
takes a basket iu its mouth containing
the money and book. When it enters
it goes to everybody in the shop and
knocks them with the basket till some
one takes the money out and gives It
to one of the shopkeepers. One day
it dropped something out of its basket
and a boy ran away with it The dog
put the basket down and ran after
him , and he had to drop the packet ;
it then got it in its mouth and put
it into the basket , and , having got
the things , went home. It is a sort
of errand dog. 'Philadelphia Ledger.
For Yonr Perfect Comfort
At the St. Louis Exposition , -which is very
severe upon the feet , remember to take along
a box or-two of ALLEN'S FOOT-EASE , a
powder for Hot , Tired , Achlnjr , Swollen.
Sweating Feet. 30.000 testimonials. Fold
by all Druggists , 25c. DON'T ACCEPT A
SUBSTITUTE. Trial package FREE. Ad
dress Allen S. Olmsted , Le Roy. N. Y.
The postofflce money order department
handles about ? 300,000,000 a year. The
loss by the dishonesty and carelessness
of clerks has beeii only $251 in the last
two years , but this is partly explained by
the fact that the clerks are made respon
sible for the money they handle , and any
loss is considered theirs.
Piso's Cure for Consumption is the best
medicine I have ever found for coughs
and colds. Mrs. O par Tripp , Big Rock ,
111. . March 20 , 1901.
Not Fit to Join.
First Fox Hunter ( at the American
Meet Club ) Why did you blackball
Winthrop ?
Second Fox Hunter He sayg "jhunt"
instead of " 'unt. "
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"Put not your trust in riches. " said
the clerical-looking man in the rusty coat.
"I don't , " replied the prosperous-look-
ins individual. "I put my riches in
trusts. " Chicago News.
Mrs. Elizabeth H. Thompson , ! ,
of Liliydaie , N.Y. , Grand Worthy
Wise Templar , and Member of
W.C.T.U. , tells how she recov
ered by the use of Lydia E.
Pinkhara's Vegetable Compound.
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" My family and relatives were
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$5000 forfeit If orltfnat of abooa letter proving
genuineness cannot bo produced.
Mailed Himself by Post.
The limit of weight for a parcel per
parcel post in England is eleven
pounds. No doubt , then , some reader
will be surprised that under certain
conditions the postoflice will undertake
to safely deliver weights many times
in excess of that stated in the regula
tions.
One day last year a city gentleman
called at SL Martin's le Grand , In Lon
don , with the object of consulting a
directory and finding the address of a
customer who lived in a remote part of
Balham. He was not acquainted with
the locality and was most anxious to
see his customer at once. These'facts
he mentioned to an obliging clerk be
hind the counter. ,
He was at once Informed that 'he
could be sent to the required address
"by registered post" at a fee of 3
pence a mile. The gentleman gladly
accepted the offer , and in less than a
minute found himself in charge of a
smart messenger boy , who very soon
guided him by the shortest route to his
destination.
The boy carried in his hand a print
ed slip with a description of his charge
snder the heading "Article required to
be delivered , " and this he required the
gentleman and customer to sign be
fore he left the latter's house.
It is probable that very few people
are awareof the regulation under
which this curious postal transaction
was accomplished. It reads thus : "A
person may be conducted by express
messenger to any address on payment
of mileage fee. "
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