"Esprit dc Corps. " All the tiny cripples in the nelghbor- JmmJ of the settlement house , together Milli a fe\v able-bodied children , had Ite.-n feasted on cake and lemonade. AVIi-n one of the deformed mitesis \ r -icy ! to KO home he missed his coat , tthirh search failed to find. The young Avo'.naii who had been ministering to UKwants of Ihe company hid se > n one of lh < able-bodied girls go out with Min : ' ! ling under her bht\vl too bulky 1t. be secretedake. . "Itun. my dear , io Jenny1 she said 1o one of the luK "In picking up her shawl perhaps she got hold of .some thing else by mistake. " T * > e boy moved oif on his stumpy - nuh. . and when he returned he held iheoat up in triumph. The "accident" hnl happened ; .Fenny had picked it up with Ihe shawl. The crippled children crowded close rouii'i the young woman in great per turbation. Their self-respect had been Auur.fled. and they looked disdainfully : it 15o few sound children among them. Finally one of the lads s.-iid : " .Miss Martin , il ain't one of us that lid it. .lenny ain't a crippleshe's ; on'y a Sunday school 1" Cured Tier Rheumatism. Deep Valley , Pa. , Oct. : { ! . ( Special.i -There is deep interest in Green coun- iy over the cure of the little daughter of I. \ . \Vhipkey of Khcmnatism. She was a great sufferer for five or six \ e.irand nothing seemed to do her niiy good till she tried Dodd's Kidney I'ills. She began to improve almost at once and now she is cured and can run : in l play as other children do. Mr. Whipkcy says : " 1 am indeed thankful for what I > < M'.s Kidney Pills have done for my daughter ; they saved her from be- inir : i cripple perhaps for life. " I'odd's ' Kidney Pills have proved that Rheumatism is one of the results of diseased Kidneys. Rheumatism is cruised by Uric Acid in the blood. If the Kidneys are right there can be no Trie Acid in the blood and consequent ly no Rheumatism. Dodd's Kidney Pills make the Kidneys right. INDIAN PHYSICIANS OF OLD. Cold Water , Sweating PurKinp , Vouiit- itiraiid HI ceding Were Kcmcdics. Vndoubtedly the American Indian in his primeval state was a line specimen of physical manhood. Dr. E. J. Kempt , who has made a careful investigation into frontier history , has found that before the Indians were contaminated by the white race they never were af flicted with smallpox , measles , tuber- culo.S , gout , scurvy , insanity , nerv ous diseases nor any other of the ills aisd blood affections which have in late years made such terrible inroads upon the numbers and vitality of the red men of this country. The only bodily afflictions which Dr. Kempf reports to the Medical Record that he found among the aborigines were fevers and diseases produced by cold , such as pleurisy , pneumonia , rheumatism , dysentery and wounds from accidents or battle. Naturally the remedies of the Indians were sim ple and few in number. When sick an Indian refused all kinds of stimulat ing aliments , but drank profusely of cold water. Ii : addition to this , in proper cases the Indian resorted to sweating , purging , vomiting and bleed ing , ami finally , when all remedies -i o-ned to be ineffectual , the medicine ! - was called in to try his amulets -r . ! ! leantations on the patient. Thi-se methods of cure are still re- v -fd : to amonir blanket Indians who art' removed from the influences of c'vil-zalion. But before we smile or oiidemn these practices we should con sider our own history. It was only a few generations ago that our ideas of medicine were almost as crude as those of the Indians. The more intelligent of the white people then , of course , did not resort to magic and incantations , but the concoctions which they manu factured to cure diseases almost pass belief. Oliver Wendell Holmes , in his "Medical History of Massachusetts , " has made a permanent record of some of the practices then prevailing among the colonists. Governor Winthrop was a devout believer in the efficacy of < owbugs. while the Rev. Cotton Ma ther used upon his sick friends such absurd and foul pellets and medica ments as no Indian ever dreamed of. Kansas City Star. BY PROXY. What the Baby Needed. 1 suffered from nervousness ana leadache until one day about a year ago it suddenly occurred to me what a trreat coffee drinker I was and I thought may be this might have some thing to do with my trouble , so I shift ed to tea for a while , but was not bet ter , if any thing worse. "At that time I had a baby four months old that we had to feed on the bottle , until an old lady friend told me to try Postum Food Coffee. Three io months ago 1 commenced using Pos tum , leaving off the tea and coffee , and not only have my headaches and nervous troubles entirely disappeared , j r\ but since then I have been giving plen III of . for and have ty nnr.se my baby a la large , healthy child now. "L have no desire to drink anything but Postum and know it has benefited .V my children , and I hope all who have children will try Postum and find out for themselves what a really wonder ful food drink it is. " Name given by Postum < ' < . . P.attle Creek. Mich. IH I'orh JM ; . .nl CMU'I e contain quanti 14 ties of a j..o- < on'Hs drug c.ilied Caf in i feine that directly affects the heart , kidneys , stomach and nerves. 1'ostum is made from cereals only , scientific ally blended to get the coffee flavor. Ton days' trial of Postum in place of tea or coffee will show a health secret worth more than a gold mine. There's a reason. Get the l > ook. "The Road to Well- vine , " in each pkg. OPINIONS OF GREAT PAPERS ON IMPORTANT SUBJECTS Awakening of the Yellow Races. ITHERTO the white race from trne remotest historic times to the present has been practical ly alone in its position of dominance. So far as concerns the evolution of civilized man , it might almost be said that there has been but one race In the world. "J1" The most momentous of the developments of the present war is that for the first time a white nation finds itself not only checked in its onward march by a nation of yellow men but beaten by that nation on land and sea. It Ijj too early to say that this situation may not be reversed before the war is ended , tout there are not lacking signs that the races ofwhich tho Japanese are the foremost exemplars havebeen wakened already to a sense of their latent power. China and India have been stirred by the deeds of the Japanese. Not osrty the peoples of these great countriesbut many others of mixed Mongol , Hindoo and Malay descent are wondering why they , too , may not adopt the arms and implements of Occidental civilization and deal with the white races on an equal footing. Some of the ultimate possibilities of this vast stirring of the yellow races may be gathered from the fact that of the 1,500,000,000 or 1,000,000,000 people in the world Asia alone has SG2SS4,000 , of whom more than 420,000,000 are in the Chinese empire , 55,000,000 are Japanese and Koreans , 29-i.300.000 are Hindoos , 30,000,000 Maylaysians and 18,000,000 Indo-Chinese. To group all the Asiatic peo ples by religions , there are about 775,000,000 Buddhists , Confucians , 'Shlntoists and Mohammedans , as against about 12,500,000 Christians. That these people , aroused to a sense of their racial and religious solidarity and equipped with the tools of Western civilization , may bring new problems into existence in the world's economy Is clear. Will the two races live side by side , vying with each othctr in advancement toward higher civilization or will one strive to exploit the other ? A century or more may elapse before the result is known , GO farreaching may be the consequences of the present great struggle. Chicago News. His Last Will. , MAN , either through ambition , sense of duty , or In self-defense against boredom , works hard and accumulates property. Should he marry , I he is expected to provide liberally for his wife , to carry a life insurance for her benefit , to ( give his children every advantage of education us it is now understood or misunderstood. He works cheerfully , finds little pleasure outside of Ills daily routine , is prematurely old. He dies. He may be a wid ower ; he may leave behind him a second wife ; or he may leave his only wife , the mother of his children. His will is opened and read. He has made a reasonable provision for those near him. But he took the liberty before his death of 'bequeathing certain sums of money , through a feeling of fientlnient or duty to others , sums that will lessen In comparatively slight degree the money which would otherwise be distributed among those already in pecuniary comfort. The poor wretch thought he had this right. At once there is strife. The lawyers are consulted and en listed. There is a trial. The character of the dead man is dragged from his codln. Was he queer ? Was he not insane ? Foibles and harmless eccentricities are paraded for scorn and mockery. There was a time when the initial phrase , "In the Name of God. Amen , " was of solemn and abiding force. The dead man spoke. Who can use the phrase today with any assurance that it will be regarded after he is cold and voiceless ? Boston Herald. Unfinished Educations. X years ago there was hardly a town in Western Kansas which did not show many foundations on which no superstructures had been erected. The foundations remained un covered because of the collapse of the boom. Some of them were small and shallow. Others were laid broad and deep. The elements as sailed them all alike. The rain washed the mortar from between their bricks and stones. The frosts disintegrated the bricks and stones themselves. Foundations which , if built upon in the ordinary way would have endured for generations , fell , in a few years , into such utter ruin that A DELIGHTFUL CATASTROPHE , After the terrible steamship and railway accidents which made the past season memorable , it is pleasant to read of an affair so delightful for its victims as the recent sinking of the Mississippi River steamer Chalmette proved to be. The Chalmette was the last of the old-time cotton packets on the Mississippi. There are many big stern-wheel cotton-carriers , and sever al sidewheel passenger boats , but the Chalmette was a relic of the old St. Louis-New Orleans trade. She was the City of Vicksburg of the Anchor line , but was rebuilt some years ago to carry cotton to the port of Chalmette , below New Orleans. She could etow five thousand five hundred bales on her spacious deck , and with her guards awash and the cotton stacked high above her cabin deck , was a spectacle once common , henceforth to be un known , on the river. When the Louisi ana Purchase Exposition opened she was put on as a through boat from New Orleans to the fair , and thus opened a trade which had been dead for some years. On a Saturday in July she started North with about forty passengers and a lot of freight. Late Tuesday afternoon she was within thirty-live miles of Natchez when , in backing out from a lauding , she struck a snag and knocked a hole In the stern. She swung round with both ends resting on. the bank in a little eddy , but with seventy feet of water under her amid- lihi-'j , niul began to fill. The passengers were quickly noti fied , the gang-plank was run ashore , and everybody walked out and found a seat on the gently sloping , grassy levee , to watch the spectacular death of the last of the packets. The crew hastily brought the passengers' bag gage ashore , then brought the fur naces from the galley and all the pro visions from the pantry , and the ta bles from the saloon. when "good times" rcturneu to Kansas it was in all cases unsafe and In many impossible , to erect buildings upon them. Only small portions of the material they contained could be utilized in the construction of other foundations. Not unlike the fate which these abandoned foundations suffered is that which overtakes the educations which many men acquire in the schools. Schools and colleges lay but the foundation , of education. They may lay it broad and deep , but If no superstructure Is later erected over It the foundationwill quickly fall to pieces. Asso elation , the mortar that binds the bricks and stones of the mind together , will be washed away in time. Ideas , which are the mind's bricks and stones , will crumble and fall apart. A foundation without a superstructure is worth less. It has no adaptation to its environment Nature will not let it long exist. There are thousands of men and women who have a smaller sum total of knowledge and reasoning power at 30 or 40 than they had when they threw aside their school text books. They have erected for them selves no intellectual superstructure , and their intellectual foundation , being unprotected , has fallen Into decay. Chi cago Tribune. China as a Great Power. E have witnessed with amazement and ad miration the advent of Japan among the world's great powers. Is it possible that at no distant day China may enter the list ? It is significant that the one European who knows the Chinese better than any other , and has long sustained official relations with them , has full faith in this possibility. Sir Robert Hart , to whom we refer , has lately presented to the Dowager Empress a scheme for army and naval organization which has not only engaged the attention of the court , but commands the warm approval of so much of public sentiment as finds expres sion in the native newspapers. Briefly , Sir Robert Hart estimates that a reorganiza tion of the land taxes may be made to yield a revenue of 100,000,000 tacls ( about $275,000,000) ) without pressing se verely upon the people. Out of this revenue ho proposes financing a reconstruction of the land forces on the basis of four army corps of 50,000 regular troops each ; the con struction of three fleets , each composed of ten large and ten smaller warships , ten first-class torpedo boats and ten smaller ones ; the building of arsenals , the maintenance of naval academies , the establishment of modern schools , and the creation of an adequate salary list for the civil admin Istration , and figures upon a sufficient balance to provide a sinking fund. This seems ambitious , and It may be impossible. Buf Sir Robert Hart is no dreamer , and lie knows the Chinese , as we have said , better than any other European. If the Chinese have it in them to rise to the opportunity which hr points out to them , the future dismemberment of the Chi nese empire will not be the e sy task thafsomo diplomatists have imagined. Boston Journal. Relative to Slang. URISTS seldom will excuse slang , and always will insist that a better phrase or word might have been substituted for Its use , until tho slang word or expression becomes grafted upon tJbe language. Even then there will be man ; not tolerant of its use at first , but opposition becomes less and less in evidence as time accus toms the ear to receive gratefully that which once seemed harsh , crude and inelegant. It is true , too , that much of the slang of one age falls into disuse the next , so that the language suffers but little. , if any. from its temporary acceptance , while such words as may have incorporated themselves permanently into the general structure fit so well that no one is tearfully so licitous to have thorn removed. A Western minister recently said : "Slang is largely the result of indolence and lack o ! self-respect. While In tho origin of some terms commonly used as slang there may bo wit and a measure of originali ty , yet no person can indulge in the use of these barbarisms without serious loss "I have heard men use slang in most earnest prayer. If a man does not wish to use slang on his death bed or in the pulpit or the schoolroom , office or social circle , it would be well not to use it anywhere. " New York Tpe ! rrsn. In half an hour the steamer broke in two and sank. Then as darkness set tled over tho river the passengers on the levee began a picnic supper , pre pared by the darky cooks over the res cued furnaces. There was no lack of supplies ; the evening was gloriously cool and still. A more beautiful loca tion for a picnic could hardly have been selected. A skiff had been sent up to Natchez for help , and until an other steamer came to get them the girls of the party , grouped on the levee , sang the old songs , and listened in turn to the roustabouts and the cook-rooin darkies singing not the old plantation melodies , for few of the river hands know them , but the mod ern "rag-time" songs which come South to them from the vaudeville stage. "Under the Bamboo-Tree" and all the rest of them made the night melodious , and at last , when the pic nic was beginning to pall , the rescuing steamer came and took all on board for Natchez , whence they went on their way by rail to their destination. EACH RACE ITS ODOR. Orientals Said to Object Strongly to Western Peoples on that Score. Western nations , with their usual conceit , Imagine that they are superior In every respect to the races of another color aud consequently to those of the Far East. One of the charges which white men bring against tire negro is that tho odor emanating from him is the reverse of pleasant and occasion ally , in hot weather , is almost unbear able. able.The The Caucasian never pauses to think that possibly the odor of his skin is by no nif.ins pleasing to the sense of smell of the negro or the Indian. Nev ertheless , it is stated that the smell of the white man is not so fragrant to the negro as it is imagined , but is , In fact , objectionable to a degree. According to a rcicent issue of the New York Times , a Japanese medical man has published a treatise concern ing the odor of the Occidental racea , declaring that It takes eome time for the Oriental to become accustomed to it Thevriter advances the theory which has been discussed before that each race has its peculiar odor , that it is partly radical , but is in a measure Influenced by dietary and other condi tions. The Japanese do not smell each oth er , but the perfume from their bodies is wafted by tho breezes to the Rus sians , who can distinguish the smell of thcdr enemies at a long distance. The writer , however , states that it is noth ing like the pungent and penetrating emanation proceeding from the "West ern nations , in which traces of garlic and ancient cheese and the volatisation of a coarsei and over-abundant dietary are sure to be found. There arc reasons to think that the Japanese doctor may bo right and per haps each race has its characteristic odor. Certain it is that primitive races have a much keener sense of smell than the members of a highly civilized race. With civilization and the art of living in an artificial manner , from dis use the senses of sight and smell bo- coms less acute. The Japaneso have not embraced civilization for so long j a period as to lose tho qualities of a people living in a state of nature. In- . deed , the great majority are not civ ilized at all. Chicago Chronicle. Gratitude. - Mr. Skinalong I hope , dear , that i you will be happy now that uncle has left us a fortune. j Mrs. Skinalong Yes , but don't you suppose we can break the will ? lie ' has let"- ? 1,000 to charity. Detroit j Free Press. Kxpert Advice. "Mrs. Sourly , you've been married for several years , and I am about to take unto myself a husband. What ad vice yould you give me ? " "Learn to play solitaire.Detroit Free Press. A man's last complaint Is that he is sick and old Kuropatkin's stand seems to have been of the one-night variety. Wash ington Post. The fellow who rocked theboat last summer is now hunting deer up in the Adirondacks. Washington Post. The Japanese do not appear to have been unnerved by General Kuropat kin's great war speech. Dallas News. A Wisconsin paper mentions "vocal instrumental music. " We presume it makes sweet discord. Montgomery Advertiser. The Chicagoan who was hurt in a bogus hold-up in Colorado might have won real 'glory if he had stayed at home. Chicago Post. About a thousand Russians and Japs in Manchuria are being converted daily to the argument of perpetual peace. New York Commercial. General Corbin might do the admin istration a good turn by requiring the army Cupid to take the test for color blindness. Washington Post. The charge of the six hundred at Balaklava has been outclassed several times in the battle of Yentai ( if that's its name ) . Philadelphia Inquirer. The powerful whistles Secretary Morton will have placed on his war ships are to be used , perhaps , for scaring sea cows off the track. Den ver Post. ' A scientist says that one day we shall be able to do without sleep. That will probably be the day tho election returns come in. Washington liven ing Star. Count Okuma says the war will cost japan not less than $1,000,000.000. The Emperor will feel this when he comes tip for re-election. St. Louis Globe- Democrat. So long as they are fighting as fierce ly as they are in Manchuria it is a good deal of a farce to talk about peace congresses. Spokane Spokes man Review. It is becoming increasingly clear to the Russian mind that Kuropatkin's latest defeat was due solely to the fact that he was not victorious. Philadel phia North American. 4 The men who make pictures for cam- ' paign banners are not always imbued with the spirit of reverence for great American statesmen that might be ex pected. Washington Evening Star. A New York police judge has held that a street-car conductor has no right to kick a passenger in the stomach. But what if the passenger fails to "step lively ? " Cincinnati Enquirer. ' 'They who go down to the sea in ships and do business in great waters' ' escape the perils of those who intrust their lives to the operators of Ameri can railway lines. Kansas City Star. And now Great Britain asks a Tibet an indemnity of nearly $1,000,000. To pay a friendly visit to a neighbor and then send him a bill for traveling ex penses is rare insular thrift. New York World. The Chicago judge who declared that the man who bequeathed Alexander Dowie ? .jO,000 and cut his family off without a penny was insane is a bang- up specimen of sanity. Richmond News-Leader. The only work the peace conferences may accomplish is to educate the peo ple against the barbarism of war. In ternational agreements will amount to . nothing. Public sentiment controls. Memphis Morning News. London's County Court has put palm istry under the ban of the old witch craft law. After all , it is only in a certain great American game that the faculty for reading the hand counts for much. New York World. The selection of Richmond as the place for holding the next Episcopal convention is a further certification to the fact that there's no Mason and Dixon's line in that denomination. And there never was. Boston nerald. A Boston individual has expressed his opinion of John D. Rockefeller on a postal card , but Miss Ida M. Tarbell can't for the life of her understand how an opinion of the distinguished money-accumulator can be compressed into less than IT magazine articles. New Orleans States. It Is a mistake to assume that Gen eral Apathy is an idle old gentleman who is too lazy to take an interest in politics. Tie is usually a busy man closely engaged in the management of his own affairs. It is the idle ordin arily who become most aroused and prophetic In politics. Nashville Ban ner. The new Chinese exclusion treaty now being framed by Secretary Hay and Minister Liang Cheng Avill bear down hard on the laundryman , but show more liberality to the gentleman and scholar from the Orient. This is as it should be. We have too often in sulted the high-class Chinaman. Bos ton Journal. The gentlemen who plead guilty to having loaded life-preserver cork with iron demur to the indictment because the stuff was sold in open market , not to the government. This is a glorious excuse , isn't it ? New York World. The enthusiasm with which the Rus sians receive Emperor William's hope for their success will be tempered by the remembrance of what happened to the Boers after they had received sim ilar recognition at his hands. Detroit Fr e Press. ' MISFIT SCHOONER NAMES. Bnow Flakes Never Whitc-A IJonanza That Never 1'aid Her U'ny. A group of captains ( , f : i sailing craft were chatting in a shipbroker's olliee recently. The conversation finally aimed on the names given to coasting schooners , and one old captain , who has sailed up and down the coast for many years , said : "It seems to me that some of the owners know as little about naming a vessel as they do about sailing her. The names that som < > vessels carry are. very inappropriate. "There used to he a schooner called the Bonanza. NOAV that was an absurd name for that vessel. She was any thing but a bonanza to anyone who owned her. Why , in just three months she Avas fcold four times for debt , and she never paid her way as long as she lasted. 'There was another schooner , I re member , called the Hard Luck , and she. proved to be a regular gold mine to her owner and never had a bit of hard luck during her career. "Thereare a number of Snow Flakes , and I'll bet you that you never saw one that was not painted green or black. Just think of a green or black snow- flake ! " "There was an old captain I knew many years ago who was as bald as a billiard ball , and his mate was bald. too. and in selecting his crew he seem ed to favor baldheaded men. He named his boat after a well-advert isi-tl hair re storer. "At one time I was interested in a schooner named the Kocket. I charter ed her to a man who sent her to Maine to load with Christmas trees and take the cargo to Philadelphia. "She got her cargo on board all right but she reached Philadelphia in Feb ruary. She was a rocket for sure. " New York Sun. STATE ov Onio. CITV OF TOLEDO , LUCAS COUNTY , FKAXK J. CHEKEV niilo : < ; outh that lie Is the onior partnerof the firm of F. J.CHKNEY&CO. . ( ioinf : bubine.is In the City of Toledo , County and Mate aforesaid , arid that s-aid linn will pay tho inn of ONK HUNDKKD DOI.LAKS for t-aoli and ovory case of CATAKKII that cannot Ito cured bv tho use of HAM/S CATAKKII CritK. FKANIC .J. CIIKXEY. Sworn to before me and sub.cril > "d In my i > rev cnce. this tith day of December , A. U. A.V. . CLKASOX > r.AU r Hall's Catarrh Curo Is taken Internally and acts directly on tho blood and mucous snriaces of tho r.vstem" Send for testimonials. free. F. .1. CHKNliY & 'JO. . Toledo , O. Sold by Druggists. 75c. Hall's ranilly I'ills are the best. Greatest Depth oftlio Pacific. The soundings made in the Moser Basin and in Tonga-Kermadec Deep were accompanied by great excitement. It was on a beautifully clear day. the JOth of February , that the Albatross approached within a little more than one hundred mile of Guam. The ves sel lay to. and preparations were made for one of the frequent soundings. At length the silence was broken by a brief order and the tinkling of a bell. Slowly the machinery of the great en gine began to work , and slowly the lough wire rope began to sink beneath the water. Foot by foot , fathom by fathom , it slid from the ship. OIK- thousand , two thousand , three , HIM then four thousand fathoms disap peared. The record was passed. Five miles of roi'I It was an anxious moment , for the strniu caused by the immense length and weight of the wire rope on the machinery was trf mendous. But ev erything held firm : and at length , when the mark recorded four thousand eight hundred and thirteen fathoms , or liS.STS feet , practically the height of Mount Everest , bottom was touched. It was an added triumph for American geographical science. Leslie's Month- 5J y iMrs. Fairbanks tells how ne = I gleet of warning symptoms will soon prostrate a woman. She thinks woman's safeguard is Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound. "DEAR MRS. Pr KnAir : Ignorancs and neglect are the cause of untold female sufferingnot only with the laws of health but with the chance of a cure. I did not heed -warnings of headaches , organic pains , and general weariness , until I was vrcll nigh pros trated. I knew I had to do something. Ilappily J did the right thing. I took Lydia E. Pinkliam's Vegetable Compound faithfully , according to iirections , and was rewarded in a fetv weeks to find that my aches and pains lisappeared , and I again felt the glc - 3f health through my body. Since 1 have beenwell 1 have been more care- iul , I have also advised a rumber of uy sick friends to tr.k" Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Coin- pound , and they have never had reason to be sorry. Yours very trulv , MRS. MAT FAIRBANKS , 21G South 7th St. , Minneapolis , Minn. " ( Mrs. Fair banks is one of the most successful and highest salaried travelling saleswomen. in the West. ) $5000 forfeit If original of iboue letter proving genuineness cannot be produced. Mrs. Pinkham invites all sick women tovrite her for advice. She has guided thousands to health. Address , Lynn , Mass , ,