"When old Uncle Weatherby was a
poor fanner lie used to go up to town
and eat pie with a carving fork. The
people smiled. "
"You don't say ! "
"Then later on he began eating It
ndth a tablespoon. The people laughed. "
"I don't blame them. "
"From that he changed to a knife.
They roared. "
"Great Scott ! And Is he still stickIng -
Ing to the knife ? "
"No. Since they fovnd oil on his
farm and rated him as a millionaire
he eats pie with his fingers and every
body nods his approval and says ne la
bizarre. "
TIIKKIS MUST HE MMK ADVANTAGE !
300.PCO USE THE SMITH PREMIER
THE SUITH PREMIER TYPEWRITER CO. SYRACUSE. H. Y.
The Limit of Honesty.
Dora Never tell Flora any secrets.
Cora Can't she keep them ?
Dora Keep them ? Why , that girl
tells people her right age ! Cleveland
Leader.
Cheap Excursions South.
On first and third Tuesday of each
month the Big Four Railway will sell
excursion tickets to most all points in
Virginia. North and South Carolina ,
Tennessee , Alabama and Georgia , at
rate of one fare plus $2.00 , with return
limit 30 days. Liberal stopover privi
leges. Write I. P. Spining , General
Northern Agent , 23S Clark St. , Chicago ,
for further information.
Sclclcn's Long : Wait for Wealth.
Twenty-five years ago , writes Leroy
Sviotfc in Technical World Magazine , a
young man with a scheme for a car
riage to be run by a gasoline motor
called upon a large manufacturer of ve
hicles and farm implements. The young
man had spent years upon his patent
Its success meant fortune to him , and
also triumph over the men who had
laughed at him. So he used his best
eloquence to induce the manufacturer
to put his automobile on the market.
But the manufacturer shook his head ,
been wasting your time on that
" he said. "And if I went into
It , I'd be wasting my money. No , sir
0even if It worked , nobody'd ever care
-to ride in your 'explosion buggy. ' "
' < Pbe young man was George B. Sel-
" ' aen , and what this manufacturer said
> w. S 'also said by dozens of others. To-
Tlay there are in use in the United
"States about 70,000 "explosion bug
gies ; " and about 70 per cent of all gaso
line automobiles made in this country
or imported into it are licensed under
the Selden patent the royalties paid
during the last three years amounting
to $814,183.
Grateful Change.
"Don't you want to borrow my lawn
mower ? " asked Mr. Goodman , addressing
the man that bad just moved into the
house nest door.
"Why , yes , thank you , " answered the
new neighbor , with alacrity.
"Well , you're an improvement on the
man who lived there before you , anyhow , "
said Mr. Goodman , lifting the machine
over the backyard fence. " 1 always had
to mow his lawn myself. "
LOOSE TEETH
Blnde Sound l > y Eating : GrnpeOTntB.
Proper food nourishes every part of
the body , because Nature selects- the
different materials from the food we
eat , to build bone , nerve , brain , mus
cle , teeth etc.
All we need is to eat the right kind
of food slowly , chewing it well our
digestive organs take it up into the
blood and the blood carries it all
through the body , to every little nook
and corner.
If some one would ask you , "Is
Grape-Nuts good for loose teeth ? " ,
you'd probably say , "No , I don't see
bow It could be. " But a wdman in
Ontario writes :
"For the past two years I , have used
Grape-Nuts Food with most excellent
results. It seems to take the place of
medicine in many ways , builds up the
nerves and restores the health gener
ally.
ally."A
"A little Grape-Nuts taken before
retiring soothes my nerves and gives
sound sleep. " ( Because It relieves ir
ritability of the stomach nerves , being
a. predigested food. )
"Before I used Grape-Nuts my teeth
were loose In the gums. They were so
bad I was afraid they would some day
ell fall out Since I have used Grape-
Nuts I have not been bothered any
snore with loose teeth.
"All desire for pastry has disappeared -
ed and I have gained in health ,
weight and happiness since I began to
use Grape-Nuts. " Name given by
Postum Co. , Battle Creek , Mich. Get
the famous little book , "The Road to
TVellvllle. " in nkgs. "There's a reason. "
inions of Great Papers on IiPwrtant Subjects.
THE PAY OF PBEACHEBS.
DISPATCH from Hartford , Conn. , says
that the supply of ministers In the Congre
gational church is falling off rapidly. The
fact Is attributed to the small Incomes that
are paid to pastors and to the broader and
freer field for Christian service offered by
the Y. M. C. A. On the subject of salaries
the Rev. W. F. English , of East Windsor , Conn. , who was
instrumental in securing the Information upon which
the dispatch was based , has the following to say :
"During the past ten years in every other trade and
occupation salaries and wages have enjoyed substantial
increase , but during this period the salaries of Con
gregational ministers have been actually reduced 10 per
cent , although the wealth of the country has increased
enormously and the cost of living has greatly advanced. "
There Is some confusion in speaking of salaries and
wages together , because It is certain that there has been
no general increase in salaries to correspond to the gen
eral increase iu wages. We may doubt , too , If the sal
ary plays quite as important a part Inthe meditations
of a divinity student as it does In those of a youth who
Is serving an apprenticeship in business. But certainly
the salaries of Congregational preachers arc not alluringly
large to men with a genius for money-making. From a
report on conditions at the beginning of the year it ap
pears that the Congregationallsts then had nearly 0,000
church establishments in the country , and that only about
thirty of their ministers received $3,000 or more per
year. The highest salary paid was $10,000 , and there
wore only two or three pastors who drew that amount
There were two at $8,000 , there was one at $7,000 , there
were four at $6,000 , and most of the others in the class
mentioned drew $5,000. After those exceptional cases
there was a long drop , and no doubt hundreds of. the
pastors have incomes that would be considered wretched
ly Inadequate in other professions than theirs or In busi
ness , Chicago Record-Herald. ?
MAIONG7AB ON CONSUMPTION.
OR sufferers from consumption and for those
whose duty it is to care for them , the ad
dress which Dr. W. A. Evans , of Chicago ,
gave before the National Fraternal Congress
at Montreal is full of hope and encourage
ment and stimulating counsel. The "nine
commandments" which the speaker pre
scribed for patients deserve the widest publicity possible.
They summarize briefly the best advice modern science
has to give.
Though many of these rules are already known and
generally accepted , they cannot be repeated too often.
The first commandment la for patients to live in the open
air "all the hours of all the days of all the years. " The
other rules are no less simple. They call for a nutritious
diet of meat and bread , milk and eggs , an early diagnosis ,
a determined spirit and confident submission to a good
doctor. For his own sake as we'll as for the safety of his
neighbors , the patient must take all precautions necessary
to prevent his becoming a danger to others.
Equally Important for the welfare of the general public
are 'the rules Dr. Evans prescribes for the community ,
calling for the abolition of the filthy habit of promiscu
ously spitting and for a campaign of education against the
evils from which tuberculosis originates and spreads. The
public , If it Is to fight the great plague effectively , must
see that there are hospitals for patients In advanced
stages of the disease and sanitaria for those in the early
stages. It must learn adequate methods of supervision ,
sanitation and hygiene. In general It must cultivate the
A decree of divorce Is held , in Nolan
vs. Dwyer ( Wash. ) , 1 L. R. A. ( N. S. )
551 , not to be subject to be vacated
after the death of one of the parties.
Refusal to pay money admitted to
be due , except upon receiving a certain
kind of receipt , Is held , In Earl vs.
Berry ( R. I. ) , 1 L. R. A. ( N.S. ) 867 ,
not to constitute such duress as to ren
der the receipt void.
Property conveyed to a railway com
pany for a right of way by a general
\varranty deed , is held , in Abercrombie
vs. Simmons ( Kan. ) , 1 L. R. A. ( N. S. )
800 , to revert to the adjoining owner
upon the abandonment of its use for
that purpose.
The authority conferred on a board
of commissioners to fix the credits to
be allowed to convicts for good be
havior is held , in Fite vs. State ex rel.
Snider ( Tenn. ) , 1 L. R. A. ( N. S. ) 520 ,
to be an unconstitutional delegation of
legislative power.
The right , of a State to revoke the
license of a foreign Insurance company
for refusal to perform Its agreement
not to remove suits against it to the
Federal courts Is upheld * In Prewltt vs.
Security Mat L. Ins. Co. ( Ky. ) , 1 L.
E. A. ( N. S. ) " 1019.
One who took possession of prem
ises under an arrangement with the
grantor and subsequently agreed to pay
tent to the grantee for a certain period ,
is held , in Hodges vs. Waters ( Ga. ) , 1
L. R , A. ( N. S. ) 1181 , not to be
estopped to deny liability to the latter
for rent after the expiration of the
term of such agreement , although he
tenmlned In possession of the premises.
Before He Met Her.
The poetical young man was awed
by the solitude of the old farm.
"Ah , " he mused , romantically , "si
lence rules supreme around here. "
But the old farmer emptied the ashes
from his corncob pipe and grinned.
"I reckon yeou ain't seen my own
/woman yet , young fellow , " be chuckled.
"She IB the only thing that rules su
preme around these diggings and she Is
.far from silence as a clam is from a
jtalking machine. "
habit of living better end more temperately and must
seek to provide better homes and working places.
It Is along these lines that the campaign against the
scourge of tuberculosis must be waged. Placing patients
in congenial climes will help , but outdoor life , proper diet
and sanitation are the main things. The bare fact cited
by Dr. Evans , that "consumptives intelligently handled
do and will get well In any State of the Union , " holds out
an encouragement which should stimulate everywhere the
effort to carry on the educational -work. No one has a right
to feel that he Is free from moral obligation in this mat
ter. Consumption can and will be stamped out but not
merely through Improving individual treatment There
must be concerted/intelligent action on the part of all ,
.the well and the ill alike. Chicago News.
STOESSEL , THE SCAPEGOAT.
HE condemnation of General Stoessel by the
Russian commission appointed to investi
gate the surrender of Port Arthur is not
surprising when measured by the Russian
standards of duty , but It Indicates that the
empire must pass through a baptism of
'
blood before It is purged of the old tradi
tionary policies that have long since been discarded by
the enlightened nations of the earth.
General Stoessel made a valiant defense at Port Ar
thur. He saw his soldiers by the hundreds die of disease
and of Japanese assaults. His forces had been reduced to
an extremity where further resistance meant plain butch
ery. There was no relief In sight , there was -nothing in
the conditions north to show that by sacrificing the rest
of his men he could give valuable aid to the Russian
cause. Hence he chose the alternative of the humanita
rian and surrendered.
We have G9neralNogi's _ word for It that Stoessel. did
all that any human being could do to keep the Japanese
out of Port Arthur. Nogl has declared that the Russian
"commander made a bra've defense and that instead of be
ing humiliated and disgraced , he should be honored. But
Russian discipline Is not to be denied. Some one must
be made ascapegoat _ _ for Russian defeat and Stoessel has
been marked , "
It is the prevailing opinion that the sentence of death
imposed by the commission will not be executed , but wheth
er it Is or not , the government of Russia has gained noth
ing in the estimation of the world by this unjust attack
on a brave soldier. Toledo' Blade.
FACTORS DT NATIONAL PROGRESS.
HOMAS A. EDISON , looking over the whole
country , has come to the conclusion that
"the greatest factor In our national prog
ress has been the newspaper press. " Rus
sia , he points out , Is much bigger than this
country in every way. "She has a tremendous
deus population and Immense natural re
sources. Yet .she Is fifty times slower. Why ? Because
she lacks the"power of a free press. She cannot unite
or harmonize her forces. But when we want to do any
thing in America , the newspapers take It up. Everybody
reads the newspapers , everybody knows the situation , and
we all act together. " This is flattering to our free press ,
and contains several large grains of truth ; yet In fair
ness it must be recognized that there are other impor
tant factors In our favor. Free Institutions , with all that
these Include and Imply ; universal popular education un
der free schools ; a race in which Is blended the strength
of many nationalities ; a more varied climate , arid many
unrivaled natural advantages. Boston Herald.
FIRST AUTOMOBILE IN ENGLAND.
WILLIAM CHURCH'S STEAM CARRIAGE IN 1832.
The earliest automobile In England was Church's steam coach , an elab
orately-decorated affair resembling a circus car , which ran between London
and Birmingham. It Was something like a double stage coach , but had more
accommodations for passengers. It was constructed to carry twenty-eight
Inside and twenty-two outside passengers. In 1831 a committee appointed by
the House of Commons reported on the automobile movement Its practica
bility the committee fully established , but they mentioned that a formidable
obstacle existed In popular prejudice , which led to the imposition of prohib
itive , and excessive tolls. There was prejudice thus against the earliest auto
mobiles as there Is to-day against the modern ones , bnt the early opposition
could not be based upon the question of speed. The clumsy coach of Church
could not have attained a high speed , and was thus freer from danger than
the excessively speedy machines of tbe present
DEVOID OF POETRY.
Tbe Camel' * Bite . Bad Feature of
the Doert Ride.
The camel Is a dangerous animal to
ride a much more dangerous animal
than the horse for the reason that
with his serpentine neck he can reach
round when annoyed and bite his rider.
Camel are not all the patient , quiet ,
kindly creatures they are painted.
They have very nasty tempers. A car
avan , crossing the desert , Is always
noisy ; the loud and angry snarls of the
camels make the waste places resound.
A camel's bite is a serious matter.
The strong teeth lock in the wound ,
and a circular motion is given to the
jaw , around and then back , before the
teeth are withdrawn again. The wound
Is a horrible one. There are few camel
drivers without camel scars.
Dr. Nachtigal , the celebrated Afri
can explorer , once said to a youth who
expressed a sentimental desire to cross
tbe Sahara on camel-back.
Toung man , I'll tell you how you
can get a partial idea of what riding
a camel in an American desert is like.
Take an office stool , screw it up as high
as possible , and put It along with a
savage dog , Into a wagon without any
springs. Then seat yourself on the
stool , and have it driven over uneven
and rocky ground during the hottest
parts of July and August , being careful
not to eat or drink more than once
every two flays , and letting the dog bite
you every four hours. This will give
you a faint idea of the exquisite poetry
of camel riding in the Sahara. "
It may be possible to trace where
one got ft cold , but it Is never possible
to trace where one got a spot on new
clothes.
SKETCH OF THE LIFE OF LYDIA E. PINKHAM
And a True Story of How the Vegetable Compound
Had Its Birth and How the "Panic of ' 73" Caused
it to be Offered for Public Sale in Drug Stores.
This remarkable -woman , whose
maiden , name was Estes , was born in
Ljmn , Mass. , February 9th , 1S19 , com
ing from a good old Quaker family.
For some years she taught school , anc
became known as a woman of an alerl
End investigating mind , an earnest
seeker after knowledge , and above
all , possessed of a wonderfully sympa
thetic nature.
In 1843 she married Isaac Pinkham.
a builder and real estate operator , and
. their early married life was marked by
prosperity and happiness. They had
fqur children , three sons and a
i daughter.
| In those good old fashioned days it
was common for mothers to make
their own home medicines from roots
and herbs , nature's own remedies
calling in a physician only in specially
urgent cases. By tradition and ex
perience many of them gained a won
derful knowledge of the curative prop
erties of the various roots and herbs.
Mrs. Pinkham took a great interest
in the study of roots and herbs , their
characteristics and. power over disease.
She maintained that just as nature so
bountifully provides in the harvest-
fields and orchards vegetable foods of
all kinds ; so , if we but take the pains
to find them , in the roots and herbs
of the field there are remedies ex
pressly designed to cure the various
ills and weaknesses of the body , and
it was her pleasure to search these out ,
and prepare simple and effective medi
cines for her own family and friends.
Chief of these was a rare combina
tion of the choicest medicinal roots
and herbs found best adapted for the
cure of the ills and weaknesses pecu
liar to the female sex , andLydiaE.Pink-
ham's friends and neighbors learned
that her compound relieved and cured
and it became quite popular among
them.
All this so far was done freely , with
out money and without price , as a
labor of love.
But in 1873 the financial crisis struck
Lynn. Its length and severity were too
much for tbe large real estate interests
of the Pinkham family , as this class
of business suffered most from
fearful depression , so when the Centen
nial year dawned it found their prop
erty swept away. Some other source
of income had to be found.
At tbis point Lydia E. Pinkham's
Vegetable Compound was made known
to the world.
The three sons and the daughter ,
With their mother , combined forces to
From a Cynic's Dictionary.
Altruism Mowing your neighbor's
lawn.
Benedick A penitent bachelor.
Conscience The internal whisper
that says , "Don't do it ; you might get
caught"
Courage Marrying a second time.
Divorce The correction of an error.
Furious A word expressing the
pleasure a girl experiences when she is
kissed.
Jealousy A tribute to man's vanity
that every wise woman pays.
Love The banked fires of passion.
Optimist A man who sees a silver
lining to every cloud ; a pessimist is
one who bites it to see if It is real sil
ver.
Rouge Face suicide.
" Suspicion Testing the engagement
ring on window glass.
Water Wagon A vehicle from which
a man frequently dismounts to boast
of the fine ride he's .having.
Widowhood The only compensation
Borne women get out of marriage.
Efenry Thompson.
Told by Their Buttons.
The minister's wife was busily en
gaged one afternoon mending the fam
ily clothes when a neighbor called for
a friendly chat After a few moments
of news and gossip the caller remarked ,
AS she began to inspect a basket of
miscellaneous buttons :
"You seem to be unusually well sup
plied with buttons of all kinds. Why ,
there Is one like my husband had on his
last winter's suit. "
"Indeed , " said the minister's wife ,
with a slight smile. "All these but
tons were found in the contribution
box , and I thought I might as well have
some use out of them. Well , must you
go ? Well , good-by. Come again soon.
Antifitrenuous.
Rickett I say , Easyun , how did you
happen to marry a widow ?
Easyun Oh , I did my courting as I
do everything else along the line of
resistance.
restore the family fortune. They
argued that the medicine which was
so good for their woman friends and
neighbors was equally good for the
women of the whole world.
The Pinkhams bad no money , and
little credit. Their first laboratory
was the kitchen , where roots and
herbs were steeped on the stove ,
gradually filling a gross of bottles.
Then came the question of selling
it , for always before they had given
it away freely. They hired a job
printer to run off some pamphlets
setting forth the merits of the medi
cine , now called Lydia E. Pinkham's
Vegetable Compound , and these were
distributed by the Pinkham sons in
Boston , New York , and Brooklyn.
The wonderful curative properties of
the medicine were , to a great extent ,
self-advertising , for whoever used it
recommended it to others , and the de
mand gradually increased.
In 1877 , by combined efforts tbe fam
ily had saved enov.gh money to com
mence newspaper advertising and from
that time the growth and success of
the enterprise were assured , until to
day Lydia E. Pinkbam and her Vege
table Compound have become house
hold words everywhere , and many
tons of roots and herbs are used annu
ally in its manufacture.
Lydia E. Pinkham herself did not
live to see the great success of this
work. She passed to her reward years
ago , but not till she had provided
means for continuing her work as
effectively as she could have done it
Iqcrself.
Daring her long and eventful expe
rience she was ever methodical in her
work and she was always careful to pre
serve a record of every case that came to
her attention. The case of every sick
woman who applied to her for advice
and there were thousands received
careful study , and tbe details , includ
ing symptoms , treatment and results
were recorded for future reference , and
to-day these records , together with
hundreds of thousands made since , are
available to sick women the world
over , and represent a vast collabora
tion of information regarding the
treatment of woman's ills , which for
authenticity and accuracy can hardly
be equaled in. any library in the
world.
Witb Lydia E. Pinkham worked her
the Mrs.
daughter-in-law , present
Pinkham. She was carefullyinstructed
; n all her hard-won knowledge , and
for years she assisted her in her vast
correspondence.
To her hands naturally fell the
direction of the work when its origins-
tor passed away. For nearly twenty-
live years she has continued it , and
nothing in the work shows when the
first Lydia E. Pinkham dropped her
pen , and the present Mrs. Pinkham ,
aow the mother of a large family , took
it up. With women assistants , some as
capable as herself , tbe present Mrs.
Pinkham continues this great workand
probably from the office of no other
person have so many women been ad
vised how to regain health. jSick wo
men , this advice is "Yours for Health"
rrcely given if you only write to ask
for it.
Such is tbe history of Lydia E. Pink-
iams * Vegetable Compound ; made
: rom simple roots and herbs ; the one
fjreat medicine for women's ailments ,
and the fitting monument to the nobla
woman whose name it bears.
Impracticable.
"Some of your imps seem to be over
worked , " remarked the newcomer.
"I suppose so , " said Pluto ; "but you.
can see for yourself that the double platoon
teen system wouldn't work satisfactorily
here. We're not trying to put out fires. *
Beware of Ointments for Catarrfc
that Coniatn Mercury ,
as mercury will surely destroy the sense of
swell ana completely derauge the whole
system when entering it through the inu-
cous surfaces. Such articles should never
be used except oa prescriptions from reputa
ble physicians , as the damage they will do
Is tenfold to the good you can possibly
derive from them. Hall's Catarrh Cure , ,
manufactured by F. J. Cheney & Co. , To
ledo , O. , contains no mercury , and is taken
internally , acting directly upon the blood
and mucous surfaces of the system. In buy
ing Hall's Catarrh Cure be sure you get the
genuine. It Is taken , internally and made
in Toledo , Ohio , by F. J. Cheney & Co.
Testimonials free.
Sold by Druggists. Price , 75c per bottle.
Take Hall's Family Pills for constipation.
Seeming ! } " .
"Life , " moralized the doctor , " ! not
what it seems. "
"Perhaps , " suggested the professor ,
"you have never looked on the seamy sids
of it. "
Tils "Will Interest Mother * .
Mother Gray's Sweet Powders for Chil
dren , used by Mother Gray , a nurse in Chil
dren's Home , New York , cure Constipation.
Feverlshneas. Teething Disorders , Stomach
Troubles and Destroy Worms ; 30,000 testimonials
menials of cures. All druggists , 25e. Sam
ple FREE. Address Allen S. Olmsted , Le
Boy , N. Y.
It is reported that large sales of pianos
are now made to Indians.
To "Wnnb n. Carpet.
To clean an ingrain carpet that is badly
soiled , rip the widths apart and shake.
Have ready a tub of hot Ivory Soap suds
and wash a width at a time on the ma
chine , using several -waters. Rinse and
run through the wringer. Add a handful
o * salt to the last water to set the colors
and spread on the grass to dry.
ELEANOR R. PARKER.
The test of civilization io the estimate
of woman. Curtis.
. \71nloW BOOTCEXXQ ftntrr tor *
terthlnei totUm ti gam * , ruluetn laflimanion ,
hya * ! & . cores vmi colic. 33 ceau * bettla.